If there are any community/junior colleges with input on this topic, I'd like to hear
your responses.  At Owens CC, we still archive most of our print titles with fiche--
which means we retain most of our titles in print for one year, then discard.  The
popular titles which we don't archive with fiche, we keep 1, 2, or up to 5 years.

If I had to cancel the fiche, then we'd probably keep the same time frame because
we don't have the space for a larger backlog of print.

Again, I'd like to hear responses on the list from other two-year colleges on weeding
popular periodical titles.

Thanks,

Pat Breno

Date sent:              Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:19:44 -0400
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From:                   Janice Ouellette <jouellette@ADMIN.FSC.EDU>
Subject:                Re: [SERIALST] Weeding popular titles
To:                     SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU

Hi-
Since we do not bind these newsweeklies, we retain only the current 6
months.

Jan

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Skwor, Jeanette
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Cofrin Library retains Current 3 years.

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library
University of WI-Green Bay
(920) 465-2670

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money
will get you through times of no libraries."
                              Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog

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[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
Patricia Breno
Serials Librarian
Owens Community College
P.O. Box 10,000
Toledo, Ohio 43699-1947
567.661.7020
pbreno@owens.edu