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20th June, 2013, SCONUL conference, Dublin

National Monographs StrategyRachel BruceBen Showers

Background

The plan

Landscape

Group work

overview

background

the plan

Original description

Monograph collections have grown up based on local needs with no real national strategic focus. As print collections age the community needs to make decisions on what should be preserved, what digitised (if not already) and what de-accessioned.

A national approach to this, exploiting technological solutions would encourage a shared service approach to maintaining access to print and to support the national needs of researchers. The value of this is recognised, and it must be part of a UK-wide strategic framework.

Aspects of the framework would include preservation strategies, priorities for digitisation (and an understanding of digital surrogates), discoverability issues and the role of document delivery services now and in the future

landscape

‘…the same service could readily be scaled to embrace the vast majority of open access e-journals, print journals and monographs.’

SCONUL/HEFCE Shared Services Study, 2009

‘There appeared to be no demand for a large scale national initiative such as UKRR’

Managing monograph collections in the 21st century - UKRR 2011

a shifting landscape...

Monograph publishing

models

Collection strategy &

management

Document Supply and

ILL

Cataloguing and

collaborative services

Digitisation and Digital surrogates

components of the monograph landscape...

Preservation and curation

Collection strategy &

management

elements of the monograph landscape...

UnionCat

SCONUL shared

services report

KB+

UKRR

PDADPLAHaithi

Analytics

ACE future

of libraries

group work