Greg Raschke's ALA 2009 Presentation - Keeping the Best in Challenging Times

1. Keeping the Best in Challenging
Economic Times
Greg Raschke and Annette Day,
North Carolina State University
ALA Annual Conference
July 12, 2009

2. Day in the Life – Collections Review 1995
 Consider price, impact factor,
and editors
 Print use or citation studies – if
they have been done recently
 User community feedback via
lists
 Static and temporary
 Apply domain expertise and
institutional knowledge
 Transparency and
accountability
 Move money from book funds
 Ask/Pray/Meditate for more
money next year

3. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2000
 Consider price, impact factor,
and editors
 Print use and citation
studies(?) – if available
 Introduce web logs if you can
get them in a workable state
 User community feedback via
lists (online this time)
 Static, but electronic and
more available
 Apply domain expertise and
institutional knowledge
 Move money from book funds
 Ask/Pray/Meditate for more
money next year

4. Day in the Life – Serials Review 2004
 Web logs and e-usage data
(not enough)
 Publication data and citation
patterns (if you can get them)
 Impact factor
 Weigh price against usage
 User community feedback via
lists (online forms this time)
 Maintain big deals and access
gained over past decade
 Apply domain expertise and
institutional knowledge
 Move money from book funds
 Ask/Pray/Meditate for more
money next year

5. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2009
– General Assumptions
 Truly embrace evidence based
decision making
 Resource management based
increasingly on use
 Less tolerance for and less
investment in lower use
general collections
 Use based and user driven
collecting models will take
growing share of budget
 Local collection has become
more a part of growing
discovery and access at
network level

6. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2009
– Presenting and Packaging Data
 User community feedback via
interactive, database-driven
applications
 Weigh/calculate/quantify user
feedback
 Community Feedback
((Weighted Ranking x %
Match) x Total # Rankings) +
0.1 x # of "1s“

7. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2009
– Presenting and Packaging Data
 Bibliometrics - publication data and citation patterns (e.g LJUR)
 Impact factor and eigenfactor
 Standardized usage data (where available)
 Quadrangulation of data
 Weigh price against multiple data points
 Usage ((07usage+08usage/5)+(publications*10)+ (citations*5)+
(Eigenfactor*10)
 Price/feedback value
 Price/data value
 Merge results to filter titles into 5 tiers

8. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2009
 Network effect emphasizing content
 Packages and agreements
 Allocation assessment via multi-disciplinary lens
 Weigh investments against institutional data in a
consistent, technology enabled way – identify stagnation

9. Assessing via Institutional Lens

10. Assessing via Institutional Lens

11. Day in the Life – Collections Review 2009
 Apply domain expertise and
institutional knowledge
 Revisit large agreements in
context of large-scale cuts
 Maintain access gained over
past decade
 Truly innovate, collaborate,
and look at new models –
particularly for books and
databases
 Get right content, highest ratio
of use and service per dollar
 Still Ask/Pray/Meditate for
more money next year

12. Issues and Cautions
 Not enough data - still lack much of the comprehensive data we
need – must improve quickly
 Data can punish niche areas, disciplinary variation, and titles without
data
 Tools and views to consistently monitor performance
 Monitoring usage trends and patterns and responding accordingly –
active, consistent review and reporting
 Changing budget targets
 Granular command of orders to packages to titles (ERM’s are not
close to there)