We are a small non-profit university. We currently have 400 optometry students, 70 PA students, and next year will begin a pharmacy program with an initial class of 60 students.

We subscribe to 87 journals in print. Of those, 25 are also online. Going forward, most of the journals for the PA and pharmacy program are online only. We keep more of the optometry journals in print just because we have a historic collection, holding many of the titles back as far as the founding of the school in 1904.

In addition to the journals, we subscribe to about 30 magazines which we house in the reading room along with another 30 or so whose subscriptions are donated.

We do not now track print usage although we are considering beginning to do so.

Diana Jacobson, MLIS

Library Assistant

M. B. Ketchum Memorial Library

Marshall B. Ketchum University

2575 Yorba Linda Blvd. | Fullerton, CA 92831-1699

714.449.7440 | Fax 714.879.0481

djacobson@ketchum.edu | www.ketchum.edu/library

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Cabot, Amanda
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Subject: [SERIALST] Print Serials Subscriptions

Hi,

I am wondering how many print serials subscriptions other institutions have? I work at a small, private institution and we have about 80 current print subscriptions. This number seems high to me considering they do not get used very often. We only keep 30 or so on the display shelf. Also, do you track statistics on print usage? We do not barcode our serials, so I’m wondering if there are other effective ways to track usage.

I am guessing this topic has been discussed before, so if there is somewhere else I can locate this type of information, please feel free to let me know!

Thank you,

Amanda

Amanda Cabot

Acquisitions Librarian

Regina Library

Rivier University

Nashua, NH 03060

acabot@rivier.edu

(603) 897-8535

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