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Making Room For Change: Rightsizing Psu’S Axe Library Serials Collection Powerpoint, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Print journal collection development has long been one of the traditional roles of academic librarians. However, in the last 20 years or so, print journal ownership has declined and online journal access has taken its place; both due to growing concerns with flat or declining budgets as well as a lack of space and the need to repurpose this limited space. Pittsburg State University’s (PSU) Axe Library faced the challenge of balancing our print and electronic serials collections at a university whose programs sometimes do not draw enough on library resources. In an effort to create a meaningful discovery experience …

Responding To The Need For Change Through Strategic Collection Development, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Is your library’s print serials collection irrelevant and little used? Have you been given a mandate to change? Has your library’s budget been cut while you must provide access to relevant serials and databases?

In June of 2013, Axe Library had a change of leadership and at the same time, staff were given a mandate to change by university administration with no idea of what that meant. In addition, the library faced a crippling budget shortfall that meant subscription cuts were inevitable. As a result, staff came to realize that the status quo of doing their jobs as they knew …

Increasing Access To Serials Without Assigned Issns : A Poster Session, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

The need for accurate information about an academic library’s serials has become increasingly important in the age of open url resolvers. Whereas open url resolvers normally link on the issn of a serial, this is not possible for serials without issns. This poster session is one academic library’s solution to making their print serials without assigned issns linkable in an open url resolver. As a result, the collection is more accessible, and hopefully, will receive greater use and provide for fewer interlibrary loan requests for titles the library owns.