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These slides were presented in July 2010, to academics in the Law and Criminology dept. Taking a quiz-style format, they introduce academics to the challenges of resource provision around lists as a pre-cursor to presenting Talis Aspire.
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Please look at the reading lists appearing in the left hand column.
I would ask you to write any comments on
Appearance, structure, size, annotation with an indication of subject of the list
on a post it note which you can post to the flip chart at the front.
100 into 2 won’t go
Problems of access OR can
we hope to satisfy student
demand for access to books?
Teaching with a set text
a) 15
b) 25
c) 45
What do you think is the maximum number of students that one copy of a 7 day loan textbook could reach in one
semester?
How many students is one 7-day loan
textbook likely to service in a semester?
Based on
assignment on topic covered by textbook due at end of week 10
students not aware of reading list till day 5 of semester
students willing to read the book in an early week of semester and make any notes needed in that week, with no further access except perhaps to a 1 day or 4 hour loan copy …
Best case scenario
• Day 5 book issued to student 1
• Day 12 due back (Student 2 reserves in this first week) Book is returned on time
• Day 13 reservation staff deal with book and place note on catalogue
• Email to Student 2 generated overnight
• Day 14 Student 2 receives email and collects book
• Day 21 Student 2 returns book
• Day 22 staff deal with reservation
• Day 23 Student 3 collects book
• Day 30 student 3 returns book
And so on until
Day 68 Student 8 picks up book
Worst case scenario• Day 5 book issued to
student 1
• Day 12 due back (Student 2 reserves in this first week) Book is returned on time
• Day 13 reservation staff deal with book and place note on catalogue
• Email to Student 2 generated overnight
• Day 14 Student 2 receives email but collects book on last possible day – Day 21
• Day 28 Student 2 brings back book
• Day 29 staff deal with book
• Day 37 – Student 3 picks
up book on last possible
day
• Day 44 Student 3 returns
book
• Day 45 staff deal with book
• Day 53 –Student 4 does not
pick up book until last
possible day
• Day 60 Student 4 returns
book
• Day 61 Staff deal with book
• Day 69 Student 5 picks up
book on last possible day
Seems unlikely?
• What about part-time students who only attend once a week?
• What about when the due date is a Friday? –in practice with a skeleton staff at weekends, the reservation will not be dealt with until Monday
• What about students who do not return the book on the due date? Many seem willing to regard a fine as a rental payment
• In practice greatest demand for books 2-3 weeks before assignment due date
Collection development
Planned or happenstance?
Reactive or proactive
Print/electronic balance
For a book order categorised as “non-urgent “ how long do you think it normally takes from ordering for the book to
reach the library shelves?
a) 20 working days
b) 50 working days
c) 70 working days
• 2nd
• 8th
• 15th
Where do you think Portsmouth students come in a league table of
Ebrary users?
Ebrary Usage Stats
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 Oct-
Dec 08
Sessions
Docs Viewed
38,485 books available to UoP Cost per user session=16p
Total pages viewed was 1,700,002 in 2007/08
15,221 pages viewed on 8 December 2008 alone
Ebrary Use within UoP 2007/08
55%
16%
14%
11%4%
HSS
Tech
PBS
Sci
CCI
• Electronic
• Print & Electronic combined
Which do you think is the cheaper format for an institutional subscription
to a typical journal?
2009 prices for Human Relations
Jan
‘09
Print Only ElectronicOnly 1999-
Electronic OnlyComplete BackFile
Print and Electronic Access 1999-
Print andElectronicComplete BackFile
$1880 $1918 $2110 $1726 $1918
£1293 £1319 £1451 £1187 £1319
£964 £984 £1082 £885 £984
Jan
‘08
Print Only ElectronicOnly 1999-
Electronic OnlyComplete BackFile
Print and Electronic Access 1999-
Print andElectronicComplete BackFile
$1880 $1918 $2110 $1726 $1918
£1293 £1319 £1451 £1187 £1319
But, there is VAT to pay on electronic subscriptions
£1395
17.5% VAT 17.5% VAT
£1550
VATVAT
proportion varies based on publishers calculation
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
2001/2 2002/3 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10
Print Journal A
E-Journal A
Print Journal B
E-journal B
But watch the trend!
Sample e and print journal usage over 9 years
a) Yes
b) No
Do you think we should be buying more e-only books even for campus
based courses?
a) Yes
b) No
Do you think we should move towards buying e-only journals?
a) Yes
b) No
If we have a stable archive of e-journals such as JSTOR, do you think
we should remove the equivalent print journals and re-use the space?
References
S. Bartlett. Resource list management: a system based approach. Library and Information. Library & Information Update June 2010.
J. Chelin, M.McEachran, & E. Williams. 500 into 4 won’t go how to solve the problem of reading list expectations. SCONUL Focus 36 Winter 2002
A. J. Head and M. B. Eisenberg. Lessons Learned: how college students seek information in the digital age. 2009 (http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf).
H. Jones. Reading Lists in Cambridge: a standard system? Arcadia Project, 2009
(http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/readinglist_Report.pdf).
Publihers Association. Open books: open minds. P.A. 2006.(http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf).
J. Stamenkovic. Has the core text had its day? University of Portsmouth Briefing Paper. 2006.