eBooks: from a collection development perspective
Collection Development Budget allocation Selection of resources including identifying user needs Acquisition Collection evaluation
Snapshot of ACU 10,874 EFTSU in ,213 staff FTE Six campuses from Brisbane to Ballarat A library on each campus Electronic Services Unit (national unit)
eBooks at ACU EbooksCollections Individual Titles ACLS Humanities17000 Ebook Library (EBL)010 Ebrary Ebsco Business Source Premier ebooks1370 Etitle (James Bennett)2100 Knovel07 Naxos Spoken Word Library4100 Netlibrary Oxford Scholarship Online (4 subject collections)14650 PsychBooks6000 Safari Business Books Online10680 Safari Tech Books Online040 SpringerLink ( ): (4 subject collections)39530 Total (18/03/08) Grand Total48,140
A new Collection Development policy One Library (Library Strategic Plan 2006 to 2009) Growth in online teaching (72 fully online units and most face to face units have an online component) Student dissatisfaction with collection (Rodski 2006)
Budget Allocation New collection development policy 2007 Four line items with thanks to the Newcastle University model: –print serials, electronic serials, print books, and electronic books
Identifying user needs Liaison Librarians Working with academics User chooses – staff and students
Selection Cost License – multi-campus, no. of concurrent users, course packs, walk-in access, interlibrary loans Platform – plug-ins, accessibility, ease of use, number of difference platforms
Acquisition Collection Development Committee/ Liaison Librarians Preference for collections vs individual titles Verde
Collection Evaluation Collection Development Policy Usage statistics Ebrary usage Use Sessions Pages Viewed Pages Copied Pages printed Jan-May
The Future Decentralised ordering to liaison librarians More effective collection development processes Improved access to ebooks Marketing Preservation