UCLA Arts Library Art and Art History Blog

Do you know about the overflow shelves?

As any visitor to the Arts Library quickly learns, we have more books than physical space. Many of our books are stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF); they are listed in the catalog and can be requested online. If you are looking for recently returned books, you’ll often find them on the 3rd floor shelving carts next to the elevator. We also have an “overflow” area on the 1st (bottom) floor, arranged by call number with the regular size titles on the shelves at the bottom of the stairs and the oversize titles on the left-hand shelves against the wall. These books are often in tight call number ranges where we can’t reshelve them right away. It’s a useful additional place to look when you can’t find a book on the regular shelves.

As always, if you can’t find locate materials on the shelves, ask that we put a search on the item for you. A search request can also be made online.

This year, the Arts Library replaced our older flatbed scanners with a new KIC model. The new scanner is located next to the two library photocopiers. It costs 16 cents per image to e-mail or save to a flash drive, and has a number of capabilities. It can create color or black and white scans, and goes up to 400 dpi in JPEG, PDF, or TIFF files. It also has the capability of cropping images, and scanning one or two pages from a book at a time.

The scanner is preservation friendly, so we often allow scans of materials from the Cage collection in cases where photocopying isn’t allowed. It also creates much crisper image reproductions, when a particular image photocopies poorly or needs to be created in color.

If you’d like a short tutorial on using the KIC scanner, please let me know.

We have two exhibits now in the Arts Library display cases: Recent Acquisitions - Artists’ Books and Science Fiction Movie Poster Art. Read more about these exhibits on the Arts Library webpage.