Hi everyone,
My institution is considering joining
HathiTrust and it’s very likely we will, if we can work
through the Shibboleth issue.
Question to you all is, what do you
think about withdrawing periodicals covered by HT? I mean, not
art-intensive or otherwise valuable titles, but your general
pre-copyright, very dusty and deteriorating volumes that it
seems nobody will ever look at. The old literary review type
magazines, especially.
I know that HT is an on-going
subscription rather than a purchase, but we’ve had them run
analysis on our holdings and the price isn’t that bad.
Colorado College is solid when it comes to financial
situation. So I’m not too worried about having to cut that
subscription in the future.
We would obviously check HT for coverage
when considering withdrawing a title. I don’t know about
trying to check for every single volume since HT doesn’t list
them conveniently.
So I’m just appealing to the collective
wisdom here and if anybody else has undertaken such a project
please share your experiences and workflow.
Thanks,
Diane
Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt
Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu
(719)
389-6661
(719)
389-6082 (fax)