description of the session How can a publicly-funded research library leverage growing resource demands within an increasingly tight investment landscape? By telling compelling stories about how faculty and students from across colleges utilize (need) business resources and tools for their entrepreneurial work. Tableau Desktop and Server helps library decision makers organize and visualize the wealth of local data to build a case for future investments.
The use case of the Carlson School of Management illustrates lessons we learned: • identifying key metrics—money saved by students; books and journals most downloaded or cited by faculty; market share of the college reached by the library • integrating data from multiple sources—enterprise systems, publishers, software vendors • creating a discipline-specific profile of use reveals research patterns needed to inform strategic decisions on database selection and service delivery
objective of the session Show attendees how they can use Tableau to create simple but effective visualizations that illustrate the stories of faculty / student growing demand for access to and understanding of tools needed to conduct entrepreneurial work. With this actionable data our business librarians can more effectively work with users to address emerging venture development needs.
ways of including the audience Identify the business librarian who can address audience questions about disciplinary needs, and the dashboard creator who can address their Tableau authoring questions. Two laptops will be available to let the audience interact with the visualization or see how the dashboard was created in the desktop client.
what attendees can expect to learn The many options for authoring Tableau visualizations and making them available. The different kinds of data available in most academic library environments to tell stories about users.
This poster will present the findings of a study on demand-driven acquisition (DDA) ebooks at a federal research library. Examining the books that have been selected for perpetual access due to DDA use, is subsequent usage by customers commensurate with the cost of the purchase? Would other, newer models, such as short-term loans or access-to-own, better meet the needs of the library’s customers and its budget, or do the usage patterns of these books show it is more cost-effective when the library provides perpetual access?
I am a brand-new (started June 2018) collection services coordinator at the Boulder Labs Library. We support three agencies: NOAA, NIST, and NTIA on the same campus in Boulder, CO. I come to this position with ~10 years of reference librarian experience with an emphasis on analysis.My... Read More →
Subject liaisons and research librarians know multiple metrics and qualitative inputs are required to assess the full value of a given electronic resource, particularly within the context of a library’s entire collection. This session will outline how our library is incorporating both usage statistics provided by vendors and peer institution comparisons in a Sharepoint-based invoice tracking system. We will also describe how we are mining faculty requests, interlibrary loan data, chat transcripts, and other reference/research inquiries as we strive to develop a consistent and simple, yet comprehensive, method for evaluating not only existing resources, but also potential new purchases and subscriptions.
A poster displaying the steps for generating reports on staff work outputs using data analytics, in this case ExLibris Alma analytics. Library operations staff and managers will benefit from learning how to expose hidden work that doesn't show up in standard library metrics reporting. Various reports will be displayed along with steps performed in creating them from initial idea to execution.
Head Order Services & Acquisitions, Emory University
Jeffrey Sowder is Head of Order Services at Emory University Robert Woodruff Library. Jeffrey serves on the Advisory Committee of ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services (ODLOS). He served as Chair of ALA GLBTRT Rainbow List Committee and was Chair of the ALA GLBT... Read More →
Adelphi University Libraries started an ebook Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) program with ebrary in January, 2014. After one short term loan a second use triggered a purchase. This trigger was determined by an analysis of how ebooks were used in the subscription component of ebrary, Academic Complete. Titles were added to the pool according to our slip plan profile with YBP. Librarians could also manually add ebook titles to the DDA pool.
To see if our trigger point should be adjusted for our current DDA with ProQuest Ebook Central, I pulled statistics from the ebrary administrative portal for January, 2014 through January, 2017 that show the use of items after they have triggered a purchase. My analysis covers the subsequent use of items that were triggered for purchase; the value of the DDA program compared to if we had purchased the ebooks outright; the value of including publishers such as Wiley that do not allow short term loans in a DDA program.
With the use of other Adelphi ebook usage stats my assessment also covers the value of this DDA program for ebooks compared to the usage of ebooks in our subscription database and our firm ordered ebooks. In this context I also consider what benefits accrue to publishers in supporting DDA programs for ebooks as opposed to other acquisition and access models.
Are you awash in order data? This major ARL library has a long history collecting purchase data by discipline and publisher, circulation data, online use data, evidence based data, demand driven orders and use data. After several years of pilot programs and in looking at the most important academic books bought and used over five years from several angles - we merged it all. We combined that with user surveys and vendor plans to overhaul and automate book buying. The problems are many: fewer staff and fewer dollars, less shelf space, a large student population, and bibliographers too taxed for time to do title orders and an unpredictable book-publishing world. The goals: get users what they want and when they want it while making the best use of our time and collection dollars. The poster traces our data collections, analysis and final morphing into a coherent plan to automate more shipments and expand multiple demand driven plans with cost containment built in and anticipating users’ needs for print or e formats. We can’t always get what we want… but we can spent some time and use data to get what we need!
