The Dewey Decimal Collection
Overview
Housed in MIT's offsite storage annex is a "hidden library" containing thousands of monographs and serials originally collected by the MIT Libraries and classified by Dewey Decimal number. The collection began in the 1960s when MIT moved over to Library of Congress classification, and older Dewey Decimal materials were transferred out of the divisional libraries into a central location.
For many years SerCat has been involved in an ongoing project to catalog the serials contained in this collection, and to reclassify them to Library of Congress call numbers. The cataloged materials are then transferred to MIT's Off-Campus Collection. Now that they can be found through Barton, patrons can have these materials delivered to the LSA within 24 hours from their request.