Re: Weeding theory for smaller university libraries Susan Andrews 15 Oct 2001 21:28 UTC

If you subscribe to something like JSTOR, you might do what we did, which
was to put the items that we owned and were covered by JSTOR in storage (it
is retrievable but that isn't absolutely necessary) and then we made direct
links from the title in the catalog to JSTOR's version of the title.  We
also marked the holdings that we moved to be in remote storage and to ask
for at Circ desk and the direct link in the catalog is in a separate
holdings box just above the regular holdings and says something like: Back
issues available via JSTOR.

Hope this helps,

Susan Andrews
Head, Serials Librarian
Texas A&M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
Susan_Andrews@tamu-commerce.edu
(903)886-5733
"Your Success Is Our Business"

At 12:58 PM 10/15/2001 -0400, Matt Person wrote:
>We take some of our journals which are online, and put them in
>retrievible storage- thus opening up a few extra years of shelf space.
>
>Matt
>--
>Matthew A. Person
>Serials Librarian
>MBL/WHOI Library
>7 MBL Street
>Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 USA
>tel. 508 289 7345
>email mperson@mbl.edu
>
>Irma Nicola wrote:
>>
>> Is there any kind of weeding theory that small university libraries with a
>> collection of 1400 active titles and fairly limited shelf space practise in
>> general?
>>
>>  Irma Nicola <INicola@APU.EDU>