We keep the local paper, which comes daily, for two months.  Part of this is shelf space, but I also don't think there is a need as most people just read the paper recreationally.

The only other paper we have is the student newspaper, published once a month.  I keep a year's worth (they are digitized and will soon be online permanently).

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

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Mark Winek <mdw65@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Do you have a rule of thumb for how long you retain newspapers on the shelf?

We receive a variety of international and domestic newspapers that are dailies, weeklies, biweeklies and monthlies. All are discarded after a variety of time periods. I'm trying to standardize that based on the publication frequency and I'm wondering if others have a rule of thumb that works. Any information is helpful!

Mark Winek

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