Reducing Unintentional Duplication: Adventures & Opportunities in Cooperative Collection Development Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition November 4, 2011 Leslie Button, UMass Amherst Rachel Lewellen, UMass Amherst Kathleen Norton, Mount Holyoke College Pam Skinner, Smith College
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Reducing Unintentional Duplication: Adventures & Opportunities in Cooperative
Collection Development
Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial AcquisitionNovember 4, 2011
Kathleen Norton, Mount Holyoke CollegePam Skinner, Smith College
Five Colleges Consortium
• Amherst• Hampshire• Mount Holyoke• Smith• University of Massachusetts Amherst
5C Libraries Cooperation
• Long history dating back to 1950s• Strong resource sharing philosophy• Geographic proximity – 15 mile radius• 5C committees• Single shared ILS• Shared print repository• Delivery system that gets materials to users
within 24 hours (M-F)
Project Impetus
• Five Colleges Presidents and Chancellor sought increased cooperation between institutions
• Five Colleges Library Directors defined cooperative collection development as a strategic priority in 2008.
• Five Colleges Collection Management Committee assigned the implementation
• Interest in maintaining overlap where appropriate and retain flexibility to expand base of resources available to library users
Defining Policy and Project Goals
• Increase number of unique titles purchased• Utilize YBP as common supplier• Implement by July 1, 2009• Needed data to inform subject areas • High duplication with low circulation• Shift from 10 subject areas to all books
purchased
Implementation
• Required cooperation of selectors at all five campuses as well as engagement of the faculty
• Widely divergent campus sizes, acquisitions budgets, and collection development practices
Hampshire College
• Smallest (FTE = 1,450) and newest of the Five College campuses
• Purchases mainly support 100- and 200-level classes, duplicating local holdings as necessary
• For upper level courses, HC relies heavily on the other FC collections
• Views the FC Library collections holistically • No faculty selectors; no question of “buy in”• Moved to YBP; GobiTween facilitates selection
Amherst College
• Student FTE = 1,800• Librarians & faculty members place premium
on “browsability”• Very generously funded; often duplicates
purchases made by other Five College libraries• Amherst faculty & librarians pushed back re:
initial “one copy” proposal• Like Hampshire, moved to YBP