Abstract:Practicing librarians, library science researchers, operations researchers, and economists have documented their extensive efforts to ensure that libraries serve users effectively and efficiently. The measures and methods used have, in some ways, grown substantially more complex and sophisticated. Such tools include development of statistical models describing the use, and predicting future use, of resources (largely books and journals), as well as incorporating more variables to better explain the use. The cost-per-use metric, however, has become ubiquitous and nearly universal for evaluating resources, especially renewable resources such as journals and databases. Composed of only two factors, cost and use (and, by implication, time), this measure provides context missing from either metric alone, yet is simple enough for most practicing librarians and the library stakeholders to instantly comprehend. This article provides a background to the forces that led to the development, use, and gradual acceptance of this metric, and concludes with a case study of its application in different collection development decisions at the author's institution.
{"title":"The Depths of Cost-per-Use: Historical Context and Applications","authors":"K. Harker","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Practicing librarians, library science researchers, operations researchers, and economists have documented their extensive efforts to ensure that libraries serve users effectively and efficiently. The measures and methods used have, in some ways, grown substantially more complex and sophisticated. Such tools include development of statistical models describing the use, and predicting future use, of resources (largely books and journals), as well as incorporating more variables to better explain the use. The cost-per-use metric, however, has become ubiquitous and nearly universal for evaluating resources, especially renewable resources such as journals and databases. Composed of only two factors, cost and use (and, by implication, time), this measure provides context missing from either metric alone, yet is simple enough for most practicing librarians and the library stakeholders to instantly comprehend. This article provides a background to the forces that led to the development, use, and gradual acceptance of this metric, and concludes with a case study of its application in different collection development decisions at the author's institution.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"355 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42267614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. W. Lewis, Tina Baich, Kristi L. Palmer, William Miller
Abstract:Due to the increasing availability of digital content and systems improvements that have accelerated physical delivery, academic libraries are afforded opportunities to more efficiently provide users access to library materials. A theory for efficient provision of information resources, and thus more efficient use of financial resources, was proposed by one of the coauthors in "The Future of Academic Library Materials Expenditures: A Thought Experiment." The strategies on which the theory is based include purchase on demand, library publishing, and improved open access discovery. This article details the theory and then examines IUPUI University Library's experience of implementing strategies based on this theory. The authors analyze the effectiveness of the theory and offer guidance for libraries considering a similar path.
{"title":"The Efficient Provision of Information Resources in Academic Libraries: Theory and Practice","authors":"D. W. Lewis, Tina Baich, Kristi L. Palmer, William Miller","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Due to the increasing availability of digital content and systems improvements that have accelerated physical delivery, academic libraries are afforded opportunities to more efficiently provide users access to library materials. A theory for efficient provision of information resources, and thus more efficient use of financial resources, was proposed by one of the coauthors in \"The Future of Academic Library Materials Expenditures: A Thought Experiment.\" The strategies on which the theory is based include purchase on demand, library publishing, and improved open access discovery. This article details the theory and then examines IUPUI University Library's experience of implementing strategies based on this theory. The authors analyze the effectiveness of the theory and offer guidance for libraries considering a similar path.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"323 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43609093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Technological innovation and the information age have significantly impacted academic libraries' roles in higher education. Patrons' diverse needs require that academic libraries provide dynamic services and resources. Within resource constraints, academic libraries face the challenge of identifying and investing appropriately in specific resources that will effectively and efficiently meet patrons' complex needs. Libraries have traditionally measured efficiency by developing single factor productivity indexes. However, these qualitative methods do not adequately address the efficiency aspect, which measures the transformation of resources (inputs) into services (outputs). Data envelopment analysis (DEA) measures the relative efficiencies of a decision-making unit with multiple inputs and outputs. The DEA methodology has been applied to libraries over the past twenty years. This paper proposes how to develop a competitive resource-based view strategy and data envelopment analysis evaluation model that faculty can employ to strengthen their libraries. The model is demonstrated by analyzing the efficiency of the Portland State University Branford Price Millar Library compared to its peer institution libraries and recommending resource-based strategies that will yield the greatest sustained competitive advantage.
