We recently withdrew our film/fiche collections. A few items were taken by other institutions on our in-state offering list. Otherwise, our poor student assistants have been busy taking fiche out of envelopes and unspooling film in order to recycle the paper and plastic, at least.
A staff member/artist took some a bit of film to experiment with, and I've heard rumors that art teachers in some schools will take a small amount of materials to give their students a new medium to play with.
Interestingly, we did find a taker for the empty spools. Another institution wanted them for their reformatting program.
Emily
Emily Prather-Rodgers
Technical Services Coordinator, Oesterle Library, North Central College
p: 630-637-5709
>>> Teresa Imfeld <timfeld@WARREN-WILSON.EDU> 1/27/2015 11:11 AM >>>
Andrea:
We recently had a large withdrawal project and I spent two days trying to find a recycling option for the microfilm/fiche and even that did not result in any solution. Kodak recycles film, but they deal in tonage! If you decide you want to go that route you might try your local hospital to see what they do with their old film (X-rays, etc.) and see if they have a recycling company that they use. What you withdraw is likely too small for you to recycle yourselves, but adding it to what the hospital generates could help you both out.
all the best,
Teresa
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Teresa Imfeld, MLIS
Serials, Acquisitions, & Cataloging Specialist
Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library
Warren Wilson College
828-771-3898
From: "Christman, Andrea" <andrea.christman@SINCLAIR.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:59:11 AM
Subject: [SERIALST] Microfilm/microfiche withdrawal
We are looking at withdrawing our microfilm/microfiche collections. Our preference, of course, is to sell our withdrawn items, but I doubt there is a market for microfilm/microfiche. Does anyone have any suggestions for selling or donating these items? Or any other advice for such a project?
Thanks,
Andrea
Andrea Christman
Technical Services and Systems Librarian
Sinclair Community College
444 W. Third St.
Dayton, OH 45402
937-512-4513
andrea.christman@sinclair.edu
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