Mary Mallery, Ph.D. Montclair State University VALE Members Council Meeting June 3, 2010.

VALE ebook Collections

Task Force ReportMary Mallery, Ph.D.

Montclair State University VALE Members Council Meeting

June 3, 2010

Mary Mallery, Montclair State U. (Chair) Regina Cannizzaro, County College of Morris Robert Egan, Raritan Valley CC Sulekha Kalyan, Seton Hall U. Mary Marks, Fairleigh Dickinson U. Gracemary Smulewitz, Rutgers U. Elizabeth Sosnowska, UMDNJ Pamela Theus, William Paterson U. Melissa Weissbard, NJIT Sharon Yang, Rider U.

Task Force Members:

Consider and provide recommendations to implement a consortial approach to purchasing ebooks, with the possible goal of sharing titles purchased by individual members. 

Examine the idea of centrally funding an ebook collection to which all VALE members have access.

VALE ebooks Collections Task Force charges:

1) Perform an environmental scan, beginning with a brief survey, to prioritize the focus of the shared collection; and assess whether a number of different shared collections might best fit the needs of different kinds of VALE libraries.

Tasks to Perform:

2) Hold an ebook Collections Demo Day in late May/early June with presentations by early ebook collections adapters from VALE libraries and by vendors, with the help of Eric Zino and Timothy Cherubini of Lyrasis.

Tasks to Perform:

3) Communicate with key people involved in other shared ebook collection initiatives, such as the Orbis Cascade Alliance (covering Oregon and Washington) and VIVA (covering Virginia).

4) Write a report on findings and recommendations for VALE.

Tasks to Perform:

ebook Collections Survey Responses: 71% of VALE Members

5%

22%

39%

34%Research Libraries

4-year Colleges - State

4-year colleges - In-dependent

Community Colleges

Current ebook Collections:

eTextbooks eReference ebook(monograph)

No ebooks of-fered

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Library ebook Expenditures:

$0 (Proj. Gutenberg)

$1-$5,000 $5,000-$10,000

$10,000-$20,000

$20,000+ No answer0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

ebook Mobile Applications

Kindle Nook Sony Other (Web-based)0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Current ebook Vendors Used:

VENDOR COUNT PERCENT

netLibrary 21 51%

Ebrary 12 29%

Other 11 27%

Safari 6 15%

EBL 3 7%

Access Medicine 2 2%

Books 24x7 1 2%

Books@Ovid 1 2%

Current ebook Publishers Used:

PUBLISHER COUNT PERCENTGale Reference 22 54%

Oxford 18 44%

Other 8 20%

Wiley 8 20%

Sage 6 15%

ABC Clio 5 12%

Cambridge 5 12%

Elsevier 5 12%

Springer 4 10%

Purchasing Models Used

Packaged Col-lections

Single Title Acquisitions

Patron Driven Acquisitions

Other0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

Purchasing Models Preferred:

Packaged Col-lections

Single Title Acquisitions

Patron Driven Acquisitions

Other0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

Licensing Models Used

Perpetual Ownership

Subscription Term License

License to Own Other0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

Licensing Models Preferred

Perpetual Ownership

Subscription Term License

License to Own Other0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

FACTOR COUNT PERCENTConsortium Pricing 39 95%

Ease of Use 29 71%

Usage Reports Availability

20 49%

Perpetual Access 17 41%

Shared Access 16 39%

Interlibrary Loan Rights

7 17%

Limits on Concurrent Users

7 17%

Other 2 5%

Most important VALE factors :

General Reference (38% rated "Most appealing")

Business (34% rated "Most appealing")

Health Sciences (including Nursing) (31% rated "Most appealing")

Top Three Collection Subjects:

VALE ebook Purchasing Timeframe

TIME FRAME COUNT PERCENT

In the next year 22 54%

In the next three years

19 46%

Not interested 0 0%

We have no plan to include ebooks

0 0%

Create an ebook Collections Subcommittee of the VALE Electronic Resources Committee with charges to:

1) Investigate the market for consortial purchasing

2) Select ebook Collections for purchasing with subjects targeted from the ebook Collections Survey

3) Arrange for Demo Days of targeted ebook Collections that include practicing librarians discussing selection and access issues

4) Develop a funding model to support the program in an equitable manner

Task Force Recommendations:

Questions?Mary Mallery, Ph.D.

Chair, VALE ebooks Task ForceEmail: mallerym@mail.montclair.edu