Walt Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy and media. Author of numerous books, articles, and columns, Crawford is also the creator, writer and publisher of Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, an ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published monthly since 2001. He maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random. He received the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science in 1995, the ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award in 1997, and the Gale Group Online Excellence in Information Authorship Award in 1998.
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The "Big Deal" looked like a good deal, a true win-win. But while the Big Deal has lowered the rate of serial price inflation, for many libraries the pricing remains unsustainable. Nearly half of libraries have seen substantial increases in serial spending during the past ten years. Where does your institution fall on the scale? Drawing from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data, Crawford presents a thorough study, crunching the numbers of a survey of 2,594 academic libraries through 83 revealing charts and graphs. Examining data organized by groups of academic libraries, and broken down by library size, sector, and Carnegie Classification, this issue of Library Technology Reports offers such findings and explanations as:
- Summary of number of institutions and full-time equivalent students
- Tables plotting key figures from 2002 to 2012
- Analysis of trends in spending and acquisitions, with notes on special cases
- Data on how the non-serial spending is hitting the 1,516 small libraries particularly hard
- Book-spending trends comparing liberal arts colleges to doctoral research universities or public and private institutions
- Suggestions for improving libraries' position in the serial marketplace
Chapter 1: Tracking the Damage
Short-Term Win, Long-Term Problem?
The Big Deal and the Damage Done
Inclusion
Dollars and Percentages
Typical Tables and Graphs
Substantial Changes
The Big Pictures, 1996-2012
The Comparable Picture, 2002-2012
All 2,594 Libraries
Definitions
Major Changes
Skimming the Cream
Notes
Chapter 2: Libraries by Size
Larger Libraries
Smaller Libraries
Summary
Note
Chapter 3: Libraries by Section and Two-Year Colleges
Sector 1: Public Four-Year and Above
Sector 2: Private Nonprofit Four-Year and Above
Sector 3: Private For-Profit Four-Year and Above
Sector 4: Public Two-Year
Sector 5: Private Nonprofit Two-Year
Sector 6: Private For-Profit Two-Year
Summary
Notes
Chapter 4: University and Four-year Colleges in General
CC 15: Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive
CC 16: Doctoral/Research Universities-Intensive
CC 21: Master's Colleges and Universities I
CC 22: Master's (Comprehensive) Colleges and Universities II
CC 31: Baccalaureate Colleges-Liberal Arts
CC 32: Baccalaureate Colleges-General
CC 33: Baccalaureate/Associate's Colleges
Summary
Notes
Chapter 5: Specialized Institutions
All of Them
CC 51: Seminaries
CC 52: Medical Schools
CC 53: Other Health Profession Schools
CC 54: Engineering and Technology Schools
CC 56: Art, Music, and Design Schools
Brief Notes on Other Classifications
Notes
Chapter 6: What Can Be Done?
Transparency in Pricing
Transparency in Costs
Working with Faculty
Moving Away from Past Answers
Moving Toward Open Access
Scholarly Societies and the Support of Scholarship
Libraries as Journal Publishers
Turning Down the Big Deal
More Money!
Is Play Book Spending Enough?
Spending per Capita
Supplemental and Additional Data
Notes
Also of Interest:
