Future Tense -- Weeding: The Time Is Now

Lugg, Rick; Fischer, Ruth

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“…32 31. For a view of the growing market for services related to "managing down" print book collections in academic libraries, see Lugg andFischer 2008, andGilson andStrauch 2012. In January 2012, OCLC announced a strategic partnership with Sustainable Collection Services, LLC, an organization founded by Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer to provide consulting and decision-support services to libraries reducing their print book holdings (OCLC 2012a).…”

Section: Optimizing Print Collections On a Mega-regional Basis Will Hmentioning

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Print Management At “Mega-Scale” — A Regional Perspective On Print Book Collections In North America

Lavoie¹,

Malpas²,

Shipengrover³

2014

Wissensorganisation Und -Repräsentation Mit Digitalen Technologien

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Research analyses of the HathiTrust Digital Library collection indicate that about 1.15 million of the more than 5.16 million unique titles in the digitized collection-or about 22 percent-are in the public domain. These estimates exclude the large number of publications that might be classed as "orphan works," for which some copyright exceptions can be exercised. By some accounts, orphan works may account for as much as 50 percent of the digitized volumes in the HathiTrust collection (Wilkin 2011).

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Section: Optimizing Print Collections On a Mega-regional Basis Will Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Print Management At “Mega-Scale” — A Regional Perspective On Print Book Collections In North America

Lavoie¹,

Malpas²,

Shipengrover³

2014

Wissensorganisation Und -Repräsentation Mit Digitalen Technologien

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“…26, 223). In a tripartite series of articles called "Future Tense," Lugg and Fischer (2008/2009, 2009 appeal to librarians to create a "Golden Age of Weeding," by which they mean primarily deduplication of low-use holdings at a system level. Their article suggests a rules-based approach to weeding monographs, which inspired the authors to create their own "rules of thumb" for identifying journals eligible for withdrawal here at Joyner Library.…”

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Rules of thumb for deselecting, relocating, and retaining bound journals

Thomas

Shouse

2012

Collection Building

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Abstract:Purpose: Like many other academic libraries, Joyner Library at East Carolina University has experienced pressure in recent years to convert stacks space to other uses. The rise of electronic collections coupled with the changing perception of libraries from book warehouses to service points forces librarians to rethink their collection management strategies, concomitantly reducing print collections. The purpose of this article is to recommend specific strategies that will assist librarians engaged in a large scale deselection project.Design/methodology/approach: First, librarians, staff, and graduate assistants developed a workflow to examine print journals for which the library has online archival holdings in order to de-duplicate the collection. Librarians also determined which titles might be stored based on some online availability and length of print run. Thirdly, librarians led a subject-based review to determine which titles should be retained in the general circulating collections.Findings: Examination proved that most online journals archives, including publisher packages, are adequate replacements for print serials volumes. Many other journal titles can safely be sent to storage rather than retained in the general circulating collections. Practical implications:Libraries must manage their print collections differently in light of space issues and the conversion of scholarship from print to electronic format. Originality/value: This article establishes clear principles to guide libraries' decisions on deselecting, storing, and retaining print serials volumes.

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“…But all of these features came at a high price; the Drexel Library Learning Commons cost $16 million (American Library Association, 2014), averaging out to $457 per square foot. Taking into consideration the investment required to build and equip new library spaces, "the space associated with storing print books [begins] to look very scarce and very expensive-in direct costs, maintenance costs, and opportunity costs" (Lugg & Fischer, 2008).…”

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In Favor of Weeding

Ferguson

2015

Serials Review

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Future Tense -- Weeding: The Time Is Now

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Print Management At “Mega-Scale” — A Regional Perspective On Print Book Collections In North America

Print Management At “Mega-Scale” — A Regional Perspective On Print Book Collections In North America

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