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Title: ARL Library Investment Index: why is it important


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ARL Library Investment Index why is it
important?
Presented by Brinley Franklin Martha
Kyrillidou Colleen Cook Bruce Thompson
Chania, Crete, Greece May, 2009
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The real husky!
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New Ways of Measuring Collections Task Force
  • Summary of activities
  • http//www.arl.org/stats/aboutstats/tfnewways.shtm
    l
  • Composition (convened Dec. 2004)
  • Statistics
  • Research Collections
  • Membership
  • Process (Spring-Summer 2005)
  • Interviews of 100 ARL members

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Most Important Issues
  • Data is not expressing uniqueness of materials
  • Relevance to teaching, learning, research not
    adequately reflected
  • Collections go beyond printed volumes
  • Research library is more than collections
    include its services ARL is not telling the
    story
  • Increase in expenditures for Electronic Resources
  • Ownership to Access
  • Consortial relationships/cooperative collection
    development

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Most Important Issues (cont)
  • Shared storage facilities
  • Duplicate serials based on bundling
  • Special collections not reflected
  • ARL Membership Committee wasnt basing membership
    on Membership Index

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Purpose of Measuring
  • Historical significance of long dataset to show
    trends
  • Accounting for universitys investment
  • Comparison benchmarking
  • But,
  • ARL Membership Index had become misunderstood,
    misleading, and unhelpful

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October 2005 Task Force Recommendations to ARL
Board
  • Exploratory factor analysis
  • Profile of contemporary research library
  • New meaningful measures development
  • Publication of the membership index

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Consultant Reports
  • Engaged Spring 2006
  • Quantitative (Bruce Thompson)
  • Confirm membership index
  • Established new expenditures-focused index
  • http//www.arl.org/stats/index/index.shtml
  • Qualitative (Yvonna Lincoln)
  • Profile
  • www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/
  • 149mmproceedings.shtml

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Action Agenda
  • Reserve current membership index for membership
    issues
  • Implement Library Investment Index (previously
    named expenditures-focused index) report these
    index scores to Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Begin to develop service-based index
  • Revise definitions of collections-related data
    categories, especially serial counts
  • Collect qualitative data for individual member
    profiles that demonstrate the librarys value to
    its parent institution and to the broader
    research community

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The story of two indices
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Are they really different?
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Library Investment Index
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Variance Explained 92.6
  • Variables
  • Total Expenditures
  • Salary Expenditures
  • Materials Expenditures
  • Professional plus Support Staff

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Challenge
  • ..measuring the size of library collections
    cannot be what it used to be
  • Martha Kyrillidou, Reshaping ARL Statistics to
    capture the new environment Feb 2008,
    http//www.arl.org/bmdoc/arl-br-256-stats.pdf

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Profile elements as identified by Task Force
  • services to the library and scholarly community
  • distinctive research-oriented collections and
    resources of national significance in a variety
    of media
  • the nature of use made of the collections and
    services by faculty, students, and visiting
    scholars
  • the preservation of research resources
  • the leadership and external contributions of the
    staff to the profession
  • the effective and innovative use of technology
  • consortial memberships (including cooperative
    collection development and preservation efforts)
  • important locally created digital collections
  • library collaborations with faculty.

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Celebrating Research
  • Brief descriptions are offered of the special
    collections at each library
  • http//www.celebratingresearch.org/libraries/index
    .shtml

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More info
  • www.arl.org/stats/
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