Survey Regarding Impact of E-Resources upon Library Organizational Structure Janet L. Flowers 24 Jan 2004 17:05 UTC
Survey Regarding Impact of E-Resources upon Library Organizational Structure This survey is to gather data regarding how the introduction of e-resource acquisition has affected the organizational structure within your library. The data will be tabulated and summarized for a presentation at the NC Serials Conference in April 2004. Please forward to the appropriate party (ies) within your organization. Please send your response to Janet_Flowers@unc.edu by FEBRUARY 14TH. Thank you very much for your help with this project. 1. What size is the library about which you are responding? _____<500,000 print volumes _____500,000-1,000,000 print volumes _____1,000,000-3,000,000 print volumes _____>3,000,000 print volumes 2. What term best describes the nature of the institution? ___School ____Community college ____University ____Liberal arts college ____Research University ____Special Library ____Other 3. What is the approximate number of electronic resources (e-journals and databases) currently held by your institution? ___<500 ___500-1,000 ___1,000-3,000 ___3,000-5,000 ___5,000-10,000 ___>10,000 4. Please describe how your institution has organized functions to deal with electronic resources Acquisition of the material Licenses, Price negotiations Access issues (technical) Access issues (bibliographic) Presentation to the public 5. If you have a current organization chart (and the one previous to it), please send them for comparative purposes. 6. Do you have a special unit devoted to handling e-resources? If so, please describe its organization and functions. 7. What factors affected how the organizational changes were made at your institution? Check all that apply. Elaborate if you wish. ____Retirements ____New hires ____Reassignment of duties ____Traditional assignments ____Formal organizational evaluation ____Changes resulting from new integrated library system ____Other (Please describe) 8. Please describe how your institution made the changes. Were they evolutionary or revolutionary? Why? 9. What are your views on the effectiveness of the organization you currently have in place on a scale from 1-10 with 10 being highly effective? 10. From your perspective, what are the pros and cons of the division of responsibilities? 11. Do you now think that you have adequate staffing resources to handle e-resources quickly and efficiently? If not, what positions would you add? 12. How heavily has your institution been affected by the need to cancel print subscriptions to sustain the electronic ones or to stay within your budgets? Please give an approximate percentage of subscriptions/standing orders that have been cancelled over the past five years and an indication of what role the electronic resources played in that. 13. What trends in organization would you predict for your library within the next three years as a result of e-resource infiltration and why? Thank you very much for your help with this survey! If you want to copy the survey questions into a Word or RTF document to send them to me, I would be very grateful. Janet L. Flowers Head / Acquisitions Department CB 3902 Davis Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 U.S.A. Phone: 919-962-1120 FAX: 919-962-4450 url: http://www.lib.unc.edu/acq/