SCONUL and Discovery Resource Discovery Workshop 23-03-12: Presentation by David Ball, Head of Academic Development Services, Student and Academic Services, Bournemouth University

1. Resource Discovery
A Bournemouth Perspective
David Ball
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3. FONDA
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4. Honda??
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5. Disruptive Technologies
• Sustaining technologies
• Improve performance of existing
products
• Disruptive technologies
• Under-perform existing products (good
enough)
• Different features attractive to fringe
customers
• Cheaper, simpler, smaller, easier to use
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6. Honda – the Lifestyle
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7. The Case of Kodak
• Cheap analogue cameras; revenue
from consumables
• Invested in digital imaging
research, but did not change from
analogue
• Missed possibilities of ICT:
• Desktops and broadband enable mass
digital market and put user in control
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8. Lessons for the Library
• Attraction of empowerment
• Technological landscape
• Digital camera
• Dangers of developing products/tools
beyond what the user needs
• The Good Enough
• The Immediately Available
• Google Search, Wikipedia
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9. A day in the life of Alice and Higgins
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10. What did the Follett Group
miss?
• Remarkably little
• Above campus
• Collaboration
• VLE?
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11. Bournemouth’s Technology
• Clunky (and expensive)
• Blackboard (no separate learning repository)
• Talis
• CLA licence
• Not so clunky
• EBSCO [knowledge base]
• EBSCO resource discovery
• Chat
• BigBlueButton
• No ERMS
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12. Bournemouth e-usage

13. Facts
• >80,000 e-journals and report series (393
print only/149 print + online);
• >90,000 e-books;
• 78% of resources expenditure is on e-
resources;
• 2010-11 - 962,980 COUNTER JR1 article
requests (10% increase on 2009-10);
• 2010-11 – 2,020,577 COUNTER BR2 book
section requests (50% increase on 2009-
10).
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14. Facts 2
Sept-Feb 2010/11 vs. Sept-Feb 2011/12:
• User sessions on Discovery tool up 91%;
• Abstracts viewed on Discovery tool up 121%;
• Counter JR1 article requests fulfilled via Discovery
tool up 108%;
• Links out to full text from Discovery tool (using
Link resolver or custom links) up 241%;
• Linking to items in the Library catalogue from
Discovery tool up 124%;
• Linking to items in the Institutional Repository
from Discovery tool up 65%
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15. Lessons
• Resource discovery tools drive usage
• Of subscriptions, OA, institutionally
produced resources
• Use of intermediaries (agents)
• Integration into VLE, and business
systems
• Legacy systems (LMS) – how to
manage them out?
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16. The Library: a Disruptive or
Sustaining Technology
• Users in control
• What do users use?
• Cheap and simple
• Is it immediately available?
• Is it good enough?
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17. Questions?
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