CISTI's Collection Development Policy in the Electronic Era

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CISTI's Collection Development Policy in the
Electronic Era

• Collections Pre-Conference
• Canadian Library Association

Sharda Tarachandra 14 June 2006
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Agenda

• Context of a Collection Development Policy
• CISTIs Collection Development Policy
• Challenges of the Electronic Era
• Meeting the Challenges

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CISTIs History

• 1924 National Research Council Library founded
• 1959 Formal agreement with NLC recognizing
  national responsibilities of the NRC scientific
  technical library
• 1967 National Science Library established
• 1974 Canada Institute for Scientific Technical
  Information established
• 1980s CISTI develops its reputation as an
  international document delivery supplier
• 1997 CISTI launches the NRC Virtual Library
• CISTI TODAY Canadas Scientific Infostructure
  (Csi)

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Context of a Collection Development Policy

• Mandate
• Mission
• Vision
• Strategic Plan

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CISTIs Mandate

• CISTI is mandated by the NRC Act to
• establish, operate and maintain a national
  science library
• and publish, sell and otherwise distribute
  scientific and
• technical information
• CISTIs dual role within Canada
• Canadas national science library
• National Research Councils library

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CISTIs Strategic Plan 2005-2010

• Mission
• To be a leader in driving the exploitation of
• scientific information to create value for
• Canadians.
• Vision
• To advance research and innovation through
• high-value information and publishing services
• in science, technology and medicine (STM).

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CISTIs Strategic Plan 2005-2010

• Goal
• Provide universal, seamless, and permanent
• access to information for Canadian research and
• innovation
• Objectives
• To establish a national infrastructure to extend
  the availability of STM information
• Provide permanent access to the world's STM
  information

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Collection Development Policy 1996 Version

• Focus on print
• Electronic format and audiovisual formats in the
  same section
• No established cycle for review of Policy

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CISTI Collection

• Q. What has changed since 1996?
• A. Electronic content plays a growing and
  defining role in CISTIs collection
• 31 March 2006

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Collection Development Policy Review Process (1)

• Assessed needs
• Collection Review
• Collection Composition Analysis
• Collection Usage Analysis
• NRC Survey (Core Serials List)
• Reviewed other collection development policies

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Collection Development Policy Review Process (2)

• Consulted with 4 CISTI directorates during the
  summer of 2005
• Collection Metadata Services
• NRC Information Services
• Information Access Delivery
• Business Affairs
• Applied CISTI Strategic Plan 2005-2010

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Key Considerations

• Reflect CISTI Strategic Plan 2005-2010
• Reflect new areas of NRC research peripheral to
  STM
• Reflect NRCs need for multidisciplinary STM
  info. STM-related fields
• Apply Policy to main regional collections
• Collection partnerships
• Use existing standards

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Structure of Collection Development Policy

• Introduction
• CISTI Overview
• CISTIs Collections
• Collection Development Principles
• Collection Development Guidelines
• Collection Maintenance
• Special Acquisition Models

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Challenges of the Electronic Era

• Increased complexity
• License agreements
• Price models
• Consortial purchasing
• Relationship with print
• Pressure to buy Big Deals
• Pressure to not cancel titles

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Meeting the Challenges (1)

• Access to information through licensing (leasing)
  and not buying (owning)
• Licensing checklist
• Licensing strategy
• Relationship with NRC Legal Services

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Meeting the Challenges (2)

• Access to information through partnerships
• Canadian Agriculture Library
• Institute of Scientific and Technical Information
  of China (ISTIC)
• Korea Institute of Scientific and Technical
  Information (KISTI)
• Sunmedia (Japan)
• Science and Technology Information Center (STIC)
  (Taiwan)

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Meeting the Challenges (3)

• Preservation / Archiving
• Keep collecting in print format
• Request permanent access from publisher Web sites
• Negotiate to locally load content onto CISTI
  servers

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Meeting the Challenge of CISTIs Dual Role in the
Electronic Environment

• NRC Virtual Library (e-content for NRC staff)
• Print for preservation document delivery
  (national science library role)
• Agreements with publishers to allow also allow
  the electronic to be used for CISTIs document
  delivery services

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Questions

• CISTIs Collection Development Policy
• http//cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cms/policy_new_e
  .html (English)
• http//cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cms/policy_new_f
  .html (French)
• Sharda Tarachandra
• Manger, Collections
• Canada Institute for Scientific Technical
  Information
• sharda.tarachandra_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca