Charleston 2010 future of collection development anderson
1. California Digital Library
The Future of Collection
Development:
Collaborative Approaches
Ivy Anderson
California Digital Library
The Radically Different Future of Collection Development
Charleston Conference XXX
November 2010
3. California Digital Library
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
4. California Digital Library
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
5. Information
ubiquity
• Information explosion
• New forms of content
and data
Library
disinter-
mediation
• Content
• Discovery
• Users
Declining
use of
physical
collections
• “If it isn’t online it doesn’t
exist”
Rise of
Digital
Technologies
6. California Digital Library
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).
8. Uniquely Managing the General:
Collaborative Management of
Print Collections
Flying Books, J. Ignacio Diaz de Rabago
Doe Library, UC Berkeley, 2005
9. California Digital Library
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
11. California Digital Library
Largescale Digital Book
Collaboration: HathiTrust
Currently digitized:
• 6.6 million volumes
• 1.3 million public domain
• Projected: 12 million by 2014http://catalog.hathitrust.org
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%ofTitlesinLocalCollection
Rank in 2008 ARL Investment Index
HathiTrust Overlap with ARL Library
Collections
June 2010
Median duplication: 31%
June 2009
Median duplication: 19%
Academic print book collection already substantially
duplicated in mass digitized book corpus
Data current as of June 2010
Courtesy of OCLC Research
13. Collaborative approaches to
retrospective print monographs
will be more challenging
Cost 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)
14. California Digital Library
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
15. California Digital Library
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!
16. California Digital Library
The State of Print Book Collecting
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UC Libraries: Total Unique English Language Monographs by
Publication Year
17. California Digital Library
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
18. California Digital Library
New Modes of Collecting
Web archives Data as publication
Earlier engagement
with the research and
publication lifecycle
20. California Digital Library
Focus on the Scholarly Lifecycle
Publish Preserve
Access
Collect
Discover
Gather
Create
Share
Scholarly
Discourse
and Record
Research
Teaching
Learning
Information lifecycleScholarly lifecycle
21. California Digital Library
An ideal cycle of research
Data
Information
Publication
Experiment
Data archive
Publishers
Inspiration
analysed
synthesised
interpreted
Peer-Review
Research
Publication (DOI)
Publication(DOI)
Publication(DOI)
linking
Accumulation
Catalogue
Jan Brase, German National
Library of Science and
Technology
23. An ideal cycle of research
Data
Information
Publication
Experiment
Data archive
Publishers
Inspiration
analysed
synthesised
interpreted
Peer-Review
Research
Publication (DOI)
Publication(DOI)
Publication(DOI)
linking
Accumulation
Catalogue
Jan Brase, German National
Library of Science and
Technology
Over the last year we have studied the mass digitized book corpus in the context of system-wide print holdings and have found that a significant part of the average academic library is already substantially duplicated. This scatter chart provide a simple visualization of an important pattern that this project has revealed: that is, that the risks and opportunities associated with moving collection management ‘into the cloud’ – delivering digital texts rather than physical - are uniformly distributed across the research library community as a whole. This is a picture of the US ARL membership (a microcosm of the larger research library community) that shows the level of duplication between individual library collections and the mass digitized book collection in Hathi. We project that in a year’s time, many academic libraries are liable to find themselves “underwater,” holding a massive inventory of over-valued assets.Library directors will be expected to respond to questions about how an increasingly redundant local print collection is serving the educational and research mission of the parent institution. We need to be preparing for a world in which just-in-time, print on demand delivery is an option for a large share of the retrospective book collection.
“Web resources” means both entire web sites, sections of websites pertaining to the spill, and individual resources such as patent information for blowout preventers etc.117 of these sites were also included in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Web archive. That archive is not yet publicly available; we hope to provide access concurrent with the oil spill archive.380 of these sites were selected by LSU subject experts.