Typically we do not keep donated materials unless they are part of a title we already bind and we don’t have those issues or the title is significant to our
collection in some way. We definitely wouldn’t keep one year of a title we didn’t have otherwise and especially not for scientific journals. There just isn’t space and the information quickly becomes outdated. For the rare occasion a patron might want
the title, ILL is available.
Abbi Stauber
Library Technician – McCartney Library
Geneva College
724-847-6693
acgregg@geneva.edu
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Subject: [SERIALST] One-Time Donation Practices
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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