open-stack

[oh-puhn-stak]

adjective

Library Science.

1. having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.

Example Sentences

Princeton's new $6,000,000, six-story Firestone Memorial Library would be the world's largest open-stack collection: anybody could get at the books by just walking to the shelf.

From Time Magazine Archive