<div dir="ltr">Rick you comment that getting rid of print would be a "very unusual attitude" for an administrator, but I hear it frequently also. I have heard it from several library deans, as well as deans in other academic departments, both here in AK and elsewhere. Not a systematic account of attitudes by any means, but I find myself often having to defend even having a library any more, much less printed materials in it. I even hear that refrain from researchers whose work is primarily journal-based, and who never access physical library collections; they are unconcerned about print items even in their own subjects. Our personnel have been correspondingly downsized, from 12 faculty librarians to only 7 just in the last 2 years, and it's not going to change in the other direction any time soon. We just were ordered to and did close a branch library as well, and several higher level administrators commented that the materials in the branch could be discarded without analysis; we didn't do such a discard, nor will we, but the pressure is on. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Karen Jensen<br>Collection Development Officer<br>Rasmuson Library<br>University of Alaska Fairbanks<br></div>907-474-6695<br><div><a href="mailto:kljensen@alaska.edu" target="_blank">kljensen@alaska.edu</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Rick Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.anderson@utah.edu" target="_blank">rick.anderson@utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</span><div>Oh, sure — but there’s a big difference between using circ trends as _a_ criterion for reducing print purchases, and using it as _the_ criterion for that decision. I agree that the latter would be unwise. Failing to consider circulation numbers at all,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Can you cite any examples of librarians advocating the wholesale discontinuation of print acquisition? I spend
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</span><div>This is an example of a new library (and one with a fairly narrow and specific curricular mission) that is itself e-only. No one, to my knowledge, is promoting it as a model for academic libraries generally (which is what I presume you mean by “turning
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Given the very disparaging tone we use to discuss print collections? Given the extreme pressure we’re under to get rid of them, or stop getting
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</span><div>Are you under extreme pressure to stop buying print? Or is your library moving in an e-preferred direction? Those are by no means the same thing.</div><span class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Every time she suggests this course of action, which she has done several times, I remind her that not all of our journals are available electronically.
I am not entirely sure she believes me, or perhaps she is being pressured by people in university administration who do believe all the journals we need are online. I don’t think that is an attitude in administrators that is uncommon.</span></p>
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</span><div>I’m still not really clear on what her attitude is. If her attitude is that it’s generally better to get journals online than to get them in print, then you’re right that her attitude is not uncommon. If her attitude is that if a journal is available only
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<div>Rick Anderson</div>
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