II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw

1. Richard Sapon-White
April 15, 2013
Second Scientific Conference Information Science in an Age of Change

2.  About Oregon State University
 Traditional Technical Services
 Changes to Traditional Workflow
 New Services
 The Future

3.  OSU founded 1876

4.  nearly 2 million volumes
 add ~20,000 monographs annually
 Purchase ~39,000 current serials
 Millennium ILS (from Innovative Interfaces)
 Participates in NACO, SACO, and CONSER
(name authorities, subject authorities, serial
records)
 Member of Orbis-Cascade Alliance

5.  Acquisitions
◦ Ordering
◦ Receiving
 Cataloging
◦ Copy cataloging
◦ Original cataloging
 Physical preparation and shelving
 Separate Serials Unit (sometimes)

6.  Tangible resources: books, journals, video- and
audiotapes, disks, etc.
 Selection, ordering, cataloging performed by in-
house expertise
◦ High per-unit cost: salaries & training
◦ High time investment per unit
 Turnaround from selection to availability slow

7.  2007 Strategic Plan
◦ Deliver information resources whenever and wherever
they were needed
 Replace paper serial subscriptions with electronic
(and weeding of paper collections)
 Purchase e-monographs whenever possible
◦ Mid-2008, began contracting with publishers and vendors
for e-book packages
 EBL, Springer Verlag, Morgan & Claypool, …

8.  Increased communication with Collection
Development
 Delivery of bibliographic records for e-books
 Reduction of cataloging burden and
transformation of cataloging  downloading
bibliographic records
 Preparation of tangible resources reduced
◦ Adoption of shelf-ready books

9.  Order profile “tightened” to provide 75% of orders
 Receipts and cataloging performed by “fastcat”
technician in acquisitions
 >95% of receipts arrive shelf-ready and cataloged
 Highly automated procedures
◦ books on shelf within a week of order or within 24 hours
of receipt

10.  Reorganization(s): 2007-2009
 Reduction in workforce via attrition
 Refocus of purpose to new digital services
 2009: Name changed to the Center for Digital
Scholarship and Services

11.  Skilled in database searching and construction
 Understand controlled vocabularies and authority
control
 Dedicated to quality:
◦ Bibliographic and authority records
◦ Other metadata
◦ Scanned images

12.  Download bibliographic records for packages of e-
books
 Catalog e-books purchased for Kindles
◦ 18 Kindles for loan – ca. 500 titles
 Patron-driven acquisition programs
◦ EBL contracts with OSU and Orbis Cascade Alliance
 Purchase of books for interlibrary loans – 24 hour
turn around: “Buy Request” program
 Catalog finding aids from the University Archives

13.  Digitize on demand: OSU publications, out-of-
copyright resources, archival collections…
 Promote open access to the OSU community
◦ Growth of ScholarsArchive@OSU
◦ Faculty submission of curriculum vitae  check against
SHERPA-ROMEO, ingest preprints/postprints into
ScholarsArchive@OSU
◦ Campus mandate to gather intellectual output of the
campus

14.  AACR2  RDA
 Orbis Cascade Alliance: New ILS

15.  Transition to new cataloging code
 Application of code to all resources
 Providing better access to locally produced
publications and other resources

16.  Consortium of 37 academic libraries in the Pacific
Northwest
 Hosts the Northwest Digital Archives
 Union catalog and Interlibrary loan (including
courier program)
 Consortial purchasing of databases

17.  For past 6 years, OCLC’s WorldCat navigator
 Replacement for local catalogs and better
integration of multiple collects
 New Integrated Library System (ILS) for Orbis-
Cascade Alliance
◦ Shared cataloging
◦ Shared circulation and ILL
◦ Consortial purchasing and processing
◦ Non-MARC metadata and electronic resources
 First cohort of libraries will go live this spring

18.  Reduction or elimination of traditional tasks
 Reapplication of staff skills to new tasks
 Birth of new digital initiatives
 Preparing for the future now

19. The support of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright
Commission and the CIES Fulbright Program is
gratefully acknowledged.
Contact:
Richard Sapon-White, MLS
richard.sapon-white@oregonstate.edu