We are glad to have Google Magazines as a backup, but we also keep high-graphics titles such as Life, as students use them for assignments.
Jennifer L. van Sickle M.L.S.
Serials Librarian & Sciences Coordinator
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT USA 06106
860-297-2250 phone
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Diane Westerfield
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:45 AM
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Hi,
Our students still get the assignments where they’re supposed to go to the popular print magazine and look at articles or ads from a certain era, and are not allowed to use online versions. We also still get the “go to the library and look at 3 print articles in [department subject area]”-type assignments.
I assume that at some point these assignments will go away but it seems to be a matter of waiting for senior faculty to retire. That could take years. We also have no guarantee that Life will stay accessible in perpetuity. It would be nice if we didn’t have to keep the giant Life volumes, which are falling apart and have brittle pages, but they’re staying with us for now.
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Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6661
(719) 389-6082 (fax)
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Judith Koveleskie
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 7:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Identifying journal titles for long-term storage?
Why would you keep Life when the entire run is available free online and can be searched?
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On May 11, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Diane Westerfield <Diane.Westerfield@COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:
Hi,
Our library has the opportunity to place some materials in long-term storage in PASCAL (see http://pascal.ucdenver.edu/). The facility has staff who can respond to interlibrary loan requests, so our patrons would still be able to get articles. PASCAL is climate-controlled, and the cost to store materials there is reasonable.
Since our bound periodical section is filling up, and we need to carve out more study space, it seems like a good idea to put some journal runs in PASCAL. We do conduct JSTOR withdrawal projects every other year, but JSTOR withdrawals are no longer keeping up with our space demands.
Has anybody conducted a project to identify print journal titles for storage? Any tips to share? We don’t maintain usage statistics for print periodicals, so we can’t use that metric.
Of course, no art titles will be sent into storage. I am thinking we’ll keep popular magazines that students are often assigned to look at quickly (Life, Newsweek, Time), the old periodicals that are used by history classes (Harper’s Weekly), and particularly important journals (Nature, Economist). As to electronic coverage, I’m thinking this could be a way to move some aggregator-covered titles that we otherwise would have to retain.
Thanks in advance,
Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6661
(719) 389-6082 (fax)
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