In our case, this is a subject librarian-based decision, mainly. So if we subscribe to print journal x, and the subject librarian doesn’t think it needs to be retained in perpetuity, we make a note of that. Once a year, usually during the summer, we go through these titles to ensure that everything is taken care of. There are not that many, actually. Note that we also made a decision some years ago to not retain any bound journals that are represented in JSTOR.

Steve

Steve Oberg

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Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)
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On Sep 27, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Barbara Pope <bpope@PITTSTATE.EDU> wrote:

Hello, everyone.

I was wondering if any of you have experience developing retention schedules for journals when you have limited space to keep bound volumes. The titles I am dealing with are not in JSTOR Archives, but are primarily scholarly journals in print format. How did you decide the length of time that you need to retain titles?

Sincerely,

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Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
1701 S. Broadway
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
bpope@pittstate.edu

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