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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2021.38.1.071

An Exploratory Study on Discarded Books in Academic Libraries  

Lee, Yong Min (연세대학교 대학원 문헌정보학과)
Lee, Jee Yeon (연세대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.38, no.1, 2021 , pp. 71-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempted to discover the problems related to the increasing book disposal trend within academic libraries by analyzing the disposal status over ten years and interviews with the librarians. The analysis utilized Korea Education and Research Information Service provided disposal information from 2010 to 2019. The academic libraries with more than 2 million books had disposed of the most number of books. This trend led to a distinctive decrease in the books' duplicate copies in terms of the collection composition. The librarians from the organizations, which conducted disposal more than three times and one massive removal within ten years, revealed in the interviews that they discarded many valuable duplicate books. They discussed the importance of digitizing high-value resources and also the limitation imposed by the copyright law. In conclusion, this study pointed out that book disposal can cause changes in the collection composition in the long run and suggested that academic libraries pay attention to these changes. The study also suggested evaluating the discarded books' values to guide the digitization efforts and count the number of books to include digital book use rights.
Keywords
weeding policy; weeding; discard rates; digital library; mass digitization; library exemption; digital archiving;
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