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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 yachting.
- 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 other criteria.
- 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.
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| Geography | Activity | Focus |
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| -- | B, Y | -- |
| NH, NX, NP, NE | -- | -- |
| AS, AF, EU, OC, PO, SA | -- | -- |
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