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A Foray Into Library Digital Publishing: The British Virginia Project At Virginia Commonwealth University, Kevin Farley

Charleston Library Conference

The British Virginia project involves a collaboration between Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries and faculty members in the departments of English and History at VCU, with the project led by Dr. Joshua Eckhardt (English). As of April 25, 2013, the project has published its first title: an online edition of a sermon preached to the Virginia Company by William Symonds. To ensure the success of this project, a number of details required careful planning, including library outreach, IT involvement, and digital publishing protocols. Our example has deepened a move toward a dynamic and creative digital environment for researchers across campus. …

Modeling A Shared National Cross Digital Repository, Jean-Gabriel Bankier

Charleston Library Conference

The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) delivered an open access directive in early 2013 mandating that federally funded research articles and associated data must be made accessible online to the public, free of charge. In response to this mandate, university and library organizations proposed the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE). With experience in the design and creation of large-scale federated repositories, bepress, best known for our hosted institutional repository platform Digital Commons, can offer unique insight into what makes a federated repository successful. This paper will outline the attributes of a successful shared national cross digital …

Subject Librarian Initiative At The University Of Central Florida Libraries: Collaboration Amongst Research And Information Services, Acquisitions And Collection Services, And The Office Of Scholarly Communication, Michael Arthur, Barbara G. Tierney

Charleston Library Conference

At the University of Central Florida Libraries, the Research and Information Services Department, the Acquisitions and Collection Services Department, and the Office of Scholarly Communication are collaborating to create and support a new Subject Librarian Service Model that focuses on proactive outreach to faculty and students. Since January 2013, these three units have worked closely together to emphasize the importance of Subject Librarians becoming more fully integrated into the university infrastructure through increased subject liaison roles. This collaboration has involved realigning, refining, and emphasizing the importance of the Subject Librarians’ academic department and program assignments and training the librarians to …

Support When It Counts: Library Roles In Public Access To Federally Funded Research, Kristine M. Alpi, William M. Cross, Hilary M. Davis

Charleston Library Conference

In November 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it would begin enforcing its April 2008 mandate of public access to NIH-funded research by delaying processing of investigators’ grants reporting noncompliant publications. In response, the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries offered to assist the University’s sponsored research administration in supporting NCSU researchers who had publications stemming from NIH funding and had not achieved compliance. Since the 2008 NIH mandate, over 1,000 articles based on NIH-funding have been published by NCSU across research areas including veterinary medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, textiles, design, math, and statistics. …

3-D Printing, Copyright, And Fair Use: What Should We Know?, Posie Aagaard, Michael A. Kolitsky Phd

Charleston Library Conference

If the library is more than its collection, then use of 3-D printing to create knowledge is a good fit—but 3-D printing in library makerspaces can also provide greater access to collections by transforming 2-D images into 3-D tactile informational objects for use by blind or visually impaired patrons.

Will new negotiations between libraries and publishers of journals, images, maps, and other visual resources now include access to files for 3-D printing tactile objects for on-demand creation of 3-D prints for tactile use? Is a 3-D print of a 2-D photo or digital image a derivative work? Will the treaty …

Beyond Demand Driven: Incorporating Multiple Tools In A Consortial Collection Strategy, Karen H. Wilhoit

Charleston Library Conference

OhioLINK has a long history of sharing print resources among its members. When e-books began to enter the market, OhioLINK was an early adopter of the new format. However, as e-books grew in importance and OhioLINK institutions began buying them individually in large numbers, we realized that our existing methods of acquiring e-books for the consortium were not completely meeting our needs. In April 2013, OhioLINK began a pilot project with Yankee Book Peddler (YBP), ebrary, Ashgate, Rowman and Littlefield, and Cambridge University Press to purchase e-books for our members. The pilot combines automatic purchase of titles that fit two …

Redesigning Workflows And Implementing Demand-Driven Acquisition At Virginia Tech: One Year Later, Connie Stovall, Edward Lener, Tracy Gilmore

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Library budgets are often stagnating, staff time is being redirected towards other needs, and demand for online resources is seemingly insatiable. These realities were part of the impetus behind Virginia Tech Libraries’ decision to begin a one-year demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) pilot program.

