Subject: ALA RSS Discussion Forum: Rethinking Your Print Reference
Collection
From: Lai-Ying Hsiung <lhsiung_at_ucsc.edu>
Date: 6/8/2012 3:52 PM
SUNDAY 6/24
RSS Discussion Forum: Rethinking Your Print Reference Collection
Sharaton Park Hotel, Garden AB · 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/node/618
Convener: Christy Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz
Library literature shows that since the eighties, we have known our
print reference collections were probably too big and underused. Lately,
we've seen more studies indicating increasingly low usage of print
reference items both by patrons and librarians. Some libraries, as a
result, have weeded their reference collections or, less commonly, no
longer have one. While it may be time for many of us to weed our print
reference collections, the multitude of sticky decisions in a time of
staff attrition make it a very difficult and potentially labor intensive
task. These studies provided data, but often not details: what titles
were kept? What large multi-volume works were discarded? Join a lively
discussion about this important issue.
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