Identity of a Brand new library J. K. Vijayakumar Libraries are at cross roads and we all are trying together to resolve the identities of the Libraries. What about the identities of Libraries of brand new Institutions, which never existed before. Another aspect is that, how those libraries helping to build the brand of that Institution, in addition to their own brand building. J. K. Vijayakumar

Opened in 2009, it’s a RESEARCH UNIVERSITY Breakthrough research is conducted to address challenges of global significance, in the areas of Water Food Energy Environment Opened in 2009, it’s a RESEARCH UNIVERSITY Towards creation of an enduring model for advanced education and scientific research. Opened in 2009, its an inter disciplinary research university, research focus is to resolve issues around the basic need of humanity - water, food, energy and environment

KAUST : University Library Born digital Open 24x7 Approximately 2.5% of collection is in print Staff from 13 countries If you were given a chance to build a University library, collections and services – what do you do? How do you give birth to a brand new library? Do you try to produce the best baby?

Collection Development All Print Vs Selections From 2011 Print copy Orders only recommended titles Demand based Print collection No more shelves will be added Add titles, at least one person has recommended Shift collection building from the Librarians to Patrons (no selection Tools) Weeding policy and procedures in 2015 Right Physical Sizing from early years Evidence: 20% of the books account for 80% of the use (Richard Trueswell, 1969 ) 2009 Library Opens (with huge online collection) Buy and keep more print too Build comprehensive S&T collection Add print books 10,000 per year Selection Tools: Choice Review, YBP Gobi, RCLWeb Assumptions: Best S&T Library needs all relevant print books Though we have started with a huge online collection and digital archives, the intial plan was to have more print books as well. In 2011, we decided to fully shift to e-direction, with very limited print collection on demand. Right Physical Sizing, which many established libraries are trying now through shared storage etc, wont be an issue for us in the future.

Collection Development Print Vs e-only New environment Researcher needs anytime – anywhere Shift from whole book to chapter level Ebooks were booming “With USD 60,000 we can have all of the words in the Library of Congress books collection digitized (26 Million volumes). When a book is about one megabyte, 26 million megabytes is 26 terabytes. Brewster Karhle, Internet Archive (TED talk 2007) Digital natives Better Use of library space Started practicing e-only policy No print journals from the starting No print theses & Dissertations from the starting Patron Recommendations will buy print, if they are not available as ebook, or there is a specific need to have it as Print. I don’t need to explain the young researchers digital preference and the availability of all resources in online. It is to be noted when Brewster told this, realise how the technology is cheap. We buy print copies, if it is recommended only.

Collection Development New Analysis tools One challenge we faced was the analysis of usage, and we are experimenting JUSP now, as one among first non-UK customer.

Subscription to Publishing model Common Challenges: Subscription to Publishing model Negotiating subscription licenses with all Publishers to include Off-set models terms Green OA deposit terms Common challenge for all of us from academic libraries. How many times we have to spend for research and scholarly communication? How do we show library’s identity in research funding savings? Tamarkin and Vijayakumar, 2016

KAUST & Green Open Access Established an active Institutional Repository in 2011 First Open Access mandate in the region from KAUST, June 2014 Many OA promotional programs in the Campus and the region Libraries role in scholarly communication was addressed from the starting, and repository and OA policy were introduced later. As the first OA mandated institution in the region, we are also outreaching the concept very widely.

KAUST repository today Our commitment to OA and the tools are more visible from these numbers. BaEssa 2017

As the early adopter and instructional member of ORCID, we not only helped the community to have their own profile identity, library has created its own identity to their research life cycle, and Universities research evaluation system. ORCID is integrated to PURE and Repository..

Again, helping to improve the research profile, we also embrace latest tools such as PLUMX to support the Altmetrics values of our community.

Search Interfaces and Systems From Search to Discovery Then to Direct Discovery As we have grown to 7 years now, actually we have changed our discovery tools – recent change was 6 months ago when we moved to SUMMON and named it as KORAL.

Other Services Subject Specialist Services Instructions and Specialized Trainings Document Delivery Library Guides Space for events

Future Digital preservation and long term-retention of special items. Special Digital Collections (biological image collections, GIS images, etc. ). E-Poster services. Direct Discovery research. Promote good practices in Research Data Management (RDM). Services and initiatives around RDM. Evolving scholarly record – transition from an article to a package (of  article and associated video, data, software methods, other media etc) Ready to involve with “Resolving Identity” experiments and research together.