In support of Rick's posts and to clarify my own: We are precisely at this juxtoposition of making judegment calls about staff time cost versus collection cost. In fact, as with many other small academic libraries, we have lost positions in technical services. We no longer have any technicians dedicated to print serials even at 1/4 time. Re-working workflows is now vital to maintain some control over collections, budgets (both operating and collections) and to move forward in some way to prepare for other forthcoming changes (like a new ILS/LSP or ERM). I did not mention in my previous post that I also am making an effort to change as many serials to electronic as feasible. We are maintaining print only for those titles impossible to get online and/or those titles that need to be in print (e.g. art). To end, we no longer have the luxury of maintaining print because we do not have the staff to manage it. Our print collection and workflows must diminish in order to be maintained at all. 

Judith

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Content Strategist
Dinand Library
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:22 PM Rick Anderson <rick.anderson@utah.edu> wrote:

> Just my opinion -- I think it's easier for people to be non-caring because

> it's not their money but if it was there's they would want it plus to be

> compensated.

 

Just briefly, in defense of those (including myself) who have decided not to claim print serials: please understand that this decision is not reached because we don’t care about cost. In fact, it’s precisely because we _do_ care about cost, and have determined that (at least in our case) the cost of claiming is greater than the cost of not claiming. It’s important to bear in mind that claiming—like any workflow—entails opportunity costs as well as direct costs, and any responsible analysis of a workflow will include examination of questions like “Could we redirect our efforts to more valuable activities if we freed up [X] hours of staff time formerly spent on claiming?”

 

None of this is to say that ceasing claiming is necessarily the right decision for every library. It’s only to say that it may well be the right decision for some libraries, and that the only way to determine whether that’s so is to analyze all of the costs involved—not just the direct and sunk costs of journal issues.

 

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Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication

Marriott Library, University of Utah

Desk: (801) 587-9989

Cell: (801) 721-1687

rick.anderson@utah.edu

 

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Just my opinion -- I think it's easier for people to be non-caring because it's not their money but if it was there's they would want it plus to be compensated.

 

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I've enjoyed reading others' comments on this topic.

 

We too still claim print periodicals--mostly through EBSCOnet (since EBSCO is our main vendor).  Several years back, I spent some time and created monthly checklists.  I got so frustrated with claim restrictions (e.g., 3 months on an annual publication) that I wanted to have an approximate guide to know what publications come in when (usually).  

 

I work at a medium-sized public university in the Southeast.  As cuts continue to be made on our end (and as publications reduce their issues per year or cease altogether), I very much suspect that if I were to leave, claiming here would cease altogether or be greatly slowed / lessened.  With a Serials Dept. of only two people (and I think my position would not be refilled should I go elsewhere), I'm guessing claiming would not be a high priority for my colleague (who's main job is financial).  As noted, claiming can be frustrating, and I think some would say it's not worth the time / effort.  

 

 

Btw, our library has Voyager.  Claiming is possible through it, but for some reason, that function has never been used.  I started 10+ years ago, and even when I was trained, Voyager claiming was never mentioned.  

 

 

 

Best Regards,

A.

 

 

 

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Good Morning,

 

We are in the process of reviewing our claiming procedures and wanted to check-in with other libraries to see what folks were doing.

 

Basically, is your library claiming print periodicals, and if yes, how so?

 

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

 

Best,

Chris

 

 

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Christina Sinkler-Miller

Head of Technical Services

Laurence McKinley Gould Library

Carleton College

One North College Street

Northfield, MN 55057

507-222-4268 <tel:507-222-4258>

 

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