CDL-Supporting PhD program needs via ILL? [Response #5]

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> "Le Beau, Chris" <lebeauc_at_umkc.edu>
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> Joy, Not knowing the precise subject content areas of the overall program or the PhD programs or the collective personality of your faculty (although I'm getting a quick picture), I'm going out on a limb here. 
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> It looks like this is a faculty that one has to approach armed with information before proposing new resources. Do you do a lot of ILL already? Do you have detailed request list of the journals requested through ILL? Are JSTOR titles often requested titles? If so, sounds like a JSTOR subscription would be cost justified. But since you have new programs starting up, you may not know. Do you have the average cost of an ILL transaction so faculty and librarians can make better decisions about subscription vs ILL? Do you know how many requests per day ILL staff can handle and the response time? Is that response time sufficient to support research needs? 
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> I love JSTOR myself, but I know seminary budgets can be tight, and you probably have to maximize your dollars. Would JSTOR offer a lot to these new PhD programs? Which JSTOR subject collections would you propose - all or some?
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> Faculty usually repsond to cost data when they are presented with it. In fact they will even cut their noses off to spite their face if they think something is outrageously expensive. It sounds like you need to guide this faculty supported by facts and evidence (gently presented) rather than casually throwing out suggestions. Sometimes the casual approach dooms good ideas before they have been given fair consideration.
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> Chris LeBeau
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> From: owner-COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu on behalf of Lynn Sipe
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> Subject: CDL: Supporting PhD program needs via ILL? [Responses 1-4]
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> Subject: PhD program support
> From: Joy Mark <joy.listservs_at_gmail.com> <mailto:joy.listservs_at_gmail.com> 
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> I just came back from a meeting with our institution's post-grad 
> faculty, to share about JSTOR and get their thoughts on using some of 
> the monies from the new endowments for two new PhD programs to begin 
> subscription. Their response so floored me that it has jarred me out 
> of my usual listserv lurker habit to bring the question here. To sum 
> up: they want to support the entire program through ILL (using it to 
> supplement our normal acquisition procedures that support our grad 
> degrees; needless to say, they didn't want JSTOR). Inwardly cursing 
> myself for not being particularly quick on my feet, all I could think 
> to stammer was that we would most certainly have to hire more staff to 
> support that (salaries coming out of the endowment money of course!). 
> What would you say to faculty with such expectations?
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