86 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCOVERY
24. To whom are items that are retained under the shared print agreement made accessible? Check all
that apply. N=21
Items To Shared Print Agreement Members To Non-Members N
Retained item circulates 15 15 20
Electronic scanned files 11 14 16
Photocopies 10 13 15
Items are not available 0 3 3
Total Responses 16 19 21
Comments N=13
A smaller subset of the Shared Print Materials held as UC Shared Print circulates to non--members (non-UC libraries.)
This includes monographs held in place at campuses and some stored collections.
Access to retained items is provided via scans, photocopies, and loan of physical volumes for building use only in
borrowing libraries.
All titles committed for retention can be circulated within the state through the state-wide resource sharing system and
also on ILL to non-OhioLINK participants.
Bound volumes of journals circulate only to Five Colleges and Affiliate members.
If the program continues after the pilot project, we will make materials accessible to non-members for a fee.
If the retaining library adds the materials to its circulating collection, then it circulates as it would any other acquired
item. If the library adds the item to a collection that does not circulate (such as a rare books collection), then the
retaining library’s policies in place dictate if it will/will not circulate. The retaining library may decide at its own discretion
to digitize.
Loan of physical items is at the discretion of the archiving library.
Photocopies or loans may also be arranged for regional or branch campuses of the main institution.
Reports of holdings are available to participants. DOCLINE provides a search interface to library holdings with a filter
on national commitment to print retention. Each holdings record includes a field indicating whether holdings record is
included in the national print retention program, MedPrint.
Shared Print Agreement Members are a subset of the overall PALCI membership that are directly involved in retention
the “Non-Members” in this case means the rest of the PALCI membership who benefit from the shared print program as
a member of PALCI.
Since we have no formal retention agreements, access to any items retained remains the same as always. Some libraries
may choose to move extremely rare items to special collections but these decisions are individual and not dictated by
the project.
We do not have a “non-circulating” status for physical materials, but less than 1% of physical materials circulates
each year.
CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCOVERY
24. To whom are items that are retained under the shared print agreement made accessible? Check all
that apply. N=21
Items To Shared Print Agreement Members To Non-Members N
Retained item circulates 15 15 20
Electronic scanned files 11 14 16
Photocopies 10 13 15
Items are not available 0 3 3
Total Responses 16 19 21
Comments N=13
A smaller subset of the Shared Print Materials held as UC Shared Print circulates to non--members (non-UC libraries.)
This includes monographs held in place at campuses and some stored collections.
Access to retained items is provided via scans, photocopies, and loan of physical volumes for building use only in
borrowing libraries.
All titles committed for retention can be circulated within the state through the state-wide resource sharing system and
also on ILL to non-OhioLINK participants.
Bound volumes of journals circulate only to Five Colleges and Affiliate members.
If the program continues after the pilot project, we will make materials accessible to non-members for a fee.
If the retaining library adds the materials to its circulating collection, then it circulates as it would any other acquired
item. If the library adds the item to a collection that does not circulate (such as a rare books collection), then the
retaining library’s policies in place dictate if it will/will not circulate. The retaining library may decide at its own discretion
to digitize.
Loan of physical items is at the discretion of the archiving library.
Photocopies or loans may also be arranged for regional or branch campuses of the main institution.
Reports of holdings are available to participants. DOCLINE provides a search interface to library holdings with a filter
on national commitment to print retention. Each holdings record includes a field indicating whether holdings record is
included in the national print retention program, MedPrint.
Shared Print Agreement Members are a subset of the overall PALCI membership that are directly involved in retention
the “Non-Members” in this case means the rest of the PALCI membership who benefit from the shared print program as
a member of PALCI.
Since we have no formal retention agreements, access to any items retained remains the same as always. Some libraries
may choose to move extremely rare items to special collections but these decisions are individual and not dictated by
the project.
We do not have a “non-circulating” status for physical materials, but less than 1% of physical materials circulates
each year.
