We generally keep that kind of title for 6 months.

Cindy Lafferty
Librarian Assistant
University of Saint Francis
Clafferty@sf.edu
260-434-7454

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Weaver, Robert L. S.
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:47 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Weeding popular titles

I have recently taken charge of the periodicals collection for our
library, and I'm trying to develop some collection policies .  One of my
policy questions regards keeping back issues of popular reading titles
like People, Good Housekeeping, Time and Newsweek.  These are not
integral to any of our academic departments; we purchase them as leisure
material for the students. Given the fact that back issues of many of
these type of periodicals are available through aggregators like
EBSCOHost, InfoTrac and Lexis-Nexis, what length of time is reasonable
to keep the print issues on the shelf? Other academic librarians, what
does your library do?
Please respond either on or off-list.  Thank you!

Best Regards,

Robert Weaver
Serials Librarian
A Pierre Guillermin ILRC
Liberty University
(434) 582-7655
rweaver@liberty.ed