HSE Dublin North EastRegional

Library & Information Service

Jean HarrisonRegional Librarian

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitallibrary.olol@hse.ie

Creative Thinking For Challenging Times

HOSPITAL & HEALTH LIBRARYOR ACADEMIC LIBRARY

Library Model – whose clothes did we steal?

Do the Clothes Still Fit ?

Duplication of Efforts & Resources ? Duplication of Efforts & Resources ?

Athens Online Resources

Athens Access – 2007 – 19,829

Athens Access – 2008 – 16,747

Athens Access – 2010 - 13,837

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Economic Reality

Print Journal Expenditure

2008 - €43,882

2011 -€23,942

Information Needs Assessment Clinical and non clinical

Customised to their professional information needs

Streamline library resources- fewer Identify what’s used Maximise their use Library in 21st century will cease to become a

warehouse and become a software system.

Pay As You Use

Paying for an entire subscription Most printed journal articles are never read

(Lang 1994)- electronic or print Pay for items that are only read Aggregators- WE pay for little used journals Frustrating for librarians and users Increasing our dependence on monopolising

publishers and aggregators

Usage of resources

Purchase should be based on actual usage rather than anticipated usage

Some electronic resources usage reported at less than 10%?

Journal of Dog Hepatitis

INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Just in Case

Traditional Academic Library Environment Just in case or ownership approach

Expectation that one day users might want

Journal costs, staff costs, storage & binding. User time

THE SOLUTION - Just in Time Current Awareness Service SDI

JUST IN TIME

Assign more of budget away from journals to interlibrary loans

Don’t copy academic model – use it Greater use of interlibrary loan sources

IHSLG, NULJ, IMI, Subito & British Library Efficient and fast and economically sound Not possible 5 years ago

Co- operate with colleagues in purchasing journals – reduce duplication of resources

Subito – Document Supply

2006- 215 2007- 145 2008 - 205 2009 - 211 2010 – 302

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Just in time –disadvantages Erosion of the life time benefit ? Physical Collection - available into the future?

VFM? Repeat inter library loans Dependence on technology

SURVIVAL