Revisiting the Tao of Resource Sharing

This article revisits the author’s 2001 article on resource sharing’s anticipated increased demand as a service and its larger role in collection management. The article presents arguments that interlibrary loan’s role is still evolving and stresses the need for increased cooperation and shared collection development among academic libraries.     

从合作馆藏到集体馆藏的探索:法明顿计划80年后的审思

[目的/意义] 回顾法明顿计划后图书馆信息资源共享探索历程,分析合作馆藏、集体馆藏的深层价值意义,为新时期我国图书馆信息资源建设的研究和实践确定锚点。[方法/过程] 回顾20世纪40年代以来图书馆信息资源共享进程中的两次"里程碑"——合作馆藏、集体馆藏,揭示其背后的价值意义,并分析这些价值意义如何推动合作馆藏转向集体馆藏。[结果/结论] 研究发现,法明顿计划从目标指向、内涵设置及实现途径3个方面为早期合作馆藏发展奠定了基础;20世纪70年代和90年代,对合作馆藏的探索先后经历了对"高度利它性"和"协作式合作馆藏"的反思,完成了"尊重成员利益"和"互补式合作馆藏"的转向,并于21世纪初在数据驱动、凸显合作效益的意义设计中重构,转向系统意识下的集体馆藏。这些价值意义对我国图书馆信息资源共享实践具有启迪作用：强化图书馆信息资源建设的战略支撑作用,追求越精准越协同的共赢理念,凸显数据赋能的效能导向。     

Managing the Advantages and Challenges of Multiple Library Consortia: The View from Within the Library

ABSTRACT

The authors are both managers in OhioLINK libraries and have complex experiences working within a variety of simultaneous library consortial agreements. Their librarians'-eye view of consortia allows for a discussion of the nature of that landscape, some perspectives on the benefits and advantages of consortia as well as thoughts on the challenges and limitations of consortia. They conclude that while consortial partnerships hold the key to greater efficiencies and strength in libraries, the overlapping layers of consortial agreements that connect libraries form almost a web that can be constricting. Libraries should continue to be creative about how they exploit the power of consortial relationships, but they also need to learn how to lower the administrative overhead created by these agreements, particularly in the areas of communication and the organizational flow of information. Finally, the authors recommend that consortium committees spend more time on short- and long-term strategic planning.     

区域性高校图书馆联盟合作馆藏发展探析

区域图书馆联盟能促进信息资源的共享,产生图书馆综合群体效应。在阐述高校图书馆联盟内涵的基础上,提出了区域高校图书馆联盟合作馆藏发展的模式及其组织与管理。     

Global Resources: How a Cooperative Collection Development Enterprise Keeps Pace with a Rapidly Changing World

ABSTRACT

In the past ten years the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has developed new ways to support cooperative development of critical research collections. CRL has expanded its role as a centralized aggregator of tangible collections to facilitate collection development, digitization, and licensing of collections by individual libraries and interest groups. This has required CRL to adopt new funding models, from partnerships and coalitions with key organizations, and use technology to support community engagement. Funding essential to this transition was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the IMLS.     

Ohio Regional Depositories: Moving from Warehousing Separate Collections to Servicing Shared Collections

In Ohio, the space needs of campus libraries are changing just as book depositories are filling up. In response to this situation, the university libraries are re-examining the depositories to see if the space can be used even more efficiently, the funding distributed more predictably, and the services standardized and expanded. The Northeastern Ohio Cooperative Regional Library Depository has a plan to rethink the space in the depository, redefine the collection housed there in terms of ownership and access, and to repurpose the depository from a warehouse model to a service-centered model. The Northeastern Ohio Regional Library Depository plan and its anticipated role in changing the way that contributing libraries statewide assess depository collections and provide for access to those collections is the focus of this paper.     

Collective Collection,Collective Action

The economic situation of higher education, creation of vast digital collections, restructuring of knowledge production and distribution, and changing technologies and work practices give libraries incentives collectively to address a number of opportunities. Among these is adopting a radically collaborative approach to print collections. We extrapolate from shared print programs in the United States in 2012 a vision for print collections in the 2020s and discuss the developments needed to achieve it. This vision is the desirable outcome of libraries’ defining their mission less in terms of serving local interests with local means than collectively serving students and scholars.     

Beyond Mark and Park: Classification Mapping as a Collection Development Tool for Psychiatry/Psychology

Developing specific collection development policies for psychiatry poses problems because of its interdisciplinarity with psychology and medicine. East Carolina University has separate academic and medical libraries that are responsible for supporting the curriculum and research needs of the students and faculty. In an era of dwindling budgets and growing programs, it is imperative that book selectors be aware of cross-discipline classification schemes that may lead to unnecessary duplication of materials. This article proposes an instrument that maps the National Library of Medicine classification to the Library of Congress classification for psychology/ psychiatry to be used as a guideline for supporting cooperative collection development.     

