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Subject: Call for Papers: Patron-Initiated Collection
Development (special issue of Collection Management)
Date: 	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:13 -0400
From: 	Ward, Suzanne M. <ward at purdue.edu>

Please consider forwarding this call for papers to the
members of OPLIN.  The editors seek article proposals
on this topic from libraries of all sizes and types.

Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management
Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Current
Successes and Future Directions

To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection
Management in 2010.  Seeking article proposals from
colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of
academic libraries, public libraries, and international
libraries) about patron-initiated collection
development, such as:

● interlibrary loan book purchase programs

●  experiences with allowing patron use or selection to
drive acquisition of electronic books

●  consortial collection development plans with strong
patron-driven acquisitions elements

●  other innovative patron-initiated selection
activities for materials in a variety of formats

●  implications for the future roles of collection
librarians in an environment of increased user-driven
Acquisitions

● user discovery of patron-initiated collection
development plans

The editors are particularly interested in proposals
for articles that will that include
evaluation/assessment/analysis.

Background
The special issue editors are members of the team that
published the following article:

Anderson, Kristine J., Robert S. Freeman, Jean-Pierre
V. M. Herubel, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, Judith

M. Nixon, and Suzanne M. Ward.  2002.  “Buy, Don’t
Borrow: Bibliographers’ Analysis of Academic Library
Collection Development through Interlibrary Loan
Requests.”  Collection Management, 27(3/4): 1-11.

This article analyzed six subject areas for books
purchased instead of borrowed as the result of
interlibrary loan requests in 2000-2001.  Now that ILL
book purchases have been standard procedure at the
Purdue University Libraries for ten years, the authors
and their colleagues will analyze this decade’s worth
of information to explore the following topics in a
series of four articles:

● Revisit the initial study by comparing earlier
findings with more recent data

● Analyze the ILL book purchase program in relation to
scientific/technical/medical (STM) titles

● Conduct in-depth statistical analysis across a decade
of data, looking at issues such as patron status,
subject areas as indicated by call number, subsequent
circulation, comparison with similar
subject area books acquired through traditional means, etc.

● Position paper on new roles for collection
librarians.  As user-initiated collection development
frees time and effort from traditional collection
duties and responsibilities, how will academic
librarians develop and nurture emerging objectives and
prerogatives, e.g. teaching, research?

The accepted articles from colleagues at other
institutions will complement the four listed above.

Deadlines
November 13, 2009: Submit an abstract (maximum of one
page) with the title and your proposed article
idea.  Your full contact information may appear on a
separate page, but please include your name,
institution, and email address on the abstract page.

December 4, 2009:  The editors will notify authors
whether their proposals have been accepted.

February 28, 2010: Submit completed article (10-25
double spaced pages).

Please submit abstracts and address correspondence to
Judy Nixon (jnixon at purdue.edu) with this subject line:
CM article proposal.

We will be glad to answer any questions and look
forward to your article proposals.

Editors (all from the Purdue University Libraries):

Robert S. Freeman, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Librarian (rsfree at purdue.edu)

Judith M. Nixon, Education Librarian (jnixon at purdue.edu)

Suzanne M. Ward, Head, Collection Management
Head, Collection Management & Professor
Purdue University Libraries ILL
504 West State Street
West Lafayette,  IN  47907-2058
765-494-2850
765-494-9007 (fax)
ward at purdue.edu