We are a state comprehensive college with an FTE around 7,000. Our print subscriptions are down to about 150. We have some criteria, besides that some are just not available
online yet--
*We have a core of about 30 titles that are used by a PoliSci class on the political press – yes, the class also looks at social media, etc., but comparing/contrasting the
elements of political speech in magazines is a class assignment that seems to help them all get grounded in the terms they need to understand
*There are also magazines that are similarly useful to browse/compare when looking at topics in communication and literature.
*There are some we get because they are not browseable in the aggregators they appear online in (and/or if they have an online version, they restrict it to single user password
access) – most of those we only keep the current year or two.
*There are some we do keep for preservation purposes – art journals, education association magazines and a few other professional magazines that we keep for some programs
we have.
Judith
Judith E. Stokes, Associate Professor
Rhode Island College
Providence, RI 02908-1991
401-456-8165
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We are a small, mostly undergraduate liberal arts college, too, with just under 3,000 FTE. We have managed to whittle down our print subscriptions to about 300. We have several thousand subscriptions
total. About three years ago, we stopped keeping track of current print journal issue use. We still keep track of bound journal use because that’s automated through our regular discharge process (it generates what are called browse stats in our ILS).
We display the current issue of ten or so current interest-type journals/magazines in our café with the rest available on shelving in our reading room, which shares space with our reference collection.
(Our bound journals are shelved elsewhere.) My sense is that our users are quite fond of our periodical reading room space and much of our current print journal collection is still used significantly.
Steve
Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)
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