The ever-increasing availability of and demand for e-content has complicated libraries’ internal records and muddied their understanding of their subscription details and holdings. Adelphi University Libraries' technical services unit realized its catalog data had drifted significantly and no longer reflected actual periodical holdings or online access entitlements. The acquisitions librarian and her staff examined vendor-supplied subscriptions details, improved their catalog records, and documented new workflows.
At George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, employees are increasingly utilizing project management (PM) tools to accomplish their daily work. After being introduced to Agile Project Management and its methodologies, members of the Accounting and Serials (A&S) Unit realized that many of their daily practices for materials budget management mirrored those of the Scrum framework of Agile, such as time boxing, incremental releases, ceremonies, and core principles.
The A&S Unit within the Acquisitions and Collections Services Department is responsible for managing the libraries’ materials budgets. Developing the annual materials budget allocation is an extensive process that begins in November/December with a rough estimate derived from prior-year final expenditure figures. As the year progresses and expenditure commitments increase, the allocations estimate becomes more precise and it culminates after a successful completion of the budget rollover.
This poster describes the methodology used last year by the A&S Unit to derive the annual materials budget allocation, and the serendipitous realization that their practices matched many of the project management elements of the Scrum framework. A visual comparison of the A&S Unit practices and the Scrum framework will be presented.
I have worked in a variety positions at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries since 1999. Currently, I am the Accounting & Serials Manager of the Acquisitions & Collections Services Department. In addition to planning and coordinating the Libraries’ materials budget... Read More →
Michelle is a library materials budget coordinator for the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, where she has served in various roles within Acquisitions and Collections Services since 2011. Prior to UF, Michelle worked in the Financial Services industry in New York... Read More →
A monograph/firm order manager, an e-resources expert and a technology infrastructure specialist walked into a break room… No great jokes were born that day, but a survey was. These three acquisitions employees at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign sat down to figure out, “How much do bibliographers actually know and understand about our work?”
Acquisitions staff in libraries pride themselves on serving as a key intersection point between bibliographers, vendors and publishers, business office staff, and library service constituencies. Communication is critical, and in theory, all parties understand the need for clarity and mutual understanding. In practice, however, acquisitions staff often respond to bibliographer inquiries with language steeped in assumptions about terminology and consequent ramifications. Sometimes these assumptions lead to miscommunication and disappointment.
As libraries continue to grapple with the need to craft effective strategies across print and electronic ownership purchases, demand-driven and evidence-based models, and leased/subscription models, it is more imperative than ever that bibliographers understand nuances of these overlapping approaches. Impacts include access and long-term availability, as well as implications for budget planning and projections. Bibliographers, in turn, field questions from researchers, for example, when access to a given resource disappears.
This poster session will articulate the process of developing a survey to assess and evaluate what bibliographers understand about acquisitions processes. The poster will outline the key issues identified by acquisitions staff in developing the survey and the implications for bibliographer understanding, and contextualize these against the existing trends in acquisitions and collection development as governed by the current market purchase models for library resources.
In retrospect persuading the Math faculty at the University of British Columbia (UBC) of the value in switching their beloved monograph series from print to online format was a breeze. The tough part came in making this pledge a reality.
As with most academic institutions, the pursuit of online collection options is a logical objective, to help meet the demands of reduced space for print resources and the desire to provide access to more content to a broader range of users. Although stalwart defenders of the importance of print and physical proximity to their collections, the Math faculty at UBC were won over by arguments of greater discoverability, findability and access. In making our case, we knew that the series in question were available electronically, what we didn’t fully realize is they become different entities when they go digital.
Unlike journals, in this publishing domain, electronic subscriptions or standing orders are not the norm. This immediately raised questions about ensuring continuous and stable funding for materials that were no longer ‘serial’ but rather monograph, a budget sector with historically less protection. We discovered that every series had a different publishing and pricing model – though the majority involved delayed online publication release and higher costs ranging from 10% to 75% per volume. Contemplating the logistics of acquiring as annual electronic backfiles within our fiscal year, or monitoring approval slip plans for title by title selection quickly demonstrated that the process wasn’t adding up to a balanced equation in terms of cost or workflow efficiency. Further complicating the mix was the inclusion of some series in one of our EBA plans. What should have been a welcome relief and easy win, became a sober second thought as the evidence showed the content was not being accessed, hence a challenge to the principle of purchasing based on user demand.
