Fewer Cooks at SIU-Carbondale Jonathan Nabe Collection Development 2.0: The Changing Administration of Collection Development ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS), ALA Annual Conference July 11th, 2009
What? 3 Collection Development Librarians (CDLs) hired (Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities) Full responsibility for all aspects of CD: selection, analysis, policy, etc. Liaisons to have advisory role only
Why? Achieve better balance across all fields Establish comprehensive oversight Create more designated focus for CD activities Study and incorporate developments in the field Conduct statistical analysis Allow for new activities for liaisons
So What? Increased Oversight Better balance Better collection? Collection Development Policy, Withdrawal Policy Change in Approval Plan Detailed evaluation of “big deals” Allocation formula Better balance Better collection? Too early to tell
Wave of the Future? The Good: The Bad: New outlook, and increased attention Opportunity to transform Liaison jobs The Bad: Heavy workload, diverse fields of responsibility Liaisons lose entrée with faculty
More on the Future What do we collect? No longer just what the publishers offer We can afford decreasing share of that universe anyway Materials produced within our institutions Institutional repositories
More on the Future Current trends Pay-per-view Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) Pay-per-view ILL Cooperative Collection Development
Is your library a repository? Current trends work against libraries’ role as archival authority: Electronic journals and books: a license is only as good as the power to enforce it PDA: many books and people left out Pay-per-view: what about the patrons of tomorrow? ILL: unsustainable
Fewer Cooks at SIU-Carbondale Jonathan Nabe jnabe@lib.siu.edu