Last copy depository RE: [Publib] re: donating discard books

[Sue Kamm]

The University of California maintains two storage centers - one each in Northern and Southern California.  I don't know if they're for "last copies."

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>From: Karen Schneider <kgschneider at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 1, 2009 5:21 AM
>To: "publib at webjunction.org" <publib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: Re: Last copy depository RE: [Publib] re: donating discard books
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>> My sense is that more recent initiatives like electronic journal subscriptions, digitization and programs such as google books would make last copy depositories a very hard program to sell at the local level, at least as far as public libraries go.  This would be an interesting question to pose for academic library systems and consortia and special library networks (medical libraries come to mind.)
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>You know, I think Kevin's question is quite a good one (I have
>interests in this issue for a section of literature not generally
>represented in public libraries -- literary journals). It is
>absolutely true that this would not sell well at the local level. But
>at the regional/national/global level, copy plans are actually
>happening in academia, as low-use just-in-case materials are
>increasingly centralized in mass storage facilities. This is in part
>because the threshold of survival for print materials is much higher
>than you might think is necessary.
>
>You might think, well, I can find it on abe books or I see a couple
>copies in Worldcat, so everything's cool. Preservation specialists
>will tell you that if you don't intentionally preserve something,
>there's no guarantee it will be around. To paraphrase a statement by
>the Metaarchive preservation project, the assumption that cultural
>heritage institutions have taken steps to preserve popular reading is
>the greatest threat to their long-term survival.
>
>Karen / PUBLIB
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