[PW] Academic Library Consortiums

[Even Flood]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Casey Debus <caseydebus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am working on a paper in my quest for an MLS degree and am personally looking for articles or books concerning consortiums.  Especially those that academic libraries belong to.  My main interest is cost versus benefits both financially and concerning resources.  I will take any suggestions even personal experiences.  They can be emailed to me directly and I will post a summary.  Thank you.
>   Casey Debus
>   Library Clerk
>   Eastern Wyoming College
>   caseydebus at yahoo.com
>
Casey,

A month ago (or so) I had a presentation at the Norwegian Library
meeting about those issues. I used the statistics for our library
(NTNU library, the university library in Trondheim, Norway) and
compared the cost of the consortia packages compared to the prize of
paying for each paper we downloaded bought separately. The bottom line
was that last year we downloaded about 750 000 papers at a cost of  ca
8 usd/paper, buying them separately would cost 30 USD/paper.

My presentation is online at
http://folk.ntnu.no/flood/brukstatistikk.ppt. Alas for you, it is in
Norwegian. Some ot the tables should make some sense, the important
ones are slides 16-19. The exchange rate last year when those numbers
were generated was 6 NOK to one USD - about that anyway. Today it is 5
NOK to the dollar. In each of these four slides the price at the
bottom is for papers bought separately, the numbers in the table is
cost of package, number of downloads and price/paper.

Even

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