This document discusses the evolving landscape of academic library collection development, particularly focusing on demand-driven acquisition (DDA) and the transition from print to electronic resources. It highlights trends in monograph purchases, the impact of e-books, and the implications for libraries and publishers, including changing access and stewardship models. The document stresses the importance of data-driven decision-making in improving library collections and user access.

1. Academic Library
Collection Development:
Current Landscape, Future
Trends
GALILEO Interconnected Libraries
December 14, 2011
Michael Levine-Clark
Collections Librarian
University of Denver
michael.levine-clark@du.edu

2. 1990

4. 1990

5. Looking into the Future
 5 years
 Monographs
 Print/electronic mix – still transitional
 DDA predominant for e-books
 Journals
 Fewer big deals
 More article-level purchasing
 Nontraditional stuff
 Images
 Data

6. Looking (a bit further)
into the Future
 10 years
 Monographs
 Mostly electronic
 Mostly DDA
 Local POD
 Journals
 Medium deals
 Articles on-demand
 Smaller (and shrinking) print collections

7. Trends to Consider

8. E-Books

9. Slow Adoption of E-Books
 Scholarly content not yet there
 30% available simultaneously* as e/p
 Publisher fears
 Diminished sales
 Course adoption
 Librarian concerns
 DRM
 Patrons want print (or so we say)
*Defined by YBP Library Services as 2 months

10. E-Book Developments
 Rapid expansion (even in scholarly
publishing)
 Embrace of e-book readers
 Kindle! (and others)
 Demand-driven acquisition (DDA)

11. Libraries are Doing it Wrong

12. Demand-Driven Acquisition
(DDA)

13. Definitions
 Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA)
 Faculty Requests/Input
 Use Data
 Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA)
 Meets immediate need

14. Why DDA?

15. Annual Book Production, 2009
1200000
1000000
800000
600000
400000
200000
0
DU Purchases North All United World
American States (UNESCO)
Scholarly
(YBP)

16. DDA Opportunity
YBP JULY 2010 - JUNE 2011 PDA Opportunity
Slip
New Print Notifications
Publisher
Titles
Notifications % Ordered
Sent
Springer 3,261 1,177,454 4%
Wiley 2,881 1,219,333 7%
Oxford 2,146 921,359 11%
Routledge 2,200 1,099,110 8%
Cambridge 1,551 736,043 11%
Palgrave Macmillan 1,310 1,006,981 8%
McGraw-Hill 637 218,244 6%
HarperCollins 410 144,881 11%
ABC-CLIO 409 214,167 8%
Continuum 518 243,636 8%
Brill (& Nijhoff) 573 197,895 8%
Penguin Putnam 447 169,820 13%

17. U of Denver - Books Cataloged
2000-2004 (126,953 Titles)
4+
uses, 18.8%
0
uses, 39.6%
3 uses, 8.2%
2
uses, 12.8%
1 use, 20.6%

18. U of Denver - Books Cataloged
2000-2004 (126,953 Titles)
4+
uses, $1,084,
576
0 3
uses, $2,284, uses, $473,06
532 0
2
1
uses, $738,43
use, $1,188,4
5
18

19. Demand-Driven Acquisitions Goals
 Broaden the collection
 More titles
 More publishers
 More subjects
 Match acquisitions to immediate
demand
 Pay at point of need
 Pay for amount of need
 Short-term loans
 Purchase-on-demand

20. Redefining the Collection
 Everything we can provide in a
timely manner
 Ultimately, bounded only by budget

21. University of Denver
eBook Library (EBL)
 Began May 2010
 Loaded 42,000 records into catalog
(now 65,000)
 No budget for FY 2010
 Budgeted $150,000 for FY 2011

22. The EBL Model
 First five minutes free
 STL for three uses
 One day or one week
 10-15% list price
 Purchase on fourth use
 List price

23. University of Denver
EBL Data (5/1/10-6/30/11)
Actual List
325 titles purchased $23,753 $23,753
3,599 titles with at least $49,171 $236,037
one STL
6,477 titles with at least $0 $473,378
one browse
Total (10,076 titles) $72,924 $733,168
Savings $660,244

24. DDA Implications
 Is there a role for consortia?
 Tension between shared discount/local
needs
 Immediate access vs. stewardship of
the cultural record
 Access
 Better served by DDA
 Stewardship of potential acquisitions
 Portico, LOCKSS, Publishers

