Tag: collection development
SCP Update
Read the November SCP Update to see the major record serial record additions including 147 Open Access titles and the major monograph records (SPIE conference proceedings, Springer, and more).
Also, SCP has started to annotate cataloging status for each package listed on the page titled “E-Resources Tracking: Package-Level Cataloging Details for CDL Electronic Resources.” Eventually, each package will have a note such as “cataloging completed”, “cataloging ongoing; monthly; manual”, or “Cataloging ongoing, irregular; notified by vendor.”
WEST Update – Archiving Cycle 1 complete
The Western Regional Storage Trust reports that the first archiving cycle has come to a close, with twelve archive holders promising to retain for 25 years “6,100 journal titles …[representing] over 160,000 volumes. These totals include almost 5,100 Bronze titles (archived in place, no validation), over 500 Silver titles (validated at the volume level), and over 500 Gold titles (validated at the issue level).”
There are two more archiving cycles planned. Each cycle includes a collection analysis that “prioritizes materials for archiving based on risk and duplication, [and] identifies potential Archive Holders/Builders for those materials…” We’ll likely be hearing two more rounds of requests to volunteer some of our holdings for select titles.
One driver for creating WEST was member institutions’ shared concern that all can foresee a time when local shelving will be full. WEST is being built, at least in part, in the hope of mediating this problem by identifying protected print copies held communally and accessible through Interlibrary Loan. Now that WEST is becoming real, I’ll be initiating conversations to discuss how we will integrate the WEST archives into our collections policies.
–Bernie
Update on the Library’s Procedures to Handle Collections Materials Acquired in Digital Formats
The first step in implementing the recommendations of the working group for Materials Acquired Digitally (MAD) has been to update the e-order form to accommodate orders for digital format materials. To see the new form, go to the regular e-order form (http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu:8080/eorder/eorder.process.logic) and click “Materials Acquired Digitally – Order Form” in the upper right.
The next step will be to create a streamlined process to move digital materials from the vendor to us, while automatically creating minimal MARC records that can be quickly added to OskiCat. The Catalog Department will then review and if needed, enhance the catalog records, which will be exported to OCLC.
Our Systems Office group, Library Applications & Publishing, is also managing a series of pilots recommended by the Materials Acquired Digitally working group. As we learn more through these pilots and the use of the new form about how digital materials are ordered, delivered and added to our collections, we will continue to find ways to automate this process.
I would like to take this opportunity to officially thank the members of the Materials Acquired Digitally working group for their outstanding work on a complex topic, but one that is critical to our future. My thanks to: Cheryl Cook, Harrison Dekker, Mary Elings, Lynne Grigsby (Chair), Gary Handman, Jean McKenzie, Trina Pundurs. The MAD final report can be found at:
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/CS/pdfs/MAD_Final_Report.pdf).
If you have any questions, please send them to Lynne (lgrigsby@library).
Best, Bernie
The FY 2012 Collection Services Annual Report is now Available
I am pleased to announce the FY 2012 Collection Services Annual Report is now available.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/CS/pdfs/Collections_Annual_Report_fy2011-12_FINAL.pdf
This report reflects work performed by the Collection Services Council, the Collections Budget Group, the E-Book Advisory Group, the Scholarly Communication Advisory Group, and the staff who work in Acquisitions, Cataloging, Collections Analysis, Licensing, and Preservation.
If you do not have time to read the entire report, I would urge you to at least read through the Highlights section. The highlights have been arranged by subject to make visible the major themes that were pursued in FY12. As you will see, last year was a very busy and productive year for Collection Services. This is a good time for us to step back and recognize all that we have accomplished together.
Most importantly, I offer my sincere thanks to everyone who works in Collections Services and to the Library as a whole for your dedication to the Library. Your efforts have allowed us to provide our patrons with outstanding collections and services under very difficult staffing and financial conditions. All of us in Collections Services look forward to serving the Library and our patrons in FY13.
