MLA TSD EResources Boot Camp EResources Collection Development

MLA TSD E-Resources Boot Camp: E-Resources Collection Development LENORE ENGLAND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ELECTRONIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AUGUST 4, 2014

Agenda How to… �Develop an e-resources collection development policy Identify, evaluate, and selectronic resources Set preservation, maintenance, and security standards

E-Resources Collection Development First step: Develop or revise your policies

E-Resources Collection Development of policies: Strategic Planning

Step Two – to get started: Collecting policies �Collecting subject areas – what are they? �Collecting levels – constituencies �Types of collections

Step Two – to get started: Kinds of electronic resources �Digital repository �E-Books (collections) �E-Journals (collections) �Aggregated databases �Others

Also a possibility: Focus on how to collect? �Consortium �Direct �Other? Licensing considerations

�Consortium Step Three: Identify electronic resources for acquisition – Where? �Recommendation �Vendors �Publications and more…

Step Four: Evaluation and selection for eresources – Criteria �Purpose �Audience �Content �Accuracy

Step Four: Evaluation and selection for eresources – Criteria �Authority �Currency �Scope �Uniqueness

Step Four: Evaluation and selection for eresources – Criteria �Stability �Format and appearance �Workability �Cost �Statistics (unique titles, existing)

Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources �Participants �Collection team(s)

�Timeline Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources When to submit lists How to submit How to make available

�Trials, as needed Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources When to submit lists How to submit How to make available

�Evaluate Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources Based on criteria Form to submit online? How to make available Who – library staff (reference and technical) and others

Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources �Recommendations Report (periodic – annual or other) May change

Step Five-A: Procedures to identify, evaluate, and select new eresources �Minimum time period before reevaluation �Criteria to evaluate, same, plus: Support organization? Other venues for cost? Usage? Other resource?

Step Five-B: Procedures to evaluate current eresources �Participants �Collection team(s)

Step Five-B: Procedures to evaluate current eresources �Timeline �Criteria to evaluate, plus: Budgetary Overlap? Changes in organizational initiatives, directives Usage

Step Five-B: Procedures to evaluate current eresources �Assignments �Recommendations

Step Six: �Vendors Preservation and maintenance �Organization Where and how to preserve and maintain Migration

Step Seven: Security �Vendors �Organization - authentication

References Key Issues for E-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries, IFLA, August 2012 (PDF) (http: //w 3. ifla. org/files/assets/acquisitioncollection-development/publications/Electronicresource-guide. pdf) There are many examples of electronic resources collection development policies on the web.

Thank You and Questions? Lenore England Assistant Director, Electronic Resources Management, UMUC lenore. england@umuc. edu