'And Other Duties as Assigned' Expanding the Boundaries of the E-resource Life Cycle to Get Things...
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“And Other Duties as Assigned”—Expanding the Boundaries of the E-Resource Life Cycle to Get Things Done
Marcella LesherLouis J. Blume Library
Stacy FowlerSarita Kenedy East Law
Library
St. Mary’s UniversitySan Antonio, Texas
NASIGMay 2015
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What are we doing here?
Thinking about what we do as it relates to the e-resource life cycle.
How competency standards apply to what we do.
What standards have become the most important for us.
Inspiration
Pesch, O. (2009). ERMs and the e-resource life-cycle[Powerpoint slides] Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/ERLifeCycle 13 May 2015
Image: Jill Emery and Graham Stone under Creative Commons License Attribution 3.0
St. Mary’s UniversityLouis J. Blume Library
• 3,800 students
• 75 programs including two doctoral and two law programs
• Online collection of 120,000 ebooks and 35,000 electronic serials individually purchased or through publisher packages
• Print collection of over 200,000 monographs and 645 print and microform serial titles
• Selective government repository
• Staff of 6 ¾ librarians, 8 full time and 2 part time paraprofessionals
SUMMARY: Responsible for the selection, acquisition, processing, and access to renewable resources in the library including print and electronic serials, databases, and standing orders. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Developing a library serials collection of appropriate size and strength to meet University needs Coordinating collection development liaison efforts for all librarians in the area of serials acquisitions Working closely with other technical services librarians to resolve mutual problems Planning and budgeting for acquiring library materials Supervising library technicians Selecting and evaluating vendors for library materials Managing library software including customization of database interfaces and other serials management
tools Participates in bibliographic instruction as requested and needed by delivering bibliographic classes, and
compiling materials for the classes and to assist library users in general Works with other reference librarians in determining the needs of the reference collection Provides direct reference service on a regular basis as assigned by the Head of Reference Works with faculty members in assigned liaison departments to select and evaluate materials for inclusion
in the Library’s collections; communicates with these departments concerning Library policies, procedures, and issues of concern to their students
Serving on various library and University committees Performing research and scholarship commensurate with the demands of faculty promotion and tenure
Periodicals Librarian Job Description
Selection-Deselection-Coordination2011-2012
Timeline 2008-2010—Discussions and Planning November 2011—First floor to be cleared September 4, 2012—Charles L. Cotrell Commons opens
Print Serials Management Deselection
Replacement JSTOR
Keeper List
Developed a “Keeper” list based on: a. Moderate usage based on shelving counts b. Mission objectives (Catholic theology,
Texas history and culture) c. Anything needed for accreditation d. Small press publications e. St. Mary’s publications Librarians were asked to look at their subject
areas and fill out a rationale for retention.
