Breaking the Kubernetes Kill Chain: Host Path Mount
Making Hard Choices Using Data for Collections Decisions
1. Making Hard Choices
Using Data for Collections Decisions
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries
May 29, 2014
Istanbul, Turkey
Susan Edwards
University of California, Berkeley
2. Questions:
How well do our collections meet needs of researchers?
Are related disciplines equally supported?
If we need to close or combine libraries, which make sense?
New research trends/formats that impact collections?
Have we sacrificed books for journals – and does it matter?
3.
4. -25%
25%
75%
125%
175%
225%
275%
325%
375%
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
%ChangeSince1986
Source: ARL Statistics 2009-10 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.
Expenditure Trends in ARL Libraries, 1986-2010
Serial Expenditures
(+379%)
Library
Materials
(+289%)
Operating
Expenditures (+110%)
TOTAL
Expenditures (+172%)
Total
Salaries (+158%)
CPI (+99%)
Monograph
Expenditures (+73%)
Journal costs
continue to
outpace library
budgets
Journal & Books Cost Outpaces Budget Increases
6. Who Uses the EdPsych Library?
Lots of Education, Little Psychology
7. Who Uses the Social Welfare Library?
Almost all Use Is by Social Welfare!
8. RLG Conspectus: Collection Levels
Research: A collection that includes the major
published source materials required for
dissertations
Comprehensive: A collection which, so far as is
reasonably possible, includes all significant
works of recorded knowledge
9. Methods
Citation analysis of dissertation bibliographies:
Education (2009 -2010)
Psychology (2009-2010)
Social Welfare (2009-2011)
All citations hand entered and verified.
Systematic sample with a random start, confidence
interval: 95% (+/-3)
18. Education Psychology Social Welfare
Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology
Neuroimage Child Development
Child Development
Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology
Developmental
Psychology
Journal of Educational
Psychology
Journal of Neuroscience
Children and Youth
Services Review
Developmental
Psychology
Nature (4th)
American
Psychologist (4th)
Journal of Research in
Science Teaching (5th)
Neuropsychologia (4th)
Development and
Psychopathology (4th)
Journal of the Learning
Sciences (5th)
Nature Neuroscience
(5th)
Future of Children
(5th)
Reading Research
Quarterly (5th)
Neuron (5th)
Child Abuse &
Neglect(5th)
20. What’s New
• LAUC Research Grant
• Citation Data from ProQuest (45,000)
• First Finding: 28% 15% 1.2% … 2!
21. Credits:
Phase One
• Lynn Jones, co-author
• Lyn Paleo, Evaluator
• Jon Stiles, Statistics
• Jeffery Loo, Graphics
• Student Employees, data
entry
Phase Two
• LAUC Research Grant
• Hilary Schiraldi, Business
• Jennifer Dorner, History
• Jim Church, Economics
• Jon Stiles, Statistics
• Lynne Grigsby, Dark Archive
• Austin McClean, ProQuest
• Student Employees: data
entry for print, first pass.