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This guide provides information and updates about the development and management of digital and physical collections at the MSVU Library & Archives.

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Update on ERIC - March 14 2025

⚠️Upcoming content reduction in ERIC

Editors of certain journals indexed in ERIC have received emails stating that the Department of Education will no longer include their journal in the ERIC database. As a result of working with the Department of Government Efficiency, ERIC will be reducing the collection by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025.

If you have any upcoming/ongoing searches in ERIC. I suggest you run and export all results as soon as possible, and definitely before April 24. 

If you have any questions, please contact Nicole.Slipp@msvu.ca

Latest in Collections Maintenance

March 2025:

The Collections team has begun a deselection process in the P 000-999 section of our physical collection. This range of the P Class includes books on language theory and linguistics (e.g. semiotics, etymology, speech, non-verbal communication) and communications (e.g. mass media, discourse analysis). Good candidates for replacement with electronic texts have been identified and purchased. 

The books considered for deselection are initially identified through usage and other statistics and reviewed by the Collections Librarian. No books that have circulated (i.e. been checked out) in the last 5 years are being deselected. 

* If books in these subject areas relate to your research and you would like to offer feedback on the titles being considered for deselection, please contact Collections Librarian Nicole Slipp (Nicole.Slipp@msvu.ca) for a copy of the list. 

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