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Collection Development and Management Ready Reference

See the GreenGlass page for information about current deselection and retention projects.

Deselection

Read the Collection Maintenance Guidelines to understand the deselection process.

Contact apcs@utk.edu to discuss deselection projects. 

Assessment Programs & Collection Strategy along with Collection Logistics provide support to:

  • Develop parameters/criteria to identify potential titles to withdraw.
  • Create reports based on those parameters.
  • Pull and check each title to determine factors such as:
    • quality between copies when withdrawing duplicates
    • possible errors in the data from alma
    • significant changes in editions
  • More! (Just ask us!)

Retention

Retention Partnerships 

ASERL Scholar's Trust, a journal retention cooperative. Per this agreement, UTK is committed to retaining more than 150 journal titles. Current title list and date coverage can be found on the Scholar's Trust webpage. (Note: also referenced as Information Alliance retention from prior cooperative.)

HathiTrust Shared Print Program, a monograph retention cooperative. Per this agreement, UTK is committed to retaining more than 17,000 monographs.

 

Examples of documentation to retention agreements in MARC 583 and display in OneSearch:

 Example of retention note in MARC field 583

 

Example of retention note displayed in OneSearch