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Remembering Distinctive Collections: Russian and Slavonic
Susanne Cullen and Neil Smyth: COSEELIS June 2012
Summary
Two projects
Re-defining Reference at Nottingham
Remembering Distinctive
Collections at Nottingham
FutureCURL CoFoR (RLUK)
“More and more books are being published and more and more
serials are being published. Demanding students and specialist
academics alike legitimately articulate their needs – their
pressing needs – for up-to-date materials as well as access to
important earlier sources.”
Sir Colin Campbell, University of Nottingham
(1990)
The library is a problem
Re-defining Reference
University Plan2010-15
Excellence in Education’
“accelerate the adoption of digital information resources,
including e-books and e-journals, in order to make
efficient use of library space”
Re-defining Reference• Remote storage• Mobile shelving• Accelerated adoption of digital• Current Digest post-soviet press• Russian bibliographies: Knizhnaia letopis and Letopis
zhurnal nykh statei• Switch to E-only
Re-defining Reference
Re-defining Reference
The Arts and Humanities Collection will continue to grow.
We add around 130m to our Arts and Humanities collection each year.
100m is minimum round number for removal each year.
Digital needs to be part of the solution.
Re-defining Reference
Discussion should be with academic staff and students
Familiar with the traditional libraryDifficult to imagine the library in ten years
The library will change for digital natives during their study
More digital resources for research
Re-defining Reference
International
China
Malaysia
Digital library resources will be available at the overseas
campuses, ensuring that they are sufficiently comprehensive to
support new courses and research programmes
Re-defining Reference
Digital arts collections will become the only way to access materials or replace print collections
Current Digest of the Post Soviet Press, digital arts collections will become the only way to access materials or replace print
collections.
Russian bibliographiesKnizhnaia letopis and Letopis zhurnal nykh statei
Reviewing the archive
Re-defining Reference
Original Target
Proposed New
Target?
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Successes:Current Digest of the Post Soviet Press; Patrologia Latina; Acta Sanctorum; newspaper indexes
Realising the target:Video - 9mMicroform - 40mPamphlets - 4m
150 new shelves:23 in Ordinary Loan and 127 in Oversize
250m
100m
150m
200m
Re-defining Reference
New shelving Books removed from Hallward 45m of microform Videos removed from level 40
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270m
Remembering Distinctive Collections
Reference DJK, DK and DR PG Other areas Birmingham Bradford?0
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Target Relegated
150m + ?
Remembering Distinctive Collections
To identify unique and distinctive East European collections that are currently in low
use for retention at the King’s Meadow Campus, and for possible future transfer to
other strategic partner institutions.
To identify unique and distinctive East European collections that are currently in low use for retention at the King’s Meadow Campus, and for possible future transfer to other strategic
partner institutions.
Remembering Distinctive Collections
National agreement
Consultation versus loan report
Time
Scanning & packing
Remember what?
Disagreement from academics over the title of the project: Remembering Distinctive Collections
What I object against is the ambivalent use of the term "remembering". It seems to me to suggest that these collections
are related to defunct departments and that they have no anchorage in the teaching programmes and research agenda of
the university… At the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, we are not going just to remember the books, we will
actually need to use them for teaching and research.
Dictionaries
Polish dictionaries To stay or not to stay?
Polish not a priority for Russian and Slavonic Studies but a taught language at the University, used for research
purposes within other departments and high
student demand.
Reactions from academics
The consultation made academics aware of low usage items which are
important for teaching and research.
- Positive for us as our books are being borrowed!
Subject librarian?
Academic anecdotes
Useful outcome for one academic:
He found a 1964 Soviet guide to the archival locations of ‘private’ papers in central and regional repositories.
Included information about the personal papers of one individual whom he is currently researching.
He taught they were lost but found out that they are in the archive of the Geographical Society in St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
“Real breakthrough for my research! “(Academic staff via email)
Reactions from colleagues
Librarian colleagues questioned why we
relegate books from our unique collection to
Central Store
Store is not equal to withdrawal but even
librarian colleagues are worried
Literature sections to relegatePG801- PG1146 Bulgarian
PG1151- PG1199 Macedonian
PG1201-PG1749 Serbo-Croatian
PG4001-PG5146 Czech
PG5201-PG5546 Slovak
PG5631-PG5689 Sorbian
National Library of Serbia
Library exchange established 1961
The National Library of Serbia is a legal deposit library
Duplicate items chosen by academic staff in return we purchase new books within their preferred subject area
Roughly 5 meters per year
Birmingham: August 2010
“Please find attached a list of books that are withdrawn from Birmingham”
“According to the agreement on acquisition and retention for Russian and East European studies your
library has committed to the retention of material from this category.
Please check the list (former Yugoslavia material only) and let me know which books should be reserved for you. Please reply to me by Tuesday 14 September at
the latest.“
COCOREES
Thank you very much for your email. Please have a look at this website:
http://www.cocorees.ac.uk/links.html (not available now?)
You are supposed to retain Serbo Croatian literature and language.
Scheme is running for the next four years.
Bradford transfer?
Will any material transfer to Nottingham from Bradford?
We are ready to accept the transfer. It is a challenge
We are members of the UK Research Reserve, so we do want to accept titles were there is already a copy at the
British Library and two other Higher Education Institutions.
UKRR
What is relationship between the UKRR and
the CURL CoFoR agreement?
“avoiding inessential deduplication” (2014)
“deduplicate journal holdings” (2013)
Future
COSEELIS AGM June 2011“speaking to RLUK about possibilities to extend”
“Might fit with strategic management of monographs initiative”
COSEELIS Constitution“meeting obligations relating to collaborative projects such as
CoFoR”
Are there similar national agreements in existence or in development ? (ACLAIIR)
RLUK
NottinghamSerb-Croat language and literature
National collaborative collection management agreement has been important for Russian and Slavonic Studies collections
Secured space for retention of collections.
Need policy framework from RLUK
Agreement beyond 2014
References and ImagesReferences:
1. The University of Nottingham Strategic Plan 2010-2015.http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/documents/universityofnottinghamstrategicplan2010-15.pdf
2. External Evaluation of CURL-CoFoR Collaborative Collection Management Project and Partnership. Report, March 2006.http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/CoFoR-Eval_FinalReportApril06_000.pdf
3. External Evaluation of CURL-CoFoR Collaborative Collection Management Project and Partnership. Summary, April 2006.http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/CCM_report_summary.pdf
4. Research Libraries UK. The Power of Knowledge Phase 2: RLUK Strategic Plan 2011-2014. http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/RLUK%20Strategic%20Plan-%202011%20-%202014_0.pdf
Images
1. Microsoft Clip Art and Sample Art is Used with permission from Microsoft:http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Copyright/Default.aspx
2. University of Nottingham images supplied courtesy of the University of Nottingham © 2012.