Hello there,
We stopped binding most of our Serials around 2013-14 I believe. Some of the reasons included budget, staffing changes of retirements, moving toward more electronic
access as we also started ordering e-books at that time with our monograph Acquisitions. Our library has really cut back on our print titles that we still receive as we move to more and more electronic access. There is less staff time spent on receiving,
cataloging, processing, shelving, and maintenance. The only ones that we still bind (only about 5 titles) are odd sized and important to maintain in good shape – valuable. We have a few titles that are housed in our Archives that also get bound, but again,
those titles are very few.
Our list is:
Rolling Stone
Sports Illustrated
Diapason
Ogonek
Our local newspaper that goes into our archives
RFD
Institutional magazine that is received quarterly
We have several print titles that we have limited retentions in place for. For example, we will keep one year plus the current year for several titles like Consumer
Reports, Backpacker, Billboard, Climbing, Education Week, Lire, Men’s Health, New Internationalist, Runner’s World, Spiegel & Women’s Health. In the last few years, we have been continually doing reviews on our Serial titles before our annual renewals, especially
right now during the pandemic as our institution is looking to save money in many different ways. For our library, this has been our subscriptions and our standing orders which we did a big review on about 2 years ago.
I hope this is useful information.
Karla
Karla Harter
Grinnell College Libraries
Serials & Acquisitions Depts.
1111 6th Ave.
Grinnell, IA 50112
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Subject: [SERIALST] Binding serials
Hi everyone,
UConn holds many unbound serials - mostly backlog, as we are down to only a handful of new print receipts. Are your libraries still binding serials? Why or why not? If you do, how
do you decide which serials get bound and which get shelved permanently unbound?
Thanks in advance for sharing your perspectives!
Michael
Michael Rodriguez
(he/him/his)
Collections Strategist
UConn Library
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1005
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
860-486-9325
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