plenary charleslowry

PUBLISHING AND LIBRARIESSecuring Our Future in the Brave ―Now‖ World –

―The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be‖

Society for Scholarly Publishing

31st Annual Meeting

May 27 – 29, 2009

Charles B. Lowry Ph.D.Executive Director

Association of Research Libraries

ARL www.arl.org

The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be

Transformational Times

The Current Fiscal Landscape of Research Libraries: Report on the ARL Survey


TotalUS

Public

US

Private

Canadian

Academic

US

Nonacademic

Canadian

Nonacademic

Yes 55 35 1 5 3 0

No 44 24 14 5 0 1

Has your library already experienced base budget reductions/take-backs

in FY 2008-2009? Total Responses: 99

Table I


Budget Reductions

Already Implemented

Yes

Budget Reductions

Already Implemented

No

Possible Reductions Later

Yes22 8

Possible Reductions Later

No33 36

Has your library already experienced base budget reductions/take-backs

in FY 2008-2009? Total Responses: 99

Table II


Minimum Maximum Mean MedianStandard Deviation

.04% 10% 3% 3% .0227

If you answered yes, what was the percent impact on the total budget? Total Responses: 55

<1% 6

1 – 1.50% 7

2 – 2.50% 14

3 – 3.75% 6

4 – 4.70% 6

5 – 5.20% 3

6 – 6.70% 3

8 – 10% 3

Table III


Impact on Staffing Only 15 31%

Impact on Operations only 8 16%

Impact on Acquisitions only 2 4%

Impact on Staffing and Operations 8 16%

Impact on Staffing and Acquisitions 5 10%

Impact on Operations and Acquisitions 3 6%

Impact on all three 8 16%

If you can, please indicate the percentage impact on Staffing, Other

Operations, and Acquisitions: Total Responses: 49

Table IV


2008 – 2009 Pay Increments

Merit increase only 16 34%

Flat percentage increase only 6 13%

Both Merit and Flat percentages 19 40%

Neither Merit nor Flat percentages 3 6%

Retention only 1 2%

Bonus only 1 2%

Retention and Bonus only 1 2%

Did you award staff salary increases at the beginning of this fiscal year? Total Responses = 55

Table V


Hiring Freezes 34 68%

Eliminate vacant positions 29 58%

Staff layoffs 6 12%

Early retirement program 6 12%

Staff furlough(s) 2 4%

Give backs of salaries as charitable contributions to the

university2 4%

Salary reductions 1 2%

Other 10 20%

Please indicate which of the following staffing modifications have been

required? Check all that apply.

Table VI


Action Number % Total

Expect Increase 9 11%

Do Not know at this time 7 9%

Expect flat budget 9 11%

Reductions expected Total: 56 69%

Yes; do not know amount 11 14%

2% - less than 5% 14 17%

5% - 10% 28 35%

Greater than 10% 3 4%

2009 – 2010 Budget Planning Total Responses: 81

Table VII


52%

41%

4% 3%

Best Date for 2nd Survey

May-June

July-October

November-January

later 2010

Fig. I


www.arl.org/bm~doc/transformational-times.pdf


Trends – Scholarly Communication

Transformational Times - Trends

• Budget reductions will have substantial impact on library

collecting presenting opportunities as well as threats.

• ―New Model Publications‖ are beginning to move into the

mainstream.

• Libraries will begin building relationships with faculty to

promote change.

• Stronger impetus to bring dissemination back under the

auspices and control of the academy.

Trends – Scholarly Communication


• Transformations in scholarly communication practices are

driving development and re-engineering of library services.

• The role and practices of scholarly communication are

becoming more embedded in research practices and cultures

placing new demands on libraries.

• Large funders are increasingly promoting cyberinfrastructure

development but are also developing requirements for

management of content (e.g., publications and data).

Trends – Public Policies

• Two issues — the economy and national security — will dominate

congressional and executive branch activities.


• Congress and the administration will devote attention to review,

repeal, and/or revise government policies in a host of areas.

• There will be a renewed focus by government on technology and

innovation issues.

• Continued advances in technology will enhance search and

access.

• There will be continued focus and tension around copyright and

intellectual property issues.


• There will be enhanced focus by federal funders on

cyberinfrastructure developments.


• There will be greater difficulties in trying to balance competing

policy interests with attendant challenges on the legislative

front.

• There will be increased efforts to allow new forms of

scholarship to emerge.

• There will be a continued focus on accountability and

assessment on the local, state, and national levels.


Section 108

Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Act (FISA)

Fair Copyright in Research

Works Act (H.R. 801)

Federal Research Public

Access Act (FRPAA)

USA PATRIOT Act


Factors

Transition to e-research

Changes to Pedagogy

Web 2.0

Reconceptualization of collection formats

Re-imagining roles

Collaboration

Downsizing and Digitization

Shifting behaviors and expectations

Assessment


Trends – RTL

• Libraries to construct new forms of engagement and support.


• Research library collections and collecting have new

meanings.

• Research libraries and virtual environments inhabited by

students, faculty, and researchers.

• Shifts in pedagogy affect how libraries partner with faculty to

support student learning, scholarship and productivity.

Trends – RTL

• Libraries will discover opportunities to engage non-typical

students.


• As university budgets tighten, many library building programs

and new initiatives will face cutbacks and delays.

Collaboration


University’s Role

• In the digital age, a wide range of campus servers host new

kinds of digital scholarship created within and disseminated

from academe—a renaissance of campus publishing has been

seeded.

Adapting the Research Library Mission

Range of Online Resources

At 46 ARL institutions, EIGHT principle types of digital scholarly

resources:

-E-only journals

-Reviews

-Preprints and working papers

-Encyclopedias, dictionaries and annotated content

-Data

-Blogs

-Discussion forums

-Professional and scholarly hubs


Project Findings

- Digital innovations are taking place in all disciplines.


- Digital publishing is shaped powerfully by the traditions

of scholarly culture.

- Some of the largest projects with greatest impact have

been in existence a long while.

- Many digital publications are small, niche projects.

- There appears to be a very long tail in the field of digital

scholarly publishing.

- Innovations relating to multimedia and Web 2.0 content

and functionality are encouraging the emergence of new

types of publications.

Project Findings

- Establishing credibility is not easy, but is of critical

importance.


- Achieving sustainability – especially for those projects

with an open access mandate – is a universal

challenge.

Digital Scholarly Resources and

the University Library…

In addition to the volume of scholarly resources

distributed through traditional channels like commercial

publishers and university presses, independent

scholarly projects – often of great relevance, but

sometimes unknown outside their area of focus – crop

up in every discipline. Learning about these many niche

resources is only possible through an ongoing dialogue

with those scholars who create and use them.


Digital Scholarly Resources

Libraries important

nexus of

communication

Valuable role for the library to play in supporting these

new digital initiatives

Promote high-quality

work build audience

for digital resources Create new

projects

Put new projects

on surer footing

Build audience for

digital resourcesOngoing interaction

between the library

and faculty =

greatness


Integrating

Digital Scholarly Resources are good AND

libraries must also continue to play their traditional role of

planning for preservation and archiving.


Easier Said than Done


New Standards,

Hardware, and Operations

Migration

Traditional Roles

Questions?

Charles B. Lowry

[email protected]

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