The University of Notre Dame Library is developing preservation and retention guidelines for our collections and are interested in learning what our colleagues have done in this area. Your responses to all or any of the questions below would be greatly appreciated.  

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1. If you have an institutional storage facility, what criteria are used to determine what will be added to the facility versus what is discarded? Are there cases when you discard print copies and rely on a consortium or cooperative for preservation and access?

2. If you rely on a shared storage facility for preservation and access, what subject areas are included?

3. For your institution, how many copies held locally constitute "last copy"? How many copies held cooperatively constitute "last copy?"

4. Does your institution retain and bind copies of journals that publish both print and online formats? Are you discarding or retaining print volumes for which you have purchased online backfiles to journal runs?

5. What criteria do you use to weed monographs? Do e-books impact the criteria?

6. Has your institution developed a retention policy for print and digital formats? For monographs and serials? Would you be willing to share it?