From: Joanne Oud <joud_at_wlu.ca>
My library shares a remote storage facility with two other libraries in a
local consortium. We are filling up the facility quite rapidly and are
looking at options. One is to eliminate duplicates (e.g. reduce three
separately owned back runs of a serial title to one that we all share).
This option brings up a whole range of difficult issues, such as legal
ownership and what to report in various ranking statistics.
I've been attempting some research on what other libraries in our situation
are doing, and haven't come up with much. I would be interested in hearing
from any other libraries out there with shared storage facilities. Do you
weed, or are you considering weeding duplicates? If so, how have you
worked out some of the issues?
Thanks in advance,
Joanne Oud
Collections Manager
Wilfrid Laurier University Library
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3C5
phone: 1-519-884-1970 ext. 2073
fax: 1-519-884-8023
e-mail: joud_at_wlu.ca
Received on Thu Apr 27 2000 - 09:12:08 EDT