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   There just isn’t space and the information quickly becomes outdated.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

 

 

 

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Skoog
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1:56 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
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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