Whilst we wait to start please visit

http://www.netvibes.com/icjsrssfeeds#General

Please look at the reading lists appearing in the left hand column.

I would ask you to write any comments on

Appearance, structure, size, annotation with an indication of subject of the list

on a post it note which you can post to the flip chart at the front.

100 into 2 won’t go

Problems of access OR can

we hope to satisfy student

demand for access to books?

Teaching with a set text

a) 15

b) 25

c) 45

What do you think is the maximum number of students that one copy of a 7 day loan textbook could reach in one

semester?

How many students is one 7-day loan

textbook likely to service in a semester?

Based on

assignment on topic covered by textbook due at end of week 10

students not aware of reading list till day 5 of semester

students willing to read the book in an early week of semester and make any notes needed in that week, with no further access except perhaps to a 1 day or 4 hour loan copy …

Best case scenario

• Day 5 book issued to student 1

• Day 12 due back (Student 2 reserves in this first week) Book is returned on time

• Day 13 reservation staff deal with book and place note on catalogue

• Email to Student 2 generated overnight

• Day 14 Student 2 receives email and collects book

• Day 21 Student 2 returns book

• Day 22 staff deal with reservation

• Day 23 Student 3 collects book

• Day 30 student 3 returns book

And so on until

Day 68 Student 8 picks up book

Worst case scenario• Day 5 book issued to

student 1

• Day 12 due back (Student 2 reserves in this first week) Book is returned on time

• Day 13 reservation staff deal with book and place note on catalogue

• Email to Student 2 generated overnight

• Day 14 Student 2 receives email but collects book on last possible day – Day 21

• Day 28 Student 2 brings back book

• Day 29 staff deal with book

• Day 37 – Student 3 picks

up book on last possible

day

• Day 44 Student 3 returns

book

• Day 45 staff deal with book

• Day 53 –Student 4 does not

pick up book until last

possible day

• Day 60 Student 4 returns

book

• Day 61 Staff deal with book

• Day 69 Student 5 picks up

book on last possible day

Seems unlikely?

• What about part-time students who only attend once a week?

• What about when the due date is a Friday? –in practice with a skeleton staff at weekends, the reservation will not be dealt with until Monday

• What about students who do not return the book on the due date? Many seem willing to regard a fine as a rental payment

• In practice greatest demand for books 2-3 weeks before assignment due date

Collection development

Planned or happenstance?

Reactive or proactive

Print/electronic balance

For a book order categorised as “non-urgent “ how long do you think it normally takes from ordering for the book to

reach the library shelves?

a) 20 working days

b) 50 working days

c) 70 working days

• 2nd

• 8th

• 15th

Where do you think Portsmouth students come in a league table of

Ebrary users?

Ebrary Usage Stats

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 Oct-

Dec 08

Sessions

Docs Viewed

38,485 books available to UoP Cost per user session=16p

Total pages viewed was 1,700,002 in 2007/08

15,221 pages viewed on 8 December 2008 alone

Ebrary Use within UoP 2007/08

55%

16%

14%

11%4%

HSS

Tech

PBS

Sci

CCI

• Print

• Electronic

• Print & Electronic combined

Which do you think is the cheaper format for an institutional subscription

to a typical journal?

2009 prices for Human Relations

Jan

‘09

Print Only ElectronicOnly 1999-

Electronic OnlyComplete BackFile

Print and Electronic Access 1999-

Print andElectronicComplete BackFile

$1880 $1918 $2110 $1726 $1918

£1293 £1319 £1451 £1187 £1319

£964 £984 £1082 £885 £984

Jan

‘08

Print Only ElectronicOnly 1999-

Electronic OnlyComplete BackFile

Print and Electronic Access 1999-

Print andElectronicComplete BackFile

$1880 $1918 $2110 $1726 $1918

£1293 £1319 £1451 £1187 £1319

But, there is VAT to pay on electronic subscriptions

£1395

17.5% VAT 17.5% VAT

£1550

VATVAT

proportion varies based on publishers calculation

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

2001/2 2002/3 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10

Print Journal A

E-Journal A

Print Journal B

E-journal B

But watch the trend!

Sample e and print journal usage over 9 years

a) Yes

b) No

Do you think we should be buying more e-only books even for campus

based courses?

a) Yes

b) No

Do you think we should move towards buying e-only journals?

a) Yes

b) No

If we have a stable archive of e-journals such as JSTOR, do you think

we should remove the equivalent print journals and re-use the space?

References

S. Bartlett. Resource list management: a system based approach. Library and Information. Library & Information Update June 2010.

J. Chelin, M.McEachran, & E. Williams. 500 into 4 won’t go how to solve the problem of reading list expectations. SCONUL Focus 36 Winter 2002

A. J. Head and M. B. Eisenberg. Lessons Learned: how college students seek information in the digital age. 2009 (http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf).

H. Jones. Reading Lists in Cambridge: a standard system? Arcadia Project, 2009

(http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/readinglist_Report.pdf).

Publihers Association. Open books: open minds. P.A. 2006.(http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf).

J. Stamenkovic. Has the core text had its day? University of Portsmouth Briefing Paper. 2006.