Re: Bindery & Electronic Journals -- Dena Luce Stephen Clark 28 Jun 2001 18:42 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Bindery & Electronic Journals -- Terry Schiissler Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:11:09 -0500 From: Dena Luce <dluce@faulkner.edu> I have posted my answers below each question. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bindery & Electronic Journals Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:08:12 -0600 From: Terry Schiissler <Terry.Schiissler@uregina.ca> Hello fellow SERIALSTers, Many libraries are able to access journals electronically, or have journals within their collections included in many of the electronic databases, now available (either through a consortial arrangement or through outright purchase). My question is - how has this affected your bindery or pre-bindery operations? ---This is not affected our bindery. We have only cancelled a handful of titles over the last few years because of electronic versions. We have picked up as many or more titles for bindery as we've added new titles to our collection. Have you maintained your bindery budget at the same levels or at reduced levels? ---We have maintained the same level until this year; our institution is facing some cutbacks and we may not see all of the money that was allotted. Do you still bind materials that are now being received in an electronic format? ---We do not receive very many, if any, titles in print that are also fulltext on the databases. We can't afford to have duplication. Are you giving any thought to stop binding altogether? ---No, certainly not. While this may be something we'll have to consider in the future, we do receive many titles that are not available electronically or in any format other than print. We bind items that receive heavy usage and/or titles that we want to preserve for content. Are you using the bindery operation for monographic rebinds only now that many journals are available electronically? ---No, we bind periodicals as well as monographs. Have you had time and the labour/staff to be able to verify what should or should not be bound because of journals being available electronically? ---I do most of the verification for bindery titles. As mentioned above, we do not receive titles in print that are also fulltext. Are there any other bindery questions I should be thinking of because of journals now being received in electronic form? ---The one thing to consider with electronic format is the ever-changing holdings per vendor. We have made collection development decisions based on titles available in fulltext. Should some of the titles that we cancelled in print be withdrawn from a fulltext database, we'll have to decide whether to resubscribe to the print and therefore to figure in the cost of binding if that title was bound previously. ---Another basic rule that we follow is not to bind any title who's content will be outdated within a short period of time, such as technology titles. We generally keep these for a 5-10 year span and discard when the time comes. Similarly, popular titles (e.g. Southern Living) are keep for a few years only and then discarded. We have really cut down our binding to titles that heavily support the curriculum. ---I hope this helps. I'll be glad to see what feedback others have to share. I do not know if I can summarize for the list and am hoping the replies can be posted to the list. Many thanks in advance for all your thoughts Terry Schiissler Subscription Supervisor Dr. John Archer Library Library Serials Department University of Regina Regina, SK Canada S4S 0A2 Telephone - (306) 585-4409 FAX - (306) 585-4868 mailto:Terry.Schiissler@URegina.ca