{"title":"Developing a Competitive Resource-Based View Strategy for Academic Libraries","authors":"Michael Clark","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Technological innovation and the information age have significantly impacted academic libraries' roles in higher education. Patrons' diverse needs require that academic libraries provide dynamic services and resources. Within resource constraints, academic libraries face the challenge of identifying and investing appropriately in specific resources that will effectively and efficiently meet patrons' complex needs. Libraries have traditionally measured efficiency by developing single factor productivity indexes. However, these qualitative methods do not adequately address the efficiency aspect, which measures the transformation of resources (inputs) into services (outputs). Data envelopment analysis (DEA) measures the relative efficiencies of a decision-making unit with multiple inputs and outputs. The DEA methodology has been applied to libraries over the past twenty years. This paper proposes how to develop a competitive resource-based view strategy and data envelopment analysis evaluation model that faculty can employ to strengthen their libraries. The model is demonstrated by analyzing the efficiency of the Portland State University Branford Price Millar Library compared to its peer institution libraries and recommending resource-based strategies that will yield the greatest sustained competitive advantage.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"304 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiebei Luo, John O'connor, Sarah Melton, Kimberly C. Kowal
Abstract:In 2018, the Boston College Libraries launched a fund totaling $20,000 per semester to support affiliated researchers for their publications in open access (OA) journals. The BC OA Fund has experienced an increasing depletion rate as well as usage inefficiency. In this study, we seek to better understand these usage patterns by analyzing the OA applications received in the past three semesters. Specifically, we utilize two-sample t-tests and multiple linear regressions to perform a quantitative study of the depletion rate of the BC OA Fund and consider multiple factors affecting the efficiency of fund usage, including manuscript status, applicant's discipline, applicant's position, and co-authorship. Our results indicate that the OA Fund is becoming more popular within the BC community, especially among researchers in science and social science fields, and that a researcher's status as student and their co-authorship significantly improve usage efficiency.
{"title":"A Statistical Analysis of the Campus-Based Open Access Fund at Boston College","authors":"Jiebei Luo, John O'connor, Sarah Melton, Kimberly C. Kowal","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2018, the Boston College Libraries launched a fund totaling $20,000 per semester to support affiliated researchers for their publications in open access (OA) journals. The BC OA Fund has experienced an increasing depletion rate as well as usage inefficiency. In this study, we seek to better understand these usage patterns by analyzing the OA applications received in the past three semesters. Specifically, we utilize two-sample t-tests and multiple linear regressions to perform a quantitative study of the depletion rate of the BC OA Fund and consider multiple factors affecting the efficiency of fund usage, including manuscript status, applicant's discipline, applicant's position, and co-authorship. Our results indicate that the OA Fund is becoming more popular within the BC community, especially among researchers in science and social science fields, and that a researcher's status as student and their co-authorship significantly improve usage efficiency.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"430 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41484770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article discusses the purposes of collecting zines and alternative-press magazines in academic libraries that support fashion studies programs. Fashion is a discipline that is both creative and academic but is also a field that is dominated by commercial interests. Fashion zines offer a form of counterdiscourse to the mainstream fashion media, which engages with fashion as a phenomenon while challenging its institutionally held power. Zines are also emerging as a new media in fashion communications, with alternative magazines taking inspiration from their aesthetics and brands co-opting the terminology and capitalizing on their subcultural appeal. This article focuses on the developing relevance of this medium to fashion as an industry and as an academic discipline, the challenges academic libraries face in collecting zines and small-press fashion publications, and the academic library’s role in providing access to this kind of alternate literature. Additionally, it discusses zine making as a pedagogical tool, exploring how they can be used by students for inspiration and as a medium with which to engage with, and challenge, fashion discourse on their own terms.
{"title":"Fashion Torn Up: Exploring the Potential of Zines and Alternative Fashion Press Publications in Academic Library Collections","authors":"Suzanna Hall","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses the purposes of collecting zines and alternative-press magazines in academic libraries that support fashion studies programs. Fashion is a discipline that is both creative and academic but is also a field that is dominated by commercial interests. Fashion zines offer a form of counterdiscourse to the mainstream fashion media, which engages with fashion as a phenomenon while challenging its institutionally held power. Zines are also emerging as a new media in fashion communications, with alternative magazines taking inspiration from their aesthetics and brands co-opting the terminology and capitalizing on their subcultural appeal. This article focuses on the developing relevance of this medium to fashion as an industry and as an academic discipline, the challenges academic libraries face in collecting zines and small-press fashion publications, and the academic library’s role in providing access to this kind of alternate literature. Additionally, it discusses zine making as a pedagogical tool, exploring how they can be used by students for inspiration and as a medium with which to engage with, and challenge, fashion discourse on their own terms.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"51 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47201080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Emerging fashion researchers often have their first experience with visual and tactile research in postsecondary school. Fashion librarians and educators must be able to assist students in adapting their perspective to include analyses of characteristics like color, silhouette, fabric, weave, and embellishment, in addition to familiarity with the fashion scholarship. However, translating visual and tactile cues into searchable vocabulary bridges can be difficult and exposes a gap in information literacy. In this article the author shares three information literacy exercises that librarians may combine with institution-specific resource instruction to guide students in developing a useful vocabulary for image- and object-based research and meeting their unique educational needs.
