A Global Information Industry Consulting Business Providing Best Practice
Solutions and Strategic Outcomes for:
Libraries and Library Consortia | Publishers | Vendors and Suppliers of Content and Ancillary Services
More than twenty years of collaboration with over 90 academic libraries and library consortia in Asia, Australasia and North America.
- Project Development and Management
- Relevant Content: Digital, Print and Print-on-Demand
- Collection Development: Methodologies, Profiling, Disciplined Solutions
- Return on Investment (RoI)/Value for Money Projects
- New and Emerging Markets
- Commerical Negotiations, Analysis and Evaluation
- Service Level Agreements, Contracts and Compliance
- ILS Integration
- Acquisitions, Access and Technical Services
- Strategic Planning and Budgeting
- Tenders and RFPs
- Market Analysis and Evaluation
- New Business Models
- Vertical and Horizontal Workflow Integration
- Cataloging and Metadata Issues
Top 2012 Oranjarra Project Trends
- Collection Development Projects for Digital and Print
- Market and Strategic Analysis
- Vendor/Supplier Negotiations
- Service Level Agreements
- Return on Investment/Value for Money Projects and Analysis
- Cataloging and Metadata Issues
Oranjarra and the Terrible Twos
January 2012 marked Oranjarra Partners' second anniversary and 2011 was certainly a busy one. We undertook a number of projects for vendors and publishers (including some that wish to remain anonymous) and a number of library projects including work at the Australian Catholic University, Macquarie University, University of Western Sydney, the University of Auckland, and the University of Western Australia.
The Oranjarra Partners, Information Exponentials, GSE Research Partnership
Oranjarra Partners, GSE Research (based in the UK) and Information Exponentials (based in Australia) are pleased to announce a new collaboration in 2012. The three companies intend to work together on the development of a targeted article profiling service for librarians. This service aims to match the interest areas of librarians/faculty with relevant research from publishers.
GSE Research is a specialist publisher in the areas of Governance, Sustainability and Environment, which aims to take a different approach to scholarly publishing. GSE places the author at the heart of the research experience and offers a choice of review process as well as elective open access publication. GSE will launch its Research Exchange service in 2012, providing a space for researchers to connect. GSE is also establishing a Social Enterprise Fund through which it will give back 10% of all audited revenues to causes selected by its Research Exchange members.
Information Exponentials provides cutting-edge services and consultations to libraries and the publishing industry in scenario planning. Lead by its Director, Steve O’Connor, IE helps its clients to imagine and realize new and exciting futures.
Progress to date on this project was presented to the VALA Conference in Melbourne in February 2012. The presentation, called "Harvesting Relevant Content: Developing and Applying New Digital Profiling Methodologies and the Evolution of Commercial Discovery, Acquisition and Access", may be found HERE.
 
Oranjarra Value for Money/Return on Investment Survey
The survey is now closed. 135 libraries from Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Malaysia and Phillippines, as well as a good sampling of global vendors/suppliers responded. The summary results may be found
HERE
and include the many thoughtful and illuminating comments from respondents. Analysis, graphical representations and conclusions will be posted when completed and will form part of Stephen Pugh's presentation at the LIANZA conference (see News & Notes). Many thanks to all who completed the survey!
Recent Presentations and Publications
• Speaking of Return on Investment and Value for Money, Stephen Pugh gave a paper called "Librarians are not Hospice Workers" discussing the preliminary results and best practice options at the LIANZA conference in Wellington, New Zealand in November 2011. You can see his PowerPoint presentation HERE and don't miss all the other papers and presentations from this excellent annual conference HERE.
• Read/Download Stephen Pugh's paper and presentation given at the ALIA Information Online 2011 Conference in Sydney in February 2011: Creating Metadata and Profiling Constructs for Electronic Books, Journals, and Articles: Applying Approval Methodologies in the Electronic Environment PDF or PPT
• Read/Download Stephen Pugh's two papers and presentations from the ALIA Access 2010 conference held in Brisbane in September 2010. Best Practice and Cooperation in Resource Sharing Among Academic Library Consortia PDF or PPT, and The Digital Typhoon: Issues and Trends in Collection Development PDF or PPT.
• A newly revised version of Shelter from the Storm was presented to the WAGUL libaries in Western Australia in December. See/download the PPT here.
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Oranjarra Partners
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