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Subject: Printed Periodical Indexes
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:42:13 -0500
From: Liu Liu <liuliu@usa.com>

Hi,

Our College is a two-year community college with a
small library budget.  Currently we subscribe to the online
periodical databases EBSCOHost (indexes and some full text).
We are considering to cancel subscriptions to the
printed periodical indexes to save about $2000.00 since
they are used infrequently.  Is it too drastic?  Has your
library already taken the printed periodical indexes out
of the collection?  Do you have any opinions or thoughts
regarding this matter?

By the way, do you consider printed periodical indexes as
part of the periodical collection, or part of the reference
collection when you do the collection statistics?

Thanks

Pauline Smith

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