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HSE Dublin North East Regional Library & Information Service

HSE Dublin North East Regional Library & Information Service. Jean Harrison Regional Librarian Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital library.olol@hse.ie. Creative Thinking For Challenging Times. HOSPITAL & HEALTH LIBRARY OR ACADEMIC LIBRARY. Library Model – whose clothes did we steal?.

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HSE Dublin North East Regional Library & Information Service

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  1. HSE Dublin North EastRegional Library & Information Service Jean Harrison Regional Librarian Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital library.olol@hse.ie

  2. Creative Thinking For Challenging Times

  3. HOSPITAL & HEALTH LIBRARYOR ACADEMIC LIBRARY

  4. Library Model – whose clothes did we steal?

  5. Do the Clothes Still Fit ?

  6. Duplication of Efforts & Resources ? Duplication of Efforts & Resources ?

  7. Athens Online Resources • Athens Access – 2007 – 19,829 • Athens Access – 2008 – 16,747 • Athens Access – 2010 - 13,837

  8. Economic Reality

  9. Print Journal Expenditure 2008 - €43,882 2011 -€23,942

  10. Information Needs Assessment • Clinical and non clinical • Customised to their professional information needs • Streamline library resources- fewer • Identify what’s used • Maximise their use • Library in 21st century will cease to become a warehouse and become a software system.

  11. Pay As You Use • Paying for an entire subscription • Most printed journal articles are never read • (Lang 1994)- electronic or print • Pay for items that are only read • Aggregators- WE pay for little used journals • Frustrating for librarians and users • Increasing our dependence on monopolising publishers and aggregators

  12. Usage of resources • Purchase should be based on actual usage rather than anticipated usage • Some electronic resources usage reported at less than 10%?

  13. Journal of Dog Hepatitis

  14. INFORMATION OVERLOAD

  15. Just in Case • Traditional Academic Library Environment • Just in case or ownership approach • Expectation that one day users might want • Journal costs, staff costs, storage & binding. • User time

  16. THE SOLUTION - Just in Time • Current Awareness Service • SDI

  17. JUST IN TIME • Assign more of budget away from journals to interlibrary loans • Don’t copy academic model – use it • Greater use of interlibrary loan sources • IHSLG, NULJ, IMI, Subito & British Library • Efficient and fast and economically sound • Not possible 5 years ago • Co- operate with colleagues in purchasing journals – reduce duplication of resources

  18. Subito – Document Supply • 2006- 215 • 2007- 145 • 2008 - 205 • 2009 - 211 • 2010 – 302

  19. Just in time –disadvantages • Erosion of the life time benefit ? • Physical Collection - available into the future? VFM? • Repeat inter library loans • Dependence on technology

  20. SURVIVAL

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