{"title":"Information Literacy for Fashion Students: Translating Visual and Tactile Cues into Searchable Key Terms","authors":"Olivia Warschaw","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Emerging fashion researchers often have their first experience with visual and tactile research in postsecondary school. Fashion librarians and educators must be able to assist students in adapting their perspective to include analyses of characteristics like color, silhouette, fabric, weave, and embellishment, in addition to familiarity with the fashion scholarship. However, translating visual and tactile cues into searchable vocabulary bridges can be difficult and exposes a gap in information literacy. In this article the author shares three information literacy exercises that librarians may combine with institution-specific resource instruction to guide students in developing a useful vocabulary for image- and object-based research and meeting their unique educational needs.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"11 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41857244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University has a distinguished history in collecting the materials related to unions, with particular strengths in the area of textile and garment manufacturing. It was fitting, therefore, that when the American Textile History Museum (ATHM) closed its doors in 2016, the Kheel Center acquired the bulk of the library and archives as well as many fabric samples. This article explores the ATHM’s mission to tell “America’s story through the art, science, and history of textiles” and how by bringing these collections to Cornell we can expand that story. Today, the global textile and garment industries employ an estimated forty to eighty million people, yet very few Americans understand the impact that it has on the lives of the people who make their clothes and on the earth’s fragile ecosystem. By combining emerging technology with expanding collecting areas and engaging new audiences with these incredible foundational materials, the Kheel Center can build more representative and discoverable collections upon ATHM’s enduring legacy.
{"title":"Reweaving the Textile Industry Archive: Strategies for Building Inclusive Collections on the Legacy of the American Textile History Museum","authors":"Marcie Farwell","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University has a distinguished history in collecting the materials related to unions, with particular strengths in the area of textile and garment manufacturing. It was fitting, therefore, that when the American Textile History Museum (ATHM) closed its doors in 2016, the Kheel Center acquired the bulk of the library and archives as well as many fabric samples. This article explores the ATHM’s mission to tell “America’s story through the art, science, and history of textiles” and how by bringing these collections to Cornell we can expand that story. Today, the global textile and garment industries employ an estimated forty to eighty million people, yet very few Americans understand the impact that it has on the lives of the people who make their clothes and on the earth’s fragile ecosystem. By combining emerging technology with expanding collecting areas and engaging new audiences with these incredible foundational materials, the Kheel Center can build more representative and discoverable collections upon ATHM’s enduring legacy.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"12 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43096183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The study of commercial sewing pattern publications can help scholars to solve the problem of couture versus quotidian dress in the history of fashion. Sewing was one of the few crafts to which women were universally exposed in the United States in the early twentieth century. Like publications depicting ready-to-wear clothing, which also allow us to see everyday clothing as opposed to elite dress, commercial sewing pattern publications illustrated contemporary rules of the six occasions for dress and the application of the five aesthetic principles to clothing. In addition, such publications offer unusually detailed garment illustrations and pattern schematics documenting style trends and garment design and construction. Most importantly, sewing publications offer valuable information about women’s relationship to dress in one of the few realms where they acted as both producer and consumer. Sewing pattern publications indicate tacitly the level of artisanal skill possessed by American women and girls by era and can aid scholars in restoring them to the history of technology. Though scholarly access to commercial sewing pattern publications has increased, they remain a largely inaccessible source worthy of library collection.
{"title":"Solving the Problem of Couture versus Quotidian Fashion: Commercial Sewing Pattern Publications, a Neglected (and Uncollected) Historical Source","authors":"L. Przybyszewski","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The study of commercial sewing pattern publications can help scholars to solve the problem of couture versus quotidian dress in the history of fashion. Sewing was one of the few crafts to which women were universally exposed in the United States in the early twentieth century. Like publications depicting ready-to-wear clothing, which also allow us to see everyday clothing as opposed to elite dress, commercial sewing pattern publications illustrated contemporary rules of the six occasions for dress and the application of the five aesthetic principles to clothing. In addition, such publications offer unusually detailed garment illustrations and pattern schematics documenting style trends and garment design and construction. Most importantly, sewing publications offer valuable information about women’s relationship to dress in one of the few realms where they acted as both producer and consumer. Sewing pattern publications indicate tacitly the level of artisanal skill possessed by American women and girls by era and can aid scholars in restoring them to the history of technology. Though scholarly access to commercial sewing pattern publications has increased, they remain a largely inaccessible source worthy of library collection.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"30 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45793712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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