The Northeastern Ohio Cooperative Regional Library Depository is a high-density library storage facility located in Rootstown, Ohio, on the campus of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM). Planning and construction of the facility resulted from a 1987 recommendation from the Ohio Board of Regents for academic libraries to develop a plan for storage units. These storage units would ease stack overcrowding in the libraries by relocating seldom used material to a centralized location.

The Ohio Board of Regents realized that there would be a tremendous cost savings by constructing one centralized building for storage of material then it would to build additions onto five separate universities libraries.

Ground was broken for the facility in April 1993. After nine months of construction, Phase I of the storage facility project was complete, and staff moved into the new building on January 3, 1994. The Northeastern Ohio Cooperative Regional Library Depository was the first of five storage modules located in Ohio to be built.

While materials stored in the Depository have been designated by the libraries as "seldom used," they are still available to library patrons. The on-line catalogs located at the Cooperative libraries will inform patrons that items are located at the Depository. Patrons may then ask for items by submitting request forms to their library. Once the forms are received by the Depository, the items will be packaged and sent by courier to the requesting library for the patrons most of the time providing next day service.

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