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Introduction, Leah Hinds, Beth Bernhardt

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Preface And Acknowledgments, Katina Strauch, Bruce Strauch

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Table Of Contents, Beth R. Bernhardt, Leah H. Hinds, Katina P. Strauch

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Using Augmented Reality As A Discovery Tool, Jolanda-Pieta Van Arnhem, Jerry M. Spiller

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Layar is an augmented reality (AR) platform that enables creators to tie online resources to physical objects or locations via mobile technologies. The authors detail their exploration of Layar’s geolocation and interactive print abilities to aid the discovery of various resources in and around the College of Charleston campus pertaining to revered local artists William Halsey and Corrie McCallum. They explore opportunities for the added value of contextually situated information linking to vetted library and museum holdings. They detail some of the technical and technological requirements involved with coding and multimedia creation for AR, including the successes and pitfalls revealed …

Excelling With Excel: Advanced Excel Functions For Collection Analysis, Denise Pan, Gabrielle Wiersma

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Microsoft Excel offers useful features and formulas that potentially allow acquisitions and collection development librarians to work smarter, not harder. Using journal cancellations as a workplace scenario, the presenters will provide attendees with ideas on how to organize data and complete basic calculations with Excel. The presenters provide examples on how to use several advanced Excel functions including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and select formulas. They describe the steps for importing and exporting data, combing and comparing data from different sources, and formatting data to communicate more effectively.

Contemplating E-Scores: Open Ruminations On The E-Score, The Patron, The Library, And The Publisher, Lisa Hooper

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For several years now, libraries, publishers, and vendors have worked out a means of creating, licensing, and delivering e-books in academic settings. While the art of the academic e-book is perhaps not quite yet perfected, conservatively speaking, today’s students and faculty will find and use at least one e-book in the course of their academic career and be more or less satisfied with the experience. E-scores, however, are only now coming to occupy the attention of librarians and not a moment too soon as commercial e-score vendors with subpar quality content manage to meet the functionality needs of most users. …

An Alternative Mechanism For The Delivery Of Scholarly Journal Articles: Readcube Access At The University Of Utah, Phill Jones, Mark M. England

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Traditional collection management of serials through site licenses and subscriptions is increasingly unsustainable due to rising costs and steady or falling library budgets. The ensuing gaps in access have led to widespread illicit file sharing, resulting in the disintermediation of libraries and the devaluing of publishers. It has therefore become essential to explore alternatives for the delivery of journal literature. We report on the exploration of a new mechanism for the provision of scholarly articles using patron-driven acquisition (PDA). During the 2012–2013 academic year, the University of Utah Marriott Library, ReadCube, and Nature Publishing Group collaborated on the development and …

Publishers And Libraries: Sharing Metadata Between Communities, Michelle Durocher

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A project team dubbed the Author Names Project has been working on an ambitious effort that aims to have a major impact on how libraries and publishers exchange data in support of discovery of new authors and their scholarly and creative content. The project team has been developing a proof-of-concept system to enable publishers to exchange Author Names/Identity metadata with libraries. This web application, which we are calling OAQ (Online Author Questionnaire), is open source and will utilize APIs wherever feasible to seek interoperability between identity registries, controlled vocabularies, and library databases (e.g., ORCID, ISNI, GeoNet Names, VIAF) as a …

Awash In E-Journal Data: What It Is, Where It Is, And What Can Be Done With It (Is It “Too Much” Or “Not Enough?”), David P. Brennan, Nancy J. Butkovich

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Libraries have been collecting e-journal data for some time. With the variety of data sources available, it is often difficult to determine their utility. This session explores the Penn State experience with navigating a number of data sources and their limitations and usefulness to advance library management objectives, as well as other institutional objectives. We will look at the COUNTER-compliant JR1 and JR1a data sets and standards (how they are derived and what issues there are with the data), as well as publishing and citation data (e.g., Web of Science) that shows faculty activity in publishing and their participation in …

Alma In The Cloud: Implementation Through The Eyes Of Acquisitions, Denise Branch

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For the past few years, cloud computing has taken wing, and libraries are embracing this technology. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries is one of the libraries that is embracing the cloud by implementing Alma, a cloud-based library management system. This article will provide an overview of the VCU Libraries’s journey from implementation up until “Go Live” through the eyes of the Acquisitions Department.

