Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections

Walters, William H.

doi:10.5860/crl.69.6.576

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“…Hopefully, this research will increase awareness amongst LIS educators of current trends, not well represented in either collection development texts or professional standards. Indeed, one participant stated "JIT collections is being added to this class next time I teach it", while another indicated they were not aware of the trend of placing "renewed emphasis on book collections" rather than serial subscriptions, as outlined by Walters (2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collection management and the budget crunch: are we adequately preparing library students for current practices?

Hedlund

Copeland²

2013

Collection Building

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IntroductionIn an ideal world professional practice, library associations' standards and library education would reflect one another. For many aspects of library science education, professional standards are abundant. However, with regards to collection development and management practices there are few actual standards dedicated solely to collection development practices. Three guidelines are available from the RUSA site: writing reviews, liaison relations, and bibliography In addition to considering the strategies for inclusion in the revision of the guide to collection policies, the authors wanted to see if these strategies are included in LIS curriculum. LIS educators who teach collection-related courses were surveyed in an effort to understand the influence of these practices on curriculum and to encourage a unity among practice, teaching and professional standards. Literature ReviewMany studies have examined the influence of practice on LIS curriculum. This usually takes the form of evaluating curriculum for evidence that supports professional standards, as well as surveying library educators, students and practitioners. Domain areas covered include reference, instruction, school media, and general accreditation standards. There are no existing studies that look specifically at collection management education, practice and professional guidelines. Several studies discussed below illustrate the importance of connecting the three aspects of professional education and development.In an overarching study, Lester and Van Fleet (2008) examined the use of professional competencies and standards documents by LIS educators for curriculum planning, by public library directors for hiring and professional development decisions, and by state library development officers for certification requirements and developing professional education. A content analysis of program presentation documents submitted to the American Library

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, one participant stated, "JIT collections is being added to this class next time I teach it" while another indicated they were not aware of the trend of placing "renewed emphasis on book collections" rather than serial subscriptions, as outlined by Walters (2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection management and the budget crunch: are we adequately preparing library students for current practices?

Hedlund

Copeland²

2013

Collection Building

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“…However, these cuts may also be degrading other aspects of the collection such as monograph purchases, as well as limiting available services that libraries could offer (Walters, 2008).…”

Section: Price Sensitivity To Price Increasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information creates relative bargaining power in vendor negotiations

Macy

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how libraries can create relative bargaining power and presents a methodology for analyzing collections and preparing for negotiations. Design/methodology/approach A brief literature review of the current state of collection budgets and electronic resource prices is presented prior to proposing a methodology based on business analysis frameworks and techniques. Findings Electronic resource subscription prices are increasing at a rate significantly higher than inflation, while collection budgets grow slowly, remain stagnant or decrease. Academic libraries have the ability to counteract this trend by creating relative bargaining power through organizational efforts that take advantage of size and concentration (e.g. consortia), vertical integration through practices such as library publishing and open access and through individual efforts using information. This paper proposes metrics and methodologies that librarians can use to analyze their collections, set negotiation priorities and prepare for individual resource negotiations to create relative bargaining power. Practical implications The proposed methodology enables librarians and buyers of information resources to harness the information available about their electronic resource collections to better position themselves when entering negotiations with vendors. Originality/value This paper presents metrics, some not commonly used (i.e. average annual price increase/decrease), that aid in understanding price sensitivity. Pareto analysis has been traditionally used to analyze usage, but this paper suggests using it in relation to costs and budgets for setting negotiation priorities.

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“…This shows that journal subscriptions would decline by 60 per cent but that book numbers would increase by 35 per cent over a 20 year period. The author (Walters, 2008) argues for a far more selective approach to journal purchase combined with interlibrary loan as "an acceptable substitute" (to journal subscription). Well worth reading -and one might suggest acting on in teaching universities.…”

Section: Document Supply and Interlibrary Loanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 67

McGrath¹

2009

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the most recent literature concerning document supply and related matters. Design/methodology/approach -The reading of over 150 journals as well as monographs, reports and web sites forms the basis of the approach. Findings -Electronic books remain a minority market but the literature at least remains optimistic and readers are improving in quality and acceptability. Open Access continues to grow but with continuing and widely differing views on its impact. Increasing concerns are being expressed about the monopolistic implications of Google and there are some stout counter-arguments. A number of interesting articles on document supply show it to be in robust health. Originality/value -The paper represents a useful source of information for librarians and others interested in document supply and related matters.

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Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Collection management and the budget crunch: are we adequately preparing library students for current practices?

Collection management and the budget crunch: are we adequately preparing library students for current practices?

Information creates relative bargaining power in vendor negotiations

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 67

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