Collections and the falling dollar Hoping to prune wisely

Where we are Significant drop in the dollar since 2014 Significant impact of reductions in the library budget since 2014 Hedging only saved us in the short term, next year is going to hurt just as much

Sources of Inspiration Credit where it’s due – presentations at Datasets meeting by: Greg Anderson Push back on increases Get institutional support to do so Majella Pugh Tools for evaluating risk Ideas around peripheral vision in decision-making

Information for Decision-making Usage statistics Usage consolidation with EBSCO will help with large packages Some resources always a pain to evaluate this way Cost per Use Risk to university business of cancellation Risk to library budget of reinstatement

What we’re planning Two pronged approach: Review what we already have, and keep only resources we demonstrably need Record all the data used for future reviews Push back on increases for resources we keep Publisher responses will be instructive

Pitfalls and problems? Abstracting database use can be hard to assess, especially with platforms like Proquest Communication is key to avoiding obvious blunders, as is responsiveness Timing is tricky – need to get major serial renewal done by end of August, but some mid- year titles not impacted until 2017 Much of the data collation is still manual and mediated