Collaborative Weeding among Public University Libraries Can Lead to Cost Savings for All

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Author(s): Helen N. Levenson (Oakland University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 27
Source title: Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brian Doherty (New College of Florida, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0326-2.ch007

Keywords: Administration & Leadership / Business & Management / Information Science Reference / Library Administration

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All academic libraries strive to have the highest quality collections which their acquisition budgets can support. However, the cost of quality resources continues to regularly increase, typically without corresponding increases in acquisition budgets. Additionally, print resources come with associated storage costs which are less tangible to measure than acquisition costs but which nonetheless have impact on overall library operations and expenditures. Storage and retention costs can have a substantial negative impact on general library usage, relevancy, and budget allocations. This chapter will focus on the management of retaining and weeding print monographs within the medium-sized public academic library and what a group of Michigan public academic libraries are doing to collectively address weeding and retention issues through the preliminary phase of a program called the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI).

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