This session explores the logistical and financial issues to consider in making existing ebook purchase models work for our circumstances, and is of interest to librarians and publishers involved in mathematical ebook collections.
Facing the high cost of textbooks, many universities are exploring how to lower student textbook expenses. Hence the appearance of Open Education Resources (OER), Inclusive Access (IA) and other means to help students with textbook access. Many health science libraries have been researching emerging and alternate avenues for providing textbook access to their users, including OER, IA and using LibGuides, etc. This poster discusses how to provide “free” textbooks to health science students by using the library’s existing electronic resources and resources demanded by faculty. The authors use several methods to identify the best books for students: 1. Using Doody’s Core Titles, a health science book review service, to identify health science books from the existing electronic resources; 2. Discussing with faculty about whether we already have the books they need; 3. Suggesting alternative books to faculty to use as textbooks; 4. Purchasing unlimited copy licenses of ebooks that are available to libraries to meet faculty demands for textbooks. The textbooks are then put on LibGuides by course or subject for students. As a result, health science students may take advantage of the library resources to reduce their expenses for textbooks. At the same time, it is a great way to promote library resources.
This poster session describes how the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University collaborated with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to create a digital collection of rare books and journals on the theme of apples and cider during Cornell Reunion 2018. Attendees will learn how on-the-ground exhibits and activities can be transformed and promoted online while leveraging the collection strengths of other institutions. BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the literature of biodiversity held in their collections, making it freely available as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” Staff from Mann and BHL created “Pomology: Apples and Cider” with two dozen of Cornell’s finest rare pomological titles digitized for the collection. Other titles in the ~22,000 page collection were scanned from the collections of libraries at NC State, U. California, Library of Congress, NY Botanical Garden, National Agricultural Library, Prelinger Library, Boston Public, Chicago Botanic Garden, Harvard, UMass Amherst, U. Toronto, Missouri Botanical Garden, Smithsonian and the Wellcome Library. Working closely together, staff from Mann and BHL planned the event from every angle to create in-person experiences on campus as well as virtual experiences worldwide. This effort brought together exhibits (physical and virtual), a lecture by a leading expert on cider apples (streamed live on Facebook and archived online), a cider tasting event, a detailed BHL blog post on a selected historic title and online highlights via Flickr, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. The fruits of this collaboration were increased interest in the collections, wider exposure and greater networking opportunities for researchers and cider enthusiasts, and more awareness of the rich, deep collections offered for free via the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s collection and mission to the public – an ideal match for the mission of a Land Grant institution library such as ours.
In 2015 Abilene Christian University started an extension campus in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with fully online doctoral and master's programs being offered and support requested from the Abilene campus with exisiting resources and no requests for additional funding. This poster discusses the story of how the Library navigated the process of leveraging our materials budget to develop a partnership with our extension campus to create a blended funding model with formalized roles and documenting common actions that led to increased support for the library from the university and greater accountability for our resources and services to distance learning students.
In early 2017, Thomas Cooper Library’s seventeen year old home-grown online purchase request system ceased functioning. The online purchase request system supports workflow management of faculty and patron monographic order requests by Collection Development, Acquisitions, and Library Liaisons. While traditional monographic order workflows and support are often thought of as legacy services, the need to effectively and efficiently manage these requests has never been more pressing. Evidence based acquisitions, patron driven acquisitions, and approval plans cast a wide net, addressing broad based collection building. Faculty and patron driven title-by-title monograph requests represent unique purchases that directly support teaching and research while promoting library-campus community relationships. The demise of our old system provided us the opportunity to reflect on library-wide change in the intervening seventeen years, how we position this service throughout the library, and the requirements needed in a new system to address our current and future needs. With both a commercial and University IT built software solution out of financial reach, we set about building our own system using library IT resources. Join us as we discuss how we went from a deceased seventeen year old system to a scalable ticket-based solution that elegantly addresses staff and community needs. We will share the experiences and challenges we encountered as we travelled this path including: how we isolated our essential system requirements, how that process helped us define our software solution, what resources were required to undertake this project, what we’ve learned, and how our journey can be adapted by other libraries.
Libraries are increasingly asked to justify every part of their spending. Such justification is easier if we can show evidence that our purchasing is tied to multiple measurable data points. This session will look at the implementation of a weighted allocation formula for acquisitions at a small, underfunded public college.
For years, the library had been setting yearly allocations using an average of historical spending plus a small percentage to cover inflation, which was then tweaked based on liaison input. After attending a session at a previous Charleston conference, we decided to adapt the models that we saw to our own, unique situation. We developed a statistically-driven formula using data such as circulation, enrollment, and cost of materials which we feel has resulted in a more equitable and user-focused allocation model.
