2. Agenda
1. State of the Library
• Budget
• Building
• Awards
2. Strategy Going Forward
3. State of the Library
Budget
Flat
Except — for librarians and professional staff
there was a 1.5% merit pool and we only got
0.5% — about $40K needed to be found
And, lost $25K contribution from University
College
4. State of the Library
Building
Learning Spaces 3
Herron Artist Books Area
9. State of the Library
Awards — Indiana Library Federation
2012 Outstanding New Librarian Award —
Willie Miller
2012 Outstanding Support Staff Award —
Jenny Johnson
2012 Collaboration Award — IUPUI
University Library and IMCPL
11. Strategy Going Forward — Context
“While predictions of radical change in library and
information services are by no means new, a
confluence of shifts in technology, changing user
demands, and increasing budget pressures are now
forcing academic libraries to either adapt or risk
obsolescence. The library’s traditional role as a
repository for physical books and periodicals is quickly
fading, with important implications for space
utilization, resource acquisition, and staffing.”
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at:
http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
12. Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at:
http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
13. Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at:
http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
14. Strategy Going Forward
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills
2. Collections
3. Space
4. Research Support
5. Scholarly Communication
15. 1. Information Literacy/Research
Skills
"Wikipedia is like everything else. It's as reliable as
your critical-thinking skills. You're responsible for
what you read.”
— Justin Knapp
17. 1. Information Literacy/Research
Skills
• Finding information on the Web is easy,
evaluating it is hard
• Students, especially beginning students don’t
understand scholarship
18. 1. Information Literacy/Research
Skills Strategies
• Continue significant engagement with
beginning students, work on digital learning
tools
• Increase engagement with upper level
students
• Demonstrate connection between
information/research skills and persistence
and academic success
19. 2. Collections
• Changing approaches to collections will be
difficult because collections are central to the
way we all think about libraries
• Much library practice and library values have
been based on past approaches to collections
22. 2. Collections
Two drivers of change:
1. Open Access — Journals
2. Change from Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
— Books
23. Open Access
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. OA removes price barriers (subscriptions,
licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission
barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions).”
– Peter Suber
Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview,” at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
24. Open Access
• Open Access is a disruptive innovation (Clayton
Christensen)
– New technology
– New business model
– Starts out as an inferior product
– Improves over time and its advantages make
it dominant
– Adoption follows an S-curve not a straight line
David W. Lewis, “The Inevitability of Open Access,” forthcoming in College & Research Libraries September 2012.
Preprint available at: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/recent
25. Open Access
Figure 3: Pace of Substitution of Direct Gold OA for
Subscription Journals (normal scale)
100.0%
90.0%
80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Laakso, et. al. Estimates
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009
David W. Lewis, “The Inevitability of Open Access,” forthcoming in College & Research Libraries September 2012.
Preprint available at: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/recent
26. From January 1, 2012 to August 10, 2012 14,919 Articles Published
27. eLife is a researcher-driven initiative for the very best in science and
science communication. We promote rapid, fair, and more
constructive review. We will use digital media and open access to
increase the influence of published works. We commit to serving
authors and advancing careers in science. At eLife,
Publishing is just the beginning.
28. If we can set a goal to sequence the human
genome for $99... then why not $99 for
scholarly publishing?
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles. We aim to
drive the costs of publishing down, while improving the overall
publishing experience, and providing authors with a publication venue
suitable for the 21st Century.
29. Implications of Open Access
1. As more journals become open access, the
library will have to pay for fewer journals
2. Escape from the grip of monopolistic
publishers
3. Libraries in their role of information
providers, won’t be part of the system
30. Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
• In a typical research library 50% of the books
that are purchased never circulate
• In the past this made sense as an insurance
policy
31.
32. Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
• Now nearly any book can be purchased at
any time with very quick delivery
• Why purchase before the user needs an item
if you don’t have to?
• Since past use is the best predictor of future
use, books users “select” are likely to get use
in the future
33. • Print books delivered nearly
as quickly as digital files
• Digital readers nearly as good
as print books
For what might come next, see: Mike Matas, “A Next-Generation Digital Book,” TED Talk, March 2011. Available at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mike_matas.html
34. Implications of
Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
1. Aggressively work at not buying books that
will never be used
2. Book purchases will decline
3. But impact on readers will be minimal
1. Will impact scholarly publishers by reducing
revenue, they don’t see this coming
35. 2. Collections Strategies
1. Hold journal expenditures constant
2. Move to patron-driven-acquisition for e-
books this year for both paper and
electronic books
3. Except for some new funding for new
programs, the materials budget should be
able to remain at current levels
36. 3. Space
• Use of library space by students has
increased
• Use of library services and collections by
students has declined
• The opportunity cost of library collections is
high
37. Opportunity Costs of Print Collections
$5.00 to $13.10
$28.77
$50.98 to $68.43
Life cycle cost based on 3% discount rate. From Paul N. Courant and Matthew “Buzzy” Nielsen, “On the Cost of Keeping a Book,”
in The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship, CLIR, June 2010, available at:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub147abst.html
38. 3. Space Strategies
1. Continue to redevelop library space to
create better, more diverse, space for non-
classroom academic work
2. Repurpose current stack space for other
uses, probably 5K sq. ft. in the next five
years
3. Reconfigure library staff spaces as functions
change
39. 4. Supporting Research
• Librarian research support — literature
searching, etc.
• Preserving the results of research
– Institutional Repository
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/
– Electronic Theses and Dissertations
– NFS Data Mandate
40. Dr. Robert White, Department of Sociology studies
Irish Republicanism
41. 5. Scholarly Communication
• Need to help faculty and students, especially
graduate students, understand and take
advantage of new scholarly communications
vehicles
