J Med Libr Assoc. 2023 Jul 10;111(3):717-721. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2023.1373.
In response to several of Texas' largest medical libraries being forced to discard all serial print holdings, the Texas A&M University System and University of Texas System's Joint Library Facility (JLF) staff worked to help provide a solution to save and store these resources. This process fire-started a comprehensive effort by JLF staff to contact the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and devise a blueprint that would be used to help save and preserve all serial medical resources listed in NLM's medical retention program.
In an unprecedented approach, the Texas A&M JLF staff launched efforts to collect and preserve the complete holdings range of all NLM MedPrint periodical runs. This case report details the planning and steps JLF staff took to accomplish this feat; highlights important matters of consideration for the medical community which heavily relies upon continuous access to MedPrint materials; and provides insight on the apparent preservation vulnerabilities these materials increasingly face in an environment where digitization may create a false sense of security.
By May 2021, JLF had collected complete title runs up to year 2000 for 202 of the 254 MedPrint titles, which consists of more than twelve thousand volumes. These efforts proved particularly beneficial in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced NLM to halt ILL processing from their print collection. During this time, JLF was uniquely positioned to meet and respond to the historic high number of medical literature ILL requests it received during this time.
由于德克萨斯州的几家最大的医学图书馆被迫放弃所有连续出版物，德克萨斯 A&M 大学系统和德克萨斯大学系统联合图书馆设施（JLF）的工作人员努力提供解决方案，以保存和存储这些资源。这一过程引发了 JLF 工作人员的全面努力，与国家医学图书馆（NLM）联系，并设计了一个蓝图，以帮助保存和保留 NLM 医学保留计划中列出的所有连续医学资源。
在史无前例的方法中，德克萨斯 A&M JLF 工作人员发起了收集和保存所有 NLM MedPrint 期刊系列的完整收藏范围的努力。本案例报告详细介绍了 JLF 工作人员为完成这一壮举所采取的规划和步骤；强调了对严重依赖 MedPrint 材料连续获取的医学界的重要考虑因素；并提供了有关这些材料在数字化可能产生虚假安全感的环境中面临的明显保存漏洞的见解。
到 2021 年 5 月，JLF 已经收集了 254 种 MedPrint 标题中的 202 种完整的标题系列，其中包含超过一万两千卷。这些努力在 COVID-19 大流行之后特别有益，该大流行迫使 NLM 停止其印刷收藏的 ILL 处理。在此期间，JLF 能够满足并响应在此期间收到的大量医学文献 ILL 请求的历史高位。
