Please note that “My Archive Users “will need to have migrated their searches and saved materials manually by visiting the current platform to export and save their settings. 

The Shared cataloging Program (SCP) will change the PIDs on July 1, 2013.

For models, one good source is the 2008 Ithaka Report, Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources. It is specifically aimed, as the title says, at online resources, but the revenue models are broadly envisioned.

One of the best pieces of advice the report gives is that we “need to adopt a more comprehensive definition of ‘sustainability’.” In other words, when it comes to thinking about sustaining our projects and initiatives, we have to consider a mix of solutions. The Ithaka Report divides its suggested models into those that “tax” the direct beneficiary of the service, and those that ask an indirect beneficiary to share in the support for the service.

direct

• subscription or one-time payment
• pay-per-use
• contributor pays

indirect

• in-kind donations, including host institution funds
• corporate sponsorships
• advertisement
• philanthropic funding
• licensing of content

There are pros and cons for each of these models, and so it’s a good idea to consider the fine points if you are thinking about pursuing one or more of these paths. In my case, I need to look deeply into an approach for a direct beneficiary payment model. I manage a new service that has the usual infrastructure and labor costs, but it also has particular (external) use-related costs.

These are the kinds of things I need to think about now: I didn’t learn about them in library school, and so I’ve been borrowing examples from partner institutions, reading business texts, and asking for lots of help. It’s an interesting position in which to be, and I imagine more and more of us will find ourselves in this place. If the Ithaka report is an indicator, this is one trend that has a real growth curve. What does it look like from your perspective?

Spring 2010 iSchool Career Fair

The students who were most interested in talking to CDL were the “first years,” that is, those who will be between the first and second years of the 2-year program this summer and looking for an internship for those months. We spoke with a number of top-notch candidates and hope that some of these very capable individuals will apply for the internship opportunities we presented.

I am CDL’s Internship Coordinator, and in that role I reach out to the iSchool, San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science and UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, as well as serve as a point of contact for any graduate student in schools of library, information science, information or a related field of study. At the present time, CDL has an intern from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Unlike some internship venues, we don’t run a routine internship program. Rather we look for opportunities to involve students in current investigatory work and related projects in all of CDL’s program and service areas. This means that we never have the same internship twice in a row. This works well for the students of any given program, although it makes my job a little more difficult, as I am in the position of encouraging managers to envision new internships on an ongoing basis.

Here are some of the internship projects we’ve sponsored in the last couple of years:

• Peer-review analysis and tagging project (Publishing)
• iPres Annual Conference planning assistance (UC3)
• Determination of how CDL is referenced in social bookmarking (Executive)
• Content tagging, and evaluating an automatic tagging tool (Publishing)
• Getting Calisphere into Wikipedia (Digital Special Collections)

Our internship program has proved to be truly beneficial to us in both the short and long runs, because we’ve not only been able to have the assistance and perspectve of new and talented people brought to these kinds of issues, but we have also met some of our future employees in this way. We have two current staff members who are former interns, Leslie Wolf, and me!