Library

Budget

Presentation

2016/17

Karen Keiller

University Librarian

Lakehead University Library

4

100Percent of the books on the 3rd and 4th floors

that circulated in 2015

• decline in the number of new books

added to collection

• change in pedagogy (e.g. full courses to

half courses, major research papers)

• shift in preference to online, but (some)

users prefer print books for some

purposes

• X percent published before X

• collection development at Lakehead has

relied on faculty selecting books

• regular weeding has not happened

Expenditures for Print

Monographs

$0.00

$125,000.00

$250,000.00

$375,000.00

$500,000.00

Paterson Orillia Education Law

Collaborative

Futures• The vision is defined by the existence of a distributed and

shared collaborative approach to print and electronic/digital

resource management.

• The keys to achieving the vision include:

• Implement shared next generation library services platforms.

• Collaborate to manage and preserve print resources in a

sustainable system.

• Collaborate to effectively use shared systems to manage

electronic & print resources.

Priorities 16/17

• Completing organizational review

• Weeding

• Creating the Lakehead University Knowledge

Commons (collaborative project with Research

Services and Graduate Studies)

• Paterson 2020 - accomodate ELP, Education

Collection, Makerspace

• University archives