Re: What are other institutions doing w/JSTOR and print overlapping titles? Andrew Waller 21 Sep 2005 16:09 UTC

We have a similar set-up, though we are continuing to put material in
storage on occasion.  There is an option for users to retrieve the paper
version of a JSTOR title but I believe that this is rarely done.

Andrew

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Andrew Waller
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Collections Services
University of Calgary Library

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Jack Hall wrote:

> 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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> Jack Hall
> 114L University of Houston Libraries
> Houston, TX  77204-2000
> telephone:(713) 743-9687
> e-mail: jhall@uh.edu
> fax: (713) 743-9748

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Andrew Waller
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library

waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax