Forum021814.v6f
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like719 views
The Cowles Library Forum on February 18, 2014, outlined plans to reduce print monograph collections while expanding access to electronic resources and enhancing collaboration among five Iowa colleges through the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI-CCI). Key goals include a data-driven approach to collection management, coordinated acquisitions, and finding sustainable practices to support scholarly communication. Faculty involvement is emphasized as crucial in shaping the evolving library model and its contributions to academic success.
Forum021814.v6f
- 1. Cowles Library Liaison Forum Library Collections at the Crossroads: Sustaining Access to Scholarship February 18, 2014 Cowles Library Reading Room 4:00 p.m.
- 2. Dean Rod Henshaw Session Goals WHAT: Upcoming changes in our approach to the print monograph collection and WHY this is happening now. Consider factors impacting our collection Understand our data-driven approach Discuss our collection’s future (integrated, shared) Understand the faculty’s key role in this process
- 3. The WHAT of Print Monographs Reduce the size of the print collection at Cowles while expanding the size of the collection through the cooperative. Coordinate retention & future acquisitions through our shared collection. Continue our significant expansion in the availability of academic monographs in electronic format (growth of digital monographs)
- 4. The WHY: Opportunity and Convergence Ability to be analytical through data Pivot point in collaboration Discovery systems enable sharing and access Effective use of resources to meet staffing, space, technology, and financial challenges
- 5. The WHY: Some Guiding Principles Develop a model that is sustainable Integrate Drake into the emerging scholarly communication model: one that is Collaborative, Scalable, Global Build a more flexible and responsive collection Reaffirm our commitment to scholarly print resources
- 6. Objective: Stay Focused Provide a knowledge base that is sustainable and that supports emerging practices in scholarly communication and pedagogy.
- 7. Impact: Your New Library Sirsi DSpace SPARC Content Providers IMLS EBSCO ALADN CI-CCI ALA/ACRL IPAL Ithaka OCLC LibQual Lyrasis
- 8. Professor Teri Koch Impact: Collections at Cowles Trend Component Current Holdings Print volumes 400,000 Print book available via PDA 12,175 E-Books (Owned, Subscribed) 152,559 Available e-books via PDA 173,000 Print journal subscriptions 927 Online Full-text journal subscriptions 129,966
- 9. Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI-CCI) Drake, Grand View, Central, Simpson, and Grinnell Colleges An inter-institutional library collaboration Memorandum of Understanding signed by Library Directors & Provosts (summer 2013) Hired Sustainable Collections Services (SCS) – data analysis http://ci-cci.org/
- 10. CI-CCI Project: 4 Main Goals 1. Responsibly reduce local print collections by reducing duplication within group OBJECTIVE: library space is freed for other uses. 2. Maintain a distributed, shared collection OBJECTIVE: Preservation. Circulating copies are retained within the group. “Shared Shelf Space” 3. Coordinate acquisitions to further the shared collection OBJECTIVE: reduce duplication and leverage acquisition funds. 4. Establish collaboration environment for future projects
- 11. CI-CCI Process: Moving toward Shared Collection (Goals 1 & 2) Responsibly reduce local collections to eliminate duplication within CI-CCI group. One copy of each withdrawal candidate will be held within the group! Data-driven identification of potential withdrawal candidates (more from Rick Lugg) Each library develops its own review plan & implements at its own pace An interactive process for faculty review Begins Fall 2014
- 12. CI-CCI Process: Moving toward Shared Collection (Goal 3) Cooperative Collection Development Beginning in 2014 we will determine if one of the CI-CCI libraries already owns a print copy of a book before ordering a copy, unless specifically requested to be owned locally. Will allow us to use Acquisitions funds to improve collection depth by purchasing less readily available titles 24 hour (week day) turnaround on items from CI-CCI libraries
- 13. Introducing Rick Lugg: Consultant hired by CI-CCI to analyze collective holdings Collections Experience YBP – wrote rules-based collection policies for hundreds of libraries including Stanford, Berkeley, Boston U … R2 Consulting – workflows/organization analysis for 100 libraries including Oxford, Library of Congress, Michigan, California State University System … SCS (Sustainable Collections Services) Data-driven evaluations for more than 80 collections & consortiums including John Hopkins, Purdue, McGill …
- 14. Professor Bruce Gilbert Summary slide We have an evolving model We have a structure to implement the model Our model and process are data and evidence based (neither wholesale nor arbitrary) Our process will be interactive with faculty and will coordinate through the liaison structure Now is the time for faculty to impact the process
- 15. Announcements Tours of the new Archives/Special Collections space are available New databases: NCCO Nineteenth Century Collections Online Primary and Interdisciplinary sources Also will include Associated Press and Indigenous Peoples Archive
- 17. Perspective: Changing use of Library Space Increased demand by students and faculty for space that reflects the changing nature of teaching and learning. 24/7 study area Group study spaces & technology Increased use of facility by students Academic student services Writing/Speaking Center Tutoring & Student Success