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David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 867
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 05:49 pm: |    |
Since work is slow right now I am taking the opportunity to clean up my office. One thing that has been bugging me is the piles of unread magazines on top of the filing cabinet.
What is the shelf life of a magazines? What magazines subscriptions do you find useful? (I will cancel the others.)
Maybe now I will have time to actually read them rather than toss them on top of the pile.
Thanks! |
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA
Senior Member
Username: bunzick
Post Number: 732
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 09:13 am: | |
My strategy is to scan a trade magazine as soon as it comes in, read the one article that is of actual interest, and immediately toss it. If I can't get to it in two months or so it goes right into the trash. Few of them have anything of remarkable value. |
Russell W. Wood, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: woodr5678
Post Number: 88
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 09:33 am: | |
I wish the Construction Specifier was posted electronically when I get the mag. Whenever I find an article of interest, generally I'd like to forward a copy electronically to associates. But by the time CSI posts the mag. electronically at the website a month later, I've moved on to other issues. |
Richard L Matteo, AIA, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: rlmat
Post Number: 219
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 11:36 am: | |
Russell,
I have to agree with you.
I've found myself in the same situation
As for the rest of the magazines - I usually try to scan them when they come in then store them in one of those cardboard magazine files.
At the start of the next year, I toss them to make room for the new ones. |
Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS
Senior Member
Username: awhitacre
Post Number: 563
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 12:30 pm: | |
I like Engineering News Record, Building Design and Construction; (they have to be read right away, especially ENR); then Architectural Record, Architect, and the CSI magazine. if I find things of interest, I tear them out immediately and put them in a file folder and then toss the rest of the magazine within a month. |
Ann Baker (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 05:03 pm: | |
I frequently read the Specifier almost cover to cover - that magazine is really why I joined CSI in the first place. Architectural Record gets thumbed through once in awhile, but somehow I seem to hang onto the back issues, much to the chagrin of my extremely organized and non-pack rat spouse.
Russell - I agree that it would be great to have the Specifier electronically. And, I know we've all heard this before, but I think it's being addressed (slowly, but it's a start). |
Brian E. Trimble, CDT
Senior Member
Username: brian_e_trimble_cdt
Post Number: 9
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 - 12:01 pm: | |
Besides the other mentions, I find the Journal of Light Construction useful since it contains more parctical, how-to stuff. Obviously residential related, but cuts into some commercial issues.
This is one I usually get to in a few months - not the quick read like ENR and importance of CS. |
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