Hi Jenny,
In addition to procedural and workflow suggestions you receive, my suggestion would be to raise the issue of the campus politics of a major deselection project
on a very short timeline, not to undercut the plan but to make it more likely to be successful.
We all know that faculty can be tetchy and proprietary about “their” collection. Library folks want to rationally point to how low usage is and how so much is
online and how the space can be better utilized to meet campus needs. And many faculty will either not care or trust the library as the professionals. But library collections have emotional resonance and there is a risk that some immediately jump to images
of dumpsters of books. Trust is hard to build and easy to damage.
And it is not just that a few grumps might be mad after the fact. A small number of faculty can grind a project to a halt, which is UC Santa Cruz librarians
described after a faculty member wrote an article in the local
newspaper.
You know best how deselection has been done in the past and your library’s relationship with your faculty. I think it is worth the time on the front end to get
buy in rather than risk an outcry and need to respond to that.
Best,
Glenn
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From: serialst@simplelists.com <serialst@simplelists.com>
On Behalf Of Jenny M. Hock
Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 9:51 AM
To: serialst@simplelists.com
Subject: [SERIALST] Planning for withdrawing bound journals
I’m in a pinch. Our staff has been tasked with coming up with a plan to withdraw all the bound journals by the end of Spring semester, May21. We are meeting this afternoon. Would anyone be
willing to share with me some plans from a like project? Jenny
Jenny Hock
Collection Development Librarian, Porter Henderson Library
Angelo State University
Member, Texas Tech University System
ASU Station #11013
San Angelo, TX 76909--1013
Phone: 325-486-6525
Fax: 325-942-2198
jhock1@angelo.edu
http://www.angelo.edu
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