Thank you, Janet, for sharing these procedures. I have one subsequent
suggestion. For the libraries that decide not to use the flash drives,
please have them recycled as you would any computer technology. The
flash drives that I have used are like tiny mother boards inside,
complete with lots of toxic substances.
Mike McReynolds
Cataloging / ILL Librarian
Shook, Hardy & Bacon Law Library
2555 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
mmcreynolds@falconflight.com
Janet Fischer wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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