Friday, November 5, 2010 12:30 - 1:45 PM Panel Presentation by Allen McKiel - Western Oregon University; Jim Dooley - University of California Merced; Robert Murdoch - Brigham Young University; Carol Zsulya –Cleveland State University

1. Academic Library
Operations
Beyond Paper
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/images/sony_reader_2.jpg

2. Speakers
 Jim Dooley - Head, Collection Services, University of
California, Merced
 Allen McKiel - Dean of Library and Media Services,
Western Oregon University
 Robert Murdock - Assistant University Librarian for
Collection Development & Technical Services, Brigham
Young University
 Carol Zsulya – Head of Collection Management,
Cleveland State University

3. Overview
 Introduction – Library Related Developments
 Western Oregon University Report
 University of California Merced Report
 Brigham Young University Report
 Cleveland State University
 Questions and comments

4. Ongoing Online Evolution
E-book sales
Scanning all books
FCC White Space
Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
Amazon's Kindle

5. E-book Sales
 Outsell’s Gilbane Group: Research Report
 Projected 5-yr growth of e-book sales – 42%
 Current – majority see < 5% net from e-books
 Amazon – e-book sales surpass hardbacks
 143 to 100 and accelerating (July ‘10)
 Not counting free downloads
 PDA for consortia looks like PPV & ILL
 All content is open w/o charge for x minutes or pages before
loan
 X no. of one day loan periods before purchase
 Consortia access for $ = x no. of copies
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
Barnes and Noble - Nook

6. Scanning All Books
 Google book settlement is still on hold
 But the idea has legs
 Harvard’s Robert Darnton
 National Digital Library
 Google alternative
 Evolving online books—Google indexed
 Internet Archive
 HathiTrust
 Institutional Repositories—OA
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
The Plastic Logic Reader

7. FCC White Space
 Ongoing march toward broadband for all
 “white space” – the frequencies between 300 and
400 MHz
 opening up the vacant TV airwaves for
unlicensed use
 Primary utility is for opening rural areas to
broadband
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
i-Pad

8. Devices Evolve
Borrowed Images from Vendor & Reviewer Sites
Samsung Galaxy Tab
HTC Desire HD
Apple’s White i-Phone
Blackberry PlayBook

9. Devices Evolve
 iPad changed the DNA
 Lots of followers—no killer device yet
 Samsung Galaxy Tab for all 4 carriers - promising
 Netbooks
 Improve and continue to sell
 Waiting on the promise of e-ink
 A light net machine w/ 2week battery life
 Color
 32 Frames per second
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
Samsung Galaxy Tab

10. Ed E-book Evolution
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/customer-images
Amazon's Kindle
 E-book sales
 Pressure for everything cheaper -
PDA
 Scanning all books
 Academic Focus – everything + OA
 FCC White Space
 Nearly everybody has access
 Devices
 Nearly everybody has a device

11. WOU Operations 2009-2010
 Collection Development
 Technical Services
 Reference
 Instruction
 Preservation
 Publication
Source: http://www.wou.edu

12. Collection Development
 Journals
 Print Journals– 214 left (High was 1,400)
 E-journal access last year – 53,285
 Print cancellations buy e-journal access
 Bundled titles— added Gale this year
 Pay-per-view—Ingenta Connect, OVID, Science Direct
 Books
 Orbis Cascade Alliance—36 Libraries
 working on collective e-book purchasing through YBP & EBL
 Browse X minutes w/o charge
 Short term loan X hrs for % of list
 Purchase for Alliance after X no. of loans for X times list

13. Collection Development
 Journal Usage
 Print – 1% - 1,845 (in library & chkout)
 E-journal Access – 99% - 156,546 (full text views)
 Book Usage
 Print – 90% - 31,703 (in library & chkout)
 E-books – 10% - 3,582 (full text access)
 Google Books & Purchases not included
 Identifying course relevant Internet resources
 53 class guides (Libguides) - accessed 14,977 times

14. Technical Services
 Integrate resources and information tools for
discovery
 Outsourced cataloging – YBP shelfready
 Orbis Cascade Alliance
 Moving toward a 36 library shared catalog
 Another reorganization of the library web pages
 Map Internet resources to classes—e.g. LibGuides

15. Reference
 Synchronous help
 Replaced more librarian hours with staff hours on
reference
 Librarians are on call

16. Instruction
 Cooperative Library Instruction Project
 LSTA Grant—2 years
 Western Oregon University
 Oregon State University
 Willamette University
 Chemeketa Community College
 Create OA online information literacy tutorials
 11 tutorials produced
 October – over 7,000 uses

17. Preservation
 Cooperate with Willamette U & Portland State U
 We have OR gubernatorial collections
 Hatfield, Roberts, Straub
 LSTA cooperative grant
 Identify gubernatorial collections not yet in archives
 Facilitate archiving
 Create finding aids
 Put material online

18. Publication
 Purchased access to Berkeley Electronic Press
 10 projects identified
 Not enough staff - will need to be creative
 Work w/ faculty on OA permissions
 Faculty expressed interest in student publication

19. Next
 Jim Dooley - Head, Collection Services, University of
California, Merced
 Robert Murdock - Assistant University Librarian for
Collection Development & Technical Services, Brigham
Young University
 Carol Zsulya – Head of Collection Management,
Cleveland State University