I am a new member of the list and must apologize if this topic has
been beat to death.  Our library, which is a medium sized academic library,
is going to begin a serials evaluation and cancellation project.  I am
currently collecting articles from a LISA search, but would like to hear from
those "in the trenches."  For those libraries who carried out this sort of
project, could you please share your experiences with me?  I am interested
in method, tools, involvement of faculty/students, time involved, problems,
results, and particular successes or failures.  Any information would be
appreciated, and, if for some reason this is not an old topic for this
list, I will gladly summarize.

        Thanks in advance!

Dee Magnoni
dxm@uc1.ucsu.bitnet
phone:  315-792-3351
fax:  315-792-3361
mail:  Utica College Library
       1600 Burrstone Rd
       Utica, NY  13502

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ed. note:  To Dee, et al.,  It's been discussed and there are related
messages in SERIALST's archives (within the last year) that can be found
with a search through the message database.  There are also various citations
to journal literature in some of the earlier messages.  There is also
a recent article by Anna L. Price and Kjestine R. Carey, "Serials
Use Study Raises Questions About Cooperative Ventures," in Serials
Review 19:no.3 (Fall 1993): 79-84.

More discussion and commentary would be welcome.    -- bml