Fortunately we haven’t had to go through this painful exercise in a long time (since before I came to Wheaton, anyway). We do review lots of factors each year as part of our renewal processes for journals and databases, look at cost-per-use, etc. But we haven’t been forced to cancel a percentage of those subscriptions.

There was a helpful session at the recent Charleston Conference on this very topic, though. It was entitled “No Crystal Ball: Planning for Certain Future Cuts when the Future is Uncertain." You can see the abstract and linked presentation slides at http://sched.co/1pbUcw7

Steve