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We don't have a policy, just a practice. We allow for a 5-10% turn-over rate
in our journal subscriptions (that is, we cancel from 10-15 subscriptions
every year so we can subscribe to new titles). This enables us to satisfy
faculty and student requests (their suggestions are usually very good), and
test out new titles -- before cancelling a title, we make sure that another
library in our geographic region subscribes to it.
Jill Patrick, Ontario College of Art & Design
Toronto

At 05:51 PM 4/16/97 EDT, you wrote:
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>s there a "philosophy" for replacing journals in your library?
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>The faculty have recently been requesting new journals for our library.
>We are in the process of surveying the group for suggestions.  However, I
>don't want to change subscriptions every year to satisfy every whim.
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>Do you have any policies in regards to replacing journal subscriptions?
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>Thanks!
>
>Elizabeth Bilyeu
>Oregon College of Art and Craft Library
>Portland, OR
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