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Reimaging The Curriculum Materials Library: One Library's Journey Throught Economic Change, Rita Kohrman

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Patron-Driven Acquisitions: Transforming Library Collections In The Virtual Environment, Doug Way

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How do Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) programs work? What challenges do PDA programs present? What are some key benefits of PDA programs? How do PDA programs supplement, enhance, or replace traditional collection development models? What have libraries learned from implementing PDA programs? Doug Way joins us for a presentation and discussion of e-book PDA in academic libraries. He will also discuss what Grand Valley State University has learned since implementing a PDA program in 2009.

A Case Study On The Impact Of Web‐Scale Discovery Services On The Use Of Reference, Doug Way

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Presented at The Role of Reference in Discovery Systems: Effecting a More Literate Search

Speakers: Will Wheeler, Georgetown University; Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Gina McCue, Credo Reference, Scott Anderson, Millersville University.

Resource discovery is a top priority in libraries today, as evidenced by the ever-growing number of libraries that are making significant investments in Discovery Systems. With an equally high value placed on promoting Information Literacy, the questions now facing these libraries are: How will their students and faculty get the most out of the Discovery System, how will a variety of users learn to navigate through discovery …

A Case Study Of Rules-Based Weeding, Doug Way, Julie A. Garrison

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Presented at Implementing a Disapproval Plan: A Case Study of Rules-Based Weeding.

Speakers: Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Julie Garrison, Grand Valley State University; Rick Lugg, Sustainable Collection Services.

In 2013, Grand Valley State University will open a new library building. At that time materials in the library's existing off-site storage facility will be moved into the new library's automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), reintegrating them with the main collection. These materials had originally been moved into storage in 2003 because of their low use and since that time, only about 1% of the collection has circulated. Knowing …

Law & Reference: Answering Legal Reference Questions, Wendy Moore, Maureen Cahill

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Answering legal reference questions can be challenging, especially when you are not doing it on a daily basis. More and more legal information is available freely on the internet, but sometimes it is hard to know what the best sources are and how to make certain you are not accidentally practicing law at the reference desk. This presentation provides exposure to helpful internet resources and discussion of effective strategies to help you answer legal related reference questions in a non-law library setting with skill and confidence.

How Do You Measure Student Learning? Sails, Ilcc, & Rgr At Gvsu, Pete Coco, Emily Frigo, Hazel Mcclure, Debbie Morrow

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The GVSU University Libraries has responded in the last five years to internal and external emphases on assessing student learning outcomes and our contributions to student learning. We’ve conducted a higher-level information literacy assessment, and have made a priority of developing information literacy tools for use by classroom faculty. We have twice administered SAILS, the "Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills," to provide us with a broad benchmark measure of student IL skills against a cohort of our institutional peers. We discovered that large scale efforts such as SAILS can be at odds with our approach to IL, proving to …

Librarians On The Move: Embedded Librarians, Linda Masselink, Anne Merkle Msl, Rita Kohrman

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Years ago, in the late 90’s when we had an official reference desk and students ambled their way into the library to ask for research assistance I thought it would be a good proactive idea to take the reference desk to students on their home turf in their residence hall, dining area and socializing entities. I thought, “ What better way to burst the illusion bubble that academic librarians were unhelpful, grouchy and untouchable.”

Helping College Students Climb Onto The Lifelong Learning Scaffold And Grapple With Real Life Skills, Debbie Morrow

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College students today must “learn how to learn” – the content of their college courses will only scratch the surface of what they’ll need to know in the years following graduation, and the ocean of information is wide and deep. Teaching of information literacy skills is ideally closely tied to disciplinary and professional standards, curricular goals, course objectives, and assignment requirements. And ideally librarians can be partners with disciplinary faculty in strategically introducing IL skills into key courses and assignments at selected points in a curriculum. This session will explore a particularly fortuitous convergence of needs and opportunities leading to …

Wrangling The Collections, Kathy Edwards

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Advocating For Green With Video Presence, Anne Merkle, Linda Masselink

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Addressing Abet Program Outcome 'I': A First-Year Engineering Program And Library Instruction Initiative Collaboration, Debbie Morrow

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Grand Valley's School of Engineering recently invited the University Libraries to collaborate in an effort to address ABET outcome ‘i’, engaging in lifelong learning, in one of their first year core courses. The Libraries have recently developed an "Information Literacy Core Competencies" document, evolving out of the ACRL IL competencies standard adopted in 2000. Our collaboration has so far been a great exercise in exploring the effective intersection of ABET ‘i’ and information literacy competencies, in the context of incorporation into an existing course in GVSU's first-year engineering curriculum.

The Implementation Of A Patron-Driven Acquisitions Program At Grand Valley State University, Doug Way

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Presented at ALCTS Preconference: "Patron-Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Maximizing Technology to Minimize Risk."

More libraries are utilizing patron driven acquisition (PDA) and vendors are offering creative business models to complement traditional purchasing approaches, posing new opportunities/challenges for acquisitions. This pre-conference, led by experienced professionals, will guide attendees through the different models, expose them to real life programs at libraries of varying sizes, offer strategies for the set-up and on-going management, as well as point out common technical services issues.

Patron Driven Acquisitions Via Interlibrary Loan At Grand Valley State University, Doug Way

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Presented at: "Purchase on Demand through Interlibrary Loan." Sponsored by ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section.

Are you interested in getting into patron-driven acquisitions but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know how selectors fit into the PDA model? Would you like to see how other institutions have solved workflow issues? Would you like to hear how people have funded their PDA programs? What about assessment of PDA programs? Come learn about purchase-on-demand programs instituted through interlibrary loan. Public and academic libraries will talk about how they got started doing purchase-on-demand and what the patron response has …

Flipping The Model: Making Noise In The Library, Lynell De Wind

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Dean Lee VanOrsdel and Lynell De Wind presented Flipping the Model: Making Noise in the Library at the NBS Healthcare & Higher Education Vendor Fair on May 19, 2011. The file is Lynell's half of the presentation.

Scaffolding Isn’T Just For Window-Washers Anymore: Ilccs – A Scaffolded Approach To Teaching Information Literacy, Debbie Morrow

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Over the last several years, the University Libraries' Research & Instruction Division librarians developed a set of "Information Literacy Core Competencies" (ILCCs), based on information literacy standards adopted by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) in 2000. Competencies were locally revised and tailored specifically to complement the institution’s General Education Program skills goals. Session participants will be introduced to the Information Literacy Core Competencies document, and to the Liaison Librarians' goal of incorporating the ILCCs into their course support and classroom instruction