1 / 9

Recession As the Mother of Invention: New Models for Hard Times

Recession As the Mother of Invention: New Models for Hard Times. Rick Anderson Associate Director Scholarly Resources & Collections. How hard are these times?. IMLS/LSTA cuts are certain; only the depth is in question (14% or 100%?) University budget situations range from flat to free-fall

raimondo
Download Presentation

Recession As the Mother of Invention: New Models for Hard Times

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Recession As the Mother of Invention:New Models for Hard Times Rick Anderson Associate Director Scholarly Resources & Collections

  2. How hard are these times? • IMLS/LSTA cuts are certain; only the depth is in question (14% or 100%?) • University budget situations range from flat to free-fall • Browne Report proposes 40% cut to UK higher education • Nevada higher education system preparing for functional bankruptcy • U of Utah preparing for another 7% cut (after a 19% cut in 2009) • California’s governor proposes 18% cut to CSU, 17% to UC • Serial prices continue to rise at roughly 9% annually (books at 3-5%)

  3. Use of Libraries Shifting Radically • Printed books are nearly unused • Libraries are heavily used as study spaces • Social spaces and research spaces are decreasingly distinguishable—in both physical and online realms • No one begins an information search on a library website • “Ask-an-Expert” site use is exploding—but “expert” does not mean “librarian” (cf. OCLC’s “Perceptions of Libraries, 2010”) • Ready-reference means Wikipedia or Google

  4. Circ Trends at the University of Utah

  5. Current realities and controlling truths • The book is a database • In most cases, e is not just better than p, but miles better • Journal issues/subscriptions don’t matter • Articles do; the subscription is just a miniature Big Deal • The library collection is an ungainly, expensive, inaccurate attempt to divine the future • Models don’t matter; only prices do • Patron’s environment is one of information glut and attention deficit

  6. New models follow from these realities • Online  just-in-time (both e and p) • Online  breakdown of collection walls • Higher prices/less budget  less speculation • Higher prices/less budget  less archival purchasing • Less circulation  strong e-only momentum • Online + better data + higher prices + less budget  the end of the Big Deal and of the Medium Deal (title-level journal subscriptions) in favor of the Tiny Deal Bottom line: Less collecting, more brokerage

  7. Bottom line • The future of the library will not look much like a library • Small, focused collections of books • Few subscriptions, if any • No packages • A need for consolidated brokerage service at article level, not title level • Journals are going the way of the record album • We’re headed back to a “song” economy • Journal publishers are going the way of the record label • You can’t make as much on a 99-cent song as you can on a $15 album

  8. Contact rick.anderson@utah.edu

More Related