Academic Library Operations

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Academic Library Operations
Beyond Paper
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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

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Overview

• Relevant tech trends
• Faculty student e-resource usage surveys by
  ebrary and Springer
• Panel presentations on library operation trends
  in their libraries
• Comments Questions

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Changing 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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Survey - 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
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Student 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)

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What 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)

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48 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

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Survey 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
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Springer 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)

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Springer 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

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Would like to use more eBooks?

• Use More
• Illinois - 86
• Bangalore - 98
• Turku - 83
• CWI Amsterdam - 79
• Muenster - 92

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Usage is clearly trending to online.

• What is happening to library operations?

Sourece Google term college student and books
and laptop
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Changes in Library Operations?

• Acquisition
• Organization
• Circulation
• Reference
• Instruction
• Preservation
• Publication

Source http//www.wou.edu
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Questions 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