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- Due to limits of space and volunteer support, the Mountaineers Library is envisioned as a reference library for Mountaineer core activities in the Pacific Northwest.
- Our core activities include mountaineering, hiking, snow sports, and conservation, . They do not include bicycling or water sportsyachting.
- Our geographic scope includes the Pacific Northwest and the mountainous country of western North America.
- We also retain selected titles of national or global scope that pertain to our core activities. (It is not our intention to retain regional titles outside our Northwest-centered scope.)
- We retain titles within our scope in order to maintain a "living" collection that can be enhanced over time by volunteers with deep knowledge of our core subjects.
- Our intent is to partner with another Northwest library (such as the University of Washington) to transfer materials outside our scope to a location that can make them available to Northwest researchers.
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- The decision tables below are based on Mountaineers Library Subject Groupings.
- All books designated with a K or M wildcard will be retained regardless of other criteria.
- All books designated with a D wildcard will be dispensed regardless of their other subject groupingscriteria.
- Cells marked with hyphens ( -- ) in the tables below are "don't care" items.
- In the online catalog, the retain status is marked Y for yes, N for no, and T for tentative (used for what-if investigations). D is used for not-to-be-retained duplicates of titles that are slated for retention.
Books To Be Dispensed
As a general rule, books matching the subject groupings in this table will be dispensed unless they are designated with a wildcard.
| Geography | Activity | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| -- | B, W | -- |
| NH, NX, NP, NE | -- | -- |
| AS, AF, EU, OC, PO, SA | -- | -- |
Books To Be Retained
Criteria in bold are currently in effect. Other criteria are being considered for expanding our collection.
| Geography | Activity | Focus | |||
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| -- | C,F, | V-- | -- | H, M, O, P, SF, , V, W, Y | T |
| NW | C, G, H, M, N, O, P, S, T, W, X, Y | -- | |||
| NA, NC, ND, NK, NR | C, H, M, N, O, P, S, W | B, F, H, P (note: G is excluded) | |||
| NA | C, H, M, N, O, P, S, W | B, F, G, H, P | |||
| WO | C, H, M, N, O, P, S, W | F, G, H, P (note: B is excluded) |
After applying wildcards and the criteria in the Dispensed and Retained tables (above), books that remain unresolved should generally be dispensed.
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