 The Huawei Lee Library Annex, located on Columbus Road in Athens, Ohio, is the home of the Southeast Ohio Regional Library Depository, a high-density library storage facility for the Ohio University Libraries. The building, previously used as a car dealership and a roller skating rink, was purchased by Ohio University in 1993 and opened for operation in 1998. The facility's namesake, Dr. Huawei Lee, was dean of libraries from 1978 to 1999. The facility currently maintains a collection of over 600,000 items, ranging in material type from books and bound journals to VHS tapes and reel-to-reel film canisters. Materials housed at the Annex are those that have relatively low circulation rates, but have been deemed unique enough for preservation. Annex items can be requested on the library's online catalog and are delivered daily to Alden Library. The facility also offers document delivery services, by which requested articles and passages from print materials are digitally scanned and sent to the requester. This particular scanner is designed to minimize damage to print materials by utilizing an adjustable book cradle. Because of its size and design, it can handle some of the larger materials housed at the Annex. Unlike traditional flatbed scanners, this planetary scanner captures images from overhead so that materials don't need to be forced to lay flat. The high-density shelving at the Annex is mammoth. Each range of shelf is 4.5 feet wide by 3 feet deep. And 20 feet tall. The shortest rows of shelves are 6 ranges long or 27 feet. The longest rows are 14 ranges long or 63 feet. And there are 29 rows of shelves. Imagine you're a film historian researching the silent era. You might be interested in these film reels of Lon Cheney's performance in 1925's Hunchback of Notre Dame. You see they're located at the library Annex. Being no stranger to the library website and online catalog, you know that if you hit that purple request button at the top of the page, you'll have your hands on those reels in no time. Sure A Patron initiates a material request. That request is stored in Sierra, the library's integrated library system, or ILS. As part of their daily routine, staff at the Annex check for Annex requests in Sierra. Request slips are printed and the materials are located, collected, and delivered to Alden Library. All Annex staff are trained and certified to operate an industrial lift, allowing them to access all items housed at the facility. Even those on the top shelf of the 20 foot tall shelving units. The film reel you requested has been located. It will now be delivered to Alden Library and you'll receive a notification when it has arrived. The Huawei Li Library Annex provides services essential to the operations of a modern research institution. It allows Ohio University libraries to maintain robust and unique collections of material. Without it, our collections would suffer. Space constraints would make the tough decisions about which materials to keep and which to discard more frequent and more necessary. The facility has undergone recent improvements targeting the climate control of the building. With such improvements illustrating the library's and university's commitment to the depository, we can expect a future of continued access to the diverse and unique holdings of the Huawei Li Library Annex. Thank you.