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Library Review 2010

During 2010, Council asked a group led by former President Peter Styles to conduct a thorough review of the Society’s library collections and services. The review group reported to Council in November, and since then work has been going on to develop plans to implement its recommendations. You can read the full report below.

Working with the library staff and the Information Management Committee, Council in April 2011 agreed a policy for journal cancellations, and has asked the Library Advisory Committee to identify candidate journals for cancellation in line with that policy and to report back to Council at its June 2011 meeting. It has also agreed a policy for the disposal of library holdings (mostly duplicate stock, and some material which is clearly outside the scope of the library), and a plan to make better use of the Society’s archives. Work is underway to develop plans for a pilot project to scan all maps of the African Rift Valley in the collection. Other recommendations of the report will be taken forward over the next few months.

Journal cancellations

In line with the recommendations of the 2010 Library Review, Council has agreed to reduce the net operating costs of the Library by a further £35k in 2013, through a combination of new income and savings on expenditure. In order to achieve this, the Library identified 26 journal subscriptions for cancellation, based on the following criteria:

  • Journals which were duplicate subscriptions.
  • Journals which would be gifted in future.
  • Journals which would be received on exchange in the future.
  • Journals with less than three uses per year.
  • Journals which are free online.
  • Journals which the relevant specialist group had indicated it did not wish to retain.

 Candidate journals were reviewed by Council and their cancellation approved in November 2012: 

  • Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition)
  • Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Bulletin. Tethys Geological Society
  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • First Break
  • Geophysical Prospecting
  • Geoscience Canada
  • Global Tectonics and Metallogeny
  • Ground Engineering (includes supplement European foundations)
  • Ground Water [sub includes Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation]
  • Journal of Geoscience Education
  • Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen
  • Ofioliti
  • Oil and Gas Science and Technology
  • Palaeontographica Canadiana
  • Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, Palaozoologie, Stratigraphie
  • Periodico di Mineralogia
  • Proceedings. Geoscience Information Society
  • SEG Newsletter
  • SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology
  • Special publication. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
  • Stratigraphy
  • UK Journal of Mines & Minerals
  • Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie. Teil 1, Allgemeine, Angewandte, Regionale und Historische Geologie
  • Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie. Teil 2, Palaontologie