Mod 4 Class 1

LIBR534 – Health information sources & services

Module IV: CollectLecture 1- Transition to Online

March 11, 2010Greg Rowell & Dean Giustini, SLAIS Adjunct faculty

Module IV Class I - Agenda• Collection Development in Biomedicine• Shift to e-journals• Shift to e-books• Articles • Break• Mini presentations reference tools

- print vs online

Rowell-Giustini – LIBR534

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Learning objectives

By the end of this class you will have• Learned about issues, selection aids and criteria for collection

development in biomedicine• Reviewed transition issues in move from print to electronic• Been given exposure to wide variety of reference tools – many of

which have transitioned from print to online versions • Discussed the impact of the transition from online to print

resources in biomedical libraries

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Collection Development in Biomedicine• Collection Consideration

• Selection Tools and Aids

• Evaluation Criteria

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Issues in collection development

• what is my annual collections budget? • what is the overall scope of the library collection? • how do I balance print and digital resource needs?• free versus fee-based resources; • duplication of identical sources, multiple vendors, online

access and authentication, adaptability of database interfaces

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Discard or Retain Print

Discard Retain - does E equal P - embargo on e-version - Is E ILL eligible - quality of e-version

images

- Non subscription costs - archive- shelving space - open or closed stacks- processing - personnel

- user preference

Tenopir et al. 2009 Variations in article seeking and reading patterns of academics: What makes a difference? Lib Information Sci Res, 31: 139-148.

Table 5Source format of reading by subject discipline in the U.S. and Australia, 2004–2005(n=1388, χ2=146.387, p=.000).

Age Source format of reading TotalPrint Electronic Unknown

Med/Health 33.1% 61.7% 5.2% 100.0

Eng/Tech 18.9% 62.2% 18.9% 100.0

Sciences 24.3% 67.8% 7.9% 100.0

Soc Sciences 42.7% 51.1% 6.2% 100.0

Humanities 68.5% 27.6% 3.9 % 100.0

Tenopir et al. 2009 Variations in article seeking and reading patterns of academics: What makes a difference? Lib Information Sci Res, 31: 139-148

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Table 24Source format of reading by age of faculty in the U.S. and Australia, 2004–2005(n=1357, χ2=76.479, p=.000).

Age Source format of reading TotalPrint Electronic Unknown

Age under 30 9.8% 67.1% 23.2% 100.0

Age 31–40 28.5% 62.3% 9.1% 100.0

Age 41–50 40.5% 51.9% 7.5% 100.0

Age 51–60 44.0% 50.9% 5.2% 100.0

Age over 60 48.7% 48.1% 3.2% 100.0

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Collection Development Tools• reference questions• reviews in scholarly journals or newspapers• approval books and slips• publishers' and university press announcements; • recommendations from physicians, nurses, pharmacists; • course reserve lists • standard lists, e.g., Brandon-Hill and Doody's Lists • catalogues from professional associations• stock lists from major vendors; • catalogues of government documents; • interlibrary loan requests; • Login Brothers newsletters. • Scholarly publishing and communication

UBC ebooks in the Life Sciences

Jason Price and John McDonald, “To supersede or supplement: profiling aggregator e-book collections vs. our print collections,” November 6, 2008

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Evaluation Criteria

Article exercise and discussion• Lingle, Virginia A. and Robinson, Cynthia K.(2009)

'Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 1', Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 6: 3, 193-210. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15424060903178879

• Lingle, Virginia A. and Robinson, Cynthia K.(2009) 'Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 2', Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 6: 4, 279-293. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15424060903364750