Locations track the physical or virtual location on a shelf or server where collection material can be found. This information is critical to our ability to locate accessions and collections so please use great care.

Locations are made up of two separate parts: 1) the area, which is drawn from a controlled vocabulary that is a list of our main storage areas (floor 26, 24, Basement, Goodell, Palmer, Digital storage, etc.) and 2) the shelf, which is an alphanumeric code that represents the first shelf on which a collection resides.