Thank you to all who responded. Answers below:
We decided to copy it to a CD and keep it with the book, which is what
we are now doing with CDs.
I just finished a similar book w/ flashdrive from the ABA. In the past our stance on accompanying PDFs on disc has been to ignore them: we purchased a book and we track the book. The PDFs on disc have been considered incidental. In this case I put the book on the shelf and the flash drive in my desk drawer.
Use a CD burner to burn the book to a CD from the flash drive and then catalog and store the CD according to usual procedures.
Our Collection Services department has just made a decision on this title (and for future titles with a flash drive), which was circulated to staff today. I am sharing it with you with the permission of ---:
Summary of policy: After confirmation of permission from the publisher, we will make two copies of the data on the flash drive, transferring the contents onto DVDs. One will be circulated in Special Services and the second will be stored as an archival copy in Special Collections. We will toss the original flash drive.
Note: The Special Services area/staff includes storage and management of the audiovisual collections among its duties.
Janet Fischer
Collection Development/Government Documents Librarian
Golden Gate University Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
phone: 415-442-7826
fax: 415-512-9395
email: jfischer@ggu.edu
http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary
>>> "Janet Fischer" <jfischer@ggu.edu> 5/5/2009 8:39 AM >>>
I have a question for the wisdom of the list. We are on the ABA Package Plan, and for the first time we received a book that came with the full text on a flash drive. (We got both the book and the flash drive.) This would clearly be great for an individual, but as an academic law library, we're not sure what to do with it.
My thought was to put it in a CD slip and keep it in the media cabinet with the CDs, and put a note in the record that it is available. I don't imagine it will last long.
What has anyone else done with these? I will summarize for the list.
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