Our library uses a similar method as described by Ginger Williams.
We have two-week for dailies, three-month for biweeklies, 6 month for weeklies & bi-monthlies, 1 year for monthlies, and 2 to 5 years for quarterlies/annuals.


Tabitha Ochtera
Information Commons Library Technician
Molloy College
(516) 323-3932
From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] on behalf of Mark Winek [mdw65@GEORGETOWN.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 2:55 PM
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Subject: [SERIALST] newspaper retention periods

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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