1. Taming the non-paper tiger; use and non-use
Dave Martin, Pomerantz Business Library
University of Iowa
Tippie College of Business
Iowa City, IA
SLA, NY, 6/10/03

2. Typos from the Printing Dept.
Muscle spams
Gradual school
Head & nick surgery
Henry David Thorough
Paper clops
Shrink warp

4. My world 1500 undergrad business students 2000 pre-business
120 full time MBA; 800 part time MBA
100 PhD students
90 faculty
29,000 students on campus

5. Some statistics Averaging 15K users a month (peaks/valleys) 300 seats
8 public workstations
Wireless network/
Check out laptops & LAN cards—
12 X 12
Group study rooms (8)
Advanced Real Time Info Center

6. More stats (here’s where it gets interesting)
Circulation statistics over last 10 years stable; reasons
Exit count down a little, but not much
Reference questions stable; changing; user ed sessions up
In house usage dropped drastically
40,000 down to 3,000 down to ?
Photocopy machines

7. Collections & staffing
400 subscriptions (paper)-- decreasing
30K volumes
2 prof ; 2 para-professionals; 8-10 student staff
Access to 5-6,000 titles online in business & economics
Access to over 20,000 online titles overall

8. Access to titles OPAC—print & online—links to e-journals
Journals only searching in OPAC(ExLibris)
List of online titles via SFX—includes aggregators
InfoLink—our brand name for journal resolver
Big Deal (elsevier; kluwer…)
Aggregators
Major weakness

9. Journal resolvers Sfx; other linking software
This is becoming link to online journals
Will this replace the OPAC?
Increasing reliance on online access
Off campus
Easy for user education

10. Aggregators, etc. ABI; Ebsco; Factiva; others like BE Press, SSRN
Evolved from indexing/abstracting services
Heavily used
Print versus online; historical collection dev
Embargoes
Future directions

11. My statistics and the future
In house use—40,000 >>>3,000
Future collection development---
print vs. online – do we need any print journals?
How do we decide? What’s being used online?
Staffing issues—what does staff do with extra time? Do I need as many staff?

12. More typos Cod of federal regulations
Protect your skin from hun damage
Summer respiratory theater
Swelling may be reduced by icepicks
Discharge patiently by wheelchair
Time to update our ailing list

13. One more typo
We’ve got to keep this think going

14. The end
Questions and answers