FW: [SERIALST] What are other institutions doing w/JSTOR and print overlapping titles? Ian Woodward 22 Sep 2005 12:34 UTC
We maintain a policy of retaining the print inventory of publications where photographic plates are an important aspect of the editorial matter. In our case, that means a dozen or so titles in art, architecture, archaeology, and classics. The print inventory in our branch library (devoted to the sciences, etc.) has been maintained on the shelf for an interim period, faux de mieux. Our main library is under construction and our collection has had to be removed from the shelves, with the greater portion remaining accessible but stored in an automated warehouse on the campus and the lesser portion inaccessible and stored conventionally in sundry locations. The new building will have less open shelf space than the old, though it will have the appended automated warehouse. All of this made it necessary that we bite the bullet on the disposition of the JSTOR print inventory. As of now, we are with the cooperation of other colleges building a regional depository of print inventory. The idea is that each college contributes its unique inventory to the depository (housed in an accessible off-site storage location) and the remainder of each participant's collection then may be discarded. I am not sure how many colleges are participating at this point. One thing we did discover is that our collection largely duplicated that of the most proximate participant. As they are not under acute pressure at this point, the nascent depository will be relying on their contributions, for the most part, though we did have some unique content. Ergo, the bulk of what we had of humanities and social research material which antedates the various moving walls has been discarded. I. Woodward Serials Office Colgate University Libraries -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Waller Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:10 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] What are other institutions doing w/JSTOR and print overlapping titles? We have a similar set-up, though we are continuing to put material in storage on occasion. There is an option for users to retrieve the paper version of a JSTOR title but I believe that this is rarely done. Andrew -- Andrew Waller Serials Librarian Collections Services University of Calgary Library waller@ucalgary.ca (403) 220-8133 voice (403) 284-2109 fax Jack Hall wrote: > I wrote privately to the original poster, but thought I would write > everybody since there are a number of messages about discarding the > volumes. We do not discard the volumes, probably because we want to > keep our volume count as high as feasible since we are ARL. > > Two years ago we put the print volumes of JSTOR titles into storage, > but have not stored subsequent volumes. It was a space issue for us, > but we have more space now due to a building addition that is now > complete. In our online catalog records for the print journals we put > a link to a note that explains the storage and permits users to > request a print volume, to be retrieved in a few days. I think there > have been very few requests, perhaps none, but we were trying to > anticipate a patron's need for the paper for particular purposes. > > Jack > > > > Jack Hall > 114L University of Houston Libraries > Houston, TX 77204-2000 > telephone:(713) 743-9687 > e-mail: jhall@uh.edu > fax: (713) 743-9748 -- Andrew Waller Serials Librarian Collections Services University of Calgary Library waller@ucalgary.ca (403) 220-8133 voice (403) 284-2109 fax