CHANGING OPERATIONS OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Jim DooleyUniversity of California, Merced2014 Charleston Conference
University of California, Merced• Tenth University of California
campus
• Opened in 2005
• 6,400 students including 350 graduate students
• Goal of 10,000 students by 2020 including 1,000 graduate students
• Growing research library
Collection Development Philosophy
Just in time
Access over ownership
Currently 90% electronic
Collections
Serials
Print books
E-books
• Online only (if available)
• Current serials• 112,000 online• 20 print
Serials
• Approval plan for humanities and social sciences
• Firm order at faculty request
• Gifts
• Currently 118,000 volumes
Print Books
• Currently 1.1 million volumes available
• 580,000 volumes through UC consortial packages
• 520,000 volumes through local licenses• 120,000 ebrary Academic Complete subscription• 350,000 EBL DDA with short term loans• 50,000 MyiLibrary DDA without short term loan
E-books
• Effect of sudden large increases in short term loan rates
• One-third of e-books available through DDA with short term loans
Bumps in the Road
Publisher
Current 1-day STL
New 1-day STL
Current 7-day STL
New 7-day STL
Charles C. Thomas 25% 40% 50% 50%Taylor and Francis 10% 25% 10% 25%Ashgate 15% 30% 25% 40%DeGruyter 15% 35% 20% 40%Bloomsbury--Imprints now include: 35% 45%A&C Black, Berg, Hart 5% 35% 10% 45%Continuum 15% 35% 20% 45%
Effective June 1, 2014Publisher EBL Short-term Loan Changes
Publisher
Current 1-day STL
New 1-day STL
Current 7-day STL
New 7-day STL
Oxford UP 15% 25% 20% 40%Emerald 5% 20% 10% 30%Royal Society of Chemistry 5% 35% 10% 45%Louisiana State University 15% 30% 20% 40%NYU Press 5% 25% 10% 45%Cambridge UP 15% 30% 20% 60%World Scientific 5% 40% 10% 50%John Benjamins 15% 25% 20% 35%
Effective July 1, 2014Publisher EBL Short-term Loan Changes
Results
Significant cost
increases in July, August
and September
Several publishers (100,000
titles) removed from DDA
plan
$30 cap on short term
loan
Removed content
will not be acquired by other means
Ten-Year Observations
Strong acceptance of electronic journals
Increasing acceptance of e-books
Positive effect of e-book short term loans on print ILL
E-book business models remain problematic
Continuing need for print in the humanities