We maintain a policy of retaining the print inventory of publications
where photographic plates are an important aspect of the editorial
matter. In our case, that means a dozen or so titles in art,
architecture, archaeology, and classics.

The print inventory in our branch library (devoted to the sciences,
etc.) has been maintained on the shelf for an interim period, faux de
mieux.

Our main library is under construction and our collection has had to be
removed from the shelves, with the greater portion remaining accessible
but stored in an automated warehouse on the campus and the lesser
portion inaccessible and stored conventionally in sundry locations.  The
new building will have less open shelf space than the old, though it
will have the appended automated warehouse.  All of this made it
necessary that we bite the bullet on the disposition of the JSTOR print
inventory.

As of now, we are with the cooperation of other colleges building a
regional depository of print inventory.  The idea is that each college
contributes its unique inventory to the depository (housed in an
accessible off-site storage location) and the remainder of each
participant's collection then may be discarded. I am not sure how many
colleges are participating at this point.  One thing we did discover is
that our collection largely duplicated that of the most proximate
participant.  As they are not under acute pressure at this point, the
nascent depository will be relying on their contributions, for the most
part, though we did have some unique content. Ergo, the bulk of what we
had of humanities and social research material which antedates the
various moving walls has been discarded.

I. Woodward
Serials Office
Colgate University Libraries

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Waller
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:10 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] What are other institutions doing w/JSTOR and
print overlapping titles?

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
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library

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

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

--
Andrew Waller
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library

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