New Roles for New Times: Implications for TRLN Collections

09/30/10

Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication

Is Selection Dead?

The selector is dead, long live the selector

Dead, on life support, or rapidly evolving?

Who Killed the Selector? Approval plans? Aggregator packages? Big deals? PDA? Google Books? Devices and apps? Misguided

administrators All of the above

Evolution – New Roles Williams’ article Campus engagement, content/collection

development and management, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, e-scholarship and digital tools, research assistance, outreach (local community), fund raising, exhibit and event planning, and leadership.

What gives?

Evolution – New Roles, cont.

Cosmetic change? CAVE people? More central to

fulfilling mission in digital age

Evolution – New Roles, cont.

Three fundamental changes Engagement and

integration throughout research/teaching life-cycle

Deeper relationships and partnerships

Data on the end

Implications for TRLN System built partially on decades of selection Reconfiguration = dispersed selection duties Same principles, more people and less selection E-books and user selection Managing data and suites of content Moving from institution to TRLN to North

Carolina to OCLC to Google Books and back One collection for users, wherever possible