Levine-Clark, Michael, “Academic Library Monograph Collections and Mobile Technology: Trends and Opportunities,” Invited. Academic eBook Future and Opportunities, University of Hong Kong Libraries, February 22, 2012.

1. Academic Library Monograph
Collections and Mobile Technology:
Trends and Opportunities
Michael Levine-Clark
Collections Librarian
University of Denver
Academic eBook Future and Developments
Hong Kong University
February 22, 2012

2. Mobile Devices

3. 1990

4. 2010

9. Academic Library Collections

10. Collection Development Trends
• Decreasing space
• eBooks
– DDA
– POD
• Shrinking budgets
• Emphasis on Discovery
• Disaggregation,
unbundling
• Greater collaboration

11. Decreasing Collections Space
• Campus core too valuable
– Less stack space
• Full storage facilities
• Decreasing storage options

12. Penrose Library
1972 2012

13. A Potential Solution
• eBooks/local POD helps with:
– Space
– Off-campus access
– Searchability
– Multi-user access
– Satisfying different user needs (p vs e)

14. Slow Transition to eBooks
• Lack of content
• (Almost) no local POD options
• Interface issues
– Lack of ereader compatibility

15. For eBooks to Work, We Need
• Compatibility
– Device agnostic
• Easy transfer
• Reasonable DRM

16. Libraries are Doing it Wrong

18. Adobe Digital Editions

21. Too Many Steps!
• Library Catalog
• EBL
– Open
– Download
• Adobe Digital Editions
• Nook

22. No Space = No Browsing
• Loss of serendipitous
discovery
• Major faculty
concern

23. The Browsing Problem
• Books in storage
• One book – one call number
• No option for eBooks
• No option for books not in collection
• No option for consortial partners
• No option for books already checked out

24. The Browsing Solution
• Digital browsing via catalog
– Any format
– Physical availability irrelevant
– One book can have many locations
• A mobile option?
– QR code for physical location
– Digital options nearby

25. Decreasing Budgets
• Disproportionate impact on monographs
– Fewer dollars = fewer books

26. Demand-Driven Acquisition
• eBooks combined
with POD (ideally)
– eBooks combined with
print (really)
• Solves multiple
problems
– Space
– Budget
– Format

27. Definitions
• Patron-Driven
Acquisition (PDA)
– Faculty
Requests/Input
– Use Data
• Demand-Driven
Acquisition (DDA)
– Meets immediate
need

28. Demand-Driven Acquisitions Goals
• Broaden the collection
– More titles
– More publishers
– More subjects
• Match acquisitions to immediate
demand
– Pay at point of need
– Pay for amount of need
– Short-term loans
– Purchase-on-demand

29. University of Denver
EBL Data (5/1/10-6/30/11)
Actual List
325 titles purchased $23,753 $23,753
3,599 titles with at least $49,171 $236,037
one STL
6,477 titles with at least $0 $473,378
one browse
Total (10,401 titles) $72,924 $733,168
Savings $660,244

30. Reconceiving Library Collections
• Traditional Model
– Building a collection
– Library as steward of cultural record
– Providing resources for current research/teaching
• DDA
– Allows a collection based on access
– Primary goal: providing resources for current
research/teaching

31. DDA | Discovery
• Can’t buy it if you can’t find it
• Can’t find it if it’s not where you
look
• Library discovery tools must work
where users are

32. What We Know About Mobile
• Surpassing desktop ownership/usage
• Changing user expectations
– Immediate access!
• Download
• Request
• Changing user behavior
– Purchase, download

33. Library Catalogs
• Don’t take advantage of
mobile:
– No location information
– Often no ability to request an
item for delivery/to be held
– No ability to check out with
device
– Limited by idea of traditional
catalog/services

34. Libraries Need To
• Respond to mobile
technology:
– Immediate access
– Anywhere
• Even for print

35. Disaggregation, Unbundling
• Of collections
– Fewer packages
– End of the big deal?
• Of content
– Article vs. journal
– Chapter vs. book
Smaller pieces for
smaller devices

37. Collaboration
• In purchase
– e or e/p
• In storage
• In drawing down
print collections

38. Shared Collections
• Shared e-access
– Multiple business
models for e
(subscription, purchase,
package, DDA)

39. Dispersed Collections
• One print copy to share
consortially
• Shared storage
• Reliance on partner
libraries

40. Remote Collections, Remote Access

41. Mobile Technology
Library Collections

42. Thank You
Michael Levine-Clark
michael.levine-clark@du.edu