The study profiles the efforts of the following institutions to develop and manage storage facilities: The Research Collection and Preservations Consortium (ReCAP) whose members include Princeton University, Columbia University, New York Public Library, and Harvard University; the University of Iowa, Iowa City; Williams College; Western Michigan University; and Liberty University.This carefully composed study is designed to take its readers directly into the planning and management process of the universities profiled, granting hard to find insights into staffing, storage item selection criteria, item tracking and cataloging, warehouse organization, temperature/climate control, technology use and vendor management, library worker safety, work flows and productivity – and other issues in the development and management of both onsite and offsite storage facilities for academic libraries. Survey participants relate their triumphs but also point out what they would have done differently, and how other libraries can learn from their experience.