1. Collections and budgets: libraries and publishers and collaboration
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian

2. Genesis
"Universities are here to make the world a better place: as their direct purpose, not a by product” Prof Stephen Parker Vital role of collections

3. Kautto-Koivula and Huhtaniemi

4. Perceptions of the roles of the academic library
Ithaka S+R
Tenopir

5. Ithaka study. Key findings (1)
The largest shares of respondents cite the library’s role as a purchaser of resources as very important. Larger shares of humanists than academics from other disciplines identify each of the library’s functions as very important, especially it’s service-oriented roles.
Though less than one-fifth of academics surveyed indicate that they think that their students have strong research skills, there exists little consensus regarding whose primary responsibility it should be to develop these skills.
When searching for academic literature, academics favour their library’s website, scholarly databases or publicly available search engines over the library building.

6. Key findings (2)
Respondents report that they value established scholarly dissemination methods, prioritize publishing for audiences in their sub-discipline and discipline, and select journals in which to publish based on characteristics such as topical coverage, readership, and impact factor.
Academics from the social sciences, medical sciences and natural and physical sciences have begun to embrace digital research methods while humanists feel that new practices might not be relevant or valuable to the types of research that they conduct.
Regarding data curation, academics tend to work with research datasets or collections of media on their own computers, and think they could best be supported through access to commercial software or institutional repositories.

7. Research practices

11. Tenopir studies (ANU) Increasingly library focused –
One third of respondents (32.7%, 18 of 55) do not have a personal subscription
Average number of personal subscriptions is 2 (M=2.45, SD=2.91)
Print is the predominant form for personal subscriptions.
Academic staff who published 5-10 items in the last two years read the most books and other publications

12. Libraries – roles within the academy

16. Most article and book readings are for research and writing; other publications are read more for current awareness and research.
ANU academic staff members on average spend 133 hours per year with library-provided material, equivalent to 16.6 eight-hour days annually

17. Australian National postgraduate students, on average, spend 254 hours per year of their work time with library-provided material, or the equivalent of eight-hour days annually

18. Ithaka studies of Group of 8 libraries
Survey in 2014/5
Go8
Melbourne
New South Wales
Queensland
Sydney
Western Australia

20. Digital natives

21. Reviewing collections
Review value
Factors include:
Relevance to research and teaching
Cost and use
Cost per use
Competitor products
Degree of uniqueness
Workflow costs – cataloguing, processing

23. Text books vs scholarly monographs Open access
Knowledge unlatched and the demand for new models
Open access text books have been found to produce better student retention, higher marks and greater literacy

24. https://openreflections. wordpress

25. Comments/questions