Try entering into Google "digital ice age", read the article from
Popular Mechanics and a few comments on it (I only found one anti) and
see how you all feel then.

Yours,

Pamela Ben-Eliezer
Shaare Zedek Medical Library
Jerusalem, Israel
ben-el@szmc.org.il

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Lester
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:42 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Claiming online issues

  ----- Original message ----------------------------------------

  From: "Ohler, Lila A." <lohler@OU.EDU>

  >But I think it depends on the library.  In my library's case, as in

  >yours, we continue to carry print.  And if we are to continue to
devote

  >labor toward claiming print serials, with an assumption of "need" for

  >those issues on the part of the end user, then I cannot justify not

  >claiming electronic serials.

I think you're doing an "apples and oranges" comparison.  Yes, there can
be problems with publishers messing up your subscription, changing URLs,
and so forth.  However, you can have that type of problem with print
titles, as well. With electronic what you don't have to worry about is
the items getting lost in the mail, run over by a truck, shredded in
some machine along the way, and so forth.  And, of course, in the long
run you don't have to worry about missing issues when you're going to
bind.

>From the experiences I've had, if a title is missing in whole or in
part, it'll get reported very quickly by a user, and you can almost
always have access restored very quickly, too, and certainly much
quicker than a missing issue or volume can be mailed to you, assuming
the publisher even has any to send.  Online missing issues or volumes
are  different enough from the problems of claiming paper issues to make
me seriously doubt whether it is worth the time.

dan

Lord, I never complain, never ask why, but please don't let my dream run
dry

dan@riverofdata.com

Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
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