During the fall of 2013 the MSCS Collection Development Committee began analyzing titles held by three or more MSCS libraries in Retention Scenario Step Two. In summary MSCS agreed across the group MSCS will retain:<\/p>\n
What follows is a more detailed explanation of the retention decisions made:<\/p>\n
Those title-sets<\/a> that met the following criteria:<\/p>\n The Committee agreed that when a title-holding <\/a>has a special collections item MSCS will keep all title-holdings. When a title-holding is circulating only (no special collections items) MSCS will keep 1 title-holding per title-set.<\/p>\n Those title-sets<\/a> that met the following criteria:<\/p>\n The Committee agreed to keep 2 title-holding<\/a> per title-set.<\/p>\n Those title-sets that met the following criteria:<\/p>\n The Committee agreed to keep all title-holdings per title-set.<\/p>\n Those title-sets<\/a> that met the following criteria:<\/p>\n The Committee agreed that MSCS for title-sets with > 0 AND <= 3 average uses per title-holding<\/a> would keep 1 title-holding per title-set. The Committee agreed that MSCS for title-sets with an average of > 3 uses per title-holding would keep 2 title-holding per title-set.<\/p>\n The Committee agreed that title-sets with zero aggregate uses will not be committed to retain.<\/p>\n The Committee agreed on the following allocation rules to assign retention responsibility across the MSCS group:<\/p>\n RULE 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n If Colby holds a title, it will be marked Commit-to-Retain (CTR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n RULE 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n If a title is held by any of the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin College Libraries then at least one of these libraries must have their holding marked Commit-to-Retain (CTR).\u00a0\u00a0 If Colby holds and is marked CTR per rule 1 then this rule will be satisfied.<\/p>\n RULE 3. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Given that Rules 1 & 2 are satisfied, the remaining Commit-to-Retain (CTR) allocations will be done in an “equitable” fashion, where equity is defined as maintaining a constant ratio of CTR allocations to not commitment to retain allocations among libraries.\u00a0 (which is equivalent to a constant ratio of retention commitments to in-scope titles).<\/p>\n RULE 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALL Maine State Library’s local protected<\/a> title-holdings are marked CTR.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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Circulating\/Non-Special Collections Titles<\/h3>\n
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Retention responsibility allocation<\/h1>\n
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\n MSCS Step 2 – CTR List Counts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Institution<\/strong><\/td>\n Titles<\/strong><\/td>\n Items<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bangor PL<\/td>\n 20,400<\/td>\n \u00a026,752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bangor Theological<\/td>\n 1,311<\/td>\n \u00a02,958<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bates<\/td>\n \u00a055,997<\/td>\n \u00a060,657<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bowdoin<\/td>\n 56,149<\/td>\n \u00a066,990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Colby<\/td>\n \u00a0138,440<\/td>\n 152,916<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Maine SL<\/td>\n \u00a022,142<\/td>\n \u00a034,935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Portland PL<\/td>\n \u00a023,536<\/td>\n \u00a031,746<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UM-Orono<\/td>\n 46,316<\/td>\n 58,164<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n USM<\/td>\n \u00a026,456<\/td>\n \u00a030,698<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Totals\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n \u00a0390,747<\/strong><\/td>\n \u00a0465,816<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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