The following were laid to rest with all due process, pomp, and circumstance on the 24th of March, 2010.:

–15 manuals for the TI-83 Graphing Calculator which we’ve had since 2005 and have had exactly 1 circulation, in 2008.
–15 manuals for the Nikon Coolpix L4 Digital camera, which we’ve had since 2006 and which is already available in pdf format online
–8 viewing station headphones which can’t be plugged in anymore due to the necessity of increased security at the viewing stations. (Don’t worry, Media Services is keeping the headphones to be used as the current viewing station headphones break down.)
–1 metal overhead projector from the 1980s. It’s had a “being repaired” status since 2006. And anyway we have a spiffy new “digital presenter” which offers more functions and is actually portable without causing hernias.
–1 mini-disc recorder. Back in the dark ages, known to historians as “the 1990s,” mini-discs were a hip, exciting new technology involving easily-broken spinning plastic discs, encased in more plastic to help deter breakage, that used proprietary technology and a highly lossy audio format incompatible with any other audio format before or since.
–1 microcassette transcriber. You know those things that used answering machine-sized cassettes (back when answering machines existed as discrete units plugged into your home telephone) and could be stopped and started with via a plugged-in foot pedal for easy dictation or interview playback for transcription? Yeah, one of those. It even circulated once in 2007.

We in Circulation Services realize it will be a wrench to lose these crucial technologies our customers have been clamoring for. But in these Hard Times, sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Thank you for your dedication to the cause.

Complete online withdrawal and physical removal of bound periodical issues duplicated by PAO (Periodicals Archive Online) digital coverage.

Bound volumes are duplicated by digital coverage and take up valuable shelf space. Often shifting of volumes is required to accommodate new volumes, etc. These items are now rarely used as digital access is preferred.

Supports Strategic Choice:
Space Planning — Shelving will be emptied allowing more flexibility in space planning.

Deliverable

Recently completed JSTOR withdrawal project can serve as a model with only minor workflow adjustments.

Outcome

• To free up shelving, adding flexibility to housing the collection. These volumes are no longer used as digital access is preferred.
• More space on shelves, or less space needed for shelves and available for other use

Devlivery

By June 2011
1) Midcat and OCLC records edited. 2) Bound volumes marked. 3) Volumes removed and sent to recycling.

Resources

• Selectors identify items that should not be removed (i.e., due to presence of color plates, or other criteria they develop)
• Cataloging and Serials staff will edit Midcat and OCLC records and mark volumes to be removed.
• P&P students will remove and send to recycling.
• Recycling staff will dispose of them.

Viability

• Yes. The scope of this project is smaller than the JSTOR project that was accomplished in a similar time frame.
• Barrier: Staffing levels. JSTOR was accomplished prior to the first round of ERP. Should CM lose more staff this project may take longer or be postponed
• Enabler: Should space issues become high priority this project could be accomplished sooner by postponing other tasks.