Document Type
Presentation
Source Publication Title
Poster Presentation at the Texas Library Association convention in Dallas, Texas April 3, 2018
Abstract
BACKGROUND UTA Libraries was designated a federal depository in 1963. For 50 years the library received physical copies of federal documents. In 2014, the library stopped receiving print documents and instead started receiving electronic copies only. The documents collection that the library had been collecting for 50 years had never been weeded properly and approximately 50% of the material on the shelves were not cataloged and therefore, not discoverable. The physical collection occupied 31 ranges of shelving (= 3,780 shelves or 10,080 ft.). There was also a sizable print collection housed at the library's offsite storage facility (Library Collection Depository). OBJECTIVES In January 2015, the UTA Libraries Access & Discovery program unit made the decision to conduct an ambitious 3-phase Government Documents Collection Development project. The project accomplished several objectives. a) Weeded the very large print collection of outdated and irrelevant documents. b) Cataloged the legacy print collection, making it discoverable in the library's online catalog. c) Whenever possible, replaced print documents with electronic equivalents. d) Freed up shelf space and provided much needed public space that was repurposed for student success services.
Publication Date
4-1-2018
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Black, Troy and Phillips, Sunday, "Government Documents Collection Development Project: A Monumental Task" (2018). Librarian & UTA Libraries Staff Publications. 169.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_publications/169