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REMOTE SHELVING: SELECTION
22. Please indicate which strategy is used to select print materials for inclusion in the remote shelving
facility. Check all that apply. N=45
Title-by-title review using lists (no review at the shelf) 33 73%
Group selection based on type of collection (e.g., age of publication, specific location, specific format) 30 67%
System-generated list of titles with little or no title-by-title review 28 62%
Title-by-title review at the shelf 22 49%
Other strategy 9 20%
Please briefly describe the other strategy. N=9
For monographs, combination of publication date and total historical use.
Items from on-site storage transferred off-site if not requested in years.
Just selecting special collections material for remote storage at this time.
Lists are generated at the system level and then reviewed locally for availability and appropriateness for contribution
(completeness, condition, online duplicate available).
Making decision based on CIC SPR holdings and local electronic back file purchases.
One trigger of a transfer project is when the stacks are particularly crowded in a certain call number range.
Periodical titles to which we no longer subscribe or for which we have electronic access are usually sent to off-site
storage. Other items in off-site storage are selected on a title-by-title basis.
Subject specialists determine criteria for each subject.
University of California/JSTOR
If your selection strategy included lists or was based on type of collection, please describe the list
criteria or identify the type of collection. N=31
Serials available electronically. Monographs that have not circulated.
Branch library
Criteria depend on the goals of the project (e.g., opening up space in a particular area of the stacks) and the subject
area, but we generally concentrate on materials that are older and have not circulated for a number of years.
For monographs, two major parameters are age of publication and circulation history. For serials, lists of titles available
in electronic form are reviewed.
For monographs, suggested 10 years or older with fewer than 3 checkouts with a last circulation date 8 years ago,
subject to bibliographer criteria revision. For serials, UC/JSTOR project.
For project-based: lists of serials that had been cancelled with faculty oversight lists of books published earlier than
1990 that haven’t circulated since 2001. For on-going: publication date 15 years or older and not circulated since 2001.
REMOTE SHELVING: SELECTION
22. Please indicate which strategy is used to select print materials for inclusion in the remote shelving
facility. Check all that apply. N=45
Title-by-title review using lists (no review at the shelf) 33 73%
Group selection based on type of collection (e.g., age of publication, specific location, specific format) 30 67%
System-generated list of titles with little or no title-by-title review 28 62%
Title-by-title review at the shelf 22 49%
Other strategy 9 20%
Please briefly describe the other strategy. N=9
For monographs, combination of publication date and total historical use.
Items from on-site storage transferred off-site if not requested in years.
Just selecting special collections material for remote storage at this time.
Lists are generated at the system level and then reviewed locally for availability and appropriateness for contribution
(completeness, condition, online duplicate available).
Making decision based on CIC SPR holdings and local electronic back file purchases.
One trigger of a transfer project is when the stacks are particularly crowded in a certain call number range.
Periodical titles to which we no longer subscribe or for which we have electronic access are usually sent to off-site
storage. Other items in off-site storage are selected on a title-by-title basis.
Subject specialists determine criteria for each subject.
University of California/JSTOR
If your selection strategy included lists or was based on type of collection, please describe the list
criteria or identify the type of collection. N=31
Serials available electronically. Monographs that have not circulated.
Branch library
Criteria depend on the goals of the project (e.g., opening up space in a particular area of the stacks) and the subject
area, but we generally concentrate on materials that are older and have not circulated for a number of years.
For monographs, two major parameters are age of publication and circulation history. For serials, lists of titles available
in electronic form are reviewed.
For monographs, suggested 10 years or older with fewer than 3 checkouts with a last circulation date 8 years ago,
subject to bibliographer criteria revision. For serials, UC/JSTOR project.
For project-based: lists of serials that had been cancelled with faculty oversight lists of books published earlier than
1990 that haven’t circulated since 2001. For on-going: publication date 15 years or older and not circulated since 2001.
