We have a very large remote user population. Our students who are
on-campus do much less research than they do after they've left campus so
we have been concentrating on our electronic resources. In the case of
JSTOR we definitely have been discarding the print in favor of the
electronic unless it is a title that is such a standard in the fields of
study here that it would be criminal to get rid of it. We have discarded
the majority of our microfiche in favor of electronic resources and only
keep microfiche for those that are unavailable electronically.

--
Pamela Contakos
Assistant Director
Donald B. Watt Library
School for International Training
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(802)258-3356
pamela.contakos@sit.edu

On 9/20/2005 3:00 PM, Carmel Yurochko <yurochko@LIBRARY.DUQ.EDU> wrote:
>Please excuse any cross-posting.
>
>As with many institutions, Duquesne University is facing growing pains,
>especially in our hardbound journal collection.  In this email I am
>asking what other institutions are doing with overlapping holdings
>between JSTOR and hardbound print, i.e. storage of print, discarding
>print, etc.
>
>Thanks in advance for any input provided.
>
>Carmel Yurochko
>Serials/EAR. Librarian - Psychology Dept. Liaison
>Duquesne University / Gum berg Library
>600 Forbes Avenue / Pittsburgh, PA 15282
>412.396-5233 / fax 412.396-5639
>yurochko@library.duq.edu