Mary Mallery, Ph.D. Montclair State University VALE Members Council Meeting June 3, 2010

 Mary Mallery, Montclair State U. (Chair)  Regina Cannizzaro, County College of Morris  Robert Egan, Raritan Valley CC  Sulekha Kalyan, Seton Hall U.  Mary Marks, Fairleigh Dickinson U.  Gracemary Smulewitz, Rutgers U.  Elizabeth Sosnowska, UMDNJ  Pamela Theus, William Paterson U.  Melissa Weissbard, NJIT  Sharon Yang, Rider U.

 Consider and provide recommendations to implement a consortial approach to purchasing ebooks, with the possible goal of sharing titles purchased by individual members.  Examine the idea of centrally funding an ebook collection to which all VALE members have access.

 1) Perform an environmental scan, beginning with a brief survey, to prioritize the focus of the shared collection; and assess whether a number of different shared collections might best fit the needs of different kinds of VALE libraries.

 2) Hold an ebook Collections Demo Day in late May/early June with presentations by early ebook collections adapters from VALE libraries and by vendors, with the help of Eric Zino and Timothy Cherubini of Lyrasis.

 3) Communicate with key people involved in other shared ebook collection initiatives, such as the Orbis Cascade Alliance (covering Oregon and Washington) and VIVA (covering Virginia).  4) Write a report on findings and recommendations for VALE.

ebook Collections Survey Responses: 71% of VALE Members

VENDORCOUNTPERCENT netLibrary2151% Ebrary1229% Other1127% Safari615% EBL37% Access Medicine22% Books 24x712%

PUBLISHERCOUNTPERCENT Gale Reference2254% Oxford1844% Other820% Wiley820% Sage615% ABC Clio512% Cambridge512% Elsevier512% Springer410%

Purchasing Models Preferred: Purchasing Models Preferred:

Licensing Models Used Licensing Models Used

Licensing Models Preferred Licensing Models Preferred

FACTORCOUNTPERCENT Consortium Pricing3995% Ease of Use2971% Usage Reports Availability 2049% Perpetual Access1741% Shared Access1639% Interlibrary Loan Rights 717% Limits on Concurrent Users 717% Other25%

 General Reference (38% rated "Most appealing")  Business (34% rated "Most appealing")  Health Sciences (including Nursing) (31% rated "Most appealing")

TIME FRAME COUNTPERCENT In the next year2254% In the next three years1946% Not interested00% We have no plan to include ebooks 00%

 Create an ebook Collections Subcommittee of the VALE Electronic Resources Committee with charges to: 1) Investigate the market for consortial purchasing 2) Select ebook Collections for purchasing with subjects targeted from the ebook Collections Survey 3) Arrange for Demo Days of targeted ebook Collections that include practicing librarians discussing selection and access issues 4) Develop a funding model to support the program in an equitable manner

Mary Mallery, Ph.D. Chair, VALE ebooks Task Force