Sheila Corrall (speaker)

1. Collec&on
Development
in
the
Network
World:
Where
Do
Libraries
Add
Value?
Sheila
Corrall
Chair,
Library
&
Informa4on
Science
Program
University
of
Pi<sburgh
scorrall@pi<.edu

2. Session
Outline
• Professional
and
environmental
context
– Impact
of
technology
on
collec4ons
– Compe4ng
missions
in
the
informa4on
arena
• Collec4on
development
tasks
and
responsibili4es
– Tradi4onal
and
modern
percep4ons
– Professional
organiza4on
perspec4ves
• Models
of
library
resources
and
scholarly
knowledge
• Review
of
key
trends
and
developments
• Ques4ons
for
discussion
– Where
do
libraries
add
value
in
the
current
environment?
– What
are
the
dis4nc4ve
contribu4ons
of
librarians
in
21C
collec4on
development
and
access
management?

3. Context
• Libraries
–
and
librarians
–
have
tradi4onally
been
defined
and
evaluated
by
their
collec4ons
• Collec4on
development
and
materials
selec4on
are
central
to
the
professional
prac4ce
of
librarianship
• Poli4cal,
economic,
social
and
technological
forces
have
transformed
the
products
and
processes
of
collec4on
building
and
collec4on
management
–
–
–
–
–
automa4on
of
opera4ons,
outsourcing
of
func4ons
delega4on
to
paraprofessionals,
digi4za4on
of
content
aggrega4on
of
purchases,
empowerment
of
end-­‐users
relega4on
to
off-­‐site
storage,
migra4on
to
the
network
prolifera4on
of
media,
expansion
of
responsibili4es

4. Evolving
Impact
of
Technology
on
Collec&ons
Technology
developments
Collection management developments
late
library
housekeeping,
bibliographic
u4li4es,
Moderniza&on
COM
catalogues,
retrospec4ve
conversion,
1960s-­‐
automa4on,
1970s
computer-­‐based
opera4ons
microform
masters,
self-­‐renewing
library
1980s-­‐
early
1990s
late
1980s-­‐
1990s
2000s-­‐
Innova&on
library
management,
Conspectus,
OPACs,
access/demand
versus
holdings/ownership,
just-­‐in-­‐4me
informa4on,
end-­‐user
searching
Transi&on
integrated
systems,
licensing
consor4a,
full-­‐text
databases,
mul4media
products,
resource
discovery,
virtual/hybrid
library
experimenta4on,
computer-­‐based
services
digi4za4on,
computer-­‐based
content
electronic
resource
management
systems,
federated
search,
open
access/repositories,
Transforma&on
digital
asset
management,
data
cura4on,
collabora4on,
network-­‐based
collec4ons
web-­‐scale
discovery,
par4cipatory
library,
PDA/DDA,
cloud-­‐sourced
collec4ons.
(Corrall,
2012,
p.
8;
Lynch,
2000)

5. Compe&ng
Informa&on
Service
Missions
“to
provide
and
promote
access
to
informa4on
resources
necessary
for
the
achievement
of
the
University's
leadership
objec4ves
in
teaching,
learning,
research,
crea4vity,
and
community
service”
(University
of
Pi<sburgh
Library,
USA)
“to
provide
access
to
the
world’s
knowledge”
(University
of
Sheffield
Library,
UK)
“to
organize
the
world’s
informa4on
and
make
it
universally
accessible
and
useful”
(Google)
Where
and
How
Do
Libraries
Add
Value?

6. Where
Do
Libraries
Add
Value?
Collec&on
Development:
Tasks,
Responsibili&es,
Prac&ces
Tradi4onal
and
Modern
Percep4ons

7. The
Tradi&onal
View
Selec&on
as
the
defini+ve
professional
task
“Book
selec4on
is
the
first
task
of
librarianship.
It
precedes
all
other
processes
–
cataloguing,
classifica4on,
or
administra4on
–
and
it
is
the
most
important.
No
ma<er
how
thorough
and
efficient
the
rest
of
the
work
may
be,
the
ul4mate
value
of
a
library
depends
upon
the
way
in
which
the
stock
has
been
selected.”
McColvin
(1925,
p.
9)