Decision TitleHoldings in Print
2010-2011
2009-2010
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
2001-02
2000-01
1999-00
1998-99
1997-98
1996-97
1995-96
1994-95
1993-94
1992-93
partial, 1974-present AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1932-2002 1 1 3 8 5 1 5 8 3 2partial, 1993-present LRC BOOKLIST 1929- 4 3 4 3 3 10 7 12 27 35 51 19 19keep, usage, not online, print CHESTERTON REVIEW 1975- 5 1 1 2 3 3 5 2 1 2 1 5 3 3 3partial, keep 1945-2000, discard 2001-present JSTOR current FILM QUARTERLY 1945- 1 3 1 2 4 2 4 3 1 16 2 29 1unknown, what is this? HOLIDAY (storage) 1946-1974 1 1partial, 1969-1991 only in print, online 1992-present ASC HUMANIST 1969-2004 3 8 17 11 28 36 27 12 15partial, keep 1939-1978, discard 1979-present ASC KENYON REVIEW 1939-2000 1 3 6 1 1 6 1 3 4 2keep, print NEWSWEEK 1934-1973 1 7 3 2 8 13 13 7 18 20 41 28 67 81 58 83 87 68
keep, not online
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW 1987- 1 4 2 1 2 3 4 7 1 12 8 1 6 14
move to monographs? Mission (3 issues)
OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION 1995-1996
keep?, local interest
REVIEW: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ART 1968-2003 1 1 1
Keeper List
TitleOCLC
NumberYears to Remove
Removed (A or
P)bindery
card
no. of volume
sMilleniu
m atozebsco admin oclc
Complete
AAUP Bulletin 1934-1978 a x 45
ABA Banking Journal 1979-1999 a x 21A C M Transactions on Graphics 1989-2004 a x 16
AI & Society 1994-1997 a x 4
AIIE Transactions 1969-1979 a x
A L A Bulletin
1928-1931,1933-1969 a x 40
A M H C A Journal (American Mental Health Counselors Association 1980-1987 a x 8
ANQ 1988-1996 a x 9
A S A I O Journal (American Society For Artificial Internal Organs) 1987-2000 a x 14
Abside 1943-1945 a x 3
Abstracts of Folklore Studies 1963-1975 a x 13
Academe 1979-1996 a x 18
ACADEMIA ST. MARY'S JOURNAL OF GRADUATE STUDIES KEEP
Providing Access—Otherwise Known as Database Clean Up
Title Reshelving (1992-2011) JSTOR Downloads (2012- April 2015)
American Anthropologist 71 304
College Mathematics Journal 7 32
English Historical Review 37 68
History and Theory 29 67
Social Forces 156 108
Novel: A Forum on Fiction 32 62
British Journal of Political Science 18 50
Print Reshelving vs. JSTOR Downloads
• 900 students
• Open to the bench and bar as well as the public
• New programs of study including Master’s of Jurisprudence and special centers of study
• Servicing the entire South Texas area from San Antonio to Corpus Christi
• Print/microfiche collection of over 400,000 volumes
• Selective government depository
• Current staff of 5 librarians and 7 support staff
Sarita Kenedy East Law Library
Print vs. Digital NumbersAcademic Law Libraries
County/Court Law Libraries
Law Firm Libraries
PrintElectronic
PrintElectronic
PrintElectronic
Percentage of materials budgets
Gold: PrintGreen: Digital
Motivations for choosing digital over print
Academic: Budget Move towards cancelling print when
overlap with electronic occurs. Firm: Convenience
Ability to access items on the fly in court. Shift towards a “bring your own device”
environment. County and Court: Space
Many had to shift to more digital materials when space was severely downsized.
Academic (13 surveyed): Two use ProQuest (for Cambridge and YBP
eBook packages), one has the Lexis Digital Library, and one uses Ebsco’s Ebrary. Two have also purchased West’s Study Aids package.
Firm (12 surveyed): Three use the Lexis Digital Library, one has
the Ebsco Ebrary, and three are able to access eBooks through the New York Law Institute (NYLI). Several also subscribe to firm-wide access to the electronic Bluebook.
County and Government (9 surveyed): Two use the Lexis Digital Library.
Getting Things Done
The transition to the e-resource life cycle Space, space, and more space Budget Learning from the User
Those competency standards Keeping up with Technology Research and Assessment And the Big Ones
Personal Qualities
Flexibility
Open-Mindedness
Tolerance of Complexity and Ambiguity
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Concepts taken from NASIG Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians, points 7.1 and 7.2
Resources Pesch, O. (2009). ERMs and the e-resource life-cycle[Powerpoint
slides]. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/ERLifeCycle.
Terms: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management . Retrieved from https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/terms/.
NASIG Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians (July 22, 2013). Retrieved from http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=310&pk_association_webpage=1225.
NASIG Core Competencies for Print Serials Management (Draft 4/7/15)
Digital Projects Unit, University of North Texas. Retrieved from http://www.library.unt.edu/digital-projects-unit.