STOCK MOVE 1980 AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION

Elsewhere in this issue (p. 50–56) E S Smith describes the new extension to the British Library Lending Division's Urquhart Building, which provides an additional 65 kilometres (40 miles) of shelving. In order to make the most efficient use of the total 130 kilometres (80 miles) capacity in the Urquhart Building, a vast amount of library stock had to be moved. It was important that this move should interfere as little as possible with the Lending Division's normal operations and it was therefore planned in great detail to be executed quickly and with the minimum of disruption to the loan/photocopy service.