charleston 2010 future of collection development anderson

California Digital Library

The Future of Collection Development:

Collaborative Approaches

Ivy Anderson


The Radically Different Future of Collection DevelopmentCharleston Conference XXX

November 2010


Information ubiquity

• Information explosion• New forms of content and

data

Library disinter-mediation

• Content• Discovery• Users

Declining use and value of physical

collections

• “If it isn’t online it doesn’t exist”

Rise of Digital

Technologies



• Information explosion• New forms of content and

data

Library

disinter-mediatio

n


Declining use and value of physical

collections


Rise of Digital

Technologies


• Information explosion• New forms of content

and data

Library

disinter-mediation


Declining use of

physical collections


Rise of Digital

Technologies


Space: The Final Frontier

College and university libraries in North America hold a billion books, and add approximately 25 million more each year. Libraries face great pressure to find efficient and cost-effective ways to house their existing holdings and to make room for new materials. While digital data storage and on-demand delivery hold great promise for ameliorating the space pressure, it may be many years before electronic versions supplant most print collections in most academic libraries.

Lizanne Payne, Library Storage Facilities and the Future of Print Collections in North America (2007).


One Response

Uniquely manage the general

Generally manage the unique

Uniquely Managing the General: Collaborative Management of

Print Collections

Flying Books, J. Ignacio Diaz de Rabago Doe Library, UC Berkeley, 2005


WEST: Toward a Western Regional Storage Trust

Project goal:Develop a shared retrospective journals repository infrastructure among research libraries in the Western Region of the United States

Preserve the journal record to support de-duplication of redundant collections


Can we adopt the WEST approach to books?


Largescale Digital Book Collaboration: HathiTrust

Currently digitized:• 6.6 million volumes

• 1.3 million public domain

• Projected: 12 million by 2014

http://catalog.hathitrust.org

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HathiTrust Overlap with ARL Library Collections

June 2010Median duplication: 31%

June 2009Median duplication: 19%

Academic print book collection already substantially duplicated in mass digitized

book corpus

Data current as of June 2010Courtesy of OCLC Research

Collaborative approaches to retrospective print monographs

will be more challengingCost of de-duplicating and servicing print far higher than journals

Libraries value their book collections more

highly

More research needed:

• Collection overlap among libraries and storage facilities

• Optimal copies• Cost / benefit of various

management strategies and service models

• User needs and behavior (Opportunity to engage with scholars)


UC E-Book Survey: Preliminary Results

• Have used e-books for academic work: 58%• Prefer e-books for academic work:* 35%

* Percentage of respondents who have used e-books

• Prefer or use only print: 65%• Prefer e-books:* 20%

• percentage of all respondents


Additional findings

• Importance of being able to:– Borrow a print copy from the library 58%– Purchase a POD copy 38%– Read on a mobile device 36%– Read on a dedicated e-book reader 32%

• Springer e-book users who have purchased print-on-demand copies: 8%

But, users want more ebooks!


The State of Print Book Collecting

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UC Libraries: Total Unique English Language Monographs by Publication Year


Prospective Monographic Collaboration Opportunities

Shared e-book licensing

Shared approval plans for collaborative print

collecting

Shared storage facilities as fulfillment centers

Shared bibliographers for specialized materials


New Modes of Collecting

Web archives Data as publicationEarlier engagement

with the research and publication lifecycle


Deepwater Horizon Web Archive

Over 600 Web resources being archived by CDL in collaboration with LSU


Focus on the Scholarly Lifecycle

Publish Preserve

Access

Collect

Discover

Gather

Create

Share

Scholarly Discourse

and Record

ResearchTeachingLearning

Information lifecycleScholarly lifecycle


An ideal cycle of research

Data

Information

Publication

Experiment

Data archivePublishers

Inspiration

analysedsynthesisedinterpreted

Peer-Review

Research

Publication (DOI)

Publication(DOI)

Publication(DOI)linking

Accumulation

Catalogue

Jan Brase, German National Library of Science and

Technology


Data as Publication


And the saga continues…

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