The VCU Libraries was on the verge of buying two new servers to support its operations. After researching available library management systems, Alma was found to be an attractive prospect. Around the same time, the Libraries …

From Digits To Diagrams: Using Infographics To Inform Database Retention And Cancellation Decisions, Calida A. Barboza

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This paper describes a poster presentation about how Ithaca College librarians used an infographic displaying the relationships among databases to make retention and cancellation decisions for the 2013–2014 fiscal year. The diagram, which was created to help selectors more easily understand how canceling one database would affect subscriptions to other databases, also shows the impact of the resources’ interconnectedness on cost. A modified sample of the illustration is reproduced in this report. Design considerations and the tools used to create the image will also be discussed.

Experiencing “Ipads For All”: Results From A Library-Wide Mobile Technology Program, Michelle Armstrong, Peggy S. Cooper

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Libraries have become iPad enthusiasts on a global scale. Librarians use the mobile device in all aspects of their work, and they are an ever present part of our patrons' lives. As a result, there is a growing need for all library staff members to be familiar with the technology. This paper explains Boise State University Albertsons Library’s use of mobile technology, specifically iPads, and the internal shifts that occurred as the library made mobile devices accessible to all library employees. Attendees explored practical issues faced when implementing the “iPads for All” approach, strategies used to encourage the adoption of …

The Magic Of (A)Ffective Management, Ryan Weir

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(A)ffective management is a people-first approach to managing employees. After all, employees and supervisors are people first. No matter how hard any individual may try, inevitably the stress and strain of life outside of work can and will bleed through into the work environment. The (A)ffective and effective manager understands this and incorporates this understanding into how he/she interacts with superiors and subordinates in the work environment on a daily basis. This article offers strategies on how to be an (A)ffective manager.

Venturing From The “Back Room”: Do Technical Services Librarians Have A Role In Information Literacy?, Laura Turner, Alejandra Nann

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Catalogers, electronic resources librarians, and acquisitions librarians spend a lot of their time in the “back room” of their library. Yet even as their roles expand to include participation in innovative library initiatives like institutional repositories, shared print analysis, and digital collections, they are not often consulted on new user-instruction activities like enhancing the information literacy (IL) programs for their library community. Information literacy to advance student learning is now emphasized by many accrediting agencies, making it one of the hottest topics in public services today. There are endless library conferences, workshops, and poster sessions devoted to its meaning, methods …

Resolved, Every Librarian A Subject Librarian: Implementing Subject Librarianship Across A Research Library, Steven E. Smith, Deborah L. Thomas, Alan H. Wallace

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Many academic research librarians are specialists—catalogers, data curation librarians, electronic resources librarians—and working with students is considered to be a job for public service librarians. The University of Tennessee Libraries is expanding subject librarian responsibility across the Libraries, and research librarians who may have never worked in public services are assuming liaison and collection development roles. Steve Smith, Dean of Libraries, will share his model of learning, research, and collections (LRC) librarianship and explain his rationale for starting the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries down this road. And how is that concept working for us? Hear from a couple of …

You Cannot Have Too Much Electronic Resources Staffing, Shade Aladebumoye, Nadine P. Ellero, Paula Sullenger

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Two years ago, Auburn University Libraries created a new Electronic Resources and Serials Services (ERSS) unit to create a cohesive, highly responsive, and forward-moving team. This newly created unit wanted to do things right, well, and strategically. When the team reflected upon the current staffing situation, the following issues emerged: (1) doing “more with less” was not a recipe for success; (2) projects were a far-away dream; and (3) having too little documentation was dangerous for succession. In addition the Unit Head was assuming more administrative assignments, making delegation of tasks not possible for this small and full-to-capacity work group. …

Electronic Resource Management: Functional Integration In Technical Services, George Stachokas

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Declining usage of print materials along with increasing usage of electronic resources makes it necessary for libraries to reallocate personnel from print management to electronic resources management. Electronic resources management should be the primary focus of technical services units in the early twenty-first century. Print should no longer be treated as the default format, and the work of library staff must be reorganized and reintegrated with librarians and other professionals to reflect the growing importance of electronic resources in contemporary information services.

