Open AccessBasic Project Management for Weeding Government Documents Collections
Author(s) -
Celina McDonald
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v44i3.6120
Subject(s) - staffing , government (linguistics) , business , state (computer science) , public relations , academic library , public administration , face (sociological concept) , space (punctuation) , physical space , political science , library science , sociology , computer science , law , social science , philosophy , linguistics , cartography , algorithm , geography , operating system
For as long as academic libraries have participated in the federal depository library program, there has been an inherent conflict between their academic and depository mandates. While state and public libraries are tasked with serving the greater public, academic libraries have an imperative to meet the specific needs of their institutions. As institutional priorities have evolved and new needs emerged, many academic depositories have come to face pressures of staffing and physical space that lead to the desire to downsize their physical government documents holdings in favor of digital surrogates. Because the government documents received through the federal depository library program are not the libraries’ property, withdrawing these materials is a time consuming, labor intensive, costly, and complicated undertaking.