Here is our weeding criteria for bound journals:

obsolete material, especially time-sensitive scientific publications
materials inessential to curriculum and with no faith connection that is available full-text in a database, especially if online access seems stable
inessential titles for which we have only a few bound volumes
low usage titles with online full-text access, especially if online usage is also low

We keep very old journals for only a few titles that have historical significance like National Geographic and Time. These are still used by students for research. We also keep old journals that have a special significance to our college. We aren’t a specialty library or a big research institution, so we don’t think it’s necessary to keep obsolete or little-used material as if we are some museum of periodicals. We have finite room and we have to consider what students are actually using.

Abbigail Stauber

Library Technician

P: 724.847.6693 - F: 724.847.6687

acgregg@geneva.edu

GENEVA COLLEGE 3200 College Ave., Beaver Falls, PA 15010

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Teresa Grimm
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 9:21 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Renewals

I work in a small academic library and due to staff cuts I have been assigned serials duties so I too would be interested in seeing a checklist. I am also very interested in weeding and holding policies. We have some publications back to the early 1900's. Are libraries still keeping these old periodicals? We have very little usage and our indexes for the most part to not go this far back.

Teresa Grimm

Lakeland College

P.O. Box 359

Sheboygan, WI 53082

(920) 565-1038, ext. 2418

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Emily Miller <Emily.Miller@jeffcolibrary.org> wrote:

Greetings All,

I am gearing up for my first Renewal Process with our subscription management vendor. Does anyone have a Serials Renewal Process Timeline/Schedule/Checklist, including all the tasks that need to be performed, that they would be willing to share?

Many thanks in advance!

Emily

emily dara miller
acquisitions/collection development librarian

collection services

Jefferson County Public Library
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Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

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