Staff workflows in technical services can be organized to emphasize functional areas of electronic resources management including troubleshooting, …

How Is That Going To Work? Rethinking Acquisitions In A Next-Generation Ils, Kathleen Spring, Megan Drake, Siôn Romaine

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What do acquisitions policies and workflows look like in next-generation systems? How can institutions leverage automated processes to improve efficiency, and what happens when you also belong to a consortium that is looking to increase collaboration? The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 37 public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2012, the Alliance began a 2-year process of migrating all 37 institutions to a shared ILS. Migrating in four cohorts every 6 months, the first cohort of six institutions went live with Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo in June 2013. Representatives from three …

Bitter Coffee And Watered-Down Bourbon: Lessons For Libraries From Chase And Sanborn Coffee And Maker’S Mark, Corey Seeman

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The story of Chase and Sanborn Coffee provides a great morality tale for all organizations, including libraries, about how small changes may lead to larger problems down the road. Chase and Sanborn ranked with Maxwell House as one of the leading coffee brands in the early twentieth century. They were known not only for their fresh sealed coffee, but also for the Chase and Sanborn Hour variety show that featured many stars, including Don Ameche, Nelson Eddy, and Edgar Bergen with his wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy. In the years after World War II, there was a belief at the company …

Pitch Perfect: Selling To Libraries And Selling Libraries To Nonusers, Mark Sandler, David Celano, Melissa Loy-Oakes, Marianne Ryan

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Sales is the art of persuasion. It is intentional activity to move another individual (or group of individuals) to a desired outcome—for example, “no” to “yes”; “maybe” to “yes; ”yes, someday”; to “yes, now.” And, not surprisingly, there are numerous strategies for selling—challenger, consultative, high-touch, solution selling, etc. Regardless of the particular sales method in use, it is important to recognize that sales activity is purposeful, goal driven, and remarkably effective. Paradoxically, the most effective sales interactions are those where the customer does not even recognize that they have been “sold.” The mark of a great sales person is the …

Doing More With Less: Exploring Batch Processing And Outsourcing In Academic Libraries, Patrick J. Roth, Jeffrey D. Daniels

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Doing more with less is a challenge facing all libraries. Staff sizes are trending down while technical services work load remains the same or is increasing; at the same time, there are new and emerging areas of focus for libraries. Grand Valley State University Libraries have made a commitment to exploring any opportunity to outsource or streamline workflows. Presenters will discuss specific examples that utilize outsourcing opportunities as well as batch processing to keep up with the work demand and benefit the library. Positives and negatives of these experiences will be explored. Factors to be discussed will include cost, staff …

It Can Be Done! Planning And Process For Successful Collection Management Projects, Fran Rosen, Pamela Grudzien, W. Lee Hisle, Patricia A. Tully

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Many academic libraries face the challenge of decreasing the size of print collections. This paper offers perspectives on a range of activities for successful projects. At Connecticut College, W. Lee Hisle found that, with proper planning and execution, a successful Collection Management Project can be completed without substantial campus turmoil. Hisle discusses project principles, communications strategy used, data used to “sell” the project, and lessons learned. This project allowed the bookstack footprint to be reduced by one-third without loss of access of any item. Pat Tully, from Wesleyan University Library, presents some lessons learned from a last-copy weeding project that …

Proving The Value Of Library Collections Part Ii: An Interdisciplinary Study Using Citation Analysis, Amalia Monroe-Gulick, Lea Hill Currie

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At the 2012 Charleston Conference, University of Kansas (KU) librarians presented the results of a citation analysis project conducted using faculty publications in the sciences. Library administrators were excited by the findings reported from this analysis and compelled the librarians to proceed with more citation analysis research by supporting them with student assistants who helped gather the initial data that were used in the study. During the subsequent year, KU librarians took the collection assessment project two steps further by gathering citation data from faculty publications in the humanities and social sciences to conduct an extensive citation analysis.