The presenter will address the impetus for our change in practice, details of the model, considerations that went into it, results to date, and future plans.
This presentation is co-authored by Marlena Barber, Assistant Director of Collections and Historical Services , East Carolina University, who was unable to attend the conference.
Medical practice books tend to become quickly outdated as clinical practice changes with ever-evolving research. For the past few years, Laupus Health Sciences Library has been ordering eBooks in addition to ordering books in print. Over time, the library has experienced a shift in increased eBook acquisitions versus print. At the same time, we have been deaccessioning outdated print monographs. Print book usage at Laupus Library has seen a decline since 2012, whereas eBook usage has experienced a large increase. Total book expenditures indicate a higher overall spend in print materials than electronic since 2012. Year to year collections expenditures have decreased overall for monographic materials with more of the budget emphasis placed on print formats, but recent years have shown an increase in eBook purchasing over print books. This presentation examines monograph expenditures and usage for the past six years at our library and implications for the future of our collection development practices.
Diminishing acquisition budgets, big deal break-ups, and rising inflationary costs make negotiations between librarians and vendors even more important. With a review of the literature and a short survey among peer institutions, this brief study looks to investigate if there is a perceived gender-bias in vendor-librarian negotiations.
While there is a lot in the literature about negotiation and the principles thereof, there hasn't been very much written about the role of gender in librarian-vendor negotiation. I wanted to investigate this more thoroughly, but more, I wanted to look at the perception of gender in these negotiations. In my own experience, there are expectations around gender in the negotiation process, and I have observed certain behaviours during my years working with vendors and I wanted to find out if others have observed the same behaviours. The survey and literature review helped with that, and with a co-presenter who is a vendor, we are sharing two perspectives that are similar yet we are coming from different places. Presenting will give us the opportunity to share the results of the survey and hopefully begin a dialogue with others to determine if there is any real basis to the perceptions and if so, what we can begin to do about changing those perceptions and perhaps changing the overall experience. This presentation offers more questions than answers, but I hope it will be interesting!
Anne has been at the Brown University Library for 26 years, first as Assistant Head of Reference and Head of Interlibrary Loan. Along the way, someone realized that all of the eresources work she had been doing (in addition to the other two jobs) was really a full-time job, and so... Read More →
Amy has been with EBSCO 19 years. During this time she primarily worked directly with academic libraries throughout New England. By talking with our clients and listening to their needs Amy has been able to identify how our software solutions can help. Amy currently handles several... Read More →
Charles V|R is a virtual reality reconstruction of the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Bologna, Italy, in February of 1530. The details of his coronation reflect the social and political turmoil of the times. Charles V|R is a recreation of the sights and sounds of this religious and political ceremony using contemporaneous accounts, artwork, and music as source material. Complete with direct access to the scholarly and archival sources that informed our choices, Charles V|R offers enthusiasts of art, architecture, history, music, religion, and virtual reality as well as students and scholars of those disciplines a multi-modal window into an event of world-historical importance.
Experience the event from multiple perspectives — that of member of the imperial/papal court, a basilica official, or a Bolognese citizen. Hear music performed during the ceremony. Call up scholarly annotations to explore the layers of meaning embedded in the art, architecture, and various ceremonial objects present. The event itself was very significant. This was the last time an emperor was crowned by a sitting pope in the manner of Charlemagne’s coronation by Leo III in the year 800 — a ritual that had been emulated for 730 years. Amid increasing power of the Ottoman Empire to the east, the subjugation of the New World to the west, and the rise of Protestantism within Europe itself, the political situation was delicate: Charles could not be crowned in Rome, because Protestant German mercenaries he employed had sacked the Eternal City three years earlier. This context informed the planning and execution of the ceremony, which had to conform to tradition but also reflect the political realities of the day. The result is a product that conveys for the user much more than reading a prose narrative could: a visual, aural, and spatial experience of the event itself.
Michael Young is an art librarian and art historian, who works and teaches at the University of Connecticut. As a librarian who is also a heavy user of the library's collections as a researcher and an instructor in Art History, he approaches image databases and other library resources... Read More →
In September 2017 the ReCAP Consortium, whose members are Columbia University Libraries, Princeton University Libraries and The New York Public Library, launched the Shared Collection, successfully transitioning from joint management of an offsite storage facility to joint stewardship of a shared collection. The Shared Collection allows for greater collaborative collecting and contributes new technology and policy models for the national network of shared print repositories. More immediately, it has also made millions of additional items available for next-day delivery to patrons of each partner institution -- more than seven million additional items each. These collections are also available for same-day electronic document delivery service to affiliated patrons at all institutions, including the 2 million cardholders of the New York Public Library.
