We have eliminated print whenever possible.   We no longer accept donations.

We do have older materials on the shelves along with 12 current subscriptions and they are seldom used.
As an experiment this year we moved three print journals [that the faculty said they could not live without] into our office space and put signs on the shelves directing people to the library office.   We did not retrieve these journals even once.

With access to over 61,000 titles online, students just don't bother with print anymore.  So even if you have the greatest journal in a field in print, if there at ten others online, those are the ones that will be used.

Judith

Judith A. Koveleskie, MLIS, MA
Serials Librarian
Seton Hill University
Reeves Memorial Library
1 Seton Hill Drive
Greensburg, PA 15601-1548
kovelesk@setonhill.edu
724-838-7828
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Jason Skoog <jaskooglists@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm curious what other's approaches are to donations.  We are an academic library with limited space.

If we decide to weed print, it is either because of low use over several years, or because the print is well represented in various online databases.  If the print is only in one or two databases, we are less likely to weed print since we may lose access to those databases at some point.

I've received one-time donations of psychology journals.  One is a year's worth of Monitor on Psychology.  We only have online coverage in one database.  I'm torn between adding this to the shelves since it's only a year, but the fact we only have one it on one database worries me.

I've typically only been adding journals that have a run of 3 years minimum, but even then I might not due to low shelf space.  I'm curious what your other practices are.

Thank you,

Jason Skoog
Archivist and Systems Librarian
Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
608-796-3262

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