–Bernie Hurley, Director of Collection Services
Hathi Trust Update
Hathi Trust’s June newsletter has some items you might find interesting:
- You can now imbed a Hathi volume in a webpage: http://www.hathitrust.org/embed
- There’s a new page of resources available to help you learn and teach Hathi features and functions: http://www.hathitrust.org/resources
- Hathi now also has a Pinterest account…if you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty fun (and perhaps useful): http://pinterest.com/hathitrust/
- Michigan staff have been improving indexing and searching of CJK languages. A discussion of the issues is available on the large-scale search blog.
Lynne Grigsby reports that Systems has successfully loaded ~1.5 million bib records to OskiCat for titles in Hathi that are in the public domain.
–gail
Kathleen Gallagher to serve on Collections Budget Group
I’m very pleased to announce that beginning July 1, Kathleen Gallagher has agreed to join the Collections Budget Group as the Fund Coordinator for the Arts & Humanities Group.
Kathleen’s experience and flexibility in helping the Library address new challenges and opportunities make her an excellent candidate for CBG. Her work on CSC, the consortial PDA position paper, the CDC journal evaluation project, and the Library Services Model self-study team have demonstrated Kathleen’s broad and deep understanding of collection development issues and her ability to take a library-wide perspective.
Claude Potts, who has served as the A&H Fund Coordinator, will take over from Jim Spohrer, to become the Fund Coordinator for International and Area Studies.
I welcome Kathleen to CBG and thank Claude for his willingness to take on a new Fund Coordinator role.
Best, Bernie
Wiley ebook titles lists (redux)
Don’t forget that titles available as part of the CDL-licensed Wiley ebook package are listed in a regularly-updated spreadsheet on the CDL Resource Information page. Since there may be a lag time between when we get access and when the title is added to the spreadsheet, a good rule of thumb to avoid duplicate orders is to sit on any Wiley titles you wish to order for a couple of months.
As a reminder, here is how to see the Wiley ebook package title list:
Go to: CDL Resource Information and look under eBook Packages for a link to Wiley ebook package title list 2011-2012 (xls). (Let me know if you need the password.)
See other posts: Wiley ebook title list (9/16/11), More Wiley ebooks (10/13/11), Wiley ebooks – title list 2012 (2/27/12)
-Margaret
Who uses what libraries?
Lynne Grigsby and Susan Edwards conceived (as part of the Library Service Model re-envisioning look at access) of a set of reports that show
* how many items are in circulation at the moment of snapshot
* what libraries checked out these items
* whether the items are checked out to faculty, graduate students or undergrads
* what academic department a faculty or student borrower is affiliated with. (Note: this is determined by the campus address for faculty, and declared major for graduate and undergraduate students).
Every other month, Dave Rez in Systems will run 3 reports (items in circulation, at the moment of snapshot, to faculty, grads, undergrads) and post them to http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/annual_statistics/circ_snapshots/ . Pilot reports were run for faculty and grad students based on a day in March; these reports were then refined for the May run and include undergrad information. A link to these reports has been included in /CS on the Budget/Metrics page.
I’ve already found these statistics to be fascinating: we now have a metric to help quantify our anecdotal understanding that “research is highly interdisciplinary” and that “each of our libraries services users from a myriad of academic departments.” It will be very interesting to see if the patterns in March/May continue as we are looking at longer stretches of time.
Gail is working with the May statistics and we’ll release some findings in the next month or so. From here on, any of you will be able to access and consider this data for your libraries.
Thanks to Susan and Lynne for this great idea, and to Dave Rez for making this happen!
–Bernie
Book Donations
Thanks to Frank Carothers, Cheryl Cook and Damaris Moore, there is a new public page with information for friends of the library who wish to donate books. The new page lives on the Development website, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/give/bookdonations.html , and is linked to from both the Collections public and staff-side websites.
–Bernie
Acquisitions Documentation: 1) Millennium Fund Reports, and 2) Ordering replacements
Thanks to Jim Gordon, we now have documents that answer oft-asked selectors’ questions:
Where are the fund reports? How do I view, print and copy data? Answers are here: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/asktico/procedures/acquisitions-millennium-fund-reports
“What process is triggered when I order a replacement?” The answer is here http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/asktico/procedures/acquisitions-replacement-orders
Both of these links are “filed” on the Collections Services staff-side website, http://lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/CS/ under “Budget/Metrics” and “Print Management”, respectively.
–gail