25. DDA for the Long Haul
 The Consideration Pool
 Everything available for potential
acquisition
 Linked to budget size
 Managed by broad rules (like approval
plan)
 Titles move in/out of pool
 Records move in/out of discovery tools

26. E-Book Prediction
 Most monographs
 English-language approval plan
 Non-English approval (a bit further out)
 Acquire on demand
 As e-book
 STL or purchase
 By the chapter or volume
 As local print-on-demand
 Make accessible all that we can afford

27. A Book Discovery Problem
 Books  Articles
 Lots of words  Fewer words
 Not much metadata  More metadata
 Lost opportunity  Abstract
 Full-text searching
 Chapter-level
metadata
Christopher C. Brown, “NextGen Information Environment: A Paradigm Shift in Information
Discovery,” Colorado Association of Libraries CALCON11, Loveland, Colorado, October 15, 2011.

28. E-Book Discovery
 Must take advantage of full-text
 Can drive users to print
 Users must have clear choice of
format
 Will drive acquisition
 Must work with e-readers

29. DDA, E-Books, Scholarly
Publishing

30. Implications for Publishers
 Campus-wide access to e-books might
cannibalize sales
 DDA removes predictability
 Sales forecasts
 Cost of keeping e-books available
 Frontlist/backlist blur
 STL/ILL = new revenue stream

31. Journals Are Easy, Right?

32. We’ve Figured Out Journals
 Digital
 Packages
 Easily shared

33. Or Have We?
 Is the Big Deal sustainable?
 Based on a model of
 Consolidating subscriptions
 Maximizing market share
 At the expense of other
publishers, monographs
 While our budgets shrink

34. A New Model
 Cambridge UP
 $5.99
 Read only
 24 hours
 Almost seamless

35. Other Options
Article Purchasing Medium Deal?
Small Deal?
 Purchase PDF  Limited title list
 $25.00+
 Multiple publishers  Rental/purchase of
 Copyright many (most) (all)
Clearance Center articles
 Often seamless
 Too expensive?

36. Article Discovery
 We do this well
 Not dependent on ownership
 (Often) full-text
 Must integrate with discovery of owned
content
 Local journal holdings should be
replaced by all articles accessible by any
seamless access method

37. Disaggregation

38. Journal/Book
Article/Chapter
 Pay for amount used
 Requires discovery at the
article/chapter level
 What about entries in reference
works?
 Major implications for publishers

39. E-Resources and ILL

40. Does ILL Make Sense for E-
Resources?
 ILL a means to an end = access to
material not in collection
 For e-resources, a short-term loan is
a faster means to the same end
 Potentially cheaper

41. STL and Discovery
 Clearinghouse(s) for STL of e-
books/chapters/articles
 Integration into local discovery tools?

42. Shrinking Print Collections

43. Penrose Library
1972 2012

44. The Decline of Legacy Print
Collections
 Closing branch libraries
 Expansion of seating
 Loss of on-campus storage
 Full off-campus storage spaces
 Potential loss of off-campus storage

45. The Collective Print Collection
 Shared storage facilities/virtual shared
storage
 Collaborative journal archiving
 WEST, etc.
 Notification about
 Retention decisions
 Holdings
 Completeness
 Local record of past holdings?

46. Storage and Serendipitous
Discovery
 Low use monographs offsite
 Need for better discovery (“I can’t
browse anymore.”)
 Digital surrogates
 Electronic browsing option
 A real need?

47. Withdrawing Monographs
 Low use
 Duplicated by e
 Hathi Trust
 Public domain
 Orphan works
 Duplicated elsewhere
 Readily purchasable
 Used
 POD
 How do users find the print?

48. Digital Collections – Issues and
Concerns

49. Beyond Traditional
Collections
 Institutional repositories
 Data sets
 Image collections
 Commercial primary source collections

50. Integrating Digital Collections
 Specialized interfaces
 Integration into library discovery
tool(s)
 Size
 Scale

51. Migration, Preservation
 Local content
 Data
 Software
 Metadata
 Licensed content
 Consideration pool
 Library, publisher, third party?

52. Use Data Can Help Us

53. Data-Driven Decisions
 Make DDA possible
 Help with weeding/storage
 Inform future collecting practices
 Have weight with the administration

54. Thank You
Michael Levine-Clark
michael.levine-clark@du.edu