PROPOSED REDUCTION OF CIA LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000600070006-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 9, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT Proposed Reduction of CIA Library
Subscriptions to Periodicals and Newspape
1. In the interest of economy the CIA Library is pre-
paring to reduce substantially its subscriptions to periodicals
and newspapers.
2. Approximately 0 titles are currently received.
All of these subscriptions were considered justified in
relation to Agency interests when they were begun but many
were added to the Library's subscription list more than 10
years ago.
3. In an attempt to determine which of these
subscriptions may now be of marginal or no interest to Li-
brary users, circulation figures have been maintained for
title during the past two years. The attached list of
titles represents those for which there waslittie or no
usage recorded. The list also shows the total Agency receipts
for each of these publications and its unit price.
4. It is recognized, however, that our statistics do
not reflect the possible consulting of and browsing among
the periodicals by many of the users of the Library. If you
believe that your usage is of such a nature and warrants
continuation of certain subscriptions, your expression of
interest will be given full consideration prior to a final
decision regarding cancellation.
5. Please bear in mind that the cancellation of a
subscription to which only the Library subscribes does not
mean that the publication will become unavailable. Most of
the titles on the list are held by the Library of on(-.Tress
and loan copies can be obtained through interlibrary loan
channels in the CIA Library (within 1--2 days).
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6. An alternative to cancellation of the Library
subscription, suggested in the Executive Director Comptroller's
26 November 1969 memo, Guidelines for Publication Procurement,
is cancellation by one or More of the mo?he sub icr bing
components and utilization by that component of the Library
issues. This alternative is recommended in as many instances
as are practical. I suggest that it is especially practical
where the periodical is infrequently used by the subscriber,
when access to all of the issues over an extended time periot:i
is important, or where thin: item is expensive.
7. We urge you to circulate the attached list within
your component as widely as you feel your interests are con-
cerned. A coordinated response from your component will be
appreciated and should be addressed to the CIA Librarian,
Room 111-1122, Headquarters, (Extension ), prior to
1 Aay 1970. If we do not hear from you by that date we will
assume you concur in the Library recommendations.
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