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<p class="MsoNormal">With the most recent refresh OCLC provided the opportunity to exclude select titles/call number ranges from consideration for Mi-SPI. We were able to release titles in the Ts, QA76 and the Rs from retention and can now be considered for
withdrawal. We just sent them a file of the titles we did not want to retain. The list was generated from Greenglass during the interim period from original file load to final retention allocations.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you did some work ahead of time, you could record which call number areas you wanted to exclude and have them ready for when the next refresh comes around.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amie S. Pifer, Director<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Mcls-print-storage <<a href="mailto:mcls-print-storage-bounces@mcls.org">mcls-print-storage-bounces@mcls.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Katherine Mason via Mcls-print-storage<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 15, 2022 2:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mcls-print-storage@mcls.org">mcls-print-storage@mcls.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Mcls-print-storage] MI-SPI food for thought<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I'm working on a review of the Library Science section (Z and ZA) of our collection and am looking at our MI-SPI retention list in this area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have titles in our retention list that serve very little useful purpose at this point. Examples include: "Word for Windows 6.0 slick tricks" and "WordPerfect 6 for Windows insider". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are there any ideas on how can we better fine tune our retention lists to reflect our library type, 'local' collecting goals, etc? Of course we'll retain these titles. I won't lie, I was quite
excited to weed out all of the old computer and software manuals. Hopes dashed!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Another question: are we trying to preserve for circulation 2 copies of every book in our collective circulating collections without regard to its utility? The examples I provided are nearly
20 years old. WordPerfect 6 for Windows was released in 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And these examples are more benign than this: we have older copies of First Aid and CPR manuals on our retention lists. Yes, this is a weeding failure on our library's part - we should NOT have
a National Safety Council's 1994 "Essentials of First Aid and CPR" in our collection. Outside of a specialized medical history collection, it is a disservice for us to keep this title in our collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So I wonder if MI-SPI can't have some sort of conversation about this in preparation for our next refresh. I will ensure that EMU keeps the titles we agreed to retain as part of the MI-SPI agreement.
In the future I'd like to see if there is anything we can do to fine-tune our holdings to reduce the likelihood of having to retain 'bad' information like outdated first aid manuals or 'minimally useful' information like superseded software manuals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What are your thoughts or experiences with this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kathie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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