This paper provides an overview of the DDA implementation challenges at Virginia Tech’s University Libraries and will detail the collection opportunities and financial benefits gained. Our goal is to provide participants with information to assist with their implementation of DDA. In summer 2012, Virginia Tech implemented a multivendor DDA option with YBP Library Service. The implementation and integration …

Collective Collection Building And Dda, Kerry Scott, Jim Dooley, Martha Hruska

Charleston Library Conference

Many librarians have advocated for the use of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) as an important money-saving approach in a time of reduced resources that target acquisitions we know will be used. In addition to saving money, the introduction of e-DDA presents an opportunity for a consortium to achieve three collection development objectives: continue to make the core publisher output available—and even more quickly and easily available; free up more of the collections budget to purchase unique content for the system across the campuses, not just at the larger schools; and allow campuses to review user activity to make systemwide, long-term decisions …

Are Midsize Academic Libraries On The Right E-Book Train?, Allan Scherlen, John P. Abbott

Charleston Library Conference

Librarians and their vendors were invited to a lively lunch discussion of the fate of books in midsize academic libraries. Do the monograph acquisition models advocated by many R-1 librarians at recent Charleston Conferences fit the needs of midsize academic libraries? These radical new models appear to assume almost full migration to e-books and include such strategies as wholesale movement to e-book-only approval; large leased e-book packages; and expansive DDA offerings of e-books in the catalog. Should midsize academic libraries, which are more often faced with unpredictable budget cycles, limited resources, and a different set of priorities, follow the R-1’s …

A Demand-Driven-Preferred Approval Plan, Ann Roll

Charleston Library Conference

California State University, Fullerton’s Pollak Library is working toward the goal of providing as much content in electronic format as possible. To address this need along with a shrinking budget for monographs, the Library recently moved to not only an e-preferred approval plan, but actually a demand-driven-preferred approval plan. Pollak Library had a successful demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) plan in place for some time, in which slipped approval plan titles were automatically added to the Library catalog and made available for short-term loan via DDA. With some slight workflow adjustments, approval plan titles that were sent automatically as books, rather than …

“To Mediate, Or Not Mediate, That Is The Question”: Setting Up Get It Now At Furman University Libraries, Janet Nazar, Tim Bowen

Charleston Library Conference

In late spring 2013, Furman Library set up unmediated Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) access to our pay-per-view journals through Get It Now. Working with the CCC, and EBSCO, Furman set up a custom link to allow students unmediated access to titles previously available only through interlibrary loan or via mediated pay-per-view access. On Tuesday May 21, 2013, we began offering unmediated access to journal articles. Since that time, Furman students, faculty, and staff have directly ordered numerous articles through Get It Now.

Too Much Data? Never Enough! Cost-Efficient Collections Acquisitions Decision Making Through Data Analysis, Jaimie Miller, Kat Mcgrath, Eva Gavaris

Charleston Library Conference

Libraries are increasingly called upon to efficiently use collection dollars in creative ways. Content needs are ever increasing, and, with the growing range of format and delivery options, finding means to identify resources that provide unique, or added, value is essential.

Libraries regularly receive offers of sale pricing, or reduced pricing, for the subscription or purchase of multititle collections. Most often, these packages are for online content that the library may, or may not, have already acquired in one of the multiple formats available.

In an environment of multiple formats, ISBNs and/or ISSNs per title, variable titles, and alternate imprint …

Adding Pda For Print? Consider Your Options For Implementation, Teresa Koch, Andrew Welch, Lisa Mcdonald

Charleston Library Conference

Drake University decided to expand our electronic patron-driven acquisition (PDA) program to include print. The reasons were low usage of approval books, librarian uncertainty about which slips to purchase, a desire to make more efficient usage of acquisition funds, and our desire to determine if PDA was a workable acquisitions model for print materials.

