<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>At Illinois Wesleyan University, our practices and philosophy very much mirror those of Tufts Library. We have had a robust liaison program for many years, so library faculty are intimately connected with our faculty and students (teaching, reference, departmental search committees, research consultations with students, service on major campus committees, etc etc) . Library faculty do some selection on their own (less and less of this), but most is done in collaboration with teaching faculty and with knowledge of the curriculum. We are very flexible in fund allocations and in format preference, depending on discipline and use. For example, in addition to continuing with firm orders purchases for print and e-books, CDs, DVDs, etc., we have redirected funds to Kanopy PDA, JSTOR DDA, ACLS Humanities ebooks, Get It Now, and Knowledge Unlatched (to support open access efforts). We have not opted for large ebook packages/programs.<br><br></div>And yes, we are a small private institution. However, we are definitely NOT among the wealthy; our collections budget was reduced and has now been flat for several years, nor do we have any endowed library funds. Which means we are very intentional about where we put our money. We take full advantage of usage reports but that is just one factor among many in our assessments. So wealth is not at all a factor in our collection philosophy. However, we are small (1800), we do not have a graduate program, nor do we have an online program.<br><br></div>Marcia Thomas<br></div><div>Collections Librarian<br></div>Ames Library<br></div>Illinois Wesleyan University<br></div>Bloomington, Illinois<br>309-556-3808<br></div><a href="mailto:mthomas@iwu.edu">mthomas@iwu.edu</a><br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Diane Westerfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Diane.Westerfield@coloradocollege.edu" target="_blank">Diane.Westerfield@coloradocollege.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It’s true that we are a small private liberal arts school, heavily residential, sitting on a big endowment. Our library has endowed funds that are restricted
to book purchases, but almost none of those funds are restricted to a particular subject so there’s no strife over who spends what. We are often encouraged to keep on spending those funds down as much as possible.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We are also small enough that all librarians besides the director wear many hats – we have liaison duties, reference desk shifts, and particular specialties;
most of us are supervisors. Humanities librarian also supervises Circulation, Gov Docs librarian has Econ/Business as a department, etc. We had a massive weeding project and were all expected to work on our areas and chip in on the “ownerless” sections.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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a smaller institution we couldn’t go with the university “buy all the books” strategy; the sociology librarians of times past were very focused on maintaining a collection that was actually used.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We are a small high-touch campus. You get to know a lot of the faculty even outside your department and to know “Professor XYZ has the same class very year,
and always assigns papers on political history of a particular geographical area and time range”. You get similar questions every year, for years. So if you stumble across a newly published book that could be useful to a student in the class and it’s not in
the collection, you might as well buy it even if it’s not in your subject area. Particularly when it’s interdisciplinary, the title may not come up on anybody’s regular notifications. Keeping the students supplied with research material is a team effort.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I feel like my electronic resource work does give way (some) to my other duties but on the other hand, the e-resource work is heavily informed by the public-facing
and collection development work. So it’s a balancing act of time and priorities, while at the same time one corner of work enhances all the others. Admittedly, I enjoy selecting (and weeding!) books so this “Let it all go to DDA and packages” philosophy seems
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are we seeing a difference in philosophy here due to the nature of the institution? Smaller, wealthier schools maintaining traditional selection methods and favoring print, versus larger state-funded institutions going for the best bang
for the buck? It is not inexpensive to have a host of subject librarians selecting printed books title by title, nor cataloging and shelving them, whether they are ever used or not. Much of what we have chosen to do has been driven by financial necessity,
but also by patron demand; they want e-books and lots of them, and DDA allows us to make more titles available for consideration - 10 times more titles (or more!) than we could ever dream of acquiring in print. I'm not getting much faculty or student feedback
for print; what print requests we receive, we purchase as requested. But the DDA e-book models are much used here, for the reasons stated above.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a good discussion and I just wanted to briefly point out that our library has deliberately chosen _not_ to go in this direction. I realize this is contrary to what Melissa originally asked about. We looked carefully at ebook DDA
a few years ago, along with considering how we’d like to handle ebooks vs. print books overall, and concluded that ebook DDA was not well suited to our environment and/or philosophies for collections and user access. So aside from purchasing an occasional
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