ILL Implications in a Bookless Library:
Needs, Strategies and Solutions
Kathryn Miller
2015
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The Bookless Library
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• Library Mission:
To promote intellectual discovery in an innovative, usercentered, learning environment; provide specialized resources
and support opportunities for every Poly student and scholar
to connect, collaborate, and anticipate technological progress.
• Library Vision:
The Florida Polytechnic University Library will be a central hub
of student success by providing a variety of information-based
services, including learning support programs, career
services, academic tutoring, and student success workshops.
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How can we be “bookless”?
Internal Support
• Provost
• Faculty
• Strong funding for PDA program
Florida Industrial Phosphate Research
Institute (FIPR)
• Specialized print collection
• One-of-a-kind materials
State University System
• Uborrow
• FLARE
Local Public Libraries
• Lakeland
• Polk County Bookmobile
Florida Virtual Campus
Digital Reading Initiative
• Flow
Information (Reference)
Management tool
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• ILL Implications in a Bookless Library
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Needs: We need to have licenses that allow lending of electronic materials.
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Strategies: Key language to include in licenses.
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Solutions: Is direct article purchase a solution? Shared Platform (Think
Amazon)?
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How do we lead change?
Needs
• Google Scholar
“The availability of online information resources, available through subscription-based
online library databases (e.g., InfoTrac, JSTOR, PubMed) and on the open Web (e.g.
government sites, Wikipedia, Google Scholar) has significantly changed college level
research. Today’s college students need to develop keen research competencies and
strategies for tapping, evaluating, and sorting through the proliferation of information
sources available to them.”
“Learning the Ropes: How College Freshman Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College,” Alison J. Head,
Project Information Literacy Research Report, December 4, 2013.
• We need to have licenses that allow lending of electronic
materials.
– Faculty
– Students
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Legal Questions?
• Question: Does copyright law allow for electronic books to
be shared with other libraries?
• Question: Can I lend electronic journal articles?
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Copyright Law vs. Copyright Law
• Section 108 of the Copyright Act
– Allows a library to copy and send to another library portions of copyrighted
materials as part of its ILL service, provided the "aggregate quantities" of
copied items received by the borrowing library do not substitute a periodical
subscription or purchase of a work.
“Put another way, there has been no transposition
of the first sale doctrine into the digital sphere. As a
result, the first sale doctrine does not apply to
licensed copies. By definition, a digital book or
sound recording or image is not owned by the
licensee. Libraries do not own their copies of
ebooks, at least not in the same sense they own
their copies of printed books. The ability of libraries
to provide their patrons with access to an ebook is
conditional upon their ability to adhere to the license
terms”
https://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/content/ill.html
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/03/copyright/why-we-miss-the-first-sale-doctrine-in-digital-libraries/
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CONTU Guidelines
• A borrowing library limits requests to no more than five
articles from the most recent five years of a specific journal.
• Libraries either pay copyright royalties after the 5th article is
requested, or subscribe to the journal.
Functions as reassurance to copyright holders that ILL will not replace
periodical subscriptions and book purchases by libraries.
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Contract Law
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Strategy: Key License Language
http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Sharing/Ejournals.aspx
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Interlibrary Loan Policies
http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Sharing/Ejournals.aspx
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@ Poly: Growing
Articles:
ILL: 12 articles received
5 for faculty, 7 for students.
Direct Article Purchase: 7
2 for faculty, 5 for students.
Books:
15 books received, both OCLC (10) and Uborrow (5).
3 for faculty, 12 for students.
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Where are we Going?
• ILL as a Collection Development Tool
• Policies—How to control spending
• Is it cheaper to just buy the book and give it to the patron?
• Establish Reciprocal Borrowing Agreements with library
networks
• Assessment
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Solutions--Direct Article Purchase
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Solutions
• Copyright Clearance Center--Get It Now
• Article Choice—Elsevier
• Reprints Desk
• WTS Article Delivery—University of Wisconsin Madison
Consider: An Amazon type platform for article exchange Or do we
have that already?
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Controls
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Implications for a Bookless Library
• Lessons Learned
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Can we have
everything?
• Do we need to have
everything?
Staffing
• Teaching Faculty
• Librarians
Marketing (need to sell
the virtual library)
Support services
Have something that is
unique
• Interlibrary loan
• Connection to a
traditional
library
Importance of
assessment
• Quantitative vs.
Quantitative
Change
How do we lead change?
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