HSE Dublin North East Regional Library & Information Service Jean Harrison Regional Librarian Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

Creative Thinking For Challenging Times

HOSPITAL & HEALTH LIBRARY OR ACADEMIC LIBRARY

Library Model – whose clothes did we steal?

Do the Clothes Still Fit ?

Duplication of Efforts & Resources ?

Athens Online Resources Athens Access – 2007 – 19,829 Athens Access – 2008 – 16,747 Athens Access – ,837

Economic Reality

Print Journal Expenditure €43, €23,942

Information Needs Assessment Clinical and non clinical  Customised to their professional information needs Streamline library resources- fewer  Identify what’s used  Maximise their use  Library in 21 st century will cease to become a warehouse and become a software system.

Pay As You Use Paying for an entire subscription  Most printed journal articles are never read (Lang 1994)- electronic or print  Pay for items that are only read  Aggregators- WE pay for little used journals  Frustrating for librarians and users  Increasing our dependence on monopolising publishers and aggregators

Usage of resources Purchase should be based on actual usage rather than anticipated usage Some electronic resources usage reported at less than 10%?

Journal of Dog Hepatitis

INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Just in Case Traditional Academic Library Environment  Just in case or ownership approach  Expectation that one day users might want Journal costs, staff costs, storage & binding. User time

THE SOLUTION - Just in Time Current Awareness Service SDI

JUST IN TIME Assign more of budget away from journals to interlibrary loans Don’t copy academic model – use it Greater use of interlibrary loan sources  IHSLG, NULJ, IMI, Subito & British Library  Efficient and fast and economically sound  Not possible 5 years ago Co- operate with colleagues in purchasing journals – reduce duplication of resources

Subito – Document Supply – 302

Just in time –disadvantages Erosion of the life time benefit ? Physical Collection - available into the future? VFM? Repeat inter library loans Dependence on technology

SURVIVAL