This paper will discuss the factors the Library considered in selecting a vendor, including the ability to integrate the two formats without duplication, technical considerations, and real-time stock availability to enable rush delivery.

Additionally, the paper will discuss librarian and teaching faculty roles in developing PDA …

Rebuilding The Plane While Flying: Library/Vendor Strategies For Approval Plan Revision (In A Dda World), Charles Hillen, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Joan Thompson

Charleston Library Conference

Library approval plans remain a major means of both codifying a library’s collection development program and providing an operational and procedural tool for acquisitions of library materials. This paper summarizes the arduous but ultimately worthwhile and satisfying project that Loyola Marymount University and YBP Library Services undertook in a yearlong approval profile review project. It describes how the library and the approval plan vendor strategized and collaborated to involve over 20 subject liaisons with varying levels of collection development experience and the support infrastructure needed to get liaisons up to speed on their roles in the project. It also explains …

Creating A Richer Patron-Driven Acquisitions Experience For Your Users: How The University Of Arizona Forced Three Pda Programs To Play Nicely Together, Teresa C. Hazen

Charleston Library Conference

Patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) has been an integral part of developing the collection at the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL). The Libraries currently has three PDA programs using two different vendors. The print PDA program from Ingram’s Coutts is the most complicated, involving several steps, including working with patron data to make sure the customer who placed the order is informed when the book is ready for checkout. The electronic PDA program from Ingram’s Coutts includes two files based on two different profiles. One is the standard UAL profile, but the other is a consortium profile that picks up local, fictional, …

“Access Versus Ownership” Revisited: The Quinnipiac University Libraries Short-Term Loan Project, Charles Getchell, David Swords, June Degennaro

Charleston Library Conference

Challenged by a historically small monographs collection, a considerable growth in the number of students and academic programs, and faced with space limitations in the stacks, Quinnipiac University librarians began their large-scale investment in e-books in January 2011. Initially, we subscribed to ebrary’s Academic Complete collection. That same year, we began a conversation with EBL and its then Vice President of Sales, Dr. David Swords. It was our desire to compare a subscription approach with a patron-driven acquisitions strategy as we further examined the place of e-books in our libraries. Initially, in 2012, we offered EBL titles published from 2010–2012. …

Is Ill Enough? Examining Ill Demand After Journal Cancellations At Three North Carolina Universities, Kristin Calvert, William Gee, Janet Malliett, Rachel Fleming

Charleston Library Conference

Interlibrary loan has traditionally been offered as a substitute method of access for low-use titles during cancellation projects. There has been little current research about the impact that cancellation actually has on interlibrary loan demand. Universities in North Carolina experienced severe budget reductions in 2011–2012, resulting in dramatic serials cancellations. This paper examines interlibrary loan demand for journal titles cancelled during budget reductions at three North Carolina schools since time of cancellation. We will also address factors that mitigate interlibrary loan demand, including the diverse structure of cancellation projects at the different institutions. The panel will discuss implications of these …

Four Years Of Unmediated Demand-Driven Acquisition And 5,000 E-Books Later: We Gave ‘Em What They Wanted, Karen S. Fischer, Chris Diaz

Charleston Library Conference

As one of ebrary’s largest academic library DDA customers, the program at the University of Iowa Libraries has been highly successful, though not without challenges. This presentation will present detailed findings from analyzing Iowa’s demand-driven acquisition e-book usage data from over 5,000 titles purchased over 4 years, including examining subject areas, prices, publishers, and other relevant metrics. This presentation will serve as update to a popular session at Charleston in 2010 (Give ‘Em What They Want: Patron-Driven Collection Development), where the University of Iowa Libraries presented data from a 1-year pilot program. Now, with 4 years of experience under our …

