I should have clarified below - the departments/individual faculty members
want to keep the de-accessioned journals in their departments/offices.
Thanks!
*Laura Turner*
*Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery*
Helen K. and James S. Copley Library / University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492
Phone: (619) 260-2365 | lauraturner_at_sandiego.edu
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:43 AM Laura Turner <lauraturner_at_sandiego.edu>
wrote:
> ***Please excuse cross-posting***
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We recently acquired all of the JSTOR journal packages and are in the
> process of de-accessioning print overlap for titles that did not have
> perpetual access before this acquisition. We've been doing JSTOR print
> overlap withdrawals for years and typically send this material for
> recycling. With this new influx of overlap, we have faculty and even whole
> academic departments on campus requesting the print journals that would be
> recycled. Alas, we did not have a very strong statement of our
> policy/procedures for de-accessioned journal materials.
>
> Have you run into situations like this? How did your library respond?
> What kinds of benefits or challenges did you find with your response?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> *Laura Turner*
> *Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery*
> Helen K. and James S. Copley Library / University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492
> Phone: (619) 260-2365 | lauraturner_at_sandiego.edu
>
Received on Mon Nov 12 2018 - 11:53:24 EST