Access-informed collection development and the academic library: Using holdings, circulation, and ILL data to develop prescient collections

Collection Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 21-37

  Mortimore, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Access informed collection development; Just in time acquisitions; Subject analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750253573     PISSN: 01462679     EISSN: 15452549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J105v30n03_03     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. See, for example, Laura Kane, "Access Vs. Ownership: Do We Have to Make a Choice?" College & Research Libraries 58:1 (Jan. 1997): 59-67.
2. This study uses "just-in-time acquisitions" to refer to any method of acquisition that involves purchasing items requested through ILL on an expedited basis where selectors have cause to believe that these items will augment the collection and be used with a frequency that merits their ownership cost. The literature uses a number of terms to refer to such methods, including "just-in-time acquisitions," "purchase-on-demand," and "books-on-demand." This study uses the former because of its emphasis on acquisitions.
3. See Ralph Wagner, A History of the Farmington Plan (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
4. Ralph Wagner, A History of the Farmington Plan Ibid., 1.
5. Laura Kane, "Access Vs. Ownership," 60.
6. Laura Kane, "Access Vs. Ownership," Ibid., emphasis in original.
7. Gary Byrd and James Shedlock, "Association of Academic Health Science Libraries Annual Statistics: An Exploratory Twenty-Five-Year Trend Analysis," Journal of the Medical Library Association 91:2 (Apr. 2002): 194.
8. Laura Kane, "Access Vs. Ownership," 62-63.
9. Shelia Intner, "Differences Between Access Vs. Ownership," Technicalities 9:9 (Sept. 1989): 6.
10. Shelia Intner, "Technicalities Ibid., 8.
11. See Sharon McCaslin, "Collection Development Decisions: Make Them for the Right Reasons," Serials Librarian 40:3/4 (2001): 325-329.
12. See, for example, G.G. Allen, "The Economic Efficiencies of Alternatives to Purchase and Loan of Library Resources," IATUL Quarterly 2:4 (Dec. 1989): 209-214.
13. F.K. Rottmann, "To Buy or to Borrow: Studies of the Impact of Interlibrary Loan on Collection Development in the Academic Library," Journal of Interlibrary Loan & Information Supply 1:3 (1991): 18.
14. Robert Broadus, Selecting Materials for Libraries, 2nd ed. (NewYork: H. W. Wilson, 1981): 52.
15. Robert Broadus, Selecting Materials for Libraries, 2nd ed. Ibid.
16. See R.W. Trueswell, "Some Behavioral Patterns of Library Users: the 80/20 Rule," Wilson Library Journal 43:1 (Jan. 1969): 458-61;
17. Quentin Burrell, "The 80/20 Rule: Library Lore or Statistical Law?" Journal of Documentation 41:3 (Mar. 1985): 24-39;
18. and William Britten, "A Use Statistic for Collection Management: The 80/20 Rule Revisited," Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 14:2 (1990): 183-189.
19. Of course, one should assume that full-text use will become a component of such access-informed subject analysis once the field acquires better means of tracking electronic materials access.
20. Gary Byrd, D.A. Thomas, and Katherine Hughes, "Collection Development Using Interlibrary Loan Borrowing and Acquisitions Statistics," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 70:1 (Jan. 1982): 1-9.
21. Albert Henderson, "The Library Collection Failure Quotient: The Ratio of Interlibrary Borrowing to Collection Size," Journal of Academic Librarianship 26:3 (May 2000): 159-170.
22. Albert Henderson, Journal of Academic Librarianship Ibid., 167.
23. John Ochola, "Use of Circulation Statistics and Interlibrary Loan Data in Collection Management," Collection Management 27:1 (2002): 1-12.
24. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid., 2.
25. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid.
26. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid.
27. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid., 3.
28. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid., 5-6.
29. John Ochola, Collection Management Ibid., 7-9.
30. The following examples assume that, on the whole, ownership will be preferable to access, based either upon cost-benefit analysis, or institutional or missional preference.
31. Britten, "A Use Statistic for Collection Management," 188.
32. See, for example, Megan Allen, Suzanne Ward, and Tanner Wray, "Patron-Focused Services in Three U.S. Libraries: Collaborative Interlibrary Loan, Collection Development and Acquisitions," Interlending & Document Supply 31:2 (2003): 138- 141;
33. Kristine Anderson, Robert Freeman, and Jean-Pierre Herubel, "Buy, Don't Borrow: Bibliographer's Analysis of Academic Library Collection Development through Interlibrary Loan Requests," Collection Management 27:3/4 (2002): 1-11;
34. Madeline Bombeld and Arlene Hanerfeld, "The Surprising Truth about Faculty Perception and Use of Collection Development Opportunities: One Library's Case Study," Against the Grain 16:2 (Apr. 2004): 18, 20, 22;
35. Suzanne Ward, "Books on Demand: Just- In-Time Acquisitions," Acquisitions Librarian 14:27 (2002): 95-107;
36. and Suzanne Ward, Tanner Wray, and Karl Debus-Lopez, "Collection Development Based on Patron Requests: Collaboration Between Interlibrary Loan and Acquisitions," Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 27:2 (Sum. 2003): 203-213.
37. Alberta Comer and Elizabeth Lorenzen, "Biz of Acq-Is Purchase-On-Demand a Worthy Model? Do Patrons Really Know What They Want?" Against The Grain 17:1 (Feb. 2005): 76.
38. Ward, Wray, and Debus-Lopez, "Collection Development Based on Patron Requests," 204.
39. Ward, Wray, and Debus-Lopez, "Collection Development Based on Patron Requests," Ibid., 204-205.
40. Anderson, Freeman, and Herubel, "Buy, Don't Borrow," 1.
41. See, for example, Ward, "Books on Demand," 103.
42. Henderson, "The Library Collection Failure Quotient," 159-170.
43. Explicit and/or thorough integration of access-informed methodologies is surprisingly lacking from several contemporary treatments of collection management and collection assessment. See, for example, G.E. Gorman and Ruth Miller, Collection Management for the 21st Century: A Handbook For Librarians (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997);
44. Peggy Johnson, Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Chicago: American Library Association, 2004);
45. and Stuart Lee, Electronic Collection Development: A Practical Guide (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers in association with Library Association Publishers, 2002).