Potential Areas of Collaborative Collection Development (CCD)

as Informed by Numbers and Facts

Ying Zhang2011 UCEAB/EAALC Annual Meeting

570 Langson Library UCISept. 15, 2011

Foundation of Analysis

• Profiles of Chinese studies faculty• WorldCat Collection Analysis System (WCAS)• VDX Statistics from CDL JReports

Core Faculty Population Distribution

UCB , 36, 22%

UCD , 11, 7%

UCM; 3; 2%

UCSC ; 13; 8%

UCLA, 27, 17%

UCI; 18; 11%

UCR , 14, 9%

UCSD ; 22; 14%

UCSB, 17, 10%

UC Chinese Studies Faculty Headcount

UCB UCD UCMUCSC UCLAUCIUCR UCSD UCSB

Region HeadcountNorthern 63 (39%)Southern 98 (61%)

Campus Research AreasUCB UCD UCM UCSC UCI UCLA UCR UCSB UCSD total

anthropology 1 1 1 4 1 8art & architecture 3 2 2 1 2 10

business & economics 6 1 2 9education 1 1 2

film & media 2 1 2 1 6history 6 1 4 4 5 2 3 5 30

law 2 1 3linguistics & literature 6 11 2 4 6 6 7 5 47

music 1 1 2performing arts 1 2 1 4

philosophy & religion 3 1 2 4 6 16political science 4 1 1 2 2 3 13

public health 1 1 1 3sociology 2 1 2 2 1 8

Campus Research Strength

anthropology

art & ar

chite

cture

business

& economics

educati

on

film &

med

ia

history law

lingu

istics

& litera

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perform

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philoso

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ligion

political

scien

ce

public heal

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sociology

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Pre-modern

Linguistics

modern

preQin, modern

modern

UCSDUCSBUCRUCLAUCIUCSCUCMUCDUCB

Subject(Campus) Faculty CollectionBusiness/Econ (B,SD) 89% 76%Law (B,SD) 100% 70.3%Music (LA,SD) 100% 44.7%Phil./Relig. (SB,R) 63% 24.9%Education (LA,SC) 100% 35.1%

Collection vs. Faculty Needs

Anthropology

Art & Arch

itectu

re

Business

& Economics

Educati

on

Public Heal

th

History

Langu

age, L

inguisti

cs & Lit

erature

LawMusic

Perform

ing Arts

Philoso

phy & Relig

ion

Political

Scien

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Socio

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title count

faculty count

title countfaculty count

Region Title count Faculty headcountNorthern 257,402 (47%) 63 (39%)Southern 287,689 (53%) 98 (61%)

Comparison of UC and Top 20 ARL holdings

Top 20 ARL UC

Selective UC campuses with subject faculty

UC over Top 20 ARL

Education (LA/SC) 10716 4827 1694 45.0%Music (LA/SD) 6076 2842 1269 46.8%Law (UCB/SD) 16137 8234 5790 51.0%Language & Literature 213031 121546 57.1%History 160309 98095 61.2%

Uniqueness and Overlap in Our Collections

UC N. UC S. UCChinese unique 68.67% 90.53% 81.32%

full overlap 0% 0% 0.53%English unique 56.18% 66.57% 62.40%

full overlap 0.60% 0.03% 8.54%

Examples of Fully Overlapping Titles• 臥虎藏龍 Crouching tiger, hidden dragon• 滿城盡帶黃金甲 Curse of the golden flower• 靈山 / 高行健• 运输服务 加强散播和监督运输部的准则可以使不会说英语的人获得更好的服务 http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS66320• 聚墨留香 : 攻玉山房藏中國古代書畫 = Anthology of ink :

ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Dr. S.Y. Yip collection/ 黃燕芳 . 香港 : 香港大學美術博物館 , 2004

• 紀念辛亥革命七十周年 / 北京 : 中國新聞社 ; 香港 : 三聯書店 , 1981

• 六十年來的中國近代史硏究 / 臺北 : 中央硏究院 , 1988-1989• 中國當代社會科學家 / 北京 : 书目文献出版 1982-1988• 研究太平天国史著述综目 / 姜秉正 . 北京 : 书目文献出版社 ,

1984

Collaborative Use of Collection --UCI ILL borrowing case

• 490 ILL requests for Chinese materials (8/1/2010 – 7/30/2011); 439 (90%) were successful

• 353 (80%) were from peer UC campuses, and 86 from non-UC libraries

• For the within-UC ILLs, 210 (60%) from south, and 143 from north• Top lending campuses: UCB (85), UCLA (63) and UCSB (47)• Top borrowing subjects: History (219), Literature (116), and Art (37)

– History books mainly from UCB and UCLA– Literature books mainly from UCSB and non-UC libraries– Large portion of Art books from non-UC libraries (17 out of 37)– Film (studies) mainly from UCSD and non-UC libraries

Potential Areas of Cooperation• Subject coverage:– Linguistics: UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCD… – Taiwan literature: UCSB, UCSD, UCI– Literature translation: UCI, UCSB…– Religion: UCSB, UCR– Education: UCLA, UCSC– Law: UCB, UCSD– Music: UCLA, UCSD

• Chronological coverage – Modern: UCSD, UCI, UCSC– Pre-modern: UCB, UCLA, UCR, UCM

• Geographical coverage– Tibet: UCB, UCSB