California Digital Library
The Future of Collection Development:
Collaborative Approaches
Ivy Anderson
California Digital Library
The Radically Different Future of Collection DevelopmentCharleston Conference XXX
November 2010
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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
California Digital Library
Information ubiquity
• Information explosion• New forms of content and
data
Library
disinter-mediatio
n
• Content• Discovery• Users
Declining use and value of physical
collections
• “If it isn’t online it doesn’t exist”
Rise of Digital
Technologies
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
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).
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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
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
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Can we adopt the WEST approach to books?
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Largescale Digital Book Collaboration: HathiTrust
Currently digitized:• 6.6 million volumes
• 1.3 million public domain
• Projected: 12 million by 2014
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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)
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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
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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!
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The State of Print Book Collecting
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UC Libraries: Total Unique English Language Monographs by Publication Year
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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
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New Modes of Collecting
Web archives Data as publicationEarlier engagement
with the research and publication lifecycle
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Deepwater Horizon Web Archive
Over 600 Web resources being archived by CDL in collaboration with LSU
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Focus on the Scholarly Lifecycle
Publish Preserve
Access
Collect
Discover
Gather
Create
Share
Scholarly Discourse
and Record
ResearchTeachingLearning
Information lifecycleScholarly lifecycle
California Digital Library
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
California Digital Library
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
California Digital Library
Data as Publication
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And the saga continues…