Comments on: Argh! Serial Review! Literary Journals! Tough Choices! http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/02/argh-serial-review-literary-journals-tough-choices.html Learning in Libraries and Loving It Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Iris http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/02/argh-serial-review-literary-journals-tough-choices.html/comment-page-1#comment-2685 Iris Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:26:18 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/?p=1322#comment-2685 We do have stats like that here, but I think our students are a little too "helpful" and put things back on their own. We rarely have much in the way of in-house use on any of our periodicals even though we can see people reading magazines every day. I want to RFID *everything* (including students). There can't possibly be any privacy implications in that plan, can there? ;-) We do have stats like that here, but I think our students are a little too “helpful” and put things back on their own. We rarely have much in the way of in-house use on any of our periodicals even though we can see people reading magazines every day.

I want to RFID *everything* (including students). There can’t possibly be any privacy implications in that plan, can there? ;-)

]]> By: Barbara http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/02/argh-serial-review-literary-journals-tough-choices.html/comment-page-1#comment-2683 Barbara Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:32:27 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/?p=1322#comment-2683 Funny thing happened as we went through a review recently... we discovered that our print copies of literary "little magazines" were being taken off the shelf at much higher levels than the scholarly publications in English. We kept a number of ones that, without that data, would probably have been on the chopping block. These are the kinds of publications that don't fare well when atomized in an aggragated database and which contain material more easily encountered than actually sought. That seems to be what you were saying with your second principle: "Periodicals that include or are primarily composed of fiction, poetry, or art. These genres are used in many ways, some of which is enhanced by electronic access, and some of which are decidedly NOT." Do you have "taken off the shelf" stats of any kind? would it help make a case? Funny thing happened as we went through a review recently… we discovered that our print copies of literary “little magazines” were being taken off the shelf at much higher levels than the scholarly publications in English. We kept a number of ones that, without that data, would probably have been on the chopping block. These are the kinds of publications that don’t fare well when atomized in an aggragated database and which contain material more easily encountered than actually sought.

That seems to be what you were saying with your second principle: “Periodicals that include or are primarily composed of fiction, poetry, or art. These genres are used in many ways, some of which is enhanced by electronic access, and some of which are decidedly NOT.”

Do you have “taken off the shelf” stats of any kind? would it help make a case?

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