Technical Services – Serials Unit

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  • Fiscal Year 19/20 Binding Schedule

    Date To Bindery Date Back from Bindery 7/17/2019 8/14/2019 11/6/2019 12/11/2019 2/12/2020 3/11/2020 5/6/2020 6/10/2020

  • New Subscriptions for 2016

    The library is pleased to announce the addition of 91 new subscriptions to our print and electronic collections. The table below lists the new titles we’ll be adding this year.

  • Bindery Cover Color Guide

      The U.C. Library Bindery offers a variety of buckram colors to bind our journals with. Here is a link to the Buckram Color Guide:  http://bindery.berkeley.edu/students/cloth-colors

  • Weeding Projects for FY14/15 Complete

    The SDSU Library completed several major during the fiscal year which will end on June 30th, 2015. These projects were undertaken to optimize library spaces by removing print journal volumes where online surrogates are available. Summary Table of Fiscal Year 2014/2015 Serials Withdrawals Number of Volumes Removed from the First Floor Bound Journals Section: 14,832…

  • Subscriptions to America’s Historical Newspapers, Withdrawal of Microcards

    The library will be purchasing online access to the following two historical newspaper collections from READEX: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This will allow us to withdraw 190 boxes of microcards:

  • JSTOR Weeding Project Complete

    We have finished pulling from the shelves all of the books and journals approved for withdrawal as part of the 2012 JSTOR Withdrawal project. No more marked journals on the shelves!

  • Subaru – A Japanese Literary Journal Added

    The library has added Subaru which was given to us as a gift from Larry McCaffery. Here is a link to the bibliographic record:   http://libpac.sdsu.edu:80/record=b4177364

  • JSTOR and Binding at SDSU

    One of the main goals of JSTOR, a repository of academic journals, is to “Help libraries connect patrons to vital content while increasing shelf-space savings and lowering costs.” (JSTOR, 2013, emphasis added). This goal of realizing cost savings through the deaccessioning of print collections costs was also discussed in the Libraries of the Future (LOFT):…

  • Ceased Publication : S&P’s Statistical Service

    Standard and Poor’s has discontinued the statistical service in print. The statistical service includes these three titles: Standard & Poor’s current statistics (HC101 .S74a) Standard & Poor’s basic statistics (HC101 .S74a) Statistical service. Security price index record (HC101 .S74a

  • Progress on the JSTOR Weeding Project!

    We are starting to see some empty shelves on the fifth floor as we withdraw journals duplicated in JSTOR! This whole process should take a few months but it is moving along smoothly thanks to the movers and the diligent work of our student assistants. We are very happy to have the help of a…