J.-P. Accart a déposé sur E-LIS Faire ses emplettes de périodiques comme il faut (paru dans Archimag, mars 2008): "Un service de documentation, une bibliothèque accordent une place primordiale aux périodiques. Aussi doit-on concéder à leur acquisition, à leur gestion, une place à part dans la politique globale d'acquisition du service. [...] La part financière accordée aux périodiques est en général nettement plus importante que pour les autres documents."

L'OCLC annonce qu'elle va mettre en place un système de gestion coopérative pour ses membres (*). L'objectif serait d'étendre sa plateforme existante (WorldCat Local) aux applications suivantes: prêt, acquisitions (papier et électroniques), licences/abonnements.

(*) Web-scale, cooperative library management service (SaaS)

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Màj (29/04/09): lire aussi: Breaking Down the Components of OCLC’s New Library System

Seeking Your Advice: Physically Reorganizing Technical Services to Increase Workflow and Productivity

"As many of you may know, the Library of Congress recently underwent a reorganization of their cataloguing and acquisition departments. From my understanding, they have also physically reorganized their departments so that cataloguers with similar expertise are sitting together (and perhaps with the acquisitions expert in that area?). In essence, they have broken into physical “teams” grouped together by expertise and collections."

(source: The Cataloguing Librarian, 07/04/09)

LC Merges Acquisition and Cataloging
(source: Library Journal)

- Effort will speed processing time
- Will help LC respond to changes in bibliographic control
- New division chiefs named

The Library of Congress (LC) announced today it has merged its Acquisition and Cataloging departments in order both to speed processing time and enhance the physical security of the collections. Now books will go to one division instead of several for centralized processing.
"The new organizational structure--the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate (ABA),” said ABA Director Beacher Wiggins in a news release, “fully merges acquisitions and cataloging functions, streamlines workflows and deploys staff to take advantage of their unique language and subject skills." Now digital materials will be processed along with those in other formats.

Les présentations (et/ou les retranscriptions des sessions) de la conférence annuelle (07-09/04/08) du UK Serials Group (UKSG) sont disponibles ici.

Plenary sessions | Breakout sessions

A noter:
- The digital supply chain – impacts, effects, opportunities and challenges of the rapidly changing landscape in multiformat e-content delivery
- The deficiency of peer review
- The information-seeking behaviour of the virtual scholar: from use to users
- The use and abuse of usage measures
- Web 3.0: how to help users stop reading the web and get on with their work
- Adapting workflows to acquisitions of e-resources
- Expanding access to serials and other holdings through Faceted Browse

Via OAN

White Paper on Interoperability between Acquisitions Modules of Integrated Library Systems and Electronic Resource Management Systems: un document de la DLF (Digital Library Federation).

"The following white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The first section of the paper features four case studies: UCLA, Cornell University, the Tri-College Consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, & Swarthmore Colleges, and the Library of Congress. Each case highlights the library’s institutional environment, consortium considerations, systems architecture (ILS, ERMS, and link resolver), and electronic resource workflows."

Via DigitalKoans

Via le blog de l'ADBS:
Des abonnements papiers aux abonnements électroniques. Vade-mecum élaboré par l'ADBS, l'Association des directeurs de bibliothèque universitaire (ADBU), la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP), le Groupement français de l'industrie de l'information (GFII) et le Syndicat national des importateurs et exportateurs de livres (SNIEL)

Voici la tdm:

1. INTRODUCTION
2. LES SPÉCIFICITÉS DE L’ABONNEMENT ÉLECTRONIQUE
2.1. L’abonnement électronique pour les clients
2.2. L’abonnement électronique pour les éditeurs
2.3. L’abonnement électronique pour les agences d’abonnements
3. L'ACQUISITION
3.1. L'offre
3.2. Tarification
3.3. La nature contractuelle des offres
4. LES CONSORTIA
4.1. Consortia et autres groupements d'achat
4.2. Définition des consortia
4.3. Pourquoi les consortia ?
4.4. Le rôle des agences
4.5. Avantages et limites des consortia
4.6. Conclusion
5. ASPECTS TECHNIQUES
5.1. Les modalités d’accès
5.2. Les statistiques d’utilisation
6. LES ARCHIVES ET LA PÉRENNITÉ DES DONNÉES
6.1. Enjeux et attentes
6.2. L’accès aux archives électroniques
6.3. Quelles réponses à ces attentes
7. LES FREINS AU DÉVELOPPEMENT DE L'ABONNEMENT ÉLECTRONIQUE
7.1. Les freins côté clients
7.2. Des freins pour les éditeurs
7.3. Les freins côté agences
7.4. Le taux de TVA
8. CONCLUSIONS
9. LEXIQUE
10. EXEMPLES DE CONSORTIA ET POSITIONS D’ÉDITEURS
10.1. Exemples français
10.2. Exemples européens
10.3. Exemples canadiens
10.4. Exemples américains
10.5. Les consortia vus par deux éditeurs
10.6. Initiatives pour les éditeurs

Le UK Serials Group (UKSG) vient de publier un rapport intitulé Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain.

TdM:
1. Summary of Findings
2. Industry Context
3. Project Context
4. Methodology
5. Description of the Supply Chain
6. Issues and Barriers
7. Recommendations
8. A Centralised Alternative
9. Areas for Further Research
10. References

Via Françoise

Sélection subjective de quelques articles parus dans le dernier n° de D-Lib (mai-juin 07, vol. 13, n° 5-6):

> A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget
"Libraries have traditionally heavily supported researchers as readers, but they have not done the same for researchers as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process."

A propos de cet article, lire ce billet de N. Morin

> Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services
"Repositories and providers can shape preservation services at different cost levels that could range from comprehensive 'black-box' preservation to pick-and-mix lightweight Web-based services that build on the common starting point, format identification. This article describes the evolution of a series of models that have informed progress towards this conception of flexible and distributed preservation services for IRs."

> Type-consistent Digital Objects
"In this article, we provide an overview of the DOPs framework, we highlight its type-conformance capabilities and we show how heterogeneous digital material can be treated in a uniform manner without resorting to custom developments."

> Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections
"This article will describe the UW Libraries Digital Collections and the phenomenon known as Wikipedia. We will also describe the process of adding links to Wikipedia articles as well as the outcomes from the University of Washington Libraries project."

> Tea for Two: Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories
"Although informal communication has always been a part of scholarly communication, its value as an important means for sharing perceptions and knowledge has not always been recognized or properly put to good use. Three add-ons for the DSpace platform have been developed under the "DSpace Dev@University of Minho" project. The next natural step is to further develop and integrate the features of these add-ons into a new cross-repository service that allows knowledge to be transferred across communities in a broader and improved way and to provide better means to access comprehensive information about communication relationships between scholarly entities."

> Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities
"By mid 2006, all Australian universities had established, or were partway to establishing, institutional repository services. The development of institutional repository services can often be related to the open access movement, which seeks to make valued research outputs openly available by encouraging academics to place their publications into repositories, enhancing their availability and bypassing the high cost of journal subscriptions. However, many universities have extended the functionality of their repository services for other purposes, such as giving scholars the opportunity to develop their own research portfolio, providing a means of improving research reporting, establishing an electronic publishing service, or giving access to collections of images or other research outputs. The potential for development seems endless."
+ cf. les commentaires complets des personnes interviewées (via OAN)

Toujours tiré de la Revue électronique suisse de science de l'information (n°5, mars 07): Robert, Anne-Christine, Morcillo, Tamara et Maillefer, Michel, L’offre de périodiques en bibliothèque universitaire : les avantages d’une démarche collective.