We stopped checking in after migrating to ALMA.  Our print subscriptions have dropped steadily through the years, and we’re reducing to bare bones minimum this year due to budget cuts and the pandemic.   I can’t remember the last time someone asked for a print issue of anything.  Hope this helps.

Jennifer L. van Sickle M.L.S.

Science and Electronic Resources Librarian

Trinity College Library

LITC A40

300 Summit St.

Hartford, CT USA 06106

860-297-2250 (Fall 2020: leave message or e-mail jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu)

From: serialst@simplelists.com <serialst@simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Jason Skoog
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Subject: [SERIALST] Do you keep track of what print issues you receive?

For smaller institutions, how do you make sure that you are receiving all your print issues?

We only have about 60 print subscriptions.  When new issues arrive, my students stamp and write the volume and issue on the cover, then shelve them.  Our catalog holdings for current subscriptions always say, for example, "Vol. 4 No. 5 (1998) - Present."  We just have a generic "To Present" for all current subscriptions.  We don't update the holdings for each issue, but I'm wondering if we should.

Do you keep check of which issues you receive?  Do you check them into a system?  Do you write them down in a word document?  Or do you trust that they arrive?

It seems like we get all our issues, with maybe a few missing on rare occasions.  Every year, we reduce our print collection so I'm not sure how important it is to dedicate time to this. 

Thank you,

Jason Skoog

Archives and Systems Librarian
Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
608-796-3262

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