Previous talks given on the project have focused on the policy, operational and access aspects of the partnership’s transition. This presentation will focus instead on the implications of the Shared Collection for the libraries’ researchers, introducing perspectives and practices around changing service models in the era of shared print. Because foreign language scholarly monographs and serials are typically low-use materials, they make up a substantial portion of the collective holdings at the ReCAP facility and are therefore a convenient case study. The analysis will focus on usage of the shared area studies holdings, drilling down into detailed usage data at each of the institutions and shedding light on researcher behavior in a seamless shared print environment.
In recent years, acquisitions and collection management at the University of South Florida (USF) Library was operating with uncertain budgets, downsizing staff, and suffered a loss of institutional knowledge and skillsets. The dynamic research and learning environment at USF was characterized by growing patron needs for diverse electronic resources. In response, library administrators implemented a strategy of organizing technical services staff into a community of practice with three key elements. The three elements included redefining job descriptions, creating new operational workflows and building new work areas. This poster illustrates how the collections department at USF was re-cast by modifying staff organization and associated work spaces into collaborative teams. The team approach has focused skills sets on multi-format collection problem solving and enhanced service delivery to library patrons. The re-organization has transformed a department previously centered on processing print publications to a department focused on managing diverse activities including evidence-based acquisitions programs in both e-book and streaming formats as well as diverse e-journal and database subscriptions. Poster session attendees will learn strategies on how to re-frame academic library technical service staff organizations and associated operations during times of change. The information also contributes to the body of research in library space planning by presenting operational aspects of academic libraries often only occasionally portrayed in the scholarly literature, yet integral to library wide collaborative efforts in offering services and facilitating collections.
John Abresch is an Acquisitions/Collections Librarian in the Academic Resources Department at University of South Florida Library. John’s professional responsibilities are with acquisitions functions as well as engaging in collection planning activities. His research interests... Read More →
Librarians are to be good stewards of the money they spend, and select relevant books - books that will get read. Using a technique called Use Factor analysis, librarians can determine, down to specific call numbers, what subjects in the collection are actually being checked out by students, and where checkout patterns indicate heavy use. By targeting these areas of high use for additional purchases, the available money can be spent on material that supports student interests and research. At the same time we avoid buying in areas which see little or no circulation. This presentation will explain what the Use Factor is, how to calculate it, and how to interpret the data provided by the analysis & make useful recommendations.
Collection Management Librarian, Liberty University
We get a ridiculous amount of donations. I get to sort them all out. I am an Orthodox Christian Deacon.I'm branching out into freelance book indexing.I'm a short story writer and roleplaying adventure writer.
The benefits of e-books in academic libraries, most notably unnecessary physical storage and greenhouse gas reductions, cannot be overlooked. What’s more, e-book functionality provides users with 24-hour remote access, the ability to annotate and search full text, as well as some accessibility tools unavailable through print. Though e-books have many benefits to libraries, there is still some resistance to them. Attitudinal barriers are not the only issue associated with e-book usage in academic libraries. The literature reveals that many users are unaware that their libraries provide e-books or do not know how to find them. The literature also states that users may have misconceptions about e-books and/or may not understand how to exploit them effectively. It is not enough to acquire e-books if users cannot find them or are resistant to using them. Suggestions that users may benefit from more detailed instruction that will enable them to effectively find e-books, understand their access options, and exploit the platform functionality are frequently encountered in the LIS literature. This poster presentation will provide a summary of the most recent literature on e-book attitudes, and usage to illustrate the current perceptions and status of the format among academic library users. By starting with the literature, I will be better positioned to explain why I believe e-book literacy is an effective tool in combating possible resistance and lack of knowledge and ability in using e-books. It is also my intention to share our experiences providing e-book training to campus members. I will provide examples of the methods of instruction we have made available at our institution, including face-to face class visits; a face-to-face faculty workshop; vendor specific e-book libguides; and institutionally customized video tutorials.
Are you in the process of or planning to move to a new Integrated Library System (ILS)? Did you know your vendors work with customers daily providing support and transition services? Do you know how to efficiently and effectively handle the transition? Are you asking the right questions? Learn from your peers how they effectively worked with their Vendor to develop a “roadmap” and prepare for a smooth transition. Discover why and how your serial and book vendors should participate in the planning process and provide support when switching from one ILS to another. Learn what information your vendors need to know in order to support a successful migration.
