Title: Academic Library Operations
1Academic Library Operations
Beyond Paper
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2Speakers
- 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
3Overview
- Relevant tech trends
- Faculty student e-resource usage surveys by
ebrary and Springer - Panel presentations on library operation trends
in their libraries - Comments Questions
4Changing Technology
- E-ink - Kindle, Newspaper Prototypes
- I-phone, G-phone
- Open standards for mobile devicesi.e Android
- Mobile Internet Accessi.e. Wi-Max
- Googlescanning collectionssettled lawsuits
- Publishers stockpiling e-book collections
- Open Library 335,000 e-books, 17.6m cataloged
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5Survey - Faculty E-Resource Use
- Usage Faculty (906)
- 89 websites - .edu, .gov, .org
- 86 e-journals
- 76 databases
- 54 e-books
- Usage Students (3208)
- 81 Google
- 78 e-books
- 67 Wikipedia
- 65 e-journals
Source 2007 Global Faculty E-book Survey -
Sponsored by ebrary http//www.ebrary.com/corp/col
lateral/en/Survey/ebrary_faculty_survey_2007.pdf
6Student and Faculty e-preference
- 83 of students who said they used e-books (52)
find them preferable often or very often over a
print version - Often or very often (51)
- Sometimes (32)
- Never or rarely (17)
- 82 of faculty find electronic resources as
useful as print or preferable to print - Preferable (50)
- Equally useful (32)
- Prefer print (18)
7What types of resources are students using for
research or class assignments? (52 e-book users)
- The following percentages pertain to the subset
of students (3,208 of the 6,452) from the ebrary
survey that said that they used e-books.
- 81 - Google (2,593)
- 78 - e-books (2,517)
- 77 - print books (2,478)
- 69 - e-reference (2,206)
- 67 - wikipedia (2,142)
- 65 - print textbooks (2,098)
- 65 - e-journals (2,080)
848 of students in ebrary survey reported never
using e-books(3132 / 6452)
- 57 did not know where to find e-books
- 17 library did not offer e-books
- 45 prefer print
- 7 too difficult to read
9Survey Results
Faculty use of e-journals and e-books for courses
Obvious observations E-book integration into
course content and preparation lags behind
e-journals E-book and e-journal use patterns are
similar
Source 2007 Global Faculty E-book Survey -
Sponsored by ebrary http//www.ebrary.com/corp/col
lateral/en/Survey/ebrary_faculty_survey_2007.pdf
10Springer e-Books The End User Perspective
- Between 58 percent and 80 percent of respondents
at each institution had used e-books at least
once - Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
United States - University of Muenster, Germany
- University of Turku, Finland
- JRD Tata Memorial Library Bangalore, India (new
participant in 2008)
11Springer Survey For what purposes do you
usually use ebooks?
At the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, most users said they use eBooks
primarily for research and study, with teaching
and leisure trailing far behind.
- 78 Research
- 56 Study
- 10 Teaching
- 10 Leisure
- 2 Other
12Would like to use more eBooks?
- Use More
- Illinois - 86
- Bangalore - 98
- Turku - 83
- CWI Amsterdam - 79
- Muenster - 92
13Usage is clearly trending to online.
- What is happening to library operations?
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Sourece Google term college student and books
and laptop
14Changes in Library Operations?
- Acquisition
- Organization
- Circulation
- Reference
- Instruction
- Preservation
- Publication
Source http//www.wou.edu
15Questions or Comments
- 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