Library Annex (Southeast Ohio Regional Depository)

Location: 205 Columbus Road, Athens		Manager: Teresa M. Nelson
Phone: (740) 593-2165		E-mail: nelsont@ohio.edu

Depository Hours Service Desk Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday closed   Courier Deliveries Available See below

The Southeast Ohio Regional Depository serves as a high-density library storage facility combining filing, retrieval, and delivery services to provide economical storage of low activity library books, university records, and other boxed materials.

The 32,000 square-foot building includes space for a reading room, processing, and library staff, as well as the capacity to store up to 750,000 bound volumes. Materials are shelved in trays according to five size categories in the order in which they are received at the facility. This is not a browsable collection.

Take a virtual tour of the Southeast Ohio Regional Library Depository.

Courier Delivery Schedule

Monday through Friday Courier Deliveries are at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Requests must be in the ALICE request queue by...
8:00 a.m. for the 10 a.m. delivery, or
1:00 p.m. for the 3 p.m. delivery

The items you request will be delivered to Alden Library's Circulation Desk for pickup within 48 hours.

Locating Materials

You can request materials located at the Library Annex through ALICE. For instructions on how to use ALICE to request materials from the Annex click here.

The items you request will be delivered to Alden Library's Circulation Desk within 48 hours. Most items are delivered the same day as requested.

Loan Policies

With the exception of materials designated as non-circulating or building-use only, items in the Annex may be checked out. Bound periodicals may be borrowed for one week by all users. Monographs circulate according to an individual's patron status.

Services

A Reading Room with study tables and carrels for 12 readers is available for faculty and students. A public PC, photocopy machine, microfilm and microfiche readers are also available. Materials are retrieved for users by depository staff. The shelving arrangement does not allow subject browsing. Reference collections and other library services are not available. Eating, drinking, and smoking are not permitted in the building.