Sweeping It All Away: A Case Study in the Elimination of an On-Site Journal Collection.

Libraries are increasingly becoming service points rather than custodians of physical books and journals. At Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, we came to realize that the space used to house our bound print journals could be used more effectively as student study space. We undertook a comprehensive review of our entire journal collection, both on site and off site. Various criteria, including patterns of usage, overlap, perpetual access, and rarity, were used to determine if we could eliminate or relocate our entire in-house journal collection. By doing this we created a spacious, convenient, and heavily utilized study space for our patrons. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]