Big-Deal Serial Purchasing: Tracking the Damage—eEditions PDF e-book

Walt Crawford Library Technology Reports

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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

Walt Crawford

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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