Individual Article Purchase: Catching The Wave Of The Future, Or Getting Pounded On The Reef, Douglas K. Bates

Charleston Library Conference

For many libraries, particularly small to midsize academic libraries, journals have placed significant strains on the acquisitions budget. For fiscal year 2012–2013 the Volpe Library at Tennessee Tech University faced a significant materials budget shortfall. Rather than simply cutting titles to cover the shortfall or asking the administration for more money, we concluded that the existing system of acquiring and delivering information packaged in journals was not sustainable for us. Therefore, we embarked on a yearlong process to develop a different way of providing article information that would more efficiently use the budget that we have. The process we have …

Rompiendo Barreras: Reorganizing Technical And Digital Services In A Small Academic Library, Jonathan H. Harwell, Sharon P. Williams

Charleston Library Conference

The Olin Library at Rollins College is a 2013 winner of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. In May 2012, the Library’s new Collections and Systems (C&S) Department began reorganizing from being two separate units—rethinking roles, workflows, and procedures. A small department with a wide range of responsibilities, C&S has four staff and three librarian positions, doing everything from acquisitions to systems to interlibrary loan. We will talk about how the department has focused on mutual respect as the basis for full collaboration in merging two departments, flattening the reporting structure, completely redefining some positions, streamlining workflows, literally breaking …

Rebranding The Library: Generating Visibility In The Virtual Age, Jeremy Frumkin, Rachel Kessler

Charleston Library Conference

Academic libraries (and libraries in general) need to relate and reflect the value they provide back to their users and their overarching institutions. When libraries provision access to digital information resources, there is very little visibility to the user of the library’s role in providing access to that resource, especially if the user initially discovers the resource via Google Scholar, Bing Academic, or other discovery tools that are not provided by the library itself. We propose a new approach to help libraries increase their visibility when they broker access to resources—a library branding service. This service brands information resources that …

Questions About Academic Librarians: Factors Influencing Our Academic Identity, Shin Freedman

Charleston Library Conference

This paper presents the results of a comparative survey inquiry into professional identity, views on faculty and tenure status, career advancement opportunities, and personnel status of 196 academic librarians and library administrators in the New England area. This research reveals that 45%of the respondents have some kind of faculty status which is comprised of faculty and tenure status (24%); tenure status (11%) and faculty status only (9%.) Sixty-five percent do not have tenure status and 55% have professional status. Attitudes toward research and scholarship were divided into “encouraged” and “not encouraged at all” across all academic statuses of institutional variances. …

Working Better Together: Library, Publisher, And Vendor Perspectives, Maria Collins, Mary Somerville, Nicole Pelsinsky, Aaron Wood

Charleston Library Conference

Amidst more and more publisher content, research tools, and library systems, interoperability—how things work together (for instance, a link resolver and a discovery service, or a data service and a discovery service)—has tremendous implications for workflows for librarians and, ultimately, researchers. With a focus on discoverability, representatives from the library, vendor, and publisher sectors describe their perspectives on cross-sector collaborations and opportunities with a common aim of proactively continuing to refine/improve the researcher experience. Moderated by Mary Somerville from the University of Colorado, Denver, this presentation highlighted perspectives from all three sectors including Maria Collins from North Carolina State University …

A Guided Tour Of Issues And Trends: The Thirteenth Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch, Wendy Bahnsen, Deborah D. Blecic, Robin Champieux, Elizabeth Ketterman, Ramune K. Kubilius, Marysue Schaffer, Anneliese Taylor, Andrea Twiss-Brooks

Charleston Library Conference

In this year's sponsored but no holds barred lunch, the conference theme, "Too much is not enough", resonates. Lunch host, Wendy Bahnsen from Rittenhouse offers a brief greeting, and Ramune Kubilius provides the traditional “year in review” synopsis. Moderator Andrea Twiss-Brooks sets the scene and provides a brief introduction to issues of current interest in the health sciences information arena. Topics of this session include: methods of measurement of health sciences journal use (Deborah Blecic); shared collection development and policies (Elizabeth Ketterman); scholarly communication activities in health sciences libraries (Robin Champieux); current challenges, trials, pitfalls and successes of e-books in …

