ASA 2012 Presentation

The Role of the Modern Intermediary

And What Constitutes Value in the Library of 2012

State of Libraries in North America

75-80% of library collections are electronically delivered

Library budgets are fragile

Value & return on investment of collection spend is crucial

Librarians are moving rapidly into cloud computing

Librarians are collaborating more than ever

Services Needed from Intermediaries

•Providing better subscription maintenance

•Tracking of publishing by local faculty

•Overlap analysis of packages & aggregators

•APIs and cloud services

•Consortium support

Subscription Maintenance Stories

Local Author Tracking

•Librarians are collaborating more and more with institutional research offices

•Both attempting to understand local publishing landscape

•Both trying to maximize support funds

•Both trying to quantify research support

•Both working closely with faculty

Overlap Analyses

•Need to look at all coverage of titles

•Need to evaluate where usage is occurring

•Need to be able to show coverage from different access points

•Need to know Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, Google Citation, SNIP

•Need to be able to calculate cost per use for each instance of access

Cloud Computing Services

•Need to be able to link data from your systems to other data management tools

•Need ONIX implementations & EDIfact processing

•Need full service agents who understand proxy services, OpenURL protocols, and hosting services

•Need local data management spaces within your systems

•APIs allowed/available to help create data bridges

Services Open for Consortia

•Consortia partners need to be able to share data with other libraries

•Individual consortia partners need to be able to use multiple vendors in consortium

•Need to be able to track what is held locally and what is held collectively

•Need to readily separate out local only from shared resources usage

•Consortia managers need to be able see cost information from multiple providers

Thank You!Jill Emery, Collections LibrarianPortland State Universityjemery@pdx.edu