1. Identity of a Brand new library J. K. Vijayakumar
Libraries are at cross roads and we all are trying together to resolve the identities of the Libraries. What about the identities of Libraries of brand new Institutions, which never existed before. Another aspect is that, how those libraries helping to build the brand of that Institution, in addition to their own brand building.
J. K. Vijayakumar

2. Opened in 2009, it’s a RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
Breakthrough research is conducted to address challenges of global significance, in the areas of
Water
Food
Energy
Environment
Opened in 2009, it’s a RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
Towards creation of an enduring model for advanced education and scientific research.
Opened in 2009, its an inter disciplinary research university, research focus is to resolve issues around the basic need of humanity - water, food, energy and environment

3. KAUST : University Library
Born digital
Open 24x7
Approximately 2.5% of collection is in print
Staff from 13 countries
If you were given a chance to build a University library, collections and services – what do you do? How do you give birth to a brand new library? Do you try to produce the best baby?

4. Collection Development All Print Vs Selections
From 2011
Print copy Orders only
recommended titles
Demand based Print collection
No more shelves will be added
Add titles, at least one person has recommended
Shift collection building from the Librarians to Patrons (no selection Tools)
Weeding policy and procedures in 2015
Right Physical Sizing from early years
Evidence: 20% of the books account for 80% of the use (Richard Trueswell, 1969 )
2009 Library Opens
(with huge online collection)
Buy and keep more print too
Build comprehensive S&T collection
Add print books 10,000 per year
Selection Tools: Choice Review, YBP Gobi, RCLWeb
Assumptions: Best S&T Library needs all relevant print books
Though we have started with a huge online collection and digital archives, the intial plan was to have more print books as well. In 2011, we decided to fully shift to e-direction, with very limited print collection on demand. Right Physical Sizing, which many established libraries are trying now through shared storage etc, wont be an issue for us in the future.

5. Collection Development Print Vs e-only
New environment
Researcher needs
anytime – anywhere
Shift from whole book to chapter level
Ebooks were booming
“With USD 60,000 we can have all of the words in the Library of Congress books collection digitized (26 Million volumes). When a book is about one megabyte, 26 million megabytes is 26 terabytes.
Brewster Karhle, Internet Archive (TED talk 2007)
Digital natives
Better Use of library space
Started practicing e-only policy
No print journals from the starting
No print theses & Dissertations from the starting
Patron Recommendations
will buy print, if they are not available as ebook, or there is a specific need to have it as Print.
I don’t need to explain the young researchers digital preference and the availability of all resources in online. It is to be noted when Brewster told this, realise how the technology is cheap. We buy print copies, if it is recommended only.

6. Collection Development New Analysis tools
One challenge we faced was the analysis of usage, and we are experimenting JUSP now, as one among first non-UK customer.

7. Subscription to Publishing model
Common Challenges:
Subscription to Publishing model
Negotiating subscription licenses with all Publishers to include
Off-set models terms
Green OA deposit terms
Common challenge for all of us from academic libraries. How many times we have to spend for research and scholarly communication? How do we show library’s identity in research funding savings?
Tamarkin and Vijayakumar, 2016

8. KAUST & Green Open Access
Established an active Institutional Repository in 2011
First Open Access mandate in the region from KAUST, June 2014
Many OA promotional programs in the Campus and the region
Libraries role in scholarly communication was addressed from the starting, and repository and OA policy were introduced later. As the first OA mandated institution in the region, we are also outreaching the concept very widely.

9. KAUST repository today
Our commitment to OA and the tools are more visible from these numbers.
BaEssa 2017

10. As the early adopter and instructional member of ORCID, we not only helped the community to have their own profile identity, library has created its own identity to their research life cycle, and Universities research evaluation system. ORCID is integrated to PURE and Repository..

11. Again, helping to improve the research profile, we also embrace latest tools such as PLUMX to support the Altmetrics values of our community.

12. Search Interfaces and Systems From Search to Discovery
Then to Direct Discovery
As we have grown to 7 years now, actually we have changed our discovery tools – recent change was 6 months ago when we moved to SUMMON and named it as KORAL.

13. Other Services Subject Specialist Services
Instructions and Specialized Trainings
Document Delivery
Library Guides
Space for events

14. Future Digital preservation and long term-retention of special items.
Special Digital Collections (biological image collections, GIS images, etc. ).
E-Poster services.
Direct Discovery research.
Promote good practices in Research Data Management (RDM).
Services and initiatives around RDM.
Evolving scholarly record – transition from an article to a package (of  article and associated video, data, software methods, other media etc)
Ready to involve with “Resolving Identity” experiments and research together.