Discovery Of E-Resources And Media: What Will It Take?, Carlen Ruschoff

Charleston Library Conference

Data indicating that half of print book collections were never checked out is increasing interest in PDA/DDA programs to ensure that a book selected at point of discovery will have at least one user. Discovery of print books is supported by browsing the stacks, yet today print and e-books lack the rich descriptive data and indexing that has facilitated use of online journals. In streaming video, demand for PDA/DDA is also on the rise, yet discovery mechanisms face similar challenges. What is necessary for books and media to enjoy a comparable level of use by reaching their core community and …

Meeting User Needs And Expectations: A Library’S Quest For Discovery, Elyse L. Profera, Jackie Shieh

Charleston Library Conference

Taylor and Francis recently released its white paper entitled Facilitating Access to Free Online Resources: Challenges and Opportunities for the Library Community. Primary research within the white paper revealed that 71%of librarians surveyed struggle with the unknown permanence of free content. What is on the horizon with librarians as they try to update their discoverability services to support users on their journey to obtain free content?

Taylor and Francis Group’s study determined that librarians are planning to improve their search user interfaces for their library web sites, librarians plan to improve their cataloging systems, and librarians plan to conduct user …

Nuanced And Timely: Capturing Collections Feedback At Point Of Use, Jane M. Nichols, Richard A. Stoddart, Terry Reese

Charleston Library Conference

While libraries are using increasingly sophisticated metrics to determine electronic resource’s usefulness, impact, and cost effectiveness, much of these data reflect past usage. More nuanced information is still needed to guide collection managers’ decisions about which content to purchase, borrow, or deselect. To fill this gap, librarians at Oregon State University Libraries and Press and The Ohio State University Libraries are testing the utility of a pop-up survey to gather patron feedback at their point of use. By building an open-source application that inserts a survey between a citation and the full text, librarians are better positioned to capture users’ …

Beyond Counter: Using Ip Data To Evaluate Our Users, Timothy R. Morton

Charleston Library Conference

Traditional library statistics, whether counting our collections, our users, or our services, are typically concerned with answering questions such as “What?” or “How much?” or “When?” COUNTER-compliant statistics, the very welcome and useful standard for electronic resource providers, have allowed libraries to bring that same paradigm to bear on their digital collections, answering such questions as “What journals and e-books are our users downloading?” “How often are they searching this database?”, and even “When do they access this content?” However, what COUNTER and other traditional methods often fail to do is provide data that would allow libraries to answer questions …

Engaging Students Through Social Media, Beth L. Mcgough, Danielle Salomon

Charleston Library Conference

Students use social media to seek out, collaborate, and obtain information from their classmates and academic peers. Even if students are not currently interacting with the library using social media, they are open to doing so. Social media sites also have uses for organizing research and sharing it with others. Enabling and fostering that use is an ideal role for libraries. However, social media is not considered an appropriate information source for research.

In this day and age of oversaturation of marketing messages on social networking sites, it could be worthwhile for a library to explore smaller social networks.

E-Browsing: Serendipity And Questions Of Access And Discovery, Kate M. Joranson, Steve I. Vantuyl, Nina Clements

Charleston Library Conference

Browsing is an essential component to discovery. Understanding the foundations of browsing patterns and preferences is crucial in developing effective e-browsing environments. It is important to understand how researchers in diverse disciplines have described their discoveries in terms of browsing, searching, and serendipitous encounters. Examining the works of scientists, social scientists, and humanists through the lens of discovery will reveal essential components to be aware of in developing e-browsing environments. In turning to a wide range of sources, often outside traditional library literature, we deepen our understanding of what it means to browse in an electronic environment. As librarians, we …