Jonathan Blackburn came to OCLC 8 years ago from Florida State University, where he graduated with his MLIS and also worked as the Web Services Librarian for several years. He began his tenure at OCLC before WorldShare had even launched and has managed the Acquisitions component... Read More →
Forever on a mission to improve customer workflows using data standards and new ideas to solve old and new challenges. Library Automation Manager at EBSCO since 2014. I have served in a library technical services role since 1994, first with Blackwell North America, Blackwell... Read More →
Two academic Research Managers will discuss innovative outreach strategies that they coordinate in their respective libraries to support faculty/student success.
At UCF, Subject Librarians reach out to their faculty to help them design “Research Intensive” courses and identify “Textbook Alternatives.” They also identify customized resources to support interdisciplinary Faculty Cluster initiatives and grant-seeking research faculty. Subject Librarians also send their faculty discipline-specific e-newsletters and congratulatory emails for various successes.
Some UCF Subject Librarians have been given “engagement assignments” whereby they coordinate outreach to targeted student constituencies such as First-Time-In-College Students, Transfer Students, Honors in the Major Students, Undergraduate Research Students, International Students, and Graduate Students.
Other UCF student outreach strategies include planning engaging library programs (celebrating Total Eclipse-of-the-Sun and Mars-viewing, Day of the Dead, Earth Day) and ensuring high attendance by inviting faculty to bring entire classes.
FGCU Library’s Student Engagement Committee sponsors board game nights, an escape room, and National Novel Writing Month activities. “Library Ambassadors” (graduate and upper division students) connect with their peers by participating in instruction sessions, Mobile Librarian, and Reference Desk services.
FGCU Subject Librarians reach out to faculty by adding a Research Guide for every course in their Canvas LMS, sending e-newsletters, honoring Faculty Authors, and purchasing textbooks for courses with the largest DFW rates and largest student enrollment.
Program attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and share ideas from their own institutional perspectives. After participating in this program, attendees will be able to develop winning outreach strategies to support faculty and student success in their own institutions.
Head of Research & Information Services, University of Central Florida Libraries
Barbara is Head of Research and Information Services for the University of Central Florida Libraries (2013 to the present). She formerly served as the Head of Research and Information Services for the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (2011-2012).
Barbara was an Invited... Read More →
Subject liaisons have traditionally focused on providing services and collections. Recently, however, their roles have shifted from a support model to actively engaging and collaborating with scholars throughout the academic life-cycle and research enterprise. At the same time, users increasingly require functional information support (e.g., for GIS, data visualization, or data mining) in place of or in addition to domain-specific services. As the liaison role continues to evolve, finding the right balance between the roles of generalist, subject specialist, and functional expert will provide both challenges and opportunities.
This poster session will focus on a case study of two librarians who started out in the Collections & Research Strategy department and ended up in a new department, Research Engagement. One librarian transitioned from being a Libraries Fellow into a new role as Research Librarian for Engineering & Entrepreneurship and the other librarian transitioned from being the Associate Head of the Collections & Research Strategy department into being the head of the new department. The librarians will share their perspectives and experiences around helping to shape and form this new department including: building an identity, developing goals and priorities, and figuring out the role of the new department in the organization. The librarians will also share what traditional skills were still needed in their new roles and what strategies were employed for identifying and building new skills.
Faculty buy-in of an institutional repository can be an uphill battle. Even as IRs become more common and more popular, some faculty may still not understand what it is or how it can benefit them. Other faculty may understand the concept of an IR but might be frustrated by the thought of it being just another administrative task added to their ever-increasing to-do list. The need to educate faculty on why the repository is important and how it can support their pursuit of tenure and promotion goals remains a challenge for most IR administrators. Do you start with the faculty or the administration? Do you try to talk to faculty one-on-one or do you go to department meetings? Can you hold open sessions in the library or other central locations on campus? This poster will address these questions and will provide a framework that you can take back to your campus and use to build rapport with faculty.
Copyright is usually justified with arguments about defending the natural right of authors to control their creations, or claims that limited monopolies spur innovation for the greater good of society. This presentation contrarily asserts that the primary intent of copyright has always been to protect the profits of powerful industries in advanced countries and ensure control over emerging markets that rely on the importation of intellectual property.
As global trade expanded before the 1886 ratification of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, a patchwork of domestic copyright laws and bilateral treaties failed to stem rampant infringement that hurt publishers' export revenues. Re-printers and readers, however, benefited from lower costs resulting from the absence of financial obligations to foreign rights holders. The United States, in its early years, explicitly limited copyright protection to US citizens. As a result, its publishing industry grew exponentially in the 19th century, largely through cheap reprints of European works. Not until it had itself become a literary power did it finally join the international copyright regime in order to benefit from its protections. In the 20th century, countries such as South Korea, India, and Brazil successfully emulated America's earlier approach to development, but the intensification of restrictions in recent IP treaties such as the TRIPS Agreement and WIPO Internet Treaties now limits this strategy through threats of economic retaliation from dominant powers.
