When Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking Your Library Collections by Sue Woodson, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Friday Morning Plenary November 5, 2010 10:15 - 11:00 AM
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When Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking Your Library Collections by Sue Woodson, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- 1. When the rubber meets the road, Pt. 2 -- Welch Library’s experience Sue M. Woodson, MLIS, PhD Welch Medical Library Johns Hopkins Medicine Charleston Conference November 5, 2010
- 2. Shrink the Welch print collection • Shrink print holdings by about 80% • Do this by 2012
- 3. Improving Our Service to Hopkins Medical Community
- 4. Welch Medical Library The context • .
- 5. 2000 New Director: Major User Needs Study
- 6. GOALS 1. All collections online 2. Services embedded in depts 3. Excellent discovery tools
- 7. Take the library to the patron
- 8. “that's where the money is” Bank robber: Willie Sutton US gov DOJ image
- 10. Wm H. Welch Medical Library
- 12. Jobs going away • Cataloging and Acquisitions • Shelving • In person reference • Security Guards
- 13. New work • Off- hours phone reference • Aiding systematic reviews • Publicity
- 14. Job re-alignment • Fill job vacancies from within the library where possible
- 15. Welch – it’s not your father’s library • We collect for today • If we don’t have it buy it or ILL it • If our users no longer use it, we don’t buy it
- 16. The Welch collection is becoming a service to our current community.
- 17. We are no longer an institution of cultural memory.
- 18. GOING FORWARD
- 19. SE/A – Print Retention Task Force National Network | Libraries of Medicine
- 20. • How long do we need to keep *some* print copies of our journal literature? • How many copies need to be kept? • How to coordinate distributed presevation? • What becomes of print when it is no longer valuable to Medicine?
Editor's Notes
- Roger theoretical framework Me one instance of de-accessioning tied to increasing # online What we’re doing Why we’re doing it How the work has changed us | how we are the same Where we go from here
- dramatically reduce print To 83K @ Welch & 140K @ LSC At one point we had 400K volumes ELEMENT OF LONG TERM STRATEGIC PLAN -- 10 years OTHER MEDICAL LIBRARIES FACING SAME CALL LTO GIVE BACK SPACE -- Duke
- Why stopping here? Some press about Shrinking the print collection I’ve gotten Odd ?s @ MTGS We aren’t getting rid of the library – the library is not a building We aren’t throwing out all the books Better service for our patrons OUR patrons May not work for YOUR patrons
- Medical library of Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Johns Hopkins UNiversity Supports JHMI SOM, SON, SPH, JHH FTE=14,900 Carnegie Research Univ with Very High Research activity Volumes? 300,000 ?? Print Subscriptions? 88. for Welch, 200 odd for Welch, Meyer ALSO Institute History of Medicine Top floor of the bldg forty thousand volumes, including runs of more than 300 journals. 108 periodicals currently subscribed to Active in helping us, especially for the
- Nancy began in Jan 2000 architectural study of the Welch Library. The report is a culmination of the strategic thinking by staff, focus groups, and our advisory committee as interpreted and enhanced by the architectural team from Hillier and DEGW.
- In Summary – take the library to our patrons Improve staff work space in support of this model
- On the simplest level it’s because they aren’t coming to us anymore 1. If it isn’t online it doesn’t exist Gate count = average of 10 people an hour +/- 30 repeat offenders image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Willie_Sutton.jpg 11/9/2010
- Great study spaces all over campus Red circle is Welch Red arrow is new Medical Education Bldg
- Bottom line: it doesn’t work for us the way it is now Too small for staff Some in other buildings Needs renovation – no one renovates a book museum
- Scary Bad economy Long term doing same job Limited skills Kept witin the dept.
- We’ve just recently announced that we are reducing our hours from 79.5 to xxx
- Running established searches Importing to RefWorks, EndNote, etc. De-duping
- This is where we’re seeing people grow and it is very heartening.
- We’re no longer a traditional research library We’re not a repository We aren’t collecting for future users Our print has a shelf life… we’ll not be keeping it forever --- one thing that jumped out at me from Roger’s What to withdraw report.
- We are not a repository We are a library but a library is not a building Not every library will do this That can be pretty scary
- There is an extension to the task force that will take up the task force’s recommendations. Some of the questions we’ll ask are…..
- My slide I promised Rob I’d use this in a talk some day.