CONZUL (Council of New Zealand University Librarians) has been discussing for some years about establishing a national store for low-use print materials held in New Zealand university libraries. In February 2011, the Vice-Chancellors agreed in principle to the concept of the shared national store and asked CONZUL to produce a business case. The business case was duly submitted and this was approved in August.
CONZUL is now ready to start “lodging” material into the CONZUL store using what they call the “consecutive lodgement” model. I have summarized some of the impacts and ramifications for Canterbury in this paper. The first lodgement is expected to be the three university libraries with material already in Crown (Canterbury, Waikato and Victoria). Canterbury now needs to indicate what material currently held in Crown we will lodge in the CONZUL store. The deadline for providing this information is 30th November 2011.
There is a spreadsheet at K:/management/collection_management/CONZUL_store/crown_serials.xlsx that we will use for this purpose.
– Indicate any titles that should NOT go into the CONZUL store either by withdrawing from Crown or keeping with Crown (Column O, P)
– Indicate any titles that are OK to go into the CONZUL store (Column Q)
– Save and Close the file when finished
The next step will be that this information will be provided to CONZUL who will make arrangements to transfer our holdings in Crown to the CONZUL store, minus anything we have earmarked not to send to the CONZUL store.
Further information, including background papers to the CONZUL store are available on the CONZUL store wiki page and please feel free to ask any questions.
A communication plan will be developed over the next few days. Hopefully we will have something ready to go out very shortly. In the meantime please discuss with me before circulating the information above any wider than Library staff.
Tim Stedman
Thanks for the info in the paper and on Camelot. Here at Edu we have some questions:
Did CONZUL decide to go for the distributed model?
Where will the items be stored?
Does CU have a general preference for towards ‘keep in Crown’ or ‘Send to CONZUL’ for runs that could go either way?
Apart from JSTOR, are there other electronic suppliers for whom we can be relatively confident that access to their backfiles will be stable?
Thanks, Caroline
The CONZUL store will be a distributed arrangement. The libraries will generally send the serials to their nearest storage facility (although in the case of Auckland they will probably use Hamilton as there is a new store there with more capacity).
We haven’t stated a preference for keeping in Crown or sending to CONZUL, each library can decide to do what it wishes. My understanding is that we have done the leg-work identifying content that should go to Crown (as being available electronically or low-use) and these are both valid criteria for sending to CONZUL. It’s really just to make sure there’s nothing we might potentially want to grab back to keep onsite in the future (as once we send stuff to CONZUL we cede ownership of it).
Regarding secure electronic content, JSTOR and anything where we have bought the backfile content. Peter H is going to check through the Serials Solutions knowledge base and see what products are in this category and we will post that information shortly. Tim
Unfortunately it has transpired the original spreadsheet did not include everything in Crown because we have a number of records that are "half Crowns" – where some issues in a particular serial are in Crown and some are still in the Central Library. There is another spreadsheet detailing these (K:/management/collection_management/CONZUL_store/crown_serials_5.xlsx) which you will need to check over as well. Thanks, Tim
Backfiles with secure electronic access are:
JSTOR
PION Historic Archive
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive
SAGE Deep Backfile
SpringerLINK Archive – Behavioral Science
SpringerLINK Archive – Biomedical and Life Sciences
SpringerLINK Archive – Business and Economics
SpringerLINK Archive – Chemistry and Materials Science
SpringerLINK Archive – Computer Science
SpringerLINK Archive – Earth and Environmental Science
SpringerLINK Archive – Engineering
SpringerLINK Archive – Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
SpringerLINK Archive – Mathematics and Statistics
SpringerLINK Archive – Physics and Astronomy
ScienceDirect Business, Management & Accounting Backfile
ScienceDirect Earth & Planetary Sciences Backfile
ScienceDirect Economics, Econometrics & Finance Backfile
ScienceDirect Environmental Science Backfile
ScienceDirect Mathematics Backfile
ScienceDirect Neuroscience Backfile
ScienceDirect Organic Chemistry Backfile
ScienceDirect Psychology Backfile
ScienceDirect Social Science Backfile
Wiley-Blackwell Journals (Backfile Content for 80 selected titles)
Thanks, this is very helpful. Caroline
As discussed at the Liaison Librarian meeting this morning, we have decided to stop doing the above approach for now. I will be in touch to discuss the next steps once we’ve straightened a few things out in our heads. Thanks, Tim S