[Mcls-print-storage] MI-SPI food for thought

[Matthew J. Buckley]

Hi Kathie and Cara,

I completely understand and agree. We also have titles in QA and ZA especially that we shouldn't be keeping but we will because we are obligated. I agree though that perhaps there is some way for medical and technological related sections to better design the retentions in those areas. I understand the concept of preserving material locally, but I think some material in certain subjects does eventually reach a limit where its value is completely gone. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Just my opinion.

-Matt

Matthew Buckley
Research & Collection Development Librarian
Saginaw Valley State University
mjbuckl1 at svsu.edu
989-964-2844
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Kathie and all,
I have very similar thoughts regarding a future refresh. I'm hoping to schedule a meeting for the end of summer to talk with the group about the refresh and tweaks we'd like to make. Thank you for bringing it up!
Cara
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Subject: [Mcls-print-storage] MI-SPI food for thought

Hi Everyone

I'm working on a review of the Library Science section (Z and ZA) of our collection and am looking at our MI-SPI retention list in this area.

We have titles in our retention list that serve very little useful purpose at this point. Examples include: "Word for Windows 6.0 slick tricks" and "WordPerfect 6 for Windows insider".

Are there any ideas on how can we better fine tune our retention lists to reflect our library type, 'local' collecting goals, etc? Of course we'll retain these titles. I won't lie, I was quite excited to weed out all of the old computer and software manuals. Hopes dashed!

Another question: are we trying to preserve for circulation 2 copies of every book in our collective circulating collections without regard to its utility? The examples I provided are nearly 20 years old. WordPerfect 6 for Windows was released in 1993.

And these examples are more benign than this: we have older copies of First Aid and CPR manuals on our retention lists. Yes, this is a weeding failure on our library's part - we should NOT have a National Safety Council's 1994 "Essentials of First Aid and CPR" in our collection. Outside of a specialized medical history collection, it is a disservice for us to keep this title in our collection.

So I wonder if MI-SPI can't have some sort of conversation about this in preparation for our next refresh. I will ensure that EMU keeps the titles we agreed to retain as part of the MI-SPI agreement. In the future I'd like to see if there is anything we can do to fine-tune our holdings to reduce the likelihood of having to retain 'bad' information like outdated first aid manuals or 'minimally useful' information like superseded software manuals.

What are your thoughts or experiences with this?

Stay cool
Kathie

Kathie Mason
Collections Librarian
Eastern Michigan University Library
955 W Circle Dr
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734-487-2541
ORCHID 0000-0002-8447-6078
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