Hi, Michael.
I am in charge of the serials collection in all formats at PSU. We still bind some serials, but compared to what we used to do, it is a small number. We used to send out bindery shipments twice a month and since about 2010, it is once or twice a year. I select the titles we bind based on whether we want to keep the volumes longer term. For example, serials volumes that will later be in JSTOR, nursing serials (we retain 10 years only at the request of the School of Nursing), and other titles we keep for a limited time, like a year, we do not bind. Our government documents department has changed most of their serials to online so we do not bind those for the most part anymore. When the first issue of a new year arrives, we discard the oldest volume of nursing serials, newsletters, and general interest magazines. We use the same approach for titles in JSTOR and wait for the volume to be in JSTOR. This selective binding approach has saved us a lot of money and staff time over the years.
Sincerely,
Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Leonard H. Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
1701 S. Broadway
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
bpope_at_pittstate.edu
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Hi everyone,
UConn holds many unbound serials - mostly backlog, as we are down to only a handful of new print receipts. Are your libraries still binding serials? Why or why not? If you do, how do you decide which serials get bound and which get shelved permanently unbound?
Thanks in advance for your perspectives!
Michael
Michael Rodriguez (he/him/his)
Collections Strategist
UConn Library
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1005
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
860-486-9325
lib.uconn.edu<https://lib.uconn.edu>
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