Library Collections

Updates on Approval Plan and ASERL Initiatives

by lener, posted on January 24, 2013

Morning All:

Lots of collection management news to share— but I’ve tried to bullet all the information below for easier reading. More soon!

ASERL Shared Retention Steering Committee

I will be traveling to Atlanta to meet with other members of ASERL’s steering committee for retention projects.  We will meet all day on February 12 in Georgia Tech’s library discuss the following:

• Progress of the Cooperative Journal Retention project, and its use of the 583 MARC field and whether to include subject headings in the cooperative database.
• JRNL (Journal Retention and Needs Listing): a database created at the University of Florida for the ASERL Cooperative Journal Retention Project. Contains names and corresponding holdings for journals saved by ASERL members for the Cooperative Journal Retention Project.
• WRLC (Washing Research Library Consortium):  WRLC and ASERL have agreed to merge their holdings for the Cooperative Journal Retention Project.  (This will not change plans for storing physical holdings.) We will discuss how our holdings will be represented in PAPR.
• Other potential shared retention projects:  suggestions thus far—Chem Abstracts, Thomas Register, NUC, NYT Index.

If you have other titles to suggest, monograph or serial or something in between, for shared retention, please let me know and make sure we talk about it in Atlanta.

ASERL Collection Development Initiative

John Burger (ASERL’s Executive Director), Michael Arthur (Head of Acquisitions & Collections Management at U Central Florida) and I have started teleconferencing monthly.  Most recently, we talked about the last Charleston conference and the prevailing topics that came up during meetings there.  More demand for consortia deals exist.  Michael will be meeting Ebrary, Springer, and SharedShelf representatives at ALA mid-winter to discuss any new offers.  Possible offers to look for in the future:

 

• John reviewed a draft of offer from Matt Hancox (Gale) for several archival collections before holiday break.  Should be finalized soon, available thru June 2013.

 

• Shared Shelf from JSTOR.  John & Connie will review info from Michael.

 

• Through talking with Ed and Leslie, we have suggested the group looks into options for audiobooks, too, although typically this has fallen to public libraries.

 

 

Another prevailing topic was training.  As a part of this group, we are identifying areas where we believe our members will benefit from webinars. Two webinars on the impact of ebooks on acquistiions workflow will be held in February.  See the University Libraries training page to register if you’d like to attend the webinars.

 

In the future, we also plan to take on other areas of interest including digital curation and open access as pertaining to collection management.

Approval Plan Changes

Ed and Ladd are working to tighten up the Lindsey & Croft portion of our existing approval plan with Yankee Book Peddler (YBP.)

 

• Elsevier ebook imprints will be blocked from our approval plan because we will now be gaining access to them through VIVA ebook packages.

 

• Some of you may have noticed that the approval shelves have gone away.  Since we are moving to an e-preferred YBP approval environment in 2013, the approval / review shelving has been removed.

• Print YBP approval titles will still arrive according to the regular shipping schedule and be available for review on book trucks signed YBP APPROVALS for roughly 3 days. Worldwide approval volumes, gift decisions, and space for other physical items are located in the existing shelving above the mail-processing area along the wall. Ebook approval titles will be available for review via the Approval Bookshelf tab in GOBI3.  Please check the options there for the available approval actions.