The Transformation of Access: Print and Digital Resources in an Art Museum Library Karen Stafford and Stephanie Fletcher kstafford2@artic.edu sfletcher1@artic.edu Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries ARLIS/ANZ Conference Sydney, Australia Friday, December 2, 2016

Project Background

Ryerson & Burnham Libraries Over 500,000 titles 10,000 items added yearly Just under 6900 print serial titles 700 current serial subscriptions

AIC/SAIC Resource Sharing

Our Users Diverse research population Museum curators Research assistants and docents Interns and volunteers Students and faculty Museum visitors Outside researchers 10,827 research visits last year, plus 17,706 visitors to the library exhibitions Up 2% over the last three years

Our Users Last Year

Staff and Student Seasonality

Seasonality of Staff and Student Visits and Digital Resource Access

Demand-Driven Acquisition

Past 3 Years of Digital Usage Strong spikes during “final paper season” (April and November) July 2016: Chicago Tribune Spike 8% overall decrease in electronic serial usage since 2014

Digital Resource Discovery Tools

EBSCO Decline

Circulation of Bound Periodicals since 2013

Print Serials Stats 55% of serial titles have circulated at least once; 1% in the past month Of our 40 top-circulating print journals (total circulation between 350 and 2200 check-outs), 25 have online access (63%), while only 7% of the total print serials collection has online access

Colour (Arts:Search) Mixed coverage in print Print has total circulation of 10 Digital access 257 times in one month

JSTOR Links in Bib records for Print Around 149 of our print serial titles are also available on JSTOR 39 JSTOR titles circulated in print in the past 4 months. 8 of these titles circulated more than the electronic version received hits over the same period, while the rest were equal to or greatly surpassed by online usage

Serials Management Space Budget Sending print offsite if it has not circulated or it is available electronically Budget Cutting print subscriptions if we have electronic access

Curatorial Response Art in Print Art Bulletin RBM, Spring 2016 Keepsake printed on the Kelmscott/Goudy Press

Design Quarterly

No. 133

Conclusions and Future Directions