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Sharing netLibrary e-Books Among the Academic Libraries in Taiwan

Sharing netLibrary e-Books Among the Academic Libraries in Taiwan. Ellen F. Liu Professor, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science, National Chung-Hsing University. Outline. Introduction Related Literature Consortium Purchasing of e-Books in Taiwan Discussion.

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Sharing netLibrary e-Books Among the Academic Libraries in Taiwan

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  1. Sharing netLibrary e-Books Among the Academic Libraries in Taiwan Ellen F. Liu Professor, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science, National Chung-Hsing University

  2. Outline • Introduction • Related Literature • Consortium Purchasing of e-Books in Taiwan • Discussion

  3. Introduction I – Higher Education SystemSY2005-2006

  4. Introduction II – Number of StudentsSY 2005-2006

  5. Introduction III – Number of Faculty & StaffSY 2005-2006 (Source: Summary of Universities, Colleges, and Junior Colleges, SY2005-2006) SY2005-2006 Total Students & Staff in HE 1,406,429 Question: How many of these would use e-books? Probably less than 16%.

  6. Introduction III – Number of Faculty & StaffSY 2005-2006 (cont’d) If an estimate of 260,000 “Others”—non-degree students, alumni, retirees… is added, the academic libraries would serve an estimated total of 1,690,000 users. (Source: 2005 Library Yearbook) With this estimate, the percentage of potential e-book users would be even lower.

  7. E-Book & Collection Development Deliberations at the Turn of the New Millennium • Publishing trends in e resources: databases, e-journals, e-books… • Expenditures (from a survey of 159 libraries of HE in 2004)

  8. E-Book & Collection Development Deliberations at the Turn of the New Millennium(cont’d) • Collections of E Resources • Manpower 135 libraries 1,696 staff Average 12.6 per lib • Reading & Circulation Collections to Support Educational Programs, Research… Scholarly Communication vs. Leisure Reading English Books vs. Chinese Books

  9. Related Literature－Taiwan Early Experience of Tamkang University Library Purchased netLibrary 1,200 volumes in July 2000 Usage Statistics Reported: July 2000-Oct.11, 2001 Total Accesses 577 Subjects Accessed Most Business & Economics 92 Library Science 92 Literature 57 One observation: the netLibrary model, befitting consortium purchase, could augment shared resources. (Hwang & Li, 2001)

  10. Related Literature－UK 2001Londsdale & Armstrong: a slow acceptance of nearly all digital textual Resources other than journals 2003 Garrrod: netLibrary was the main supplier of ebooks to UK academic libraries. One factor affecting the take-up of ebooks in the UK was content and services have been developed by US companies for the US market.

  11. Related Literature －Australia • Nelson—experience of Victoria Univ. in a pilot consortium subscription of CAVAL VU: 12 campuses, 50,000 students. 3,000 faculty & staff. Decided to select high-use items, 20 reserve titles with a match on netLibrary. CAVAL: a consortium of VU libraries and the State Lib of Victoria.

  12. Related Literature －Australia(cont’d) Author noted :“ people prefer access to selection ” and VU’s selection would not represent a critical mass of content, a meaningful collection to choose from or deliver statistical use reports from.

  13. Related Literature－US: Case 1 2001 Dillon,pt.1—Experience of Univ. of Texas at Austin E-Book Collections from netLibrary Amigos: a large network of 750 libraries mainly from five southern states TexShare: all Texas public and academic libraries UT System: 15 libraries ( 9 academic, 6 medical)

  14. Related Literature－US: Case 1(cont’d)Univ. of Texas at Austin （Dillon pt.1, 2001）

  15. Related Literature－US: Case 2 2001 Ramirez & Gyeszly—Experience of Texas A&M Univ *a committee selected 15 subject areas historically tended to have high circulation

  16. Related Literature－US: Case 2(cont’d)Texas A&M Univ Authors noted :“Surprisingly, the almost 200 specially selected e-books were not very heavily accessed by users. ” Also 9 of 15 subjects, 60% of selected categories, were never used during Feb.-May, 2001.

  17. Related Literature－US: Case 3 2003Langston—Experience of Calf. State Univ. e-book Pilot Project Use by Collections (netLibrary) Size of the User Group: CSU in the fall of 2001-- 23 campuses, 388,700 students, 22,000 faculty

  18. Consortium Purchasing of E-Books in Taiwan • TEBNET ( Taiwan E-Book Network)— initial organizational meetings began in Apr. 2001, started to share e-books in May 2002, gained formal approval as a cooperatoive on Sept.15, 2004.

  19. Consortium Purchasing of E-Books in Taiwan(cont’d) Members by Type of HE Institutes

  20. Usage of the First Shared Collection Accesses by All Members: *Additional 3,007 free titles could be accessed.

  21. Usage of the First Shared Collection (cont’d) Accesses by Individual Libraries: May 2002—Sept. 2004

  22. Usage of the First Shared Collection (cont’d) Accesses by Subjects: May 2002—Sept. 2004

  23. Usage of the First Shared Collection (cont’d) Accesses by Ratio of Use*: May 2002—Sept. 2004 *A “ratio of use” is calculated using the percentage of total access and the percentage of titles in a subject area. (Langston 2003)

  24. Discussion 1. Shared Collections of e-Books • Consortium Purchase Through TEBNET • Usage of e-Books • University and Junior College Libraries 2. E-Books Supplied by netLibrary • Collection Policy and Selection Process • US Market Oriented • Barriers

  25. Discussion (cont’d) 3.Statistics and Usage • Reliability • Usage of Print and e –Books • Subject Categories 4.A Critical Mass of E Content • Collection Size and Variations • A Critical Mass of Users • Quantities of Available e-books 5.Publishing e-Book

  26. The End Thank You!

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