The Impact of Monographs in Vertebrate Zoology on the Scientific Literature

The impact of monographs in a vertebrate zoology collection on the scientific literature was assessed using a randomly selected sample (52 monographs), Science Citation Index and a statistical package. Characterstics of the monographs considered were: copyright date, circulation, citation frequency and subdiscipline (ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, mammalogy). Citing references were dispersed among journals in a wide array of disciplines. A few monographs proved to be very highly cited (one being cited nearly 600 times), and so generated the majority of the database of 2,971 citations. The ichthyology monographs generated the broadest subject dispersion among citing references. The herpetology collection is less active than are the others in terms of circulation and current citation frequency. The sample has been generating an ever increasing share of the citations in the Science Citation Index. A method that applies citation analysis to the evaluation of monograph collections is outlined.     

The Economics and Management of Digital Resources in a Multi-Campus,Multi-Library University

ABSTRACT

The three papers that follow detail the funding issues that underlie a multi-campus shared digital collection; the implementation of an experiment to determine costs incurred and avoided, usage and user preferences when print journals are relocated to storage and users must rely on the electronic versions; and finally, campus perspectives on UC libraries' collaborative environment, the co-investment models used to fund shared collections and University-wide participation in an extensive and complicated research project.     

New Tools for Collection Development

Abstract

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose, California is a unique dual-use library serving the students of San Jose State University and the community of San Jose, California. The reference collections of the two libraries are merged and interfiled to promote ease of access for both populations served. Economies of scale were realized through collaborative collection development activities for major reference purchases between the two institutions. This article describes the planning and creation of the King Library's merged reference collection and reviews the literature of collaborative collection development and merged or interfiled collections.     

CIC Co-Investment to Protect Print Research Library Collections in the Midwestern United States

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is one of the nation's oldest and most respected academic consortia. The CIC libraries hold more than 85 million volumes with print collections occupying approximately 10 million linear feet—or 2,000 miles—of shelving. The price tag for maintaining CIC print holdings, in stacks and storage facilities, is approximately $200 million per year. Between 2009 and 2011, the CIC University Librarians (ULs) affirmed a list of core principles for developing and managing a shared storage program. The ULs made an initial investment to support building a shared collection of 250,000 journal backfile volumes to be housed at Indiana University.     

Cooperative Digital Initiatives: A Prescription for Success

ABSTRACT

The author discusses the Center for Research Libraries' role in fostering collaborative projects, reports on new developments in digital initiatives and services, and points to models of cooperative projects for consideration by the Slavic information resource community.     

Non-Use and Loser Studies in Collection Development

No abstract available for this article.     

The Pacific Resources Room at Hawaii Loa College

Construction of the Boyd MacNaughton Pacific Resources Room in the Library at Hawaii Loa College was completed in December, 1985. Unlike archives and many special collections facilities, the Pacific Resources Room was designed to serve the needs of undergraduate teaching in the liberal arts. The book collection of approximately 3,500 volumes and a small periodicals collection were gathered over a period of twenty years through library purchases and donations from private collectors of Hawaiiana and Pacificiana.     

Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development

ABSTRACT

Best practices in cooperative collection development are based on interviews with 18 successful programs, which fall into three categories of cooperative effort: selection of print; electronic acquisition; and access, storage, and preservation. Questions probe opportunities, barriers, best practices, and lessons learned. Findings are collapsed into three areas of analysis: formation and founding; decision making, organization and administration; and funding and infrastructure. The successful cooperatives displayed best practices in four important areas: communication and consultation, goals and focus, flexibility and adaptability, and technological infrastructure.     

Like a Snowball Gathering Speed: Development of ASERL's Print Journal Retention Program

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries has instituted a distributed print archive program to share the costs and effort of long-term retention of print journals. Beginning with a review of the history of the project, the authors address the voluntary nature of participation in the program, methodologies for identifying journals to be retained, as well as methodologies for tagging retained journals so that an accurate record of current decisions is maintained over the 25-year length of the commitment. Policies and procedures continue to evolve as participation increases and lessons are learned with each step.     

馆藏资源评价研究述评

文章分析了馆藏资源的变化,并把馆藏资源评价时期划分为传统馆藏评价时期、馆藏资源评价研究变革时期和馆藏资源评价多元化发展时期三个阶段,对各个阶段的研究成果进行综述,分析其研究特点,并对今后的研究方向和存在的问题进行了阐述.     

馆藏发展危机及其应对策略

结合信息技术、开放获取、数字化科研等因素,根据图书馆馆藏在类型、结构、来源、形式等方面发生的变化,将图书馆馆藏发展危机划分为图书馆馆藏采集危机、馆藏组织危机、馆藏保存危机和馆藏评价危机4种类别,剖析图书馆存在馆藏危机的内外部原因,并提出预防与化解图书馆馆藏发展危机的应对策略。     

On Being a Virtual World Librarian: Experiences in Offering Live Reference Services in a Virtual World

The reference collection holds an important place within the library. The proper maintenance of this collection through weeding is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of collection management. This article offers a case study describing a reference collection weeding project, including the development of a reference collection policy, a review of standing orders, the goals and outcomes of the review, and a discussion of the benefits of the project.