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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:34:36 GMT-5
From: Kimberly J. Laird <LAIRDK@MEDSERV.ETSU-TN.EDU>
Subject: onshelf generalities

    Hi Jeanette...

    One thing to consider is using the dates of the indexes
online. E.g. if you were a medical library, you might consider
using the 1960 cutoff point, since that's when MEDLARS began. I
know that they are doing some retrospective conversion, but its
still a very handy cut-off point.

    Since your collection is more general academics, it may
depend on the discipline involved. Perhaps starting with
everything prior to 1911 or prior to 1935 would work?

**From: Jeanette Skwor <SKWORJ@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>
**Subject: On shelf generalities
**
**We need to make room on our shelves; to do so we plan to move some things
**to remote storage.  Do most of you have cutoff dates (eg 20 years on the
**floor, older issues to remote) or what criteria do you use?
**

Kimberly J. Laird
Technical Services Librarian//Medical Library
Quillen College of Medicine//East Tennessee State University
<LAIRDK@MEDSERV.ETSU-Tn.Edu>