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What we did well, what we didn’t do well, and the lessons from the learning edge

BACKGROUND

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/

BACKGROUND

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/

Final COWS numbers and cancellation outcome: 4001 titles in 4 packages

• 219 titles purchased

2046 embargoed access 1736 titles cancelled In total, we saved $800,000

MEDIA COVERAGE OF CANCELLATIONS

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/

TURNING THE COMMUNICATIONS TIDE

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/

“Our own Library managers have shrewdly foreseen this trend, and

managed to keep us pretty whole—until now. Moreover, in the last big budget exercise we all suffered through in the spring, the Library wasn’t

• touched. Indeed, investment has been steady and healthy, and the Library

has actually grown significantly over the last few years. But there’s a limit and the exchange rate is challenging it. Things are getting critical and decisions need to be made. Look, the Library is also a place of pride at Memorial, well serving the academic mission of the university and offering itself as a model of innovation and efficiency. To think that we would casually cancel journals on which so many people rely and without adequate consultation is just, well, foolish.”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Deepened faculty

relationships

• Highlighted the important

role the library plays in the research cycle

• Developed data analysis

expertise

• Changed internal processes:

now technical services staff maintain hundreds of individual subscriptions.

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/

QUESTIONS?

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

https://www.library.mun.ca/