Weeding popular titles, 2 year college view Patricia M. Breno 14 Apr 2005 15:07 UTC
If there are any community/junior colleges with input on this topic, I'd like to hear your responses. At Owens CC, we still archive most of our print titles with fiche-- which means we retain most of our titles in print for one year, then discard. The popular titles which we don't archive with fiche, we keep 1, 2, or up to 5 years. If I had to cancel the fiche, then we'd probably keep the same time frame because we don't have the space for a larger backlog of print. Again, I'd like to hear responses on the list from other two-year colleges on weeding popular periodical titles. Thanks, Pat Breno Date sent: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:19:44 -0400 Send reply to: "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> From: Janice Ouellette <jouellette@ADMIN.FSC.EDU> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Weeding popular titles To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Hi- Since we do not bind these newsweeklies, we retain only the current 6 months. Jan -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Skwor, Jeanette Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:10 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Weeding popular titles Cofrin Library retains Current 3 years. Jeanette L. Skwor Cofrin Library University of WI-Green Bay (920) 465-2670 "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Weaver, Robert L. S. Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:47 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Weeding popular titles I have recently taken charge of the periodicals collection for our library, and I'm trying to develop some collection policies . One of my policy questions regards keeping back issues of popular reading titles like People, Good Housekeeping, Time and Newsweek. These are not integral to any of our academic departments; we purchase them as leisure material for the students. Given the fact that back issues of many of these type of periodicals are available through aggregators like EBSCOHost, InfoTrac and Lexis-Nexis, what length of time is reasonable to keep the print issues on the shelf? Other academic librarians, what does your library do? Please respond either on or off-list. Thank you! Best Regards, Robert Weaver Serials Librarian A Pierre Guillermin ILRC Liberty University (434) 582-7655 rweaver@liberty.ed Patricia Breno Serials Librarian Owens Community College P.O. Box 10,000 Toledo, Ohio 43699-1947 567.661.7020 pbreno@owens.edu