Reviews changing pattern of research-oriented collection development: the pre-Web era and the impact of the digital revolution; the current picture – while many things have changed the concept of stewardship remains important, although it has slipped down the agenda; collaborative stewardship may well point the way forward – libraries working cooperatively and in conjunction with national organisations.

1. Aggregating Responsibility for
Research Collections
John A MacColl
University of St Andrews
Research Support: New Roles, New Relationships
Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group
University of Glasgow Library, 18 June 2013

2. Have we changed?
Our pre-Web mindset
• The Collection
• The Catalogue
• Cat & Class
• Books & journals

3. The Atkinson View – mid-90s
• The essential selectivity
of collections
• A library-controlled
zone
• Preserve the authority
of the paper library

4. The Atkinson View – mid-00s
• The challenge of archiving
• Need for research libraries to
coordinate print archiving
• Need for research libraries to
coordinate digital
preservation

5. The centre cannot hold
• Different approaches to UKRR
• What should we be storing?
• What should we be preserving?
• What is a good repository?

6. Loss (Authority AND Control)
• ‘Every reader their book-
like object’
• Fifty Shades of Grey
(literature)

7. (Yes) we have changed
• Journal prices have gone out of
control
• Content has rushed in
• Student experience has been
revaluated
• Institutions have become more
competitive
• Access has become king
• Libraries have become divorced
from stewardship
• But stewardship has remained
necessary

8. Collaborative Stewardship
UKRR – US regional print stores – Hathi – Portico – CLOCKSS – JSTOR
– EuropePMC – UK OpenMirror …
OCLC/COPAC/TEL …
Passive redundancy (benign neglect)
Active redundancy (the new challenge)

9. ‘In the centre, me’

10. Governance (who’s got the power?)
The institutional
library
Institutional libraries acting
collectively can be powerful
in directing or creating new
agencies, eg OCLC,
JISC Collections, SCONUL
Performance Indicators,
Hathi Trust, UKRR, the ILL
network, Portico, KB+, new
Jisc

11. What does it mean for us?
• Ask not ‘What can these agencies do for us?’
But rather
• ‘What do we want?’
• ‘How much do we have to spend?’
• Organise our buying power!
• Cut through the agency competition and poor agenda
coordination
• Consider the implications of JISC-Jisc reformation
• We have 40 years of best practice

12. Sneak Preview: a new research library
cooperative agenda?
• Shared print
• National Monograph
Strategy
• Jisc Collections
• COPAC Collections
Management
• KB+
• A UK Open Mirror
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13. Thank You!