Subtitle: Consortial PDA and Other Collection Development Adventures of the CTW Library Consortium
Speakers:
Elizabeth Hansen, Connecticut College
Patricia Tully, Wesleyan University
Lorraine Huddy, CTW Consortium
1. All for One and One for All! ACRL-NEC Conference May 14, 2010 Consortial PDA and Other Collection Development Adventures of the CTW Consortium
2. Presenters Lorraine Huddy, CTW Librarian for Collaborative Collection Projects Beth Hansen, Director, Information Services, Connecticut College, New London, CT Doris Kammradt, Head Librarian for Collections, Research and Instruction, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Pat Tully, University Librarian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
3. CTW Consortium Connecticut College Wesleyan University Trinity College
4. CTW Mellon Proposal April 2007 "CTW is requesting a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation to provide the resources necessary to undertake an in-depth analysis of the three existing collections and to move forward with a well developed plan for collaborative collection building, de-accessioning, and possible storage of duplicate titles. "
12. Use of CTW Funds - Year 2 February – April 2010 Total Unique Duplicates Triplicates CC 102 99 3 0 TC 64 53 9 2 WU 83 81 2 0 CTW 249 233 14 2 % of Total 93.6% 5.6% 0.8%
… the economic downturn that started in the fall of 2008. As I’m sure all the rest of you did, each of us sustained budget and staff reductions as a result of the downturn. Our acquisitions budgets were particularly hard hit. So we began to rethink our objectives, and concentrate not on saving space or increasing the variety of our resources, but on eliminating unnecessary duplication of new titles, and so reducing the effect of budget cuts on our ability to provide resources to our students and faculty. Now I’ll turn it over to Lorri, to talk about how we proceeded.