Magazines

Revised June 2008

General Comments

The purpose of the magazine collection is to meet the recreational needs of the community along with providing some research benefit. Magazines have a current timeliness regarding current events and world affairs. These items are also used as reference tools.

Development Plan

In order that the magazines be useful to patrons, the Library will:

• provide a broad range of subject areas in the collection.
• provide standard indexing tools (online only).
• evaluate the collection titles as to degree of use.
• evaluate suggested new titles, adding them to the collection as warranted and as funds are available.
• collect primarily in English, though Spanish titles may be added as changes in our population warrant.

Influencing Factors

Purchases and buying patterns are determined in large part by:

• budget constraints.
• circulation statistics.
• patron requests.
• present and potential relevance to the community.
• shelf space.
• availability of new titles.

Retention/Weeding

• Periodicals are retained and collected for one year plus the current year.
• Every January, weeding and discarding of this collection is completed.
• Discards are used to fill "holes" in the CCPL collection and the remainder are given to the local junior high or high school as needed for its collection.
• No attempt is made to replace lost or damaged magazines.