8. An
Early
Modern
View
Value-­‐based
versus
demand-­‐based
selec+on
“Collec4on
developers
par44on
the
universe
of
documents,
privileging
selected
documents
for
acquisi4on
and
reten4on.
Their
selec4ons
of
documents,
based
on
expected
demand
and
perceived
value,
direct
the
ac4ons
of
technical
services
staff.
A
comparable
selec4ve
privileging
of
documents
.
.
.
appears
needed
with
networked
electronic
resources.
Collec4on
developers
will
be
needed
for
value-­‐based
privileging
more
than
for
demand-­‐based
decisions.”
(Buckland,
1995,
p.
155)

9. The
Library
in
the
21st
Century
Sense-­‐making
as
the
cri+cal
collec+on
process
“one
of
their
most
important
tasks
is
to
create
order
out
of
poten4al
chaos.
They
do
this
by
selec7ng
and
describing
informa4on
sources
which
they
will
offer
to
their
users
.
.
.
Within
this
understanding
of
the
‘collec4on’,
the
process
of
making
sense
of
the
informa4on
universe
on
behalf
of
users,
partly
by
mapping
and
codifying
it
(including
borrowing
from
the
codifica4on
of
others)
and
partly
by
selec7ng
from
it
those
parts
which
are
likely
to
be
of
interest
and
are
known,
or
likely,
to
be
accessible,
is
cri4cal.”
(Brophy,
2007,
pp.
120-­‐121)

10. Where
Do
Libraries
Add
Value?
Collec&on
Development:
Tasks,
Responsibili&es,
Prac&ces
Professional
Organiza4on
Perspec4ves

11. Informa&on
Resource
Management
Informa4on
professionals
have
exper4se
in
total
management
of
informa4on
resources
.
.
.
in
any
media
or
format
(SLA,
2003)
• Managing
the
full
life
cycle
of
informa4on
from
its
crea4on
or
acquisi4on
through
its
destruc4on
• Building
a
dynamic
collec4on
of
informa4on
resources
• Demonstra4ng
expert
knowledge
of
the
content
and
format
of
informa4on
resources
• Providing
access
to
the
best
available
externally
published
and
internally
created
informa4on
resources
• Nego4a4ng
the
purchase
and
licensing
of
needed
informa4on
products
and
services
• Developing
informa4on
policies
regarding
externally
published
and
internally
created
informa4on
resources
•

12. Core
Competences
of
Librarianship
A
person
gradua4ng
from
an
ALA-­‐accredited
master’s
program
should
know
and
.
.
.
be
able
to
employ
(ALA,
2009)
• Concepts
and
issues
related
to
the
lifecycle
of
recorded
knowledge
and
informa4on,
from
crea4on
and
acquisi4on
through
various
stages
of
use
to
disposi4on.
• Concepts,
issues,
and
methods
related
to
the
management
and
maintenance
of
various
collec4ons.
• The
principles
involved
in
the
organiza4on
and
representa4on
of
recorded
knowledge
and
informa4on.
• The
developmental,
descrip4ve,
and
evalua4ve
skills
needed..
• The
systems
of
cataloging,
metadata,
indexing,
and
classifica4on
standards
and
methods
used…

13. Informa&on
Collec&on
Prac&ces
SLA
Competencies
(2003)
• Iden4fying
• Evalua4ng
• Selec4ng
• Filtering
• Securing
• Organizing
• Categorizing
• Cataloguing
• Classifying
• Dissemina4ng
• Preserving
ALA
Competences
(2009)
• Evalua4on
• Selec4on
• Acquisi4on
• Purchasing
• Organiza4on
• Representa4on
• Processing
• Storing
• Preserva4on
• Conserva4on
• De-­‐selec4on

14. Where
Do
Libraries
Add
Value?
Collec&on
Development:
Tasks,
Responsibili&es,
Prac&ces
Modeling
the
Library
Collec4on
and
Scholarly
Communica4on
Lifecycles

