Re: Serials check in? Patricia Pettijohn 09 Nov 2007 17:09 UTC
"And if it doesn't have an electronic version, it's obviously an inferior journal which nobody reads, so it still doesn't matter." That may be generally true of STM journals, but is certainly not true of the humanities and various areas in the social sciences. Africana studies, Latin American studies, areas in the fine arts, small poetry magazines, and even within the area of healthcare, significant smaller research publications in some areas of behavioral healthcare are still distributed in print. Some of the smaller learned societies, their associates and affiliates, for example, may not seem important to us, but when you have a tenured faculty member requesting the title, you may very well need to check it in and claim it. For research libraries specializing in some of these disciplines, they are more likely to be lenders than receivers of ILL with rarely held titles, resulting in slow ILL delivery if they drop their print subscription. But we are all looking forward to the day....... Patricia Pettijohn Head, Collection & Technical Services Nelson Poynter Memorial Library University of South Florida St. Petersburg 140 7th Ave. South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-553-4407 ppettijohn@nelson.usf.edu So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. ~ Kurt Vonnegut August 11, 2004 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Wishnetsky Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:02 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serials check in? At 04:10 PM 11/8/2007, you wrote: >My question is - if you didn't check it in, how do you know if you are >missing it because it was never received? You don't. But if it has an electronic version, it doesn't matter. And if it doesn't have an electronic version, it's obviously an inferior journal which nobody reads, so it still doesn't matter. The check-in people you cut from the staff were the ones who also did claiming, so nobody's claiming anything anyway. If you're wasting some money on paper copies you're not getting, well, you're saving money on staff, so it all evens out. If that's not enough, you can charge your patrons for ILLs. If they don't like it, enlist them to write letters to those dinosaur paper journals urging them to get with the times, already. How's that? SW >Just a thought, > >Susan Andrews > >Head, Serials Librarian >Texas A&M University-Commerce >P.O. Box 3011 - Library >Commerce, TX 75429-3011 >Susan_Andrews@tamu-commerce.edu >(903)886-5733 >"Your Success Is Our Business" Susan Wishnetsky Electronic Resources Librarian Galter Health Sciences Library Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611-3008 (312) 503-9351 FAX (312) 503-1204 pasiphae@northwestern.edu