[Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants

[Barbara J Cockrell]

Sounds good to me! Barbara ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Lugg" <rick at r2consulting.org>
> To: "Barbara J Cockrell" <barbara.cockrell at wmich.edu>,
> mcls-print-storage at mcls.org
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:47:56 AM
> Subject: RE: [Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants
> Doug, Barbara--
> You are both correct. Doug is right that the 743,000 number is based
> on library-level 3-circ maximum.
> Barbara is correct in that titles that circulated more than 3 times in
> any library do not appear as part of the 743,000--they appear on
> no-one's list. We should definitely rethink that next time around
> (i.e. Aug/Sept 2013), as it will yield additional candidates.
> My sense from the list is that our working premise is to move ahead
> with that original list of 743,000 -- pending comments from Central
> and Eastern. (Ruth ran into Sandy Yee at ALA and Wayne is good with
> that approach).
> Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcls-print-storage-bounces at mail.mlcnet.org
> [mailto:mcls-print-storage-bounces at mail.mlcnet.org] On Behalf Of Doug
> Way
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:24 AM
> To: Barbara J Cockrell; mcls-print-storage at mcls.org
> Subject: Re: [Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants
> Barbara,
> Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I would say our
> preference would be to use the library-circ limit versus the
> total-group circ criteria if we’re going to up the numbers, unless
> you’re able to do what you describe below. I think that means we’re on
> the same page (maybe?). I may have misunderstood what criteria we were
> looking at using, but I thought we could still use the library-level 3
> circ maximum and reach our 700,000+ number. Perhaps I need to reread
> the thread, so someone please correct me if I am wrong.
> Doug
> From: Barbara J Cockrell [mailto:barbara.cockrell at wmich.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:58 PM
> To: Doug Way
> Cc: Randy Dykhuis; mcls-print-storage at mcls.org
> Subject: Re: [Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants
> Doug et al,
> I don't see how you will have "high use" titles in your pool as
> anything that has circ'd more than 3 times at ANY library won't make
> the deselection candidate list if I'm understanding this correctly.
> I'm more concerned about the situation where several libraries may
> have to retain low (or no use titles) that never made the potential
> candidate list because they happen to be high circulating titles in
> another library (or two) that would probably be only too happy to keep
> that title on behalf of the group. Those titles never appear on the
> radar in our current set up because they have circulated more than 3
> times in certain libraries. See for example Randy's proposed criteria
> title 4 example. CMU, EMU and GVSU should be able to have that title
> on their potential discard list ideally in my opinion. I have no idea
> how many such titles there are likely to be.
> As I said earlier - I am more than willing to be pragmatic about this
> to keep the project moving forward at this stage - we have plenty to
> work on. I just want to be careful about what we lock ourselves into
> for the future.
> Barbara
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