An Ounce of Different is Worth A Pound of Same ~ Sustaining rich collections by adapting what we know & learning skills we need

THE SURVEY SAYS: How many hours a week do you spend on collection development and collection management activities? With 40 people reporting, the average is 12.5 hours The range is 15 minutes to 40-47 hours per week

How frequently do you engage in the following collection-related activities? Talk to faculty & grad students every semester never = 0% sometimes = 26.3% frequently = 39.5% always = 34.2% Read reviews in my subject areas never = 5.4 % Sometimes = 35.1% Frequently = 27.0% Always = 32.4% Look at ILL and use stats never = 29.0% Sometimes = 44.7% Frequently = 21.0% Always = 5.3% Connect to RSS feeds about new technology never = 56.8% Sometimes = 24.3% Frequently = 10.8% Always = 8.1% Connect to RSS feeds about new scholarship in my subject areas Sometimes = 18.9% Frequently = 21.6% Always = 2.7%

Do you agree with the following statements? Digital publishing will increase in my subjects areas in the next 5 years SD= 0% D= 5.4% A= 35.1% AM= 16.2% SA= 43.2% Print pubs will continue to be important to my subject areas SD= 2.6% D= 13.2% A= 15.8% AM= 15.8% SA= 52.6% Google scanning will have little effect on what I buy or provide access to SD=10.5% D= 18.4% A= 26.3% AM= 21.1% SA= 23.7% I find digital material on the web of interest to my users SD= 0.0% D= 21.1% A= 29% AM= 26.3% I provide links to that material SD= 52.6% A= 31.6% SA= 18.4% I feel ready to collection items that I find on the web D= 31.6% A= 18.4% AM= 23.7% SA= 13.2%

If I gave myself a grade in collection development, it would be… A = 35 % (13 people) B = 54 % (20 people) C = 11 % (4) D = 0 %

Areas in collection development that we want more information on: Collection Analysis & assessment Voyager/budget management RSS feeds Electronic archiving Acquiring non-serial digital materials Manga, graphic novels, esoteric press

The top resources used to identify material in various subject areas include: Publishers’ catalogs – 9 Book reviews – 6 Scholarly journals - 6 Listservs - 5 Bibliographies – 5 Vendor slips – 3 ABPR – 2 Web resources – 2 “Books received” in journals - 2

Library divisions replying to survey Administration – 2 people (5.4%) Arts & Humanities – 5 people (13.5%) Area Studies – 6 people (16.2%) Central Public Services – 4 people (10.8%) Law – 1 person (2.7%) PSED – 4 people (10.8%) Rare Book & Special Collections – 2 people (5.4%) Social Sciences – 6 people (16.2%) Technical Services- 2 people (5.4%)

18.8 % said some other way (see handout) Ways we learn best 45 % said Reading 25% said Forums 11.3 % said Table chats 18.8 % said some other way (see handout)

The Impact of the Long Tail: Why we need to change our ways The mainstream publishers are increasingly easier to track - where’s the challenge? Digital is the great equalizer - explosion of formats, communication Selection and preservation – what we know best – are critical to libraries and research, but more difficult, and require new skills

Examples for a new focus in collection development Fugitive literature project LOCKSS & the born digital Gaming Second Life Institutional repositories and scholarly communication

Learning from the Fugitive Literature Project Our focus happens to be hate groups in the Midwest, but what we want to understand goes well beyond any geographic or subject focus We want to understand how we can connect to the various people who have the skills that are needed but are not necessarily involved with or interested in subject areas we collect in Purpose of project is to think about new models for collection development – how do we be good stewards of digital content that is now or will probably be of scholarly interest? How do we identify this material, capture it, make it accessible, and preserve it? What are the skills we have now in collection development that we can use with more ephemeral digital material?

THE WAYBACK MACHINE – should we rely on the Internet Archive? How can I remove my site's pages from the Wayback Machine? The Internet Archive is not interested in preserving or offering access to Web sites or other Internet documents of persons who do not want their materials in the collection. By placing a simple robots.txt file on your Web server, you can exclude your site from being crawled as well as exclude any historical pages from the Wayback Machine. Internet Archive uses the exclusion policy intended for use by both academic and non-academic digital repositories and archivists. See our exclusion policy.

Sample problems with archives on Internet Archives www.archive.org http://newblackpanther.com/ http://www.galilei.com/stl/cofcc/

Sample of blog http://www.texas88sniper2.blogspot.com/ A blog is basically someone’s diary, but unlike the printed diaries or journals that we can buy or receive as gifts, capturing blogs has it own set of problems. When you crawl a blog, you can see the full content that the blogger posts to his or her blog, but you cannot necessarily get and capture the responses that the blogger gets.

Sample of bulletin board http://www.bok33.org/forum/index.php If an organization runs a bulletin board, all you can get with a crawl is the index.

Nevertheless, you can get good information from even a first level crawl…

LOCKSS the importance of identifying and archiving the born digital http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/ http://www.madhattersreview.com/ http://vectors.usc.edu/index.php?page=1

Second Life

New Ways to Deliver Content to Users…. http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/27/new-itunes-kiosk-in-development

Old skills, new connections Blurring of lines between selector, tech services, systems, reference Preservation, digital services & digital curation fully engaged Think like an archivist, but… Act like you’re 20 again Trust the vendors to do at least some of what you used to do Advocate for new forms of scholarly communication