Samantha, you should take a look at questionnaires from bodies that request
library statistics with your director. We turn in statistics to a regional
association (ASERL) which adheres to the same questionnaire as ARL, also
ACRL, and also Academic Library Survey (ALS, which may get rolled back up
into IPEDS) and we use withdrawal/weeding numbers in some of them or else
use those numbers to derive the net change in holdings, which some ask for.
The one with the most granular level of tracking now seems to be
ALS/IPEDS, which is national. IPEDS is required. You can Google any of
these and do the reading -- that's how I keep up with what must be tracked.
Lauren
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Lauren Corbett
Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
336-758-6136
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:32 PM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Hello,
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> My director has asked me to find out how other academic libraries handle
> their discards in terms of record keeping. Are you required by any of your
> governing bodies (college/university or state) to keep a record of the
> titles of items you withdraw from your collection? Do any libraries do this
> as a normal part of their weeding procedures? Many thanks for your help.
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> *Samantha*
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