1. Fewer Cooks at SIU-Carbondale
Jonathan Nabe
Collection Development 2.0: The Changing Administration of Collection Development
ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section
(CMDS), ALA Annual Conference
July 11th, 2009

2. What?
3 Collection Development Librarians (CDLs) hired (Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities)
Full responsibility for all aspects of CD: selection, analysis, policy, etc.
Liaisons to have advisory role only

3. Why? Achieve better balance across all fields
Establish comprehensive oversight
Create more designated focus for CD activities
Study and incorporate developments in the field
Conduct statistical analysis
Allow for new activities for liaisons

4. So What? Increased Oversight Better balance Better collection?
Collection Development Policy, Withdrawal Policy
Change in Approval Plan
Detailed evaluation of “big deals”
Allocation formula
Better balance
Better collection?
Too early to tell

5. Wave of the Future? The Good: The Bad:
New outlook, and increased attention
Opportunity to transform Liaison jobs
The Bad:
Heavy workload, diverse fields of responsibility
Liaisons lose entrée with faculty

6. More on the Future What do we collect?
No longer just what the publishers offer
We can afford decreasing share of that universe anyway
Materials produced within our institutions
Institutional repositories

7. More on the Future Current trends Pay-per-view
Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA)
Pay-per-view
ILL
Cooperative Collection Development

8. Is your library a repository?
Current trends work against libraries’ role as archival authority:
Electronic journals and books:
a license is only as good as the power to enforce it
PDA:
many books and people left out
Pay-per-view:
what about the patrons of tomorrow?
ILL:
unsustainable

9. Fewer Cooks at SIU-Carbondale
Jonathan Nabe