Upload
kiara-vince
View
213
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
State of the Library
BudgetFlat
Except — for librarians and professional staff there was a 1.5% merit pool and we only got 0.5% — about $40K needed to be foundAnd, lost $25K contribution from University College
State of the Library
Awards — Indiana Library Federation2012 Outstanding New Librarian Award —
Willie Miller2012 Outstanding Support Staff Award —
Jenny Johnson2012 Collaboration Award — IUPUI
University Library and IMCPL
Strategy Going Forward — Context
“While predictions of radical change in library and information services are by no means new, a confluence of shifts in technology, changing user demands, and increasing budget pressures are now forcing academic libraries to either adapt or risk obsolescence. The library’s traditional role as a repository for physical books and periodicals is quickly fading, with important implications for space utilization, resource acquisition, and staffing.”
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at: http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at: http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, Advisory Board Company 2011. Available at: http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf
Strategy Going Forward
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills2. Collections3. Space4. Research Support5. Scholarly Communication
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills
"Wikipedia is like everything else. It's as reliable as your critical-thinking skills. You're responsible for what you read.”
— Justin Knapp
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills
• Finding information on the Web is easy, evaluating it is hard
• Students, especially beginning students don’t understand scholarship
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills Strategies• Continue significant engagement with
beginning students, work on digital learning tools
• Increase engagement with upper level students
• Demonstrate connection between information/research skills and persistence and academic success
2. Collections
• Changing approaches to collections will be difficult because collections are central to the way we all think about libraries
• Much library practice and library values have been based on past approaches to collections
2. Collections
Two drivers of change:
1. Open Access — Journals
2. Change from Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time — Books
Open Access
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions).”
– Peter Suber
Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview,” at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Open Access
• Open Access is a disruptive innovation (Clayton Christensen)– New technology– New business model– Starts out as an inferior product– Improves over time and its advantages make
it dominant– Adoption follows an S-curve not a straight
lineDavid W. Lewis, “The Inevitability of Open Access,” forthcoming in College & Research Libraries September 2012. Preprint available at: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/recent
Open Access
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
90.0%
100.0%
Figure 3: Pace of Substitution of Direct Gold OA for Subscription Journals (normal scale)
Laakso, et. al. Estimates S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009
David W. Lewis, “The Inevitability of Open Access,” forthcoming in College & Research Libraries September 2012. Preprint available at: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/recent
eLife is a researcher-driven initiative for the very best in science and science communication. We promote rapid, fair, and more constructive review. We will use digital media and open access to increase the influence of published works. We commit to serving authors and advancing careers in science. At eLife,
Publishing is just the beginning.
If we can set a goal to sequence the human genome for $99... then why not $99 for scholarly publishing?
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles. We aim to drive the costs of publishing down, while improving the overall publishing experience, and providing authors with a publication venue suitable for the 21st Century.
Implications of Open Access
1. As more journals become open access, the library will have to pay for fewer journals
2. Escape from the grip of monopolistic publishers
3. Libraries in their role of information providers, won’t be part of the system
Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
• In a typical research library 50% of the books that are purchased never circulate
• In the past this made sense as an insurance policy
Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time
• Now nearly any book can be purchased at any time with very quick delivery
• Why purchase before the user needs an item if you don’t have to?
• Since past use is the best predictor of future use, books users “select” are likely to get use in the future
• Print books delivered nearly as quickly as digital files
• Digital readers nearly as good as print books
For what might come next, see: Mike Matas, “A Next-Generation Digital Book,” TED Talk, March 2011. Available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mike_matas.html
Implications ofJust-in-Case to Just-in-Time
1. Aggressively work at not buying books that will never be used
2. Book purchases will decline3. But impact on readers will be minimal
4. Will impact scholarly publishers by reducing revenue, they don’t see this coming
2. Collections Strategies
1. Hold journal expenditures constant2. Move to patron-driven-acquisition for e-
books this year for both paper and electronic books
3. Except for some new funding for new programs, the materials budget should be able to remain at current levels
3. Space
• Use of library space by students has increased
• Use of library services and collections by students has declined
• The opportunity cost of library collections is high
Opportunity Costs of Print Collections
$5.00 to $13.10
$28.77
$50.98 to $68.43
Life cycle cost based on 3% discount rate. From Paul N. Courant and Matthew “Buzzy” Nielsen, “On the Cost of Keeping a Book,” in The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship, CLIR, June 2010, available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub147abst.html
3. Space Strategies
1. Continue to redevelop library space to create better, more diverse, space for non-classroom academic work
2. Repurpose current stack space for other uses, probably 5K sq. ft. in the next five years
3. Reconfigure library staff spaces as functions change
4. Supporting Research
• Librarian research support — literature searching, etc.
• Preserving the results of research– Institutional Repository
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/– Electronic Theses and Dissertations– NFS Data Mandate
5. Scholarly Communication
• Need to help faculty and students, especially graduate students, understand and take advantage of new scholarly communications vehicles
5. Scholarly Communication
• Place for advice on rights• Advocate for more open scholarly
communication
Strategy Going Forward
1. Information Literacy/Research Skills2. Collections3. Space4. Research Support5. Scholarly Communication