Hi, Ali and everyone. We did a small amount of weeding of JSTOR titles in 2009. We recycled a lot of the bound volumes, but with some of them, I removed the binding and was able to reuse the binding to repair other bound volumes whose binding had completely fallen apart. The way I repaired them was to double stitched binding tape to repair it as if both of the hinges were broken. Demco has a YouTube video that shows how to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DEMCOinc#p/c/9876A71BE2C6220C/8/zZE9sN_hTVc
This was a more great solution than just throwing them away and allowed me to repair over 200 bound volumes I had not been able to repair up until then because covers or parts of covers were often missing.
In February last year, we got a new dean of library services. For various reasons, I am doing some weeding this year. I first offered a few of the titles to state insitutions I knew had some volumes of the title. With whatever is left, I am offering them on ALCTSDEU, BACKSERV, and BACKMED. I guess I will probably be recycling anything that is left after that.
Good luck with your weeding project. It sounds like it is weeding project time for quite a few of us.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
bpope@pittstate.edu