I'm interested if anyone feels like their library has had luck in reducing the amount of print serials check-in they do (NOT stopping check-in altogether)? What you might call selective check-in.

What criteria did you use in deciding what to check-in and what to stop checking in? (frequency, price, use, ubiquity, ownership of duplicate formats, retention...)

How do you distinguish between what gets checked in and what doesn't?

Do you sample or do any more sporadic checks of material that doesn't get checked in regularly to see if there are large receipt problems?

Has your library tried selective check-in but gone back to checking in everything because they found that it wasn't a significant time savings or that it actually took longer?

If anyone has any experience or wisdom on this topic they'd be willing to share with me, I'll happily report back to the list what I learn.

Thanks!