Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries IG - ALA
Mid-Winter Meeting
From:
"Leach, Michael R." <mrleach_at_fas.harvard.edu>
ALCTS *Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Interest
Group* (CDLAL-IG)
Saturday, January 31^st , 2015, 3:00 to 4:00pm
Hyatt Regency McCormick Prarie Room B
http://alamw15.ala.org/node/25143
Please join your fellow collection colleagues at the ALA Mid-Winter
meeting, to discuss the following topic:
*When Should Academic Libraries Withdraw Print Serials when Electronic
Versions Exist*?
Summary: For many academic libraries, especially those that support
science education and research, science print holdings were cancelled
years ago, some more than a decade. Such libraries have relied only on
electronic versions of ejournals and patrons prefer this. Yet,
libraries hold legacy print volumes on shelf, even though publishers
and other vendors have scanned and created electronic backfiles of these
older print holdings. Should academic libraries even keep these print
legacy volumes when there are stable, high resolution scans available
online, and when such e-versions are backed up via Portico and similar
systems? What about regional, print dark archives are they even
needed? How many? If so, do such archives need a print copy of the
most recent journals, given that so few, if any, academic libraries
subscribe to print journals in the sciences anymore? Should the
approach be taken by discipline/field? What criteria should be
developed to make such determinations?
Two short (5-7 minute) presentations for and against withdrawing
print will be followed by open discussion by all present.
Approximately 15 minutes will be left after this topic to discuss what
CDLAL-IG should focus on at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We are
also looking for a volunteer to step up and server as Vice Chair for
2015/16, becoming Chair in 2016/17.
Moderated by:
Michael Leach (Harvard U.), Chair, ALCTS CDLAL-IG
Anne Liebst (U. Arkansas, Little Rock), Vice Chair, ALCTS CDLAL-IG
Received on Sat Jan 10 2015 - 03:01:47 EST