We don’t actively seek out volumes on exchange lists, etc. If a faculty member wants to donate print volumes and they fill a gap we generally go ahead and add them. But that’s about it. Our print just isn’t used that much anymore.

Buddy Pennington

Director of Collections and Access Management

University of Missouri--Kansas City

308 Miller Nichols Library

800 East 51st St.

Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

penningtonb@umkc.edu

816-235-1548

UMKC Libraries

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Abbigail C Gregg
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 9:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Filling in back issues of print journals?

We do it if we consider the publication very important. Otherwise, we wouldn’t do it. Most gaps are in print that rarely gets used.

Abbi Stauber

Library Technician – McCartney Library

Geneva College

724-847-6693

acgregg@geneva.edu

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Monica Howell
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 5:16 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: [SERIALST] Filling in back issues of print journals?

Hello all,

I'm a relatively new serials technician and have been debating the relative merits of filling in incomplete volumes of print journals at my institution. Sometimes there's a gap in the middle of a run that seems obvious to fill when presented with the opportunity, particularly for a title with no online access or to which we might conceivably no longer have online access at some future time. Other times our holdings for a certain title end in the middle of a volume, and I'm left with the decision about whether to attempt to complete that volume.

What is your institution's approach to this situation? Would you try to complete a volume at the end of your print holdings for a title? Would it matter if you had online access, particularly if you felt your institution would always maintain that access due to the importance/status of the title?

I appreciate your thoughts!

Best,

Monica

Monica Howell, MLS, EdS
Serials Technician, Archivist
Greenawalt Library
Northwestern Health Sciences University

2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington, MN 55431
mhowell@nwhealth.edu
P: 952-888-4777 x218

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