Academic Library Operations

Beyond Paper

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Speakers

Jim Dooley - Head, Collection Services, University of California, Merced

Allen McKiel - Dean of Library and Media Services, Western Oregon University

Robert Murdock - Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development & Technical Services, Brigham Young University

Carol Zsulya - Head of Collection Management,

Cleveland State University

Overview

Relevant tech trends Faculty & student e-resource usage

surveys by ebrary and Springer Panel presentations on library operation

trends in their libraries Comments & Questions

Changing Technology

E-ink - Kindle, Newspaper Prototypes I-phone, G-phone Open standards for mobile devices—i.e Android Mobile Internet Access—i.e. Wi-Max Google—scanning collections—settled lawsuits Publishers stockpiling e-book collections Open Library – 335,000 e-books, 17.6m cataloged

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Survey - Faculty E-Resource Use

Usage – Faculty (906) 89% websites - .edu, .gov, .org 86% e-journals 76% databases 54% e-books

Usage – Students (3208) 81% Google 78% e-books 67% Wikipedia 65% e-journals

Source: 2007 Global Faculty E-book Survey - Sponsored by ebraryhttp://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Survey/ebrary_faculty_survey_2007.pdf

Student and Faculty e-preference

83% of students who said they used e-books (52%) find them preferable often or very often over a print version Often or very often (51%) Sometimes (32%) Never or rarely (17%)

82% of faculty find electronic resources as useful as print or preferable to print Preferable (50%) Equally useful (32%) Prefer print (18%)

What types of resources are students using for research or class assignments?

(52% e-book users)

81% - Google (2,593) 78% - e-books (2,517) 77% - print books (2,478) 69% - e-reference (2,206) 67% - wikipedia (2,142) 65% - print textbooks (2,098) 65% - e-journals (2,080)

The following percentages pertain to the subset of students (3,208 of the 6,452) from the ebrary survey that said that they used e-books.

48% of students in ebrary survey reported never using e-books

(3132 / 6452)

57% did not know where to find e-books 17% library did not offer e-books

45% prefer print 7% too difficult to read

Survey Results

Use E-journals E-books

Encourage students to use as viable resource 68% 43%

Use articles/chapters for reading as part of course 60% 29%

Course preparation/research 48% 31%

Links in course management software 30% 17%

Don’t Use 14% 36%

Faculty use of e-journals and e-books for courses

Obvious observationsE-book integration into course content and preparation lags behind e-journalsE-book and e-journal use patterns are similar

Source: 2007 Global Faculty E-book Survey - Sponsored by ebraryhttp://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Survey/ebrary_faculty_survey_2007.pdf

Springer – e-Books – The End User Perspective

Between 58 percent and 80 percent of respondents at each institution had used e-books at least once Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The

Netherlands University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States University of Muenster, Germany University of Turku, Finland JRD Tata Memorial Library Bangalore, India (new participant in

2008)

Springer Survey – For what purposes do you usually use ebooks?

78% Research 56% Study 10% Teaching 10% Leisure 2% Other

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, most userssaid they use eBooks primarily for research and study, with teaching and leisure trailing far behind.

Would like to use more eBooks?

Use More Illinois - 86% Bangalore - 98% Turku - 83% CWI Amsterdam - 79% Muenster - 92%

Usage is clearly trending to online.

What is happening to library operations?

Sourece: Google term: college student and books and laptop

Changes in Library Operations?

Acquisition Organization Circulation Reference Instruction Preservation Publication

Source: http://www.wou.edu

Questions or Comments

Jim Dooley - Head, Collection Services, University of California, Merced

Allen McKiel - Dean of Library and Media Services, Western Oregon University

Robert Murdock - Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development & Technical Services, Brigham Young University

Carol Zsulya - Head of Collection Management,

Cleveland State University