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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Karen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> When I was the Collection Development Coordinator here New Mexico State University I kept track of all our serials cancellations through a libguide. I created
it in 2010 when we were in really bad shape and ended up cancelling 713 titles and about $600,000 in subcriptions. See
<a href="http://nmsu.libguides.com/cancellations">http://nmsu.libguides.com/cancellations</a>. I kept up this guide for years and handed it over to my successor just this fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Each year, it seemed, I would also push the information, as well as the url for the libguide, about cancellations to campus through several venues: emails
to all academic department liaisons and department heads, announcements through campus hotline type communications and e-mails to an internal faculty discussion list called faculty-talk which often becomes a place for folks to complain and generally show their
not-so-nice, snarky side. We all have <b>those </b>people, right? Anyway, I would get a lot of feedback and, when the push back was strong enough, we would keep the not-heavily but dearly loved title.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> This guide tells the sad story of our cancellations since 2010. I also included a chart showing all our cancellations or reductions by format from 1997-2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> I understand your crazy, cancellation times, Karen. New Mexico is very dependent on the oil and gas industry and as the price per gallon continues to sink,
so do university budgets. We are looking at even bigger cuts midway this year and next. My deepest sympathy. It’s no fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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New Mexico State University Library<br>
MSC 3475 Box 30006<br>
Las Cruces NM 88003-8006<br>
575-646-5091 (o) 575-646-3390 (f)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Jensen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 30, 2016 11:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] sharing cancellations with campus faculty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am looking for ideas on the best way to share information with our campus faculty, on the resources we cancel. We're doing massive cuts that will hit all sectors of campus. In the past, we've circulated lists of resources we were likely
to cut and asked for feedback. Now we're shifting into looking at each and every single renewal that comes through and deciding whether to keep or cut, and we want to make this list publicly accessible. It's not so much for feedback, although I'm sure we'll
get a few "don't you dare!" responses, and in some of those cases we'll change our decision. But mostly it's just a track record to show that we made it public before canceling. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If others have done this, have you used a Google spreadsheet, website, or what format for sharing the information? Email is not an option, because we are sharing 100% of our decisions and there is too much volume. Instead, we'll post everything
in real time, and give them a place to look so they can see what is happening. We'll post title, cost, and use information, at least as a start.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If that sounds a bit crazy, it is, but we're in truly crazy times right now, budget freefall. I'd appreciate any ideas that worked - or even didn't work - at other institutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Karen Jensen<br>
Collection Development Officer<br>
Rasmuson Library<br>
University of Alaska Fairbanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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