CHANGING OPERATIONS OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Jim DooleyUniversity of California, Merced2014 Charleston Conference

University of California, Merced• Tenth University of California

campus

• Opened in 2005

• 6,400 students including 350 graduate students

• Goal of 10,000 students by 2020 including 1,000 graduate students

• Growing research library

Collection Development Philosophy

Just in time

Access over ownership

Currently 90% electronic

Collections

Serials

Print books

E-books

• Online only (if available)

• Current serials• 112,000 online• 20 print

Serials

• Approval plan for humanities and social sciences

• Firm order at faculty request

• Gifts

• Currently 118,000 volumes

Print Books

• Currently 1.1 million volumes available

• 580,000 volumes through UC consortial packages

• 520,000 volumes through local licenses• 120,000 ebrary Academic Complete subscription• 350,000 EBL DDA with short term loans• 50,000 MyiLibrary DDA without short term loan

E-books

• Effect of sudden large increases in short term loan rates

• One-third of e-books available through DDA with short term loans

Bumps in the Road

Publisher

Current 1-day STL

New 1-day STL

Current 7-day STL

New 7-day STL

Charles C. Thomas 25% 40% 50% 50%Taylor and Francis 10% 25% 10% 25%Ashgate 15% 30% 25% 40%DeGruyter 15% 35% 20% 40%Bloomsbury--Imprints now include: 35% 45%A&C Black, Berg, Hart 5% 35% 10% 45%Continuum 15% 35% 20% 45%

Effective June 1, 2014Publisher EBL Short-term Loan Changes

Publisher

Current 1-day STL

New 1-day STL

Current 7-day STL

New 7-day STL

Oxford UP 15% 25% 20% 40%Emerald 5% 20% 10% 30%Royal Society of Chemistry 5% 35% 10% 45%Louisiana State University 15% 30% 20% 40%NYU Press 5% 25% 10% 45%Cambridge UP 15% 30% 20% 60%World Scientific 5% 40% 10% 50%John Benjamins 15% 25% 20% 35%

Effective July 1, 2014Publisher EBL Short-term Loan Changes

Results

Significant cost

increases in July, August

and September

Several publishers (100,000

titles) removed from DDA

plan

$30 cap on short term

loan

Removed content

will not be acquired by other means

Ten-Year Observations

Strong acceptance of electronic journals

Increasing acceptance of e-books

Positive effect of e-book short term loans on print ILL

E-book business models remain problematic

Continuing need for print in the humanities