Shared Monographic Collections Program Officer, OCLC Research 15 th November 2013 | RLUK St Andrews Members Meeting #RLUK2013 Right-scaling Stewardship 1 Constance Malpas
May 24, 2015
Shared Monographic Collections
Program Officer, OCLC Research
15th November 2013 | RLUK St Andrews Members Meeting
#RLUK2013
Right-scaling Stewardship
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Constance Malpas
Digitisation Scale Differentiation
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Library Digitisation – a US view
Maximising Access to our Collections in the Digital World
Cloud-Sourcing Research Collections:Key Finding: Mass digitized corpus in HathiTrust duplicates substantial portion of
academic print
0 20 40 60 80 100 1200%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Duplication of ARL University Library Holdings in HathiTrust Digital Library
% o
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tles D
uplic
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Rank in ARL Investment Index (2007-2008)
Median duplication in June 2009: 19%
Median duplication in June 2010: 31%
Median duplication in December 2010: 33%
How does RLUK situation
compare?
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47,624 titles5%
302,114 titles31%
University of Leeds Library (ERL) TitlesDuplicated in Hathi Trust Digital Library - Jan-
uary 2012
Digitised public domain (US) Digitised in copyright (US)
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0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 4,000,000 4,500,000 5,000,0000%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
July 2012 HathiTrust Overlap by Collection Size Selected RLUK Institutions
WorldCat Holdings - August 2012
Perc
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es D
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ated
Cambridge
Manchester
RLUK median overlap = 24% (titles)US context: ARL overlap ~34%
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Scale
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Center of gravity shifting
Many functions traditionally organised at ‘institution-scale’ are being re-organised at above-the-institution scale
Shared e-collections --
Shared services –
Shared print – National Monograph Strategy
UK context favors emergence of national-scale solutions
for core library operations is
Local group, regional, national
Cataloguing, selection/acquisition, stewardship
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Right-scaling stewardshipUS:
Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative
Why? Existing-inter-lending partnerships – strong networks of trustConstorial infrastructure – established governance structuresStrong federalist tradition – favors decentralised solutions
Florida Academic Repository
Mlchigan Shared Print Initative
shared print efforts increasingly organised at group, regional scale
US context favors emergence of group-scale solutions
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North American print book resource: 45.7 million distinct publications 889.5 million total library holdings
Coherence of regional print book collections is
strong
Shared stewardship – at what scale?
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transition from print to electronic has been slower for books than journals; less redundancy in system-wide inventory
library reputation still bound up with books; organisational transition is difficult
increased discoverability in the network puts new pressure on print supply chain
affordances of digitized and e-books differ; reader expectations are not yet fixed
Userbehaviours
Supply
DemandBran
d
Optimal scale of collaboration for books v. journals may differ
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Differentiation
Maximising Access to our Collections in the Digital World
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‘the gap that should most concern us in research libraries today is not the one that lies between physical and online documents, but the one that lies between commodity and non-commodity documents.’ (p.3)Rick Anderson. Can’t Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of
Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections. Ithaka S+R, 2013
In few collections
In many collections
A
Licensed
Purchased
Outside, inOCLC Collections Grid
Inside, out
Distinctive
Commodity
Library as brokerMaximise efficiency
Reputation management Maximise visibility
Then
Now
Low Stewardship
High Stewardship
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How Distinctive Are RLUK Collections?
0 2,000,000 4,000,000 6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,0000%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Proportion of titles held by <5 libraries in WorldCat
Titles in collection as represented in WorldCat
Median: 21%
Selective sample (ORLP)
But: scarcity (alone) is not a reliable indicator
of research value
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Centers of Distinction: Subjects
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Centers of Distinction: Identities
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SAINT ANDREWS UNIV LIBR
NATURAL HIST MUS
BRITISH LIBR REFERENCE COLLECTIONS
NATIONAL LIBR OF SCOTLAND
CAMBRIDGE UNIV
MCGILL UNIV
NEW YORK PUB LIBR
EDINBURGH UNIV LIBR
PRINCETON UNIV
SIMPSON UNIV
TEXAS A&M UNIV SAN ANTONIO
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948)
Total Works in WorldCat = 146
St Andrews indisputably the ‘go-to’ location for materials related to Thompson
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Shared monographic collections . . .
Less about de-selection
More about re-selection
Surfacing and syndicating distinctive assets
that support and amplify institutional reputation
Right-scaling solutions that maximise value, use
Thanks for your attention.
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