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The River, the Pond, and the Future of the Research Collection
Rick Anderson
Acting Dean
J. Willard Marriott Library
The Recent Past: a Quick Review
1990s: The Gutenberg Terror comes to an end Stage 1: Journals Stage 2: Books – piecemeal (NetLibrary, etc.) Stage 3: Books – wholesale (Google, Hathi Trust)
2000s: Gutenberg is tamed and domesticated Print on demand
J. Willard Marriott Library
The Recent Past: a Quick Review
Library hegemony comes to an end Massive drop in unit price of information Radical increase in ease of finding Ready reference becomes a social exercise Full-text searching obviates the proxy record Access (for many) becomes virtually ubiquitous Meanwhile, librarians working busily to undermine
their own role as brokers (OA)
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The Current Reality
The collection is a bad guess at patron needs Massive budget cuts make collecting hard to defend
Reference service is bypassed and unscalable
The OPAC is completely eclipsed as a discovery tool (even with WorldCat)
J. Willard Marriott Library
J. Willard Marriott Library
J. Willard Marriott Library
The Current Reality
The collection is a bad guess at patron needs Massive budget cuts make collecting hard to defend
Reference service is bypassed and unscalable
The OPAC is completely eclipsed as a discovery tool (even with WorldCat)
Circulation is down dramatically Gate counts are up, but the stacks are deserted
J. Willard Marriott Library
Circ Trends at the University of Utah
J. Willard Marriott Library
New Models
Online just-in-time (both e and p) Online breakdown of collection walls Higher prices/less budget less speculation Higher prices/less budget less archival purchasing Less circulation strong e-only momentum Online + better data + higher prices + less budget the end
of the Big Deal and of the Medium Deal (title-level journal subscriptions) in favor of the Tiny Deal
Bottom line: Less collecting (ponds), more real-time brokerage (access to the river)
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What We Are Doing at UU
Formalised stance: e-first/patron-first PDA pilot programs: MyiLibrary, ebrary, NetLibrary, EBL Espresso Book Machine No more bibliographers/subject specialists Instead, College & Interdisciplinary Teams
SHEM (Science, Health, Engineering, Mines) SEBS (Social Sciences, Education, Business, Social Work) FAAPH (Fine Arts, Architecture/Planning, Humanities) DOCMAPS (Documents, Maps) MEDIA (Multimedia) INTERINTER (International/Interdisciplinary)
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Predictions
The future of the library will not look much like a library Small, focused local collections of books Access to enormous public collections (Hathi, Google) Few subscriptions, if any No packages A need for consolidated brokerage service at article level, not
title level
Journals are going the way of the record album We’re headed back to a “song” economy
Journal publishers are going the way of the record label You can’t make as much on a 99-cent song as you can on a $15
album
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Stumbling Blocks