The Role of the Modern Intermediary And What Constitutes Value in the Library of 2012
May 24, 2015
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 [email protected]