20240429 Calibre April 2024 Investor Presentation.pdf
What's Education Got to Do With It: Downsizing From the Big Deal
1. Downsizing from the Big Deal:
education
What’s love got to do with it?
Robert Kelly, Collection Development and Economics Librarian
Susann deVries, Education Librarian
Eastern Michigan University
2. Eastern Michigan University
Bruce T. Halle Library
Lay of the Land
Size of Institution
# of Colleges and departments
Student population
4. Overall EMU materials budget
expenditures: 2008-2011
$1,400,000
$1,200,000
$1,000,000 Print Books
$800,000 Print Journals
$600,000 Ejournals
$400,000 Databases
$200,000
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5. Electronic Journal Packages = 14
Average cost per article
download=$2.96
Big Deal Packages = 7
Average cost per article
download = $5.72
12. Results: Economics
Initially looked ONLY at
titles and not data to avoid
bias
Primary decision factors for
Core: Courses
taught, graduate
programs, faculty research Eager participants
Personal experiences
Data helped refine decision Order of importance
on core titles - Retained 2
of 5 original core
Revised Core cost
increased from $2K to $4K.
13. College of Education
Vetted titles
Identified journals “on the
fence”
No dollar limit
http://katerawlings.com
14. Results: College of Education
Willing participants
Reemphasized how
education is
interdisciplinary in nature
Liaison in department will
have to work closely with
their faculty
15. Impact of
cancelling
Informed
decision
Cost
Suite of titles
How packages
are being used
BobHow they approached the dataCame up with 5 titles they concurred as core costing $4K vs the $2K Had clear picture of what was coreOK to have me work with initial Econ faculty…in future better to work one on one with departmental liaison, who would vet with faculty.