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Library discontinues most physical magazines amid high loss rates
Summary
The director told trustees the library will cut back to roughly a dozen magazine titles from earlier levels after experiencing a high loss rate; savings will be reallocated to online subscriptions and possibly a single national newspaper copy.
Jenny told the board the library decided to discontinue most physical magazine subscriptions after staff observed a high loss rate that made checkout tracking unreliable. "We did make a huge decision this month to discontinue our physical magazines," she said, and added that holdings have declined as publications stop printing and online access has increased.
She said the library reduced titles from roughly 30–40 to about 12 and that subscription costs dropped from "a couple thousand dollars" to about $500; the board will reallocate saved funds toward online subscriptions and is considering acquiring a physical copy of a major national newspaper. No formal vote on the funding reallocation was recorded at the meeting.
