Hi Ali,
I offer my withdrawn issues to other colleges and institutions via listservs such as backmed, backserv and DEU. This reduces the amount to be recycled somewhat. Our school has a contract with Piranha, which
shreds and recycles them. I do not know how much they charge, but our school started to use them when our other waste hauler proved too expensive NOT to reduce our waste by recycling.
We started out the summer withdrawing a lot, but now we are in our new FY and that has moved to the back burner for me for the next few weeks.
Good luck.
Karen Bolton
Serials Librarian
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Walter Schroeder Library
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
53202-3109
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu]
On Behalf Of Larsen, Alison
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:49 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] What to do with withdrawn bound periodicals?
Good afternoon all,
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding what they have done with pulled/withdrawn bound periodicals? We are getting ready to pull a bunch of bound titles and I did not want to dump them in the trash if I can help it. I
have looked into a few businesses and no one wants them (all JSTOR covered titles). Has anyone found a company/organization or solution that would avoid putting these into the garbage? Has anyone taken the binding off and recycled the text block? I haven’t
done a large-scale withdrawal so any/all help is welcome!!
Any suggestions or experiences are much appreciated. I thank you all in advance for your help.
Please email me off list, thanks!
Cheers,
Ali Larsen
Serials & Web Resources Librarian
Siena College