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Subject: Re: Printed Periodical Indexes -- Liu Liu
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:47:08 -0500
From: Lori Thornton <lthornton@cn.edu>
Reply-To: lthornton@cn.edu

>
>   Has your
> library already taken the printed periodical indexes out
> of the collection?  Do you have any opinions or thoughts
> regarding this matter?

I think you'd be in good company removing the print indexes.  In the
library in which I worked previous to this one we removed the print for
budget reasons as we received an electronic equivalent or rough
equivalent.  When I got here to Carson-Newman, that was also the policy.

>
>
> By the way, do you consider printed periodical indexes as
> part of the periodical collection, or part of the reference
> collection when you do the collection statistics?

Where I was previously, they were counted as periodicals.  (We treated
all serial publications in reference that way though.)  Here they are
considered reference.

Lori Thornton, Asst. Prof.
Technology & Serials Librarian
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City  TN  37760
lthornton@cn.edu