The Case for (Business) Cases

ER&L 2017

Presented by Sarah Vital, Business Librarian

SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA

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Liberal Arts college in the San Francisco Bay Area

Houses an AACSB accredited business school (School of Economics and Business Administration, or SEBA)

50 full-time and 55 part-time faculty in SEBA.

770 undergraduate and 300 graduate students in SEBA.

Primarily a teaching college, focused on practical and applicable business education

How had case studies been seen in collection responsibilities?

Monographs, media,

periodicals, databases for

outside of class research

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Teaching material for in-

class use / homework

assigned by faculty

Library’s Responsibility

School’s Responsibility

Why had we been so concerned about collecting case studies?

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Traditional research assignments reigned

Limited material budgets

Copyright & License agreements

When did this all start to change?

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Faculty assignments started to trend toward professional

projects

New publisher and vendor options sold to libraries and

open to all

What has been the response?

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Statistical evidence(in first 6 months)

343 uses.

147 individual cases accessed

3 courses assigned a single reading

2 faculty have published in SAGE Business Cases

USE!

Anecdotal evidence

“This is stuff is good. If we subscribed I would definitely use this. I could go into particulars if you want…. [long list of particulars snipped].... I could go on, there is great stuff here.

“I had planned to use about 10 of them as they cover most of the topics I plan to cover.”

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I’m happy to answer questions or share more experiences

ContactEmail: svital@stmarys-ca.edu

Slides available at slideshare.net/SarahVital

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Photographs copyright Saint Mary’s College of California, Office of College Communications

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