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Dual-Campus Subject Librarians At University Of Central Florida, Barbara G. Tierney, Corinne Bishop
Dual-Campus Subject Librarians At University Of Central Florida, Barbara G. Tierney, Corinne Bishop
Charleston Library Conference
A new dual-campus subject librarian program is being rolled out at the University of Central Florida (UCF) whereby several subject librarians divide their time between two campuses, the legacy main campus in East Orlando and the new Downtown Orlando Campus. As of Fall 2019, four UCF subject librarians regularly travel to the new Downtown Campus to provide library support for academic programs, faculty, and students who recently relocated to the new facility. Dual-campus subject librarians are also maintaining support services for their assigned academic programs that remain at the UCF Main Campus. This article provides information and reflections about how …
Embrace The Hive Mind: Engaging Ill And Research Services In Unsubscribed And Oa Content Discovery, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Ruth L. Baker, Rebecca Hunnicutt, Natalie Logue, Jessica Rigg
Embrace The Hive Mind: Engaging Ill And Research Services In Unsubscribed And Oa Content Discovery, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Ruth L. Baker, Rebecca Hunnicutt, Natalie Logue, Jessica Rigg
Charleston Library Conference
Deciding whether to support discovery of unsubscribed and Open Access (OA) content raises questions for technical and public services librarians, from the philosophical to the pragmatic. Doing so requires careful curation and monitoring of resources, and benefits from library-wide input. This paper describes the process at Georgia Southern University for vetting unsubscribed and OA resources with ILL and liaison librarians for inclusion in the discovery layer and on the A-Z database list. For the discovery layer, this involves a three-step evaluation of collections for overall metadata quality, likelihood of ILL fulfillment, and value to the library collection. For the database …
Piloting The Surge: Streaming Video And Academic Libraries, Joanna Kolendo, Azungwe Kwembe, Charlene Snelling
Piloting The Surge: Streaming Video And Academic Libraries, Joanna Kolendo, Azungwe Kwembe, Charlene Snelling
Charleston Library Conference
Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Library decision to trial and acquire Kanopy, A Patro-Driven-Acquisition video streaming service, was completely a patron-demand-driven undertaking. The decision to obtain this service was led by faculty interest in the resource and ranged from the initial inquiry for a trial by a foreign language faculty member to its PDA model, which has allowed faculty to select the films purchased. The article discusses the acquisition process, set-up steps for making the trial and then the resource available to the CSU community, and the steps taken to promote the resource.
Is Small Beautiful? The Position Of Independent Scholarly Publishers In An Environment Of Rapid Industry Consolidation, Charlie Remy, Steve Cohn, Richard Gallagher, George Leaman
Is Small Beautiful? The Position Of Independent Scholarly Publishers In An Environment Of Rapid Industry Consolidation, Charlie Remy, Steve Cohn, Richard Gallagher, George Leaman
Charleston Library Conference
The publishing industry continues to consolidate, with large multinational publishers acquiring journals and other content from academic societies and independent publishers. This panel provided candid insights into the challenges facing smaller publishers, including how/why they continue to exist in a business environment increasingly dominated by large companies. The discussion examined the advantages that smaller, independent publishers enjoy and addressed their adaptation strategies, business planning (including open versus paid access models), strategic partnerships, technical infrastructure, production procedures, relationships with libraries, and the work needed to meet the evolving needs of library end users. The impact of industry consolidation on libraries, including …
Apples To Oranges: Comparing Streaming Video Platforms, Steven Milewski, Monique Threatt
Apples To Oranges: Comparing Streaming Video Platforms, Steven Milewski, Monique Threatt
Charleston Library Conference
Librarians rely on an ever-increasing variety of platforms to deliver streaming video content to our patrons. These two presentations will examine different aspects of video streaming platforms to gain guidance from the comparison of platforms. The first will examine the accessibility compliance of the various video streaming platforms for users with disabilities by examining accessibility features of the platforms. The second will be a comparison of subject usage of two of the larger video streaming platform providers (Alexander Street Press and Kanopy) done at Indiana University Bloomington, a large public university.
Teaching The Library To Students Of Higher Education, Steven Weiland
Teaching The Library To Students Of Higher Education, Steven Weiland
Charleston Library Conference
The academic library and its digital transformation are ignored in graduate programs of higher education administration, which train a significant number of postsecondary professionals. A course in scholarly communications in the digital age recently introduced at one such program includes an invitation to aspiring administrators to study the contributions of the library to the ways that faculty members are coming to understand and capitalize on new technologies in teaching, research, and career development. The library is represented in the course in its traditional and new roles. It is an essential campus location for attention to what technological change means for …
Balancing Bananas: Collection Assessment Of Patron‐Driven Acquisitions, Gabrielle Wiersma, Rhonda Glazier, Denise Pan, Stephanie Spratt
Balancing Bananas: Collection Assessment Of Patron‐Driven Acquisitions, Gabrielle Wiersma, Rhonda Glazier, Denise Pan, Stephanie Spratt
Charleston Library Conference
The libraries in the University of Colorado (CU) System have been using patron‐driven acquisitions (PDA) to build a shared collection of e‐books for many years. This paper presents our experiences as both early adopters of PDA and libraries with longstanding PDA e‐book programs and describes an analysis of how PDA has impacted collections at each of the libraries in the CU System.
Freely Flowing: Openly Accessible Sources For Streaming Video, Deg Farrelly
Freely Flowing: Openly Accessible Sources For Streaming Video, Deg Farrelly
Charleston Library Conference
There is considerable disagreement within the academic and library spheres as to what can be done to make streaming content available. The process of providing streaming content is expensive, labor intensive, and time consuming. This process, however, doesn’t always require prolonged licensing negotiations, expenditure of precious materials budgets, or large investment of personnel time and effort to digitize, upload, and maintain content. There are many websites that provide quality videos that libraries and media centers can both access and provide access to with minimal effort. This paper offers a list of these legal, openly accessible resources, along with a brief …
Using Dash! For Digital Repositories: A Case Study Of The East Texas Baptist University Library, Cynthia L. Peterson
Using Dash! For Digital Repositories: A Case Study Of The East Texas Baptist University Library, Cynthia L. Peterson
Charleston Library Conference
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Weeding With Robots: Managing Collections In Automated Retrieval Systems, Patricia Bravender, Robert Kelly, Linda Masselink, Hazel Mcclure
Weeding With Robots: Managing Collections In Automated Retrieval Systems, Patricia Bravender, Robert Kelly, Linda Masselink, Hazel Mcclure
Charleston Library Conference
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