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Subject: Re: Printed Periodical Indexes -- Liu Liu
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:06:51 -0500
From: Sherry Petry <spetry@ce1.af.public.lib.ga.us>

I can see from the responses that I am the conservative one here.  For a
long time we have only had the primary Wilson indexes and every two
years or so I have picked the most marginal one to cancel.  A while back
we dropped Applied Science & Tech, then Art Index.  But we still have
the others and are not cancelling them this year.  We still don't have
enought terminals to meet the demand and at busy times need to use
Readers' Guide,  the Science Index and Social Science Index in print.

A bigger issue for us is that increased cost of the academic journals
have forced us to cancel titles so that the indexes, print or online,
are not supported adequately, which forces us to use fulltext databases
even when another one would be appropriate.

--
Sherry Petry
Periodicals Department
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library
1 Margaret Mitchell Sq.
Atlanta, GA 30303

spetry@af.public.lib.ga.us
404-730-1917