LAW LIBRARY PLANS FOR THE PRINT MATERIALS COLLECTION ISBN 978-1-57440-353-4 ©2015 Primary Research Group Inc. Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection 2 | P a g e Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection Table of Contents THE QUESTIONNAIRE ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Characteristics of the Sample............................................................................................................................ 16 Use of Interlibrary Loan ................................................................................................................................. 17 Comfort Level with eBooks ........................................................................................................................... 17 Trends in Spending on Print, 2014, 2015, 2016 ............................................................................................ 17 Areas Subject to Most Aggressive Elimination of Print Titles ....................................................................... 17 Change in Size of the Print Collection over the Past Five Years .................................................................... 18 The Future of Print Collection over the Next Five years ............................................................................... 18 Percentage of Print Book Titles Culled Each Year ......................................................................................... 18 Changes in Book Culling Philosophy .............................................................................................................. 19 Use of Space Liberated by Reductions in Print Spending.............................................................................. 19 Trends in the Number of Journal Subscriptions in Print Maintained ............................................................ 19 The Future of Print Journal Subscriptions ..................................................................................................... 20 Trends in the use of Print Forms of Legal Encyclopedias .............................................................................. 20 Percentage of Libraries that Survey their Patrons about Preferences for Print Vs. Digital Resources ......... 21 Maintenance of Print Forms When Digital Forms are Available in the Library ............................................ 21 Policies when Libraries have Both Print and Digital Forms in the Library .................................................... 21 Division of Print Materials Budget among Primary and Secondary Legal Information and Non-Legal Information ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Spending on Print Forms of Legal Directories ............................................................................................... 23 Future Plans for Print Directories .................................................................................................................. 23 Spending on Print Subscriptions to Newspapers and Magazines ................................................................. 23 Spending on Print Versions of Books that are not about Legal Subjects ...................................................... 23 Impact of Ebooks ........................................................................................................................................... 24 Has the Library Ever Been Forced to Re-Purchase Culled Print Materials? .................................................. 24 Areas Most Resistant to the Culling or Print Sources ................................................................................... 24 Decisions-Making About Print Culling ........................................................................................................... 24 ALTERNATIVES TO PRINT ................................................................................................................................... 26 What role has your inter-library loan capabilities and relations with consortia and other partners played in your print materials culling practices? Does the library maintain particularly vigorous print materials sharing arrangements with any other institutions? ...................................................................................... 26 3 | P a g e Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection How comfortable would you say your library patrons are with the substitution of eBooks forms of treatises for print treatises? When does the acquisition of an eBook title lead you to eliminate or reduce your holdings of the print version of the same title? ................................................................................... 29 PRINT COLLECTION VOLUME ............................................................................................................................ 33 Table 1 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in each of the following years: .......... 33 Table 1.1.1 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2014? (All figures in $ US) ... 33 Table 1.1.2 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2014? Broken out by Type of law library (All figures in $ US) ...................................................................................................................... 33 Table 1.1.3 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2014? Broken out by full time equivalent librarians (All figures in $ US) ...................................................................................................... 33 Table 1.2.1 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2015? (All figures in $ US) ... 34 Table 1.2.2 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2015? Broken out by Type of law library (All figures in $ US) ...................................................................................................................... 34 Table 1.2.3 What has been the library's total spending on print materials in 2015? Broken out by full time equivalent librarians (All figures in $ US) ...................................................................................................... 34 Table 1.3.1 What will be the library's total spending on print materials in 2016 (anticipated)? (All figures in $ US) .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 Table 1.3.2 What will be the library's total spending on print materials in 2016 (anticipated)? (All figures in $ US) Broken out by Type of law library ........................................................................................................ 35 Table 1.3.3 What will be the library's total spending on print materials in 2016 (anticipated)? (All figures in $ US) Broken out by full time equivalent librarians ...................................................................................... 35 In which areas has the library been most aggressive in eliminating print titles and why in these areas? ... 36 What has happened to your library's print materials collection over the past five years? Is it larger than it was five years ago, in what areas has it grown? If it is smaller, in what areas has it diminished? .............. 39 In your view what will happen to your library's print materials collection over the next five years? Will it become larger or smaller? If so, what areas will be most affected and why? Will spending remain the same? Increase or decrease? ........................................................................................................................ 42 PRINT BOOK CULLING STRATEGY ...................................................................................................................... 46 Table 2.1 Approximately what percentage of titles in your print book collection do you cull each year? ...... 46 Table 2.2 Approximately what percentage of titles in your print book collection do you cull each year? Broken out by Type of law library ..................................................................................................................... 46 Table 2.3 Approximately what percentage of titles in your print book collection do you cull each year? Broken out by full time equivalent librarians.................................................................................................... 46 If the library has changed its book acquisitions and/or book collection culling strategy over the past five years, or expects to change it soon, please describe these changes. ........................................................... 47 SPACE ISSUES..................................................................................................................................................... 50 Table 3.1 If the library has reduced the size of its print collections in recent years, has this led to an increase in space that the library can use for other purposes? ...................................................................................... 50 4 | P a g e Law Library Plans for the Print Materials Collection Table 3.2 If the library has reduced the size of its print collections in recent years, has this led to an increase in space that the library