Post on 13-Dec-2015
Fondren Library’s materials budget(Not adjusted for inflation)
FY2008 ($ millions)
FY2009($ millions)
FY2010 ($ millions)
FY2011($ millions)
FY2012 ($ millions) FY08-FY12
Cornell 15.84 16.16 14.92 15.90 19.29 21.79%
Brown 8.49 8.82 9.70 9.87 10.29 21.12%
Emory 14.90 16.98 16.50 16.51 16.87 13.20%
Vanderbilt 11.44 11.06 11.31 12.27 11.69 2.24%Washington-St Louis 12.46 12.77 12.27 12.15 12.59 1.02%
Rice 11.13 10.46 10.02 9.93 9.97 -10.40%
Fondren Library’s total budget
FY2008 ($ millions)
FY2009($ millions)
FY2010 ($ millions)
FY2011($ millions)
FY2012 ($ millions) FY08-FY12
Emory 31.9 34.7 33.6 36.7 37.7 18.16%
Brown 19.9 21.0 21.0 20.4 21.4 7.59%
Cornell 46.8 46.5 44.2 44.4 49.5 5.71%
Vanderbilt 24.7 24.4 24.9 25.2 23.6 -4.45%
Rice 17.0 16.2 15.8 15.9 16.2 -4.71%Washington-St Louis 27.3 28.2 26.8 27.4 25.6 -6.48%
Fondren’s buying power adjusted for 5.4% materials inflation
Currently reduced 26%
Purchasing Power (cumulative)
Fondren’s buying power adjusted for 5.4% materials inflation
Projected Loss FY16: 37%
Purchasing Power (cumulative)
Sample of Journals inflation(2010-2014)
2010 2014 Change
Elsevier $1.51 million
$1.81 million +19.5%
Project Muse $23.4K $28.9K +23.4%
American Chemical Society
$56.7K $75.4K +29.4%
JSTOR (access fee only)
$33.5K $42.0K +25.5%
IEEE $123.4K $144.4K +17.1%
What about going digital?
Average online journal (2012): $832.33 Average print journal (2012): $254.06
Academic e-books cost 100-165% of list price for print books
We have moved to online when financially beneficial and where it benefits our users
As Fondren’s purchasing power falls…
FY16: no money will be available for purchasing individually requested books – all standing orders for monographic series or sets will be cancelled
As Fondren’s purchasing power falls…
FY17: no money will be available for the approval plan under which books from major university presses come automatically. The plan will be cancelled and Fondren will acquire no newly published books
As Fondren’s purchasing power falls…
FY18: Fondren will be forced to charge for interlibrary loan borrowing, which may be a few dollars or several hundred dollars (depending on item and source)
As Fondren’s purchasing power falls…
FY19: Fondren will be unable to sustain existing serials subscriptions and will need to cancel $600K in serials (minimum)
What is needed
…to avoid further reductions in access to current information services?
$600K needed annually added to our base budget to stabilize purchasing power
$900K needed annually added to our base budget would restore our previous purchasing power to 2008 levels
5-6% increments required on ongoing basis to keep us level ($600K in FY16, increasing annually)
Efficiencies and cost cutting
Implemented $1,043,000 in cost cutting and deferred spending over 5 years
Efficiencies & cost cutting$1.043 million over 5 years
Cancelled $640K in serials Moving expensive per-use serials to ultra-rapid
article delivery (January 2014) ($150K) Moved large parts of book purchasing to online –
books paid for only when actually used ($50K) Eliminated duplicate subscriptions & moved
online to reduce binding costs ($133K) Selected lower cost vendor for journal
listing/linking service ($20K) Changed serials vendors to cut costs ($50K)