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OhioLINK Cooperative Collection Development Walking the Walk December 8,2003

How Libraries Can Succeed Despite the Odds Libraries Must Succeed Despite the Odds Libraries Will Surely Hang Separately…But Not Necessarily Together Watch Out - The Light at the End of the Acquisitions Tunnel is a Train Losing Ground Inch by Inch is Still Losing “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” Ronald Reagan

Council of State Governments American Council on Education Let’s Look at the Odds? Or Why OhioLINK and Why the Need to do More? “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” Everett Dirkson Library funding as a % of Higher Ed spending has decreased. Library funding compared to the growth in research funding and output has not kept pace. Library funding compared to material price increases has not kept pace. Library patron needs and expectations are more immediate and increasing.

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.” Margaret Thatcher The Directors’ Refrains “Please increase my budget so I can buy less information” “Please increase my budget so I can buy a smaller share of the published information and research”

SERIALS INCREASE 1985/86 103,700 SERIALS TITLES ,000 SERIALS TITLES INCREASE 55% SOURCE: ULRICH’S INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS DIRECTORY

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION UNDER SIEGE Since % Number of serials published worldwide - 6.5% North American research library serial collections + 50% Book production world-wide - 26% North American research library acquisition of monographs

Why Don’t We Do More Faster? The Inertia of the individual library as the economic unit of limited print purchases The Inertia of a mentality of use and need built on the static limitations of print The Inertia of a world of forced physical and economic rationing - Gatekeepers The Inertia of the “library in the vise grip” The pain is sooo gradual….we’re used to it “It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.” G. K. Chesterton

Compelling reasons to think otherwise Information resources are proliferating More information access is required to be relevant/successful Information costs are growing faster than individual library budgets It’s priced such that individual libraries cannot leverage significantly greater access on limited funds Ohio libraries DID NOT, DO NOT and WILL NOT have all the information resources their patrons need “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Giuseppe di Lampedusa

And we have thought otherwise 1989 planning paper called for the Ohio program “to be the most powerful statewide library and information system in the nation.” “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think!.” Ernest Rutherford

1989 planning paper vision: Better access to and coordination in purchasing of our shared collections Expanded access to electronic information resources Improved and advantageous economies in the purchase and use of electronic information resources Improved access to information infrastructure The promotion of improved scholarly communications

“One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.” Paul Nitze Economically sustainable, increased student and faculty access to and use of library provided information to support and improve instruction and research… as a consortium

“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.” Chuck Yeager NEW RULES Use the GROUP to Improve Unit Cost economies Adopt a mentality of EXPANDING and EVOLVING USE which is highly elastic based on ease of access Buy content strategically – account for the impact of the group and multiple formats of access Buy content strategically - allow for EXPANSION over Rationing. Gateway rather than Gatekeeper Buy content strategically - Look past the immediate vice grip

“One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.” Paul Nitze Economically sustainable, increased student and faculty access to and use of library provided information to support and improve instruction and research… as a consortium

Every solution has trade-offs – no panacea Library operations and jobs will change Library finances will change Faculty relationships and expectations will change License, terms, and conditions will change “Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” Samuel Johnson “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Giuseppe di Lampedusa

OhioLINK’s Service have already accomplished a great deal so far… How do we do more…since there is more to do ???

Are we buying the right combination of unique and duplicative titles?

How much “Just in Case” is affordable?

How do we integrate e-books with books to achieve maximum access for each dollar spent?

How do we afford more databases?

How do we build a bigger better EJC? Money that would be spent anyway delivers 2x,3x,4x,6x,10x, 1000x Costs controlled below market averages Costs controlled with expanded rather than diminished content Average Annual Journal Cost Increase for Typical Academic Research College Library Average Annual Cost Increase for Journals Licensed Through OhioLINK 2001 vs vs % 6.1% 8.0% 4.5% 2003 vs % Est. 8.0%

Expanded title use versus print collections

How do we afford to build cost effective digital collections?

Vendors journals EJC ISI Web of Science DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER Dataware DB’s ABC - CLIO Vendor Web DB’s CENTRAL CATALOG Ebsco netLibrary ELECTRONIC JOURNALS ELECTRONIC BOOKS REFERENCE/ RESEARCH DATABASES ETD- E-Theses & Dissertations. Vendor images Vendor videos Institutional videos and audio Institutional images C - Healey Lit collections Safari HOW?

“To learn is no easy matter and to apply what one has learned even harder.” Mao Tse-Tung How? By being committed to the “New Rules” Regardless of format: Improved Unit cost Expansion over Rationing Longer term view By Exploiting what we already know: Tranformed economics and expanded usage dynamics overwhelm library differences = vested self-interest

“One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.” Paul Nitze Economically sustainable, increased student and faculty access to and use of library provided information to support and improve instruction and research… as a consortium

OhioLINK: THE INFORMATION STRATEGY

“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” Samuel Johnson ”Why not upset the apple cart? If you don’t, the apples will rot anyway.” Frank Clark “Bad business practices, if left uncorrected, will drive out good business practices.” Ralph Nader “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” Albert Einstein