The River, the Pond, and the Future of the Research Collection
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The River, the Pond, and the Future of the Research Collection
Rick AndersonActing Dean
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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
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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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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)
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J. Willard Marriott Library
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J. Willard Marriott Library
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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
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J. Willard Marriott Library
Circ Trends at the University of Utah
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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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J. Willard Marriott Library
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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J. Willard Marriott Library
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