Using a …

Changing Operations Of Academic Libraries, Allen Mckiel, Jim Dooley, Robert Murdoch

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The session is an exploration of library operational adaptations to the changing technologies of information distribution and usage. The librarians will present glimpses of the changes occurring in their library operations as they transition to services without print. The cadence of change, particularly with respect to e-books, continues to accelerate. The moderator will summarize some of the technology changes of the last year, and a panel of librarians will explore, through the evidence of their changing library operations, a range of topics including: trends in e-book acquisition and usage; developments in open access publishing; changes in consortia; and the role …

Opportunities And Challenges Of Data Publication: A Case From Purdue, David Scherer, Lisa Zilinski, Courtney Matthews

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Beginning in 2011, there have been several policy changes directly affecting the management, preservation, and accessibility of publically funded research and resulting research data in the United States. On January 18, 2011 the National Science Foundation (NSF) required data management plans to be submitted with all grant proposals (National Science Foundation, 2013). On February 22, 2013, the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the President of the United States extended a similar requirement to all federal agencies that have a research and development budget of more than $100 million (Holdren, 2013). These requirements illustrate the need for further coordination …

Increasing The Discoverability Of Institutional Video: A Survey Of Current Trends And Best Practices, Robert Murdoch

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While the volume and importance of video content on the web is growing exponentially and users are engaging with video content in unprecedented ways, rich video assets from academic institutions remain hidden and inaccessible on college campuses and invisible to the wider world. Digital video clips sit siloed on hard drives and are not cataloged. VHS tapes and reels of 16mm film are boxed in archives, faculty offices, and storage facilities. By making video content more discoverable and accessible, institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to showcase their rich heritage and enhance teaching and research for future generations on campus and …

Publarians And Lubishers: Role Bending In The New Scholarly Communications Ecosystem, Nancy Maron, Sylvia Miller, Charles Watkinson, Anne Kenney

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It has been said that the work of publishers and librarians will merge over time until we are all publarians and lublishers. Do we still envision a shared future? As new publishing programs within libraries and experimental publisher-library collaborations continue to challenge us to move outside of our comfort zones, are we learning from each other? What are some practical, down-to-earth ways that we can take advantage of each other’s expertise? How can we produce and market scholarly content in a more integrated way to meet the needs of scholars in a digital-information ecosystem, without duplicating effort on separate tracks? …

Selfpub 2.0, Mitchell Davis, John Sherer, Charles Watkinson, William Kane, Cyril Oberlander, Bob Nardini, Michael Levine-Clark, Matt Nauman, Joyce Skokut, Deb Hoadley, Robert P. Holley, Eleanor Cook, Leslie Lees, Bill Gladstone, Kelly E. Leonard

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The self-publishing revolution has created a drastic increase in the number or works being published in the social sciences and humanities. This windfall of content has created an abundance that can be overwhelming, but it ultimately presents an opportunity for libraries to develop deeper and more unique collections. The preconference at the 2013 Charleston Conference focused on several interrelated topics in the self-publishing world: navigating the abundance of self-published material, libraries’ adoption of the role of publisher, vendor perspectives on self-published content and plans for the future, issues in humanities and social science acquisitions of self-published works, and an agent’s …

Herding E-Cats: Emerging Standards In Electronic Book And Journal Publishing And Management, Betty Landesman

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As our collections become increasingly electronic, standardization of publishing and tracking practices also becomes increasingly critical in order to better serve our users. This paper describes new, updated, and emerging standards and recommended practices that are designed to support the publishing, identification, and retrieval of electronic materials. It provides an overview of standards such as Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Standardized Markup for Journal Articles, KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools), DDA (demand-driven acquisitions), PIE-J (presentation and identification of e-journals), and EPUB (it is not an acronym); how they relate to the work of a broad spectrum of attendees; and particularly …

Metadata And Open Access: Reliably Finding Content And Finding Reliable Content, Sommer Browning, Jean-Claude Guédon, Laurie Kaplan

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Metadata and open access publishing continue to be topics of debate and discussion in the popular media, blogs, and listservs. Different points of view exist among librarians, researchers, publishers, and others, and several examples will be presented regarding open access journals and articles and digital data from the perspective of metadata and accessibility. Open access content is the utmost accessible content, if students and researchers know how to find it and know how to judge whether what they find is worthy of inclusion in their research. The discussion will focus on how to make open access publications and articles more …