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Saying Sayonara To The Stl: Strategy, Scale And Systematic Abandonment In The Ebook Marketplace, Doug Way
Saying Sayonara To The Stl: Strategy, Scale And Systematic Abandonment In The Ebook Marketplace, Doug Way
Doug Way
In 2014 the University of Wisconsin-Madison initiated a review of its ebook collection development program. This project led to the development of a concise ebook strategy that was designed to guide decision-making and practices surrounding the acquisition of ebooks. It also led to the end of the Libraries’ short-term loan (STL)-based demand driven acquisitions (DDA) program. This ebook acquisition program, which had been in place for nearly four years, was heavily used, well managed, consistently on budget and, in many ways, working precisely as expected, yet the decision to eliminate this program was fairly straightforward. This session will explore the …
Collection Engagement With Create Lists And Excel: Tips For A Perfect Match, Richard Wisneski
Collection Engagement With Create Lists And Excel: Tips For A Perfect Match, Richard Wisneski
Richard Wisneski
Presentation creating queries, basic Excel setup and best practices, and functionality within Excel for collection development investigation
Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin
Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin
Steve Brantley
Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step …