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CASH!
(Now that I have your attention…)
The Collections Access Strategies Hub (CASH) is meeting this coming Wednesday to discuss the first two of many key articles to be tackled by the group (citations and links provided below). Each hub meeting will also include a Lightning Round Report where representatives from various units relay ongoing work and upcoming changes within respective units. The purpose of the reports include filling communication gaps between units, departments, and other groups so that we might all better anticipate problems and plan for changes in workflows. If you don’t have a rep in CASH and you’d like to pass along information to our group, please get in touch with me.
Hub Readings
Strategic Direction: Transforming Research Libraries: Outcomes & Strategies http://www.arl.org/arl/governance/strat-plan/trl.shtml
2012 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues affecting Academic Libraries. C & RL News June 2012. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/6/311.full
Approval Plan
As of January 30th, consider the new policy of e-preferred approvals to be in full swing. Ladd and Ed are working out details and getting answers to questions. More information to follow soon.
VIVA
To quote directly from VIVA’s Kathy Perry, “VIVA’s hard work exploring STEM-H e-books has resulted in awarding contracts to Elsevier and Springer for 2013 frontlist e-books… As you know, VIVA received special funding from the General Assembly for the 2012-14 Biennium for e-books in the STEM-H subject areas. VIVA can now confirm contracts for the Elsevier and Springer 2013 frontlist e-book packages and that all participating institutions have been activated for both Elsevier and Springer.” At the local level we have made the necessary changes in our approval and DDA plans to reflect these new deals.
*WHO GETS WHAT THROUGH CENTRAL FUNDS?*
*PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS*: All of the VIVA public institutions will have access to the following packages:
Elsevier – The entire SciVerse ScienceDirect eBooks Collection 2013
Frontlist: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/books/ebooks
Springer – 4 collections for the 2013 frontlist
http://www.springer.com/librarians/e-content/ebooks?SGWID=0-40791-0-0-0
– Behavioral Sciences
– Biomedical and Life Science
– Computer Science
– Earth and Environmental Science
Cooperative Collections
You’ve no doubt heard many mentions of the ASERL Print Journal Cooperative. Now we have an additional partner: the WRLC or Washington Research Library Consortia. To understand how this partnership will work, ASERL will be holding a webinar next week. Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie of OCLC Research will provide an overview of how holdings at our member libraries would contribute to a mega-regional approach. During the webinar, Constance and Brian will discuss an initial analysis of holdings at ASERL and WRLC libraries and how this could contribute to a mega-regional vision for national library print collections. If you’d like to attend the webinar, it is listed on the library’s training events page.
Vet Med Library Collection
In case you haven’t heard, The College of Veterinary Medicine may be renovating spaces this summer and renovations will affect allotted space for the Vet Med Library. We’ll be looking at print and electronic journal overlap in this case, too, in order to help reduce the collections footprint from 25,000 volumes to between 15,000-18,000 volumes. Expect more news as Brian, Leslie, and Vicki work with the architects and as we take a close look at the collection.
Journal Overlap Analysis
Analysis of overlap between print and electronic journals is moving along. Most recently, we finished looking at the Oxford backfiles, and we are just one collection away from completing our overlap analysis for all the Taylor and Francis archives.
More next week… and until then, STAY WARM!
Connie