Value Line Investment Survey - Print edition dropped.

The News
Starting January, 2015, we will no longer get any print copies of the Value Line Investment Survey and these other Value Line publications. 

This decision was made after two years of evaluation of the decrease in use for the print edition - balanced against the rising cost of the print subscriptions.

In addition, we have seen a large increase of usage of our online Value Line Investment Center in recent years. As a result, we opted to cancel the print Value Line Investment Survey.

Note that this reflects the longstanding trend for publishers and libraries alike - moving from print to online. For example, the publisher of the Morningstar report ceased publication of its print edtion, and only provides online access now.

What's good to know

Access to the Value Line Investment Survey is available 24/7 from the Research Portal and offers additional functionality beyond the print editions such as screeners, the ability to sort, etc.  It is also well suited to tablets and iPads.

Patrons who do not have computers can visit any branch for access.  If they wish, they can visit the DC Public or the Falls Church Mary Riley Styles Library to read the print ed. of the Investment Survey.

To help with this transition

See our Value Line webpage for tips and tutorials. - where you can feel free to print this tip sheet 

Find it quickly in the Library catalog - Value Line Investment Survey

Patrons are also encouraged to attend this class at Central, on January 13, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Tech Class: Free Tools for Investors-Value Line and Morning Star

While instructions on using Value Line is NOT a Tech Help appointment option, patrons CAN book an appointment with Business Librarian Alexandra Fox, from the Ask a Librarian page. They should indicate in Box #7 that this is for a Value Line tutorial.

If any patrons have more questions than covered here, they should contact:

Alexandra Fox, Business Librarian
Sally Dewey, Electronic Resources Manager

(Central Staff, please give them a business card)

Finally - the records in the catalog still indicate the print titles are being received.  This will be updated soon.



Interested in this trend? Check it out

In what movie did  Dr. Egon Spengler declare "Print is dead."

If you guessed 1984's Ghostbusters - you are right!
While that was fairly prescient, how about....

"The economics of publishing on the Web is prompting a shift from ownership of a local print copy to access to a remote electronic copy. It is more efficient for
publishers or vendors to host content on the Web, in a location that users can access from any place at any time, than to sustain the print model, where materials are printed, distributed, bound, and retained locally. Libraries are questioning the need to retain print copies locally when material is reliably available online."
The Council on Library and Information Resources
pub115, III. TRENDS IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; April 2003

More recent
The Current Budget Environment and its Impact on Libraries, Publishers and Vendors, T Collins - Journal of library administration, 2012 - Taylor & Francis