Old Serials, Dirty Data: Print Retention as an Opportunity

ABSTRACT

This article summarizes the presentation by Beverly Dowdy and Mandy Hurt at the 27th annual North Carolina Serials Conference in 2018. Dowdy described Duke University Libraries’ participation in print retention programs for serial works. Hurt described the workflow for recording retention data in Duke University Libraries’ integrated library system (ILS) as well as updating descriptive data for serials to match national standards.

KEYWORDS:

• Center for Research Libraries
• MARC holdings
• print retention
• scholar’s trust
• serials
• summary holdings
• TRLN collaborative print retention