Swem Library's Off-Site Stacks (SOSS) is a storage facility that houses approximately 200,000 lesser-used materials and items requiring special environmental protection in a permanent, climate-controlled facility.
Requesting Off-Site Materials: Off-Site materials appear in Swem Library's online catalog, with OFFSITE as the owning "library." To request that these items be brought to Swem Library for your use:
Off-Site requests can also be made in person at Swem Library's Circulation Desk.
Request & Delivery Schedule: Swem Library Offsite materials are retrieved and delivered to Swem on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Notification: Swem Library staff will notify you by email or telephone when your Off-Site item is available at Swem Library. Pick up location is Swem Library's Circulation Desk. Materials will be held for 10 days.
You may also check My Account to see which Off-Site items you have requested and our replies to those requests. To check the status of your Offsite Stacks request:
For more information, please contact Swem Library's Circulation Department 757-221-3072 or swcirc@wm.edu.
The Off-Site collection includes selected journals that are at least twenty years old, journal volumes covered by full-text electronic databases, superseded reference materials, and older books from the general collection, including all of those with a Dewey Decimal classification.
Selected materials from Swem Library's Special Collections, Reference, and Government Information Departments are also located at Off-Site.
The Off-Site Stacks are located behind the College of William & Mary's Dillard campus buildings on Ironbound Road and are accessible only to library staff.
| LOCATION | Behind the College of William & Mary's Dillard Complex on Ironbound Road, Williamsburg, Virginia |
BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS |
194 feet long by 60 feet wide roughly 12,000 gross square feet total office space: 432 square feet 41,825 linear feet overall |
CAPACITY |
225,000 volumes (based on 7.5 volumes per foot) 32,225 linear feet of general collection shelving9,600 linear feet of archival shelving. |
SHELVING SPECIFICATIONS |
SpaceSaver manual compact shelving: approximately 22 feet long and 116 inches height per range Books: 44 ranges of double-sided sections Oversized books: 4 ranges |
COLLECTIONS HOUSED (approximate) |
Entire Dewey Decimal collection from Swem and Physics Libraries: 9,500 linear feet Oversized Dewey, Bound Journals, and Government Documents: 350 linear feet Selected Monographs from Swem and Chemistry Libraries: 2,000 linear feet Government Documents and Serial Set: 2,000 linear feet Bound Periodicals from Swem, Chemistry and Physics Libraries: 18,375 linear feet Archives and Manuscripts: 9,600 linear feet |
ARCHITECT |
Dayton and Thompson PC and Associates |
BUILDER |
Oyster Point Contracting Co. |
BUILDING DATES |
Building completed December 5, 1997 Off-Site service operational since February 1998 |