This presentation takes a whirlwind tour through three centuries of international copyright history, challenging dominant narratives about its purpose, beneficiaries and impact on the global public good. In an age where laws have become ever more skewed in favor of owners and against users, alternatives such as Open Access are offered that, in the long term, will facilitate a more equitable distribution of resources in the Knowledge Society.
Collections Librarian (Sciences), University of Guelph
Collections librarian for the sciences (agriculture, veterinary medicine, engineering, life & physical sciences). Pragmatic interests include the use of various metrics in making evidence-based collection decisions, as well as improving effectiveness of the interrelated workflows... Read More →
The case for open data to support good research practice is increasingly inarguable. Open access to research data can help speed the pace of discovery and deliver more value by enabling reuse and reducing duplication. Good data practice also makes research more efficient, effective and fulfilling for researchers. A survey conducted in 2017 by Springer Nature with more than 7000 researchers found that, despite the known benefits, there is still a significant proportion of data that is not being shared. The survey explored some of the main challenges for researchers in data sharing, including how data is organised; knowledge of copyright and licensing; knowledge about repositories; time; and costs. This poster will summarize the findings of this survey, and our considered views on increasing data sharing amongst researchers.
Marketing Director, Outreach and Open Research, Springer Nature
Mithu Lucraft has worked in academic publishing since 2004. A passion for storytelling combined with a lasting commitment to scholarly communications has led her through a variety of Marketing and Communications roles, including at Oxford University Press, Sage Publishing and Palgrave... Read More →
In 2013, the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Library System hired its first Collection Development Librarian. Since then, the Library System has experienced remarkable changes and growth in many areas, including institutional consolidation, facility renovations, new staffing, and organizational restructuring. Of note is the establishment and extraordinary growth of the Collection Development Unit since 2015. With a good dose of creativity, these winds of change enabled us to grow a seed of potential into a flourishing team. By pulling together talent from other library units and creating positions from the ground up, we were able to blossom into something new.
Within three years of focused and dedicated effort by this highly motivated team, we developed and implemented a broad spectrum of innovative programs and services, including a robust training calendar, comprehensive collection maintenance and assessment plans, a very active undergraduate faculty liaison group, and effective outreach and marketing initiatives with other library units and with the KSU community at large.
Great success never comes easy, and disruptive change is not unfamiliar to libraries. How did we make our case to Library Administration to gain their support, especially when funding and other resources were scarce? What positions were needed the most and what are strategic ways to recruit new team members? How were we going to prioritize the daunting tasks awaiting us? To tackle these inevitable challenges, we employed many innovative strategies and accrued valuable experiences along the way. In this presentation, we will share our best practices in team-building, the unorthodox solutions we came up with, as well as the lessons we learned in the process. We hope that our story will inspire and help you to build an outstanding team that is able to thrive on the winds of change.
Director of Collection Development, Kennesaw State University Library System
Ana Guimaraes is the Director of Collection Development for the Kennesaw State University Library System. She has a Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/English from the State University of New York... Read More →
Showcasing a specialized, unique collection in a large, multifaceted library can present a number of challenges for the library staff. The necessities of discoverability, access, promotion, and curatorship require a strategic plan that will support and enhance the smaller collection, yet preserve its distinctive character. Librarians at a large state university in Maryland have met this particular challenge with practicality and creativity. This presentation's goal is to demonstrate how a library can apply this approach to highlight any collection embedded within a larger one.
When Towson University incorporated the programs and faculty of the small, private Baltimore Hebrew University, it also absorbed its library of more than 70,000 volumes into its own. The collection included monographs, periodicals, audio-visual materials, electronic resources, and a rare items collection, comprised of books, manuscripts, and artifacts. Absorbing an entire specialized library collection into a larger diverse one created an opportunity to develop a plan to curate and accentuate it.
The library staff approached this daunting task enthusiastically, employing several methods to manage, improve, and feature this collection. Mindful of both current and potential end users, the staff has taken great care to emphasize discovery and accessibility. The collection provides curriculum support for students and offers extensive research opportunities for faculty and members of the academic community at large. Collaboration with other entities, digital scholarship, and library outreach are important realities for this collection, and each of these has expanded its reach.
This presentation will demonstrate that by focusing on its distinctive content and potential value as a research goldmine, a library can increase a collection’s worth to a wide range of users. It will also provide other library professionals in both academic and public arenas with practical suggestions they can apply to other unique collections found within their own libraries.
