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The University of Queensland Library
Majella Pugh
Associate Director, Collections & Information Resources
Library Resources & Technology Service
The University of Queensland
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• UQ Library collection
• Recap on 2011 landscape
• UQ Library’s three year PDA trial
• Ongoing developments
Outline
UQ Library
Collection
UQ Library collection
• Largest in Queensland
• Held across 14 locations• new warehouse – Gatton campus
• One of the largest Australian academic collections
• Over 2 million volumes
• Over 85,000 distinct journal titles in electronic and/or print format
• Over 900 networked databases, linking users to content
• Multiple copies of textbooks, including in High Use for quick access
• Over 30,000 DVDs and videocassettes
• Extensive manuscript, microform and pictorial collections• digitisation campaign
• Over 500,000 ebooks
eBooks @ UQ Library
• 2010: E-preferred policy
• 2011: 60/40 book funds allocated
• 2012: 80/20 -> 68/32
• 2013: 69/31
• 2012: allocated ~$3.5m to ebooks
• 20+ vendors – publishers & aggregators
• Purchase for online use – device use, secondary
• Cover academic subject spectrum: humanities -> sciences
– little English fiction
• Outright purchase preferred over subscriptions: archival rights
• Full MARC LCSH records – acquired, not in-house
e-Book views:
2009: 90,831
2010: 341,520
2011: 1,554,018
2012: 1,664,089* (*incomplete)
Full-text journal article downloads:
2009: 5,981,231
2010: 6,838,379
2011: 9,006,864
2012: 9,081,794* (*incomplete)
COUNTER compliant licensed resources only
E-collection use @ UQ Library
Identifying ebooks for UQ
• Alerting services
• Academics
• CAUL offers
• Vendors
• Communities: blogs, elists…
• Patron Driven Acquisition model
Accessing ebooks @ UQ
• Library catalogue
• Discovery tool – SUMMON
• Publisher/ vendor websites
• Linked from Blackboard
• Known title
• Browse
• Search
2011 landscape
eBook users
Source: Shrimplin et al, 2011 (content); modified Borchardt model
PrintersPrinters Technophiles
Book Lovers Pragmatists
UQ statistics – big academic publishers
UQ Library print… & big academic e-publishers
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Content Multiple
Subjects Wide range
Purchase ModelTitle by title; Approval;
SO
License n/a
Totals
2010 Loans/Views 583,792
Available Titles 1,267,287
Ratio X:1 0.5
Top TitleLoans/Views 389
Topic Cost accounting
Top 10 TitlesLoans/Views 3,048
% of 2010 Loans/Views
0.01%
≥1 Loan/View
Titles 283,863
% of Available 22%
≥100 Loans/Views
Titles 71
% of Available 0.01%
# Loans/Views 12,205
% of 2010 Loans/Views
1%
Springer
Springer
Sciences
Purchased entire years
Multiple use
106,279
43,525
2
1,010
Economics
4,353
4%
9,103
21%
126
0.3%
21,195
20%
UQ statistics – aggregators
UQ Library – aggregators
EBL
Content Multiple
Subjects Wide range
Purchase Model Title by title
License Open (325 p/a)
Totals
2010 Views 17,732
Available Titles 3,339
View Ratio X:1 5
Top TitleViews 254
Topic Ecological economics
Top 10 TitlesViews 1,861
% of 2010 Views 10%
≥1 Views
Titles 2,886
% of Available 86%
≥100 Views
Titles 17
% of Available 0.5%
# Views 2,664
% of 2010 Views 15%
NetLibrary
Multiple
Wide range
Title by title
1 concurrent user
14,141
1,880
8
585
Roman history
2,483
18%
1,429
76%
19
1%
3,480
25%
Patron Driven
Acquisition
(ebooks)
Yum Cha: loads of choice
What is ebook PDA?
• Profile-driven model – subjects
• Parameters: level, years, language, format…
• MARC
• Triggered
• Auto-purchase
• Short term loans (STL)
• Authorised patrons
• Buy at point of need: JIT
• Deposit, or monthly bill
• High ROI
Why ebook PDA?Collections
• Introduces volume – fast
• Seamless
• Immediate access
• STL = try before buy
• No OOP risk
• Targets gaps
• Meets short term needs – fast
• Adds high demand, high risk items
• Streamlines Acquisitions staff workflows
Why ebook PDA?Engagement
• Reduces footprint: repurpose space
• Relevance: Google Age
• Involvement in patron life/ leisure
• Streamlines workloads: time -> patrons
eBook PDA challenges
• MARC
• Duplication
• Not so new
• Etextbooks
• PDF flatness
• Inconsistent licensing/
DRM
• ILLs
• MONEY!
• Subject coverage
• User experience
• Students vs researchers
• Acquisitions workflows
Lessons learned (ebook PDA)
• Communication: cultural shift
• Clear goals
• Start small – stage $ release
• Monitor billing
• Review STL/ trigger point
• STL inevitably results in purchase
• Reading lists
• Tweak profiles
• Previous use best indicates LT use
• No rapid change subjects
• Latest 3-5 years
• Set and stick to budget
• Back-up plan
eBook PDA exposes philosophical issues
•Challenges key value propositions:
• Librarians central to expert selection
• Library collections as monuments to scholarship
•Google Books, Project Muse, JSTOR, HathiTrust
•Library’s 21st century role
•Organisation’s mission
•Hollywood mindset
•Patrons: trustworthiness
A disruptive technology
UQ Library’s
3 year
ebook PDA trial
UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial
• Year 1: ebrary (2011) – auto-purchase
• Year 2: EBL (2012) – 1 STL -> auto-purchase
• Year 3: 3 vendors via Yankee Book Peddler (YBP) (2013)
• 2 STLs -> auto-purchase
• De-duping
UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial
UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial
UQ’s 3 year ebook PDA trial
UQ Library: ongoing developments
• Bed-down YBP ebook PDA
• Progress print book PDA
• End of 2013: evaluate the 3 year PDA trial
• PDA recommendations, 2014+
• Continue to purchase relevant publisher files, as able
• Mine analytics
• Monitor vendors: buy-outs, PDF -> epub, devices
• CEIRAC (CAUL)
Questions?