Hello!
We made the decision to continue binding due to the inconsistent nature of a percentage of our electronic access and because not everything that our professors use have gone
electronic yet. Sometimes we can discover what the problem is fairly quickly and get access back up, but sometimes it takes a while to discover what the problem is and get it fixed. We do not keep everything, and there have been large cancellation projects
completed at least every 7-10 years. That means the number of print titles we still purchase has went down dramatically. Certain departments, like our Music department still bind everything. Other departments only bind what they deem to be most important to
keep. If a viable alternative to binding other than digitizing (which we do utilize on a small scale) should ever appear we would be interested.
Thanks!
Sara
Sara Green
Senior Library Associate II
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Acquisitions & Continuing Resources
326G- Hodges Library
1015 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996
sgreen@utk.edu
(865) 974-6909
Fax: 865-974-3894
From: serialst@simplelists.com <serialst@simplelists.com>
On Behalf Of Kim Maxwell
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 5:32 PM
To: serialst@simplelists.com
Subject: [SERIALST] RE: Binding serials
Hi all,
I’m all for not binding, but I’m wondering what you do with the print issues you’re keeping if you don’t bind them. Do they just sit on the shelf in a pile? Do you put them
in boxes (Princeton files)? What is your shelf management strategy when you need/want to keep the print, but don’t actually bind them?
Thanks,
Kim
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Kim Maxwell (she/her/hers)
Head, Acquisitions & Appraisal
MIT Libraries | Cambridge | MA
The
MIT Libraries
are always available remotely, and our amazing staff are working hard to carefully
ramp up access to physical collections.
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On Behalf Of Rodriguez, Michael
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:59 AM
To: serialst@simplelists.com
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
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