Author: mhemhauser
Stanford – Berkeley Interlibrary Borrowing / Lending
Wonder what parts of your collections are being requested by Stanford? Spreadsheets of what Stanford requested of us for 2008/09 are now available.
Collections Development –> Tools –> Assessment –>Interlibrary Borrowing/Lending (scroll down to “Berkeley Lending via RLCP”)
Statistics and details of what Berkeley patrons requested from Stanford are being compiled, and will be announced here when they are available.
If you have questions, give me a buzz
gail
Collections Annual Reports
Collections is always a busy place and once a year we try to make notes for our someday-to-be-published memoirs.
For a brief summary of the various windmills we’ve tilted at or vanquished, see the new Annual Reports section of the Collections Development staff-side website.
–gail
New! Collections Services website
The new and developing Collections Services (CS) website is now available — take a look and let us know what you think!
This is a staff-side website, with the goal of providing selectors with the information you need to manage library materials through their life-cycle (selection, licensing, acquisitions, cataloging, catalog maintenance, e-resource management, print management, budgets and metrics.)
You’ve seen much of this content before (in the staff-side Collections Development website). We hope the current organization will both help you find what you need fast, and provide a better structure for adding new documentation, policies, and procedures as they become available.
NEW PAGES are coming. Please complete the survey to help us figure out where to focus our energy in new page development. (There’s a link to the survey on the CS homepage, lower right) The survey will be live for several weeks. Tell us now, tell us later — your ideas are always welcome.
–gail
Collections Analysis
As many of you know, we currently have access to OCLC’s WorldCat Analysis tool. Several of you have recently asked for peer-to-peer comparisons. Some are available now, and the rest should be available in the next few days. If you are interested in knowing more about this, let me know.
–gail
Available now: Columbia, MIT, Rutgers, Stanford, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Yale.
Coming: Harvard (select libraries), Teachers College, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt.
President’s Faculty Lecture Series: Chuck Eckman
Simon Fraser University shows very good taste (again…those bandits) in hosting, then archiving, this video-taped lecture by Chuck Eckman:
The Challenge of Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century
March 9, 2011.
–gail
UC and Nature Publishing Group update, post August 17 meeting
FYI. A new, public, message from Laine Farley at UCOP
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Representatives from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group met on August 17, 2010 to discuss our organizations’ current licensing challenges and the larger issues of scholarly communication sustainability. The discussion was positive, with a full exchange of views and mutual recognition of the value that each of us contributes to the scholarly communication enterprise. Our two organizations have agreed to work together in the coming months to address our mutual short- and long-term challenges, including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models. We look forward to a successful planning and experimentation process that results in mutual agreement that serves all stakeholder groups—NPG, the UC libraries, and the scholar community, thus avoiding the need for the boycott that had been discussed at an earlier stage.
We are aware that many in the library, publishing, and academic communities are interested in the outcome of these discussions, and we will provide further updates on our progress as appropriate.
Working Group – Licensing
Margaret Phillips will lead a hardy band of selectors — Jim Church, Dana Jemison, Mary Ann Mahoney and Susan Xue — through a review of the elements we and CDL look for now when negotiating with publishers to license online resources. They will also recommend further elements they think advisable. Their product will be a vetted checklist posted where selectors can find it.
This charge is in response to the Digital Collection Development Plan Task Force Final Report
Principle No. 7: Selection/Licensing — Prospective: When acquiring licensed e-content, the license should meet current standards…
addressing specifically actions 26-29 and 32.
Digital Library Collection Plan – Update
The Digital Library Collections Plan Task Force delivered their report to Chuck in August 2009.
Since that time Chuck has hosted and encouraged widespread discussion (at a Collections Early Bird for library staff and members of the Academic Senate Committee on Libraries, ADMIN, Collections Council, Collection Budget Group and Subject Councils) and gotten feedback both on content and on priority. The original report and responding documents from two subject groups can be found under Working Groups on the staff-side Collections Development website.
The report has 97 (!) recommended action items. Task Force Chair Jean McKenzie, Chuck Eckman and Gail Ford are working as a mini-team to organize implementation.
Charges for small and larger groups are in the works to cover ~15 of these action items.
Look for specifics here, as charges are finalized.
Lots of you will be asked to help think through the next stages of how best to balance and integrate our print and digital resources. Thanks in advance for time you spend on this!
Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education has received funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation to continue their look into faculty practices and expectations for different modes of scholarly communication. To date, a planning study has been finished, and an interim report for phase 2 has just become available.
The planning study surfaced a finding that scholars' pre-publication communication styles and needs differ from those they hold when ready to publish. Final Report for Planning Grant, Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models
Draft Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Sophia Krzys Acord, Shannon Lawrence, and C. Judson King. CSHE.8.2008 (May 2008)
As described by the authors, "Well into our second year, we have posted a draft interim report describing some of our early results and impressions based on the responses of more than 150 interviewees in the fields of astrophysics, archaeology, biology, economics, history, music, and political science.