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Demand Driven Acquisition (Dda). How Good Are Your Users?, Judi Guzzy Oct 2013

Demand Driven Acquisition (Dda). How Good Are Your Users?, Judi Guzzy

Library Papers and Presentations

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Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith Sep 2013

Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith

Kelly Smith

For libraries who embrace patron-driven acquisitions, the workflows of ILL, Acquisitions, and Collection Development are becoming more interdependent. Workflows that are traditionally siloed in different systems impede the efficient provision of library materials. The Getting It System Toolkit for ILLiad (http://www.gistlibrary.org/) provides an elegant solution to this problem.


Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith Sep 2013

Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

For libraries who embrace patron-driven acquisitions, the workflows of ILL, Acquisitions, and Collection Development are becoming more interdependent. Workflows that are traditionally siloed in different systems impede the efficient provision of library materials. The Getting It System Toolkit for ILLiad (http://www.gistlibrary.org/) provides an elegant solution to this problem.


Measuring Electronic Resource Availability, Sanjeet Mann Mar 2013

Measuring Electronic Resource Availability, Sanjeet Mann

Sanjeet Mann

This is the online, archived version of my presentation given at SCELC Research Day on March 5, 2013 at Loyola Marymount University. The data have been updated to correct errors in the initially reported availability rate. Students and faculty face numerous barriers to accessing their academic library's subscribed electronic resources, ranging from confusing interfaces to misconfigured knowledge bases and missing metadata. These issues consume staff time, waste hard-earned subscription dollars, and erode staff and user confidence in the reliability of library systems. Recently, researchers have begun to use availability studies - a systems research method long used to evaluate library …


The Price Is Wrong!, John Hubbard Jan 2013

The Price Is Wrong!, John Hubbard

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

This presentation, which compares the cost of journal subscriptions to items such as Corvettes and diamond rings, ran on a loop in the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee library in the days leading up to an Open Access Day event.