1. EBSCO Information Services The Changing Nature of Collection Management in the Digital Environment: From Independence to Interdependence Dan Tonkery VP Business Development EBSCO Information Services

2. 2 Review of forces shaping Collection Management Golden Age of Collection Development Shift to Collection Management Beginning of Knowledge Management Impact of technology infrastructures on teaching and research Building collections to support a distributive learning environment Products and services to support digital collections Case Study: OhioLink

3. EBSCO Information Services 3 Golden Age of Collection Development The period lasted from 1950 – 1975 Followed the rapid expansion of higher education Explosion of research funded by government in all science fields Strong U.S. currency Desire to build great research centers operating independently Era of the great “Bookmen” as University Librarians

4. EBSCO Information Services 4 Collection Management 1975-1990 Rise in commercialization of Scholarship – the Big “E” Library budgets unable to keep up with scholarly output Growth of Collection Development as a professional role Collection policy development, budget allocation and collections analysis Major usage studies under taken Cooperative collections development projects were tried but failed as either impractical or political casualties.

5. EBSCO Information Services 5 Emergence of new forces shaping Collection Management, 1985-2002 Economic constraints caused by skyrocketing serials costs Shift from humanities to sciences left library without strong power base on campuses Emergence of digital information systems Online catalog followed by electronic reference databases become influence on collections strategy Technology revolutionized the way scholarly information is published, organized and maintained.

6. EBSCO Information Services 6 Impact of technology infrastructures on teaching and research Libraries now must manage both print and digital resources Technology has only highlighted the divergence among disciplines and created unbalanced demands for access and support Libraries are finding it difficult to balance the needs of various disciplines and continue to support the needs of diverse library users. Libraries have had difficulty in building the technical infrastructure to fully participate in the new digital information systems.

7. EBSCO Information Services 7 Building collections to support distributive learning environment Libraries still holding on to both print and digital world Until preservation issue resolved, collections are still in both formats Digital information systems are too immature for trusted and reliable medium for the preservation of the scholarly record Users view is different – if it is not on the Web, it doesn’t exist Scholarly communication patterns are still intact Some see a replacement coming for scholarly communications where the scholars take over and become own publishers and archivists.

8. EBSCO Information Services 8 Building collections in the digital era Centrally organized information storage of research with cost- effective access Growth of linkage systems to take author/reader from citation to abstracts or full-text. Libraries are becoming aggregators and developing collections based on access to files not held in the library. Library providing access to digital collections on servers networked to publishers, government agencies, universities, and societies located around the world. Building validated collections of digital materials on the Web may be a role of collection development

9. EBSCO Information Services 9 And… New virtual library consortia are emerging across the country. Libraries are using digital information services to gain economies of scale, and unnecessary duplication, and provide faculties and students with more information at less cost. Real cooperative collection development has a new lease on life in the digital information system. Librarians should be leaders in organizing information resources in support of our new distributive learning environment.