Keep Jounals That Are Online?

Our library has many old Friends Journals and Western Friend Magazines. I see that they are all archived and available online. No one uses our library for research. Some members have the whole collections in their own homes. I am considering discarding them from the library to give us more shelf space. What are other Quaker or church libraries doing with journals and magazines that are archived?

We have the same issues, so send our hard copies to the 'freebie shelf' in the library - very good for new enquirers. When we get too many in the discards stockpile, the older copies are sent to recycling or for kids craft (the pictures/artworks are fabulous for vision boards, story telling in children's meeting etc). I have extremely limited shelf space, so work on a 2-4 month rotation for all our journals. We don't even add the journal to our online collection.

>2 QRM: Thank you, this is helpful. Available space for a Quaker library is a luxury.

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