Liane and Sarah,
Ditto…. and ditto.
Our line 404 count for the FY2010 survey was 3228.
Susan
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Susan M. Perry
Serials Librarian
Drake Memorial Library
The College at Brockport
Office: (585) 395-5811
Fax: (585) 395-2265
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu]
On Behalf Of Sarah D Tusa
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:37 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] NCES Current Serial Subscriptions?
Hi, Liane
I will openly confess that I am never sure if I am counting serials correctly for any of these statistical surveys, but I
do include titles that we receive as part of a publisher's package.
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Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor
Coordinator of Collection Development
& Acquisitions
Mary & John Gray Library
Lamar University
(409) 880-8125
From:
"Liane R Taylor" <ltaylor@TXSTATE.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 1:47:13 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] NCES Current Serial Subscriptions?
Howdy all,
We’re comparing our NCES figures with others and are finding our count for Current Serial Subscriptions (Item 404) is significantly lower than other institutions that should be more comparable. We’re thinking we’re
pulling the numbers differently from folks. In case you have some time on your hands, and are willing to dig around and share, we’d be interested to know how others are gathering the stats for this question:
Current serial subscriptions (item 404): “Report the total number of titles in all formats. If the title comes in both paper and electronic form, count it twice.
Count each individual title if it is received as a part of a publisher’s package. Include paper and microfilm government documents issued serially if they are accessible through the library’s catalog. Report indexing
and abstracting services that may contain full-text in item 405.”
We’re thinking maybe folks are including all the titles they receive as part of a “big deal”/publishers packages, and we’re not?
Any insight on how your institution derives the answer for this question is much appreciated.
I’m happy to share responses with the list.
Best,
Liane
Liane Taylor
Continuing Resources Librarian
Texas State University - San Marcos
Albert B. Alkek Library
601 University Drive • San Marcos
• TX
• 78666
ltaylor@txstate.edu
• 512.245.2643
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