collection directions: some reflections on the future of library stewardship
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Keynote presentation at Boston Library Consortium Annual Networking Day, Boston College, 3 June 2014TRANSCRIPT
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Some reflections on libraries and stewardship of the scholarly record
Constance Malpas
Program Officer, OCLC Research
3 June 2014, Boston College
BLC Networking Day
Collection Directions
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Inside-out
Outside-in
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Collection Directions: Academic Libraries
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Low Stewardship
High Stewardship
In few collections
In many collections
Collections Grid
Research & Learning Materials
Open Web ResourcesPurchased MaterialsLicensed E-Resources
Special CollectionsLocal Digitization
Licensed
PurchasedOutside-in
Inside-out
Dempsey & Childress, OCLC Research
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Institutional Needs – Academic Libraries: Current situation vs. 5 years from now
Low Stewardship
High Stewardship
In few collections
In many collections
Licensed
Purchased
Key Trends:• increased reliance on group provisioning of print and licensed content• more integration of freely available web-based content• special collections focus on institutional mission, reputation• growing attention to teaching/learning materials; limited library capacity
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Institutional Needs – Research Libraries: Current situation vs. 5 years from now
Low Stewardship
High Stewardship
In few collections
In many collections
Licensed
Purchased
Key Trends:• strategic realignment around purchasing/licensing ‘collections as services’• redirection of investment toward reputation management, research support• emphasis on effective disclosure of distinctive assets: special collections, research data, expertise
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A landscape in transition
• Fragmentation in higher education sector (elite, convenience, ‘squeezed middle’) will drive changes in academic libraries – increased differentiation in portfolio of collections and services
• Shared infrastructure enabling transition from local- to group-scale management of purchased and licensed content
• Institutional capacity to redirect resources from commodity collections toward distinctive services will depend on availability of appropriate cooperative infrastructure
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Collective collection: print books
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31%90%
North American Print Book Landscape, January 2011
US libraries hold
90% of titles in North American print book collection
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North American Mega-regions
12 zones of highly integrated economic activity
• Does distribution of library resource align with distribution of economic activity?• What are the implications for stewardship of North American print book collections?
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Relative size of regional print book collections (2011)
92% of North American print book collection concentrated in 12 mega-regions
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Inventory continues
to grow in all regions
Median +3% between 2011 and
2013
+4% growth in
Bos-Wash
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• Largest mega-regional print book resource in North America
• 27.9M print book titles; 56% of North American print book resource
• 199.6M library holdings; 22% of North American print book inventory
• Avg. 7 in-region library holdings per title
• 75% of titles held by <5 libraries in region*
• 33% of titles are unique to region*
Bos-Wash print book collection (2013)
*based on 2011 data
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Bos-Wash Coverage of other Regional Collections (2011)
Bos-Wash regional resource duplicates 65-95% of print book titles in other regions
…next largest regional collection can duplicate just 50% of Bos-Wash collection
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Bos-Wash Institutional Infrastructure (2011)
• >4000 holding libraries• Top 5 libraries account for 15-34% of titles (each)
Academic libraries account for >70% of regional inventory
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Group-scale: Boston Library Consortium
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17 librariesLiberal arts colleges, professional schools, research institutions, state library . . .
• all affiliates of FCLD print journal archive• many (all?) participating in Eastern Academic Scholars Trust
Right scale for stewardship is…small consortium? Large, loose confederation?
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Largest print book
collectionin BLC is
>100X greater
than smallestcollection
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Median BLC member ‘coverage’of Bos-Wash
collection
is 2%
‘coveragerequires
cooperation’
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Median NERL
member ‘coverage’of Bos-Wash
collection
is 5%‘coverage
requires
cooperation’
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At every scale…
ChiPitts
58%
SoCal
47%
Charlanta 67%
coverage requires collaboration
regional coverage
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>266M library holdings in WorldCat
Shared Print Collections
• Cooperative stewardship of aggregate print resource
• Part of broader trend toward ‘group-scale’ library operations
• >30 active shared print groups in North America
• 9 major groups registering shared print holdings in WorldCat
Shared Print Titles in WorldCat April 2014
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Boston College
Williams College
U Mass Amherst
Median duplicati
on
23% as of May
2013
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Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record
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Format transition:Print-centric to digital, networked
Boundaries blurring: Articles/monographs, but also research data, computer models, video, blogs, visualizations, conference posters & presentations, pre-prints, etc.
Stakeholder roles reconfiguring: New paths for the scholarly communication ‘supply chain’
Scholarly record
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Stewardship of the scholarly record
Create
Fix
Use
Collect
Factors impacting stewardship …• Increasing volume of content• Increasing diversity/complexity of content• Increasing distribution of custodial
responsibility
‘local copies’ of scholarly record are increasingly partial discovery and management are increasingly fragmented coherence of scholarly record is reduced
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Questions for academic library consortia• Is available cooperative infrastructure
adequate to support deeper collaboration around collections management, custodial care of scholarly record?
• Do existing consortia represent the right mix of stakeholders for collaborative stewardship arrangements?
• How can consortial efforts ‘scale up’ to meet system-wide stewardship needs? What mechanisms are needed to federate group-scale approaches?
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Thanks for your attention.
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