15. The
Library
Collec&on
Management
Cycle
Selec4on
Acquisi4on
Iden4fica4on
Preserva4on
Organiza4on
Library
Materials
Evalua4on
Relega4on
Prepara4on
Accommoda4on
U4liza4on

16. In
Detail
–
Collec4on
Management
Processes
and
Ac4vi4es
Approving
Funding
Selec4on
Planning
Ordering
Acquisi4on
Iden4fica4on
Scanning
Microfilming
Preserva4on
Restoring
Cataloguing
Library
Materials
Binding
Repairing
Classifying
Indexing
Labelling
Prepara4on
Accommoda4on
Evalua4on
Discarding
Organiza4on
Shelving
Weeding
Relega4on
Purchasing
U4liza4on
Lending
Storing
Displaying

17. The
Scholarly
Knowledge
Cycle
Linking
Research
Data,
Scholarly
Communica4on
and
Learning
(Lyon,
2003)

18. Knowledge,
Publica&on
and
Access
Cycle
(University
of
Illinois
at
Chicago,
Library
of
the
Health
Sciences,
n.d.)

19. “Open”
as
the
Default
Modus
Operandi
for
Research
and
Higher
Educa&on
European
Network
for
Co-­‐ordina4on
of
Policies
and
Programmes
on
e-­‐Infrastructures
(e-­‐InfraNet,
2013)

20. The
Open
Agenda
Policy
interven+ons
Open
Process
Open
Content
Open
Culture
Policy
interven+ons
Open
Infrastructure
(Corrall
&
Pinfield,
2014)

21. COLLECTIONS
GRID
Aim:
to
discover
Stewardship/scarcity
high
Low-­‐High
High-­‐High
Special
Collec7ons
low
Low-­‐Low
low
Freely-­‐accessible
web
resources
Open
source
sosware
Newsgroup
archives
High
Stewardship
Low
Stewardship
High-­‐Low
Research
&
Learning
Materials
Ins7tu7onal
records
high
Newspapers
Gov
Documents
CD
&
DVD
Maps
Scores
Uniqueness
Books
&
Journals
In
many
collec7ons
Rare
books
Local/Historical
Newspapers
Local
History
Materials
Archives
&
Manuscripts
Theses
&
disserta4ons
(Dempsey
&
Childress,
OCLC
Research)
In
few
collec7ons
Aim:
to
*have*
discovered
to
…
disclose
ePrints/tech
reports
Learning
objects
Courseware
E-­‐portolios
Research
data
Prospectus
Ins4tu4onal
website

22. Planning
Collec&ve
Collec&ons
for
the
21st
Century
“Collec4on
management
will
take
place
at
the
intersec4ons
of
local
and
shared
print
and
digital
collec4ons”
Local
collec4on
management
plans
now
need
to
situate
individual
library
collec4ons
in
the
new
“collec4ve
context”
(Demas
&
Miller,
2012,
p.
170)

23. Key
Trends
and
Developments
Big
deals
and
bundles
Budget
reduc4ons
Cloud-­‐sourced
content
Collec4ve
collec4ons
Consor4al
purchasing
Library
publishing
License
nego4a4ons
Open
access
and
data
Patron-­‐/demand-­‐/user-­‐
driven
acquisi4on
• Vendor-­‐supplied
records
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Print
versus
digital
• Commodity
material
versus
unique
or
dis4nc4ve
resources
o From
resource
discovery
to
resource
disclosure
• Demand-­‐based
versus
value-­‐based
selec4on
o From
micro-­‐level
to
macro-­‐level
selec4on
• Expanding
upstream
and/or
downstream
o

24. Four
Ques&ons
for
Debate
• Where
do
libraries
create
or
add
real
value?
o What
are
the
unique
or
dis4nc4ve
contribu7ons
of
professional
librarians?
• Which
are
the
most
cri4cal
processes
or
tasks
in
the
collec4on
cycle?
o What
are
the
defining
roles,
responsibili4es
and
competencies
of
collec4on
prac44oners?
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Iden4fica4on
Selec4on/appraisal
Acquisi4on
Purchasing/licensing
Organiza4on
Descrip4on/disclosure
Preserva4on
Storage
Presenta4on
Access
Dissemina4on
Evalua4on