Mid-size academic libraries face the dilemma of limited funding and space but are expected to provide the tools their graduate students and faculty need to compete in research. A question faced by these institutions is whether to weed potentially useful paper finding aids of the pre-online era. One example is the 754 volume National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints (NUC). Has the content and current use of the NUC justified its retention by libraries in mid-size universities? The authors provide historical background of the NUC and the results of a survey of librarians from mid-size academic institutions that explores their perspectives on the tool's continued utility and their institutions' ultimate decisions on its fate.

Three academic librarians, a library administrator, a serials librarian, and a collection development librarian, discuss pressing serials issues as they plan for a move to a new library building. Professional perspectives on serials are juxtaposed as they grapple with issues such as limited storage for paper journals, rising costs of serials, and problems related to serials check-in, e-resources, and document delivery. IntroductionRegular readers of this column will notice a new name in place of our esteemed past coeditor, Markel Tumlin, who is devoting himself to full-time research this year. I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop with Markel a number of years ago at a North American Serials Interest Group conference, and since then I have enjoyed following Markel's contributions to this column in Serials Review. I believe I speak for many other readers when I say that his wit and eloquent writing style in the column were much appreciated and will be missed. I look forward to working with and learning from my experienced and talented coeditor Kay Johnson as we carry on the column's tradition of hosting a platform for stimulating serials discussion where voices in the serials community-some in harmony, others in counterpoint, and others perhaps even dissonant-can come together to find perspective about serials in the "balance point."

Three academic librarians, a library administrator, a serials librarian, and a collection development librarian, discuss pressing serials issues as they plan for a move to a new library building. Professional perspectives on serials are juxtaposed as they grapple with issues such as limited storage for paper journals, rising costs of serials, and problems related to serials check-in, e-resources, and document delivery. IntroductionRegular readers of this column will notice a new name in place of our esteemed past coeditor, Markel Tumlin, who is devoting himself to full-time research this year. I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop with Markel a number of years ago at a North American Serials Interest Group conference, and since then I have enjoyed following Markel's contributions to this column in Serials Review. I believe I speak for many other readers when I say that his wit and eloquent writing style in the column were much appreciated and will be missed. I look forward to working with and learning from my experienced and talented coeditor Kay Johnson as we carry on the column's tradition of hosting a platform for stimulating serials discussion where voices in the serials community-some in harmony, others in counterpoint, and others perhaps even dissonant-can come together to find perspective about serials in the "balance point."