Appendix 1. Capacities / Occupancies of Repository Storage Facilities
Repository	Total Library Collection (volumes)	Capacity (volumes)	Current Count (volumes)	Expandable to	Percentage of Space Currently Occupied
Five Colleges	6.2M	0.5M	0.102M	1M	20
CONStor	3.73M	0.2M	0.021M	.25M	6
SRLF	17.5M	7M	4.5M	9.3M	78
NRLF	15.2M	5.45M	5.45M	18M	100
Duke LSC	5M	2.5M	1.25M	10M	50
ReCAP	21.8M	6.5M	2.7M	35M	26
SWORD	5.22M	2.2M	1.47M	4.8M	67
WRLC	8M	1M	0.89M	3M	90

M: million

APPENDIX 2: Types of Material Currently Housed in Repository

Appendix 2. Types of Material Currently Housed in Repository
Repository	Journals	Mono-graphs	Manuscripts/Archives	Micro-film	News-papers	Other Special Collections	Realia	Negatives	LP's, Audio-tapes	Gov docs
Five Colleges	x	x	x	x						x
CONStor	x	x							x	x
SRLF	x	x	x	x	x	x		x		x
NRLF	x	x	x	x	x	x	x			x
Duke LSC	x	x	x			x
ReCAP	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
WRLC	x	x	x			x	x		x
SWORD	x	x	x	x	x	x	x		x	x

APPENDIX 3: On-Site Services Provided by Repositories

Appendix 3. On-Site Services Provided by Repositories
Repository	ILL/DD (outside consortium)	ILL/DD (within consortium)	Processing	Conservation	Study Facility	Microfilming	Digital Conversion
Five Colleges		x	x		y
CONStor		x			n
SRLF	x	x	x	x	y	x	x
NRLF	x	x	x		y
Duke LSC	x	x	x		y
ReCAP		x			y
SWORD	x	x			y
WRLC	x	x	x		y

APPENDIX 4: Repository Costs and Expenditures

Appendix 4. Repository Costs and Expenditures
Repository	Construction Cost (year)	Cost/Volume/ann29	Operating Cost/ann	FTE Staff
Five Colleges	$3M (1992???2001)	$1.61	$165,000	3
CONStor	N/A	$2.38	$50,000	1.5
SRLF	$27M (1987-96)	$0.26	$1,200,000	38.2
NRLF	$17.2M (1982-90)	$0.17	$900,000	21.5
Duke LSC	$7M (2000)	$0.33	$414,000	8
ReCAP	$24M (2001)	$0.79	$1,700,000	25
SWORD	$4.93M (1995-2000)	$0.31	$456,000	7.5
WRLC	$5M (1993)	$0.39	$350,000	5

Footnotes

²⁹ The estimated annual cost per volume is based on a simple formula that divides the most recent annual operating cost of the facility, exclusive of depreciation and debt retirement, by the current number of volumes stored. This can be misleading for a number of reasons. Annual operating costs vary with the stages in the facility's life cycle, the type of volumes loaded, and the kind and number of services provided to consortium members. This figure is provided only to give a broad sense of the range of costs of facility operation.

APPENDIX 5: Australian National Collections Storage Program

In December 2002, the federal government of Australia agreed to fund a package of national information infrastructure initiatives proposed by the Department of Education, Science and Training's (DEST) Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (IIAC) as part of its Research Information Infrastructure Framework for Australian Higher Education. The package included AUS$4 million to establish a collaborative storage facility to serve the nation's universities. The facility is to be used for storage of low-use research material.

In its proposal, the committee cited the pressures of journal collection growth and the success of the CAVAL repository effort, saying:

The acquisition of digital publications provides opportunities for some print materials, especially journals, to be relegated to storage. Collaborative storage facilities have already proven their efficiency in South Australia and Victoria but further capacity is required to allow more extensive relegation and the better use of resources. (IIAC 2002, 21)

DEST will seek expressions of interest from universities and their partners for the coordination of the project over a 24-month period beginning June 2003.

The Council of Australian University Librarians supported the proposal for collaborative storage facilities not just as a source of inexpensive storage but "as a strategic means of improving the management of the national research collection and of assisting participating universities to redevelop space for other purposes such as information/learning commons." One of the aims cited for establishing the facility was to "rationalise the library holdings, especially where digital copies are available, of university libraries."

Under the program, all capital and initial establishment costs will be covered by the government's Systemic Infrastructure Initiative. Ongoing operations of the facility, however, are intended to be supported by the participating institutions, which will be required to make a five-year commitment to the effort. Stakeholders will be required to agree to abide by a set of protocols, two of which are particularly reflective of Australia's desire to integrate the storage initiative in the overall collection development and management program of the community. Those protocols are as follows:

• implementation of collection rationalization among existing libraries and library stores; and
• adoption of a concept o