Managing Low-Use Print Monographs

Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) offers deselection decision-support tools to academic libraries. SCS tools enable carefully managed drawdown of low-use print monograph collections while supporting shared print archiving efforts. Our uniquely tailored reports combine local circulation and item data with WorldCat holdings, Hathi Trust Digital Library holdings, and authoritative title lists. The result: cost-effective, evidence-based decisions.

Within weeks, SCS can provide your library with an actionable list of titles that can be responsibly de-accessioned or stored—with confidence that the content will remain accessible to your users. Items that are held scarcely in other libraries will also be identified as candidates for retention and archiving.

"Fantastic job on this! I think this will make our lives much, much easier! This information would have taken us months if we did it 'by hand'.'"

Peter Spitzform
Collection Development Librarian
University of Vermont Libraries

Consulting Services

SCS can also assist you with the following tasks:

• Designing deselection workflows
• Developing batch maintenance options
• Project management
• Education and training for stakeholders