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Spaces, Relocation, and Subject Synergies When A Subject Library Closes Jill Powell, jillpowell@cornell.edu Cornell University ASEE National Conference, Louisville, June 22, 2010. Spaces, Relocation, and Subject Synergies When A Subject Librar y ies Closes Change
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Spaces, Relocation, and Subject Synergies When A Subject Library Closes Jill Powell, jillpowell@cornell.edu Cornell University ASEE National Conference, Louisville, June 22, 2010
Spaces, Relocation, and Subject Synergies When A Subject LibraryiesCloses Change Jill Powell, jillpowell@cornell.edu Cornell University ASEE National Conference, Louisville, June 22, 2010
Outline • Why changes to subject libraries? • Which ones? • Process
Why? • Financial crisis 2008 • Lower endowment payouts (14%) • High prices for serials causes underfunding for other needed resources • Drop in ARL rankings for collections • Library Budget reductions – $1.7 million year 1; $1.1 million year 2 • Strategic Plan focused on collections & selectors • Provost issued directives for committees
Slide from Leah Solla, Chemistry Librarian, Cornell University, 2009
Which Libraries? • Those with most online collections • Those not required by accreditation • Those browsed/used the least in print • Those likely to fall together in a cluster • Those with aging buildings
Action Generating Revenue, Space • 100,000 Duplicate Books in Social Sciences and Humanities Sold to Tsinghua University, China for $895,000
Actions Generating Revenue or Saving Money • Amazon print on demand - $100,000 • Closing subject libraries allow for some funding to go back to materials budget • ArXiv –financial support from 55 institutions • Collaboration with Columbia – sharing selector for Slavic studies
Process • Committee of stakeholders (faculty, students, librarians) to draft recommendations. • Library Board, Deans, University Librarian, Provost make decision • Communication and Response • Schedule for implementation
Implementation – Engineering Library • Librarians and services (collection development, reference, instruction, web presence) to remain • Study hall/computer lab to remain open 24/7 • Run circulation reports – where to distribute collection • Reserves and reference collections • Convert as many journals to online as possible • Display/discard • Membership ID login • Print for small number; rest electronic
eBooks & Reference Collection • Publisher packages • Springer • Knovel, Morgan & Claypool • Safari Books; Books24x7 • Patron/User driven Plan • E-book records from profiled publishers loaded into library catalog • 2nd session of use past TOC purchases the book • Some publishers delayelectronic version
Librarians’ Changing Role in New Environment • Collection Management • Reference • Instruction • Outreach “Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.” - Robert C. Gallagher Staubbach Falls, Switzerland, www.icteachers.co.uk
Questions? Jill Powell, jillpowell@cornell.edu Cornell University