Consortia and Collections: enhancing interlending effectiveness

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Consortia and Collections enhancing interlending
effectiveness

• Paul Genoni
• Margaret Jones

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Interlending the three essentials

• A Library owns an item
• The item is included in a publicly accessible
  catalogue
• A mechanism whereby the item can be requested and
  transferred

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Resource-sharing infrastructure

• DNC objectives ALII key elements
• Collecting ?
• Bibliographic control Resource discovery
• Preservation Preservation
• Access Resource access
• National coordination National collaboration
• (ACLIS 1991) (NLA 2003)

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NRSWG Recommendations

• examine workflows to ensure that there are as few
  steps as possible involved in the ILL/DD process,
• implement an automation package or include an ILL
  module in the next tender for a library system,
• ensure ILL/DD staff are well trained in the
  resources and systems used,
• add and maintain holdings on union catalogues,
• investigate options for cooperative agreements
  with key requesting and supplying libraries.
• (National Resource Sharing Working Group 2001)

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The Postmodern Collection

• Shifting
• Elusive
• Fragmentary
• Provisional
• Discontinuous

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Postmodern Consortia

• Narrowly focused
• Multiple
• Transitory
• Situationally determined
• Often purpose specific.

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Murdoch University

• Opened in 1975 as a teaching and research
  institution
• 9,169 EFTSU and 470 academic staff
• Noted for its teaching excellence and research
  outcomes in selected areas
• Originally viewed as an alternative university
  with non-traditional entry criteria, courses

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Consortium membership and partnerships

• Council of Australian University Librarians
  (CAUL)
• Western Australian Group of University Librarians
  (WAGUL)
• IRUA (Innovative Research Universities
  Australia)
• AARLIN (Australian Academic Research Library
  Network)
• Joint libraries with City of Rockingham and
  Challenger TAFE and potentially Mandurah Senior
  College

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WAGUL Document Delivery Consortium - Requests

• WAGULTraffic Total requests by WAGUL
  WAGUL Members
• 1995 11,338 41,436 27
• 1999 13,325 42,946 31
• 2000 12,713 41,868 30
• 2001 11,172 36,409 31
• 2002 9,041 30,664 29

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WAGUL Document Delivery Consortium - Supply

• WAGUL Traffic Total Supply by WAGUL WAGUL
  Members
• 1995 11,338 36,252 31
• 13,325 28,728 46
• 12,713 27,329 47
• 11,172 23,118 48
• 9,041 24,314 37

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Murdoch Document Delivery Traffic

• Murdoch requests Murdoch traffic
• 1995 6,130 12,083
• 1999 5,235 10,223
• 2000 5,552 10,387
• 2001 4,413 8,432
• 3,037 7,483

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WAGUL Traffic Patterns

• Between 1999 2002, 43 - 51 of Murdoch
  requests satisfied within WAGUL
• Between 1999 2002, 17 - 20 of UWA requests
  satisfied within WAGUL
• Between 1999 2001, 46 - 48 of traffic
  supplied to libraries within the consortium
• 2002, 37 of traffic supplied to libraries within
  the consortium

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NRSWG Study Outcomes - Murdoch

• Table 1 Participant ranking (Universities)
• Requesting
• Turnaround time Fill rate Unit cost
• 3 2 12
• Supplying
• Fill rate Unit cost
• 7 9

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NRSWG Study Outcomes

• Requesting Performance - averages
• Turnaround Time Fill rate Unit Cost
• Murdoch 6.4 days 99.8 27.67
• University 10.8 days 89.0 35.21
• Supplying Performance averages
• Fill Rate Unit Cost
• Murdoch 84 9.84
• University 77 18.47

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WAGUL Serials Overlap

• WAGUL 1995/1996 overlap study
• 68.43 of serials held by one library
• 20.35 held by two libraries
• 7.67 held by three libraries
• 3.55 held by four libraries
• NLA 2002 university libraries overlap study
• 70.13 of serials held by one library
• 19.90 held by two libraries
• 7.43 held by three libraries
• 2.33 held by four libraries
• 0.21 held by five libraries

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Reducing Duplication

• WAGUL Overlap Study duplication costs of 1.8M
• WAGUL Study of Chemistry holdings (2000)
• 500 titles costing US1,000 or more
• 139 titles not held
• 56 titles held by two or more libraries
• Duplication costs US260,000

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Conclusion

• Consortia provide cost effective and efficient
  resource sharing opportunities
• Consortia members benefit to varying degrees
• The current focus is on ICT as a means of
  facilitating resource sharing
• A renewed focus on collections within consortia
  would further enhance their effectiveness