Transcript From ARL Profiles to Questions for the ARL Supplementary

From ARL Profiles
to Questions for the
ARL Supplementary Statistics?
Martha Kyrillidou, Ann Snowman, Patrick Reakes, Bob Fox
Association of Research Libraries
ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting
Washington, DC
June 25, 2010
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Background
• Task Force on New Ways for Measuring
Collections
http://www.arl.org/stats/aboutstats/tfnewways.shtml
• Quantitative and Qualitative (counting and
sensing)
• Two seminal reports:
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Some Alternative Quantitative Library Activity Descriptions / Statistics that
Supplement the ARL Logarithmic Index by Bruce Thompson
Research Libraries as Knowledge Producers: A Shifting Context for Policy and
Funding by Yvonna Lincoln
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• Action agenda – Feb 2007
• Implementation plan:
Collect qualitative data to develop a
profile of ARL member libraries
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ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
An Action Agenda Adopted February 2007
• ARL Board of Directors
• ARL Task Force on New Ways of
Measuring Collections
• ARL Statistics and Assessment
Committee
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
1. Reserve use of the current membership
criteria index for those occasions when it
is needed for consideration of
membership issues.
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
2. Implement an expenditure-focused index.
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
3. Use the new expenditure-focused index
for any public reports, such as in the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
4. Begin to develop a services-based index
that combines the following three factors:
collections, services, and collaborative
relationships.
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
5. Revise definitions for collections-related
data categories currently collected and
experiment with a variety of new
measures, including usage data, strength
of collections, and service quality
measures to develop a richer set of
variables for potential inclusion in the
three-factor alternative index (see above).
ARL New Ways of Measuring
Collections
6. Collect qualitative data to develop a
profile of ARL member libraries.
Preliminary report
• ARL Statistics and Assessment
committee, April 2010:
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/agenda_april_2010.pdf
Mixed methods: Can we integrate the qualitative with the
quantitative? How well? For what purposes?
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Profiles
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Pilot among committee members (Fall 2008)
Data collection among ARL membership
From the perspective of the directors of ARL libraries..??
86 profiles collected (Fall 2008-Spring 2010) …
Coding & Analysis of 84 profiles (Bill Potter, Colleen
Cook, Martha Kyrillidou, Jennifer Rutner, Michael Maciel
and David Green; consultant Nick Woolf)
• RLLF project to translate the profiles into questions for
the annual surveys (Bob Fox, Patrick Joseph Reakes,
Brian Skib, Ann Snowman)
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Report Highlights – Public vs
Private
• Collections of national distinction 30%
versus 64%
• External funding 37 % versus 59%
• Budget 47% versus 27%
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Report Highlights
ARL Investment Index – top
quintile versus bottom quintile
• external funding 75% versus 19%
• description of university 100% versus 56%
• information commons 88% versus 56%
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RLLF project
Research Library Leadership Fellows project
Engaging them to validate the analysis
Develop profiles for their libraries
Looking at peer institution profiles
Identifying key themes that are important
Translating themes into questions
Future ARL Supplementary Statistics?
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Potential themes
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Development/Fund Raising/Grantsmanship - activities/staffing/successes
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Digital publishing (i.e. OJS)
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E-science/Data curation and management
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Collaborations across all levels and on/off campus
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Scholarly communication (open access/author rights, etc.)
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Assessment activities (i.e. data portals, data driven decisions)
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Space utilization ( innovative renovations/uses, gate counts, etc)
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Use of social networking tools/mobile applications
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Staffing changes (i.e. new or reworked positions, new job titles, degree requirements)
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Potential themes (con’t)
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Collaborative collection building/development
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Warehousing/remote storage (shared/individual, on/offsite, active use/dark archive, etc.)
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Instruction activities - current statistics include actual classroom instruction but do not capture
efforts preparing materials for asynchronous instruction or the use of those materials (web guides,
podcasts, etc.)
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Digitization efforts beyond or more specific than those already collected in the Supplementary
Statistics (IRs, created and converted digital collections, etc.)
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Horizons - an open-ended question requesting feedback from each institution annually on areas of
emerging interest - new services, trends, services/resources you no longer provide, etc.
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Our challenge …
A question has come up about ARL counting standards for e-books, and I
> wondered if a discussion about this issue would fit into your agenda
> for the Friday meeting at ALA. The specific question concerned Google
> Books that are digitized and in the public domain...about a million
> books meeting this definition are hosted by Hathi Trust, and
> bibliographic records are available. If an institution were to import
> copies of these records in their own online catalog, with links
> pointing to the digital full text hosted by HathiTrust, would these
> 'count' as part of the library collection? Any discussion about how
> others are counting e-book collections would be very useful. Some
> services such as Ebrary provide thousands of e-book records to be
> imported into a catalog for patron-initiated purchase--we don't
> actually own the book until it is purchased, but technically we are
> providing access to the full text from each of those thousands of
> records. Do these records count since we are providing 'access' to the
> text? …. Carole Pilkinton
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