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

2. Project Background

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

4. AIC/SAIC Resource Sharing

5. 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

6. Our Users Last Year

7. Staff and Student Seasonality

8. Seasonality of Staff and Student Visits and Digital Resource Access

9. Demand-Driven Acquisition

10. 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

11. Digital Resource Discovery Tools

12. EBSCO Decline

13. Circulation of Bound Periodicals since 2013

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. Design Quarterly

20. No. 133

23. Conclusions and Future Directions