Academic Library Collection Development: Current Landscape, Future Trends
1. Academic Library
Collection Development:
Current Landscape, Future
Trends
GALILEO Interconnected Libraries
December 14, 2011
Michael Levine-Clark
Collections Librarian
University of Denver
michael.levine-clark@du.edu
5. Looking into the Future
5 years
Monographs
Print/electronic mix – still transitional
DDA predominant for e-books
Journals
Fewer big deals
More article-level purchasing
Nontraditional stuff
Images
Data
6. Looking (a bit further)
into the Future
10 years
Monographs
Mostly electronic
Mostly DDA
Local POD
Journals
Medium deals
Articles on-demand
Smaller (and shrinking) print collections
15. Annual Book Production, 2009
1200000
1000000
800000
600000
400000
200000
0
DU Purchases North All United World
American States (UNESCO)
Scholarly
(YBP)
19. Demand-Driven Acquisitions Goals
Broaden the collection
More titles
More publishers
More subjects
Match acquisitions to immediate
demand
Pay at point of need
Pay for amount of need
Short-term loans
Purchase-on-demand
20. Redefining the Collection
Everything we can provide in a
timely manner
Ultimately, bounded only by budget
21. University of Denver
eBook Library (EBL)
Began May 2010
Loaded 42,000 records into catalog
(now 65,000)
No budget for FY 2010
Budgeted $150,000 for FY 2011
22. The EBL Model
First five minutes free
STL for three uses
One day or one week
10-15% list price
Purchase on fourth use
List price
23. University of Denver
EBL Data (5/1/10-6/30/11)
Actual List
325 titles purchased $23,753 $23,753
3,599 titles with at least $49,171 $236,037
one STL
6,477 titles with at least $0 $473,378
one browse
Total (10,076 titles) $72,924 $733,168
Savings $660,244
24. DDA Implications
Is there a role for consortia?
Tension between shared discount/local
needs
Immediate access vs. stewardship of
the cultural record
Access
Better served by DDA
Stewardship of potential acquisitions
Portico, LOCKSS, Publishers
25. DDA for the Long Haul
The Consideration Pool
Everything available for potential
acquisition
Linked to budget size
Managed by broad rules (like approval
plan)
Titles move in/out of pool
Records move in/out of discovery tools
26. E-Book Prediction
Most monographs
English-language approval plan
Non-English approval (a bit further out)
Acquire on demand
As e-book
STL or purchase
By the chapter or volume
As local print-on-demand
Make accessible all that we can afford
27. A Book Discovery Problem
Books Articles
Lots of words Fewer words
Not much metadata More metadata
Lost opportunity Abstract
Full-text searching
Chapter-level
metadata
Christopher C. Brown, “NextGen Information Environment: A Paradigm Shift in Information
Discovery,” Colorado Association of Libraries CALCON11, Loveland, Colorado, October 15, 2011.
28. E-Book Discovery
Must take advantage of full-text
Can drive users to print
Users must have clear choice of
format
Will drive acquisition
Must work with e-readers
33. Or Have We?
Is the Big Deal sustainable?
Based on a model of
Consolidating subscriptions
Maximizing market share
At the expense of other
publishers, monographs
While our budgets shrink
34. A New Model
Cambridge UP
$5.99
Read only
24 hours
Almost seamless
35. Other Options
Article Purchasing Medium Deal?
Small Deal?
Purchase PDF Limited title list
$25.00+
Multiple publishers Rental/purchase of
Copyright many (most) (all)
Clearance Center articles
Often seamless
Too expensive?
36. Article Discovery
We do this well
Not dependent on ownership
(Often) full-text
Must integrate with discovery of owned
content
Local journal holdings should be
replaced by all articles accessible by any
seamless access method
38. Journal/Book
Article/Chapter
Pay for amount used
Requires discovery at the
article/chapter level
What about entries in reference
works?
Major implications for publishers
40. Does ILL Make Sense for E-
Resources?
ILL a means to an end = access to
material not in collection
For e-resources, a short-term loan is
a faster means to the same end
Potentially cheaper
41. STL and Discovery
Clearinghouse(s) for STL of e-
books/chapters/articles
Integration into local discovery tools?
44. The Decline of Legacy Print
Collections
Closing branch libraries
Expansion of seating
Loss of on-campus storage
Full off-campus storage spaces
Potential loss of off-campus storage
45. The Collective Print Collection
Shared storage facilities/virtual shared
storage
Collaborative journal archiving
WEST, etc.
Notification about
Retention decisions
Holdings
Completeness
Local record of past holdings?
46. Storage and Serendipitous
Discovery
Low use monographs offsite
Need for better discovery (“I can’t
browse anymore.”)
Digital surrogates
Electronic browsing option
A real need?
47. Withdrawing Monographs
Low use
Duplicated by e
Hathi Trust
Public domain
Orphan works
Duplicated elsewhere
Readily purchasable
Used
POD
How do users find the print?
53. Data-Driven Decisions
Make DDA possible
Help with weeding/storage
Inform future collecting practices
Have weight with the administration
54. Thank You
Michael Levine-Clark
michael.levine-clark@du.edu
Notes de l'éditeur
US – Library and Book Trade Almanac 2010, p. 485. 2009 preliminary data.
Data from Michael Zeoli, YBP Library Services.
325 titles purchased – not included in Total (10,076) since they are also part of the list of titles with at least one STL. 3,599 titles with at least one STL. Total Number of STLs is 5,337 across those 3,599 titlesCalculations of list price are based on the average cost of the 325 books actually purchased ($73.09)