Hi Amanda,

We have around 2677 full time students. We have 88 Print-only, and 17 Print+Online Subscriptions (and 75 Online-only if you're curious).

We keep all our current issues on display because we happen to have room, but I think if our book collection grows the current periodicals area will likely get reduced.

We don't put physical barcodes on the journals themselves, but instead assign a barcode to each title. The circulation desk has a binder with all these barcodes, and when a student finds a journal used, they enter the barcode into WMS for count-use.

We use the stats to create a cost-per use amount (I do this with an access query)

Jason Skoog

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Cabot, Amanda <acabot@rivier.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I am wondering how many print serials subscriptions other institutions have? I work at a small, private institution and we have about 80 current print subscriptions. This number seems high to me considering they do not get used very often. We only keep 30 or so on the display shelf. Also, do you track statistics on print usage? We do not barcode our serials, so I’m wondering if there are other effective ways to track usage.

I am guessing this topic has been discussed before, so if there is somewhere else I can locate this type of information, please feel free to let me know!

Thank you,

Amanda

Amanda Cabot

Acquisitions Librarian

Regina Library

Rivier University

Nashua, NH 03060

acabot@rivier.edu

(603) 897-8535

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