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When the rubber meets the road,
Pt. 2 -- Welch Library’s experience
Sue M. Woodson, MLIS, PhDWelch Medical LibraryJohns Hopkins MedicineCharleston ConferenceNovember 5, 2010
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Shrink the Welch print collection
• Shrink print holdings by about 80%
• Do this by 2012
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Improving Our Service to Hopkins Medical Community
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Welch Medical Library
The context
• .
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2000
New Director:
Major User Needs Study
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GOALS
1. All collections online
2. Services embedded in depts
3. Excellent discovery tools
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Take the library to the patron
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“that's where the money is”
Bank robber:
Willie Sutton
US gov DOJ image
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Wm H. Welch Medical Library
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Changes in staffing
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Jobs going away
• Cataloging and Acquisitions• Shelving• In person reference• Security Guards
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New work
• Off- hours phone reference• Aiding systematic reviews• Publicity
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Job re-alignment
• Fill job vacancies from within the library where possible
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Welch – it’s not your father’s library
• We collect for today• If we don’t have it buy it or ILL it• If our users no longer use it, we don’t buy it
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The Welch collection is becoming a service to our
current community.
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We are no longer an institution of cultural memory.
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GOING FORWARD
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SE/A – Print Retention Task Force
National Network | Libraries of Medicine
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• How long do we need to keep *some* print copies of our journal literature?
• How many copies need to be kept?
• How to coordinate distributed presevation?
• What becomes of print when it is no longer valuable to Medicine?
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Welch Medical Library
…Wherever you are