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SCONUL and Discovery Resource Discovery Workshop 23-03-12: Presentation by David Ball, Head of Academic Development Services, Student and Academic Services, Bournemouth University
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Resource Discovery
A Bournemouth Perspective
David Ball
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FONDA
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Honda??
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Disruptive Technologies
• Sustaining technologies• Improve performance of existing
products• Disruptive technologies
• Under-perform existing products (good enough)
• Different features attractive to fringe customers
• Cheaper, simpler, smaller, easier to use
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Honda – the Lifestyle
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The Case of Kodak
• Cheap analogue cameras; revenue from consumables
• Invested in digital imaging research, but did not change from analogue
• Missed possibilities of ICT:• Desktops and broadband enable
mass digital market and put user in control
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Lessons for the Library
• Attraction of empowerment• Technological landscape
• Digital camera• Dangers of developing
products/tools beyond what the user needs• The Good Enough• The Immediately Available• Google Search, Wikipedia
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A day in the life of Alice and Higgins
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What did the Follett Group miss?
• Remarkably little• Above campus• Collaboration• VLE?
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Bournemouth’s Technology
• Clunky (and expensive)• Blackboard (no separate learning
repository)• Talis• CLA licence
• Not so clunky• EBSCO [knowledge base]• EBSCO resource discovery• Chat• BigBlueButton
• No ERMS
Bournemouth e-usage
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Facts
• >80,000 e-journals and report series (393 print only/149 print + online);
• >90,000 e-books;• 78% of resources expenditure is on
e-resources;• 2010-11 - 962,980 COUNTER JR1
article requests (10% increase on 2009-10);
• 2010-11 – 2,020,577 COUNTER BR2 book section requests (50% increase on 2009-10).
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Facts 2
Sept-Feb 2010/11 vs. Sept-Feb 2011/12:• User sessions on Discovery tool up 91%;• Abstracts viewed on Discovery tool up
121%;• Counter JR1 article requests fulfilled via
Discovery tool up 108%;• Links out to full text from Discovery tool
(using Link resolver or custom links) up 241%;
• Linking to items in the Library catalogue from Discovery tool up 124%;
• Linking to items in the Institutional Repository from Discovery tool up 65%
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Lessons
• Resource discovery tools drive usage• Of subscriptions, OA,
institutionally produced resources
• Use of intermediaries (agents)• Integration into VLE, and
business systems• Legacy systems (LMS) – how
to manage them out?
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The Library: a Disruptive or Sustaining Technology
• Users in control• What do users use?• Cheap and simple• Is it immediately available?
• Is it good enough?
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Questions?