How do you manage your electronic resources? It's a question libraries have been struggling with for more than a decade, and if you ask a dozen e-resources librarians this question, you'll likely get a dozen different answers. The presenters recently participated in a statewide ERM Working Group, tasked with developing an electronic resource management system as part of the Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative's implementation of the Sierra ILS and Encore Duet discovery platform for the 40 Florida state colleges and universities. While the implementation project ultimately dissolved, the two years put into development were well served. As a group, we were able to design a tool around a diverse set of needs and priorities that could serve local and consortial acquisitions models. We were also able to identify a specific list of needs that lacked currently available solutions. This presentation provides an overview of the Working Group process, from brainstorming through (almost!) implementation, and presents how three university libraries are using the lessons learned from this experience to implement local solutions.
When taking over subject areas from one librarian to another, the new specialist, if they are lucky, may receive a folder and/or a thumb drive of some files. If they are very lucky, the interim or outgoing specialist may be available for consultation or leave some type of written narrative to help the new person in learning their duties. The information may be well organized (or not), but thumb drives of individual files and/or paper folders can be cumbersome and lacking in clarity. Organizing things through Microsoft OneNote may be the answer. OneNote lets you organize and share your notes and images as well as embed various Microsoft file formats like Word and Excel. With OneNote, transitions between liaisons can become more transparent because it lets a user demonstrate the thought processes behind decisions well as the final decision itself.
The license negotiation process can be daunting, especially for new career librarians. It requires knowledge of applicable laws in addition to established and upcoming professional standards. With the increased interest in Open Access, licensing librarians are being asked to acquire even more expertise. Just starting a negotiation process can be challenging for organizations with limited staff and funding. But, through knowledge sharing and understanding the vendor's point of view, libraries can create licenses which benefit their patrons and are able to get to "yes" as quickly as possible.
Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, Madison Area Technical College
Librarian currently at Madison Area Technical College working with Open Educational Resources, instruction, technology, and copyright issues. Advocating for textbook affordability, affordable education, and equitable access.EdD student at Johns Hopkins School of Education SPARC Open... Read More →
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This session will explain OhioLINK’s affordable learning initiative, information on applying for OER grants, recruiting and engaging a group of faculty and stakeholders, how it was received, tools used for support and lessons learned. OhioLINK partnered with Intellus Learning to help support faculty in discovery and delivery of OER and library content and in this session you will see Intellus Learning and how it can help other schools and/or systems with their A&OER efforts by really leveraging the resources your library already owns and helping to easily get those resources in the hands of all faculty to be able to adopt in their courses to reduce cost for students and increase usage of quality library content across faculty.
Intellus Learning works closely with librarians to help drive usage of valuable library resources that the institution has already paid for:
• Empowers librarians to respond to institutional or state initiatives to improve affordability of course resources • Combines library content with OER content to give faculty the largest index of resources to choose from. • Makes library content more easily discoverable and adoptable so faculty can easily search across repositories in correlation to their LO’s to find content to adopt in their course. • Saves faculty time in discovering high quality, relevant OER and academic library resources • Provides analytics of Library and OER usage to enable deeper insights into students’ engagement with assigned course content, including library resources. • Integrates library content with the LMS seamlessly for Single Sign On
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The field of scholarly communications encompasses a broad set of services and skills, including publishing, open access, copyright, and research impact. When building a new scholarly communications program, where should a library start? As more libraries step into the foray of scholarly communications services, assessing librarians’ levels of confidence providing these services is pivotal. This presentation will describe how the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Library System conducted an assessment of scholarly communication priorities and training needs of its Undergraduate Liaison and Graduate Librarians in order to guide the development of a scholarly communications program.
In the fall of 2017, the KSU Library System hired a new Scholarly Communications Librarian to build a scholarly communications program on campus. KSU is an R3 Doctoral Institution with an enrollment of approximately 36,000 students on two campuses in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The KSU Library offers two programs to support faculty instruction, collection development, and research – an Undergraduate Liaison program and a Graduate Library program. In order to better understand the current awareness of scholarly communication issues, the KSU Library conducted an assessment of its Undergraduate Liaison and Graduate Librarians.
Utilizing an electronic survey, the Scholarly Communications Librarian assessed KSU librarians’ perceptions of scholarly communications priorities for the campus, the types of scholarly communications services that they are already providing, and their own scholarly communications training needs. During this poster presentation, attendees will learn about the development of the survey method and the results of this assessment and be able to discuss with the author potential scholarly communications initiatives based upon the assessment results.
