-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Printed Periodical Indexes -- Lori Thornton
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:50:33 -0500
From: "Susan E. Sturgeon" <susan.sturgeon@salemstate.edu>

Do you mean that you are actually discarding the old indexes, even
though there is a lot of history not covered by the online indexes.
Where are you going to go when a history professor wants his/her
students to use primary materials on the Vietnam War or something even
earlier?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Printed Periodical Indexes -- Liu Liu
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:47:08 -0500
> From: Lori Thornton <lthornton@cn.edu>
> Reply-To: lthornton@cn.edu
>
> >
> >   Has your
> > library already taken the printed periodical indexes out
> > of the collection?  Do you have any opinions or thoughts
> > regarding this matter?
>
> I think you'd be in good company removing the print indexes.  In the
> library in which I worked previous to this one we removed the print for
> budget reasons as we received an electronic equivalent or rough
> equivalent.  When I got here to Carson-Newman, that was also the policy.
>
> >
> >
> > By the way, do you consider printed periodical indexes as
> > part of the periodical collection, or part of the reference
> > collection when you do the collection statistics?
>
> Where I was previously, they were counted as periodicals.  (We treated
> all serial publications in reference that way though.)  Here they are
> considered reference.
>
> Lori Thornton, Asst. Prof.
> Technology & Serials Librarian
> Carson-Newman College
> Jefferson City  TN  37760
> lthornton@cn.edu

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Susan E. Sturgeon
Email: susan.sturgeon@salemstate.edu
Salem State College