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The University of Queensland Library

Majella Pugh

Associate Director, Collections & Information Resources

Library Resources & Technology Service

The University of Queensland

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• UQ Library collection

• Recap on 2011 landscape

• UQ Library’s three year PDA trial

• Ongoing developments

Outline

UQ Library

Collection

UQ Library collection

• Largest in Queensland

• Held across 14 locations• new warehouse – Gatton campus

• One of the largest Australian academic collections

• Over 2 million volumes

• Over 85,000 distinct journal titles in electronic and/or print format

• Over 900 networked databases, linking users to content

• Multiple copies of textbooks, including in High Use for quick access

• Over 30,000 DVDs and videocassettes

• Extensive manuscript, microform and pictorial collections• digitisation campaign

• Over 500,000 ebooks

eBooks @ UQ Library

• 2010: E-preferred policy

• 2011: 60/40 book funds allocated

• 2012: 80/20 -> 68/32

• 2013: 69/31

• 2012: allocated ~$3.5m to ebooks

• 20+ vendors – publishers & aggregators

• Purchase for online use – device use, secondary

• Cover academic subject spectrum: humanities -> sciences

– little English fiction

• Outright purchase preferred over subscriptions: archival rights

• Full MARC LCSH records – acquired, not in-house

e-Book views:

2009: 90,831

2010: 341,520

2011: 1,554,018

2012: 1,664,089* (*incomplete)

 

Full-text journal article downloads:

2009: 5,981,231

2010: 6,838,379

2011: 9,006,864

2012: 9,081,794* (*incomplete)

COUNTER compliant licensed resources only

E-collection use @ UQ Library

Identifying ebooks for UQ

• Alerting services

• Academics

• CAUL offers

• Vendors

• Communities: blogs, elists…

• Patron Driven Acquisition model

Accessing ebooks @ UQ

• Library catalogue

• Discovery tool – SUMMON

• Publisher/ vendor websites

• Linked from Blackboard

• Known title

• Browse

• Search

2011 landscape

eBook users

Source: Shrimplin et al, 2011 (content); modified Borchardt model

PrintersPrinters Technophiles

Book Lovers Pragmatists

UQ statistics – big academic publishers

UQ Library print… & big academic e-publishers

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Print

 Content Multiple

 Subjects Wide range

 

Purchase ModelTitle by title; Approval;

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 License n/a

Totals

2010 Loans/Views 583,792

Available Titles 1,267,287

Ratio X:1 0.5

Top TitleLoans/Views 389

Topic Cost accounting

Top 10 TitlesLoans/Views 3,048

% of 2010 Loans/Views

0.01%

≥1 Loan/View

Titles 283,863

% of Available 22%

≥100 Loans/Views

Titles 71

% of Available 0.01%

# Loans/Views 12,205

% of 2010 Loans/Views

1%

Springer

Springer

Sciences

Purchased entire years

Multiple use

106,279

43,525

2

1,010

Economics

4,353

4%

9,103

21%

126

0.3%

21,195

20%

UQ statistics – aggregators

UQ Library – aggregators

 EBL

  Content Multiple

  Subjects Wide range

  Purchase Model Title by title

  License Open (325 p/a)

Totals

2010 Views 17,732

Available Titles 3,339

View Ratio X:1 5

Top TitleViews 254

Topic Ecological economics

Top 10 TitlesViews 1,861

% of 2010 Views 10%

≥1 Views

Titles 2,886

% of Available 86%

≥100 Views

Titles 17

% of Available 0.5%

# Views 2,664

% of 2010 Views 15%

NetLibrary

Multiple

Wide range

Title by title

1 concurrent user

14,141

1,880

8

585

Roman history

2,483

18%

1,429

76%

19

1%

3,480

25%

Patron Driven

Acquisition

(ebooks)

Yum Cha: loads of choice

What is ebook PDA?

• Profile-driven model – subjects

• Parameters: level, years, language, format…

• MARC

• Triggered

• Auto-purchase

• Short term loans (STL)

• Authorised patrons

• Buy at point of need: JIT

• Deposit, or monthly bill

• High ROI

Why ebook PDA?Collections

• Introduces volume – fast

• Seamless

• Immediate access

• STL = try before buy

• No OOP risk

• Targets gaps

• Meets short term needs – fast

• Adds high demand, high risk items

• Streamlines Acquisitions staff workflows

Why ebook PDA?Engagement

• Reduces footprint: repurpose space

• Relevance: Google Age

• Involvement in patron life/ leisure

• Streamlines workloads: time -> patrons

eBook PDA challenges

• MARC

• Duplication

• Not so new

• Etextbooks

• PDF flatness

• Inconsistent licensing/

DRM

• ILLs

• MONEY!

• Subject coverage

• User experience

• Students vs researchers

• Acquisitions workflows

Lessons learned (ebook PDA)

• Communication: cultural shift

• Clear goals

• Start small – stage $ release

• Monitor billing

• Review STL/ trigger point

• STL inevitably results in purchase

• Reading lists

• Tweak profiles

• Previous use best indicates LT use

• No rapid change subjects

• Latest 3-5 years

• Set and stick to budget

• Back-up plan

eBook PDA exposes philosophical issues

•Challenges key value propositions:

• Librarians central to expert selection

• Library collections as monuments to scholarship

•Google Books, Project Muse, JSTOR, HathiTrust

•Library’s 21st century role

•Organisation’s mission

•Hollywood mindset

•Patrons: trustworthiness

A disruptive technology

UQ Library’s

3 year

ebook PDA trial

UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial

• Year 1: ebrary (2011) – auto-purchase

• Year 2: EBL (2012) – 1 STL -> auto-purchase

• Year 3: 3 vendors via Yankee Book Peddler (YBP) (2013)

• 2 STLs -> auto-purchase

• De-duping

UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial

UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial

UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial

UQ Library: ongoing developments

• Bed-down YBP ebook PDA

• Progress print book PDA

• End of 2013: evaluate the 3 year PDA trial

• PDA recommendations, 2014+

• Continue to purchase relevant publisher files, as able

• Mine analytics

• Monitor vendors: buy-outs, PDF -> epub, devices

• CEIRAC (CAUL)

Questions?