TIME LINE FOR SERIALS CUTS:

January 2003:
 

• Department Serials Allocations spreadsheet created.
   
• First E-mail sent to Dept. Heads listing journals and prices for each department area.  Faculty asked to identify items for possible cuts.

February 2003:
 

• Second e-mail sent to Dept. Heads listing journals, full text availability and cycles.  Faculty again asked to identify items for possible cuts.
   
• Follow up e-mails and calls with department heads and faculty.
   
• Draft webpage identifying serials to be cut published to Library
   
• Draft webpage identifying serials to be cut published to Campus

March 2003:

• Items to be cut "out of cycle" researched for refund possibilities.

June 2003:

• Items to be cut "in cycle" identified in EBSCO subscriptions renewal form in June.
   
• Discontinued subscriptions effective various dates from Summer 03 through Spring 04.
  
  
  Addendum, July 2003:
   
• Add up actual cuts on Ebsco renewal form (some serials identified for cutting may not be immediately cancelable.)
   
• If actual cuts come in under $5000, add additional cuts from "potential (violet) list that are cancelable.
   
• Regardless of total amount, identify additional cuts from "potential" list that correspond to programs that have been discontinued or are clearly now inappropriate for the COCC Library periodicals collection.  Keep these additional cuts to a minimum.