Re: What are other institutions doing w/JSTOR and print overlapping titles? Jack Hall 21 Sep 2005 14:46 UTC

I wrote privately to the original poster, but thought I would write
everybody since there are a number of messages about discarding the
volumes. We do not discard the volumes, probably because we want to keep
our volume count as high as feasible since we are ARL.

Two years ago we put the print volumes of JSTOR titles into storage, but
have not stored subsequent volumes. It was a space issue for us, but we
have more space now due to a building addition that is now complete. In our
online catalog records for the print journals we put a link to a note that
explains the storage and permits users to request a print volume, to be
retrieved in a few days. I think there have been very few requests, perhaps
none, but we were trying to anticipate a patron's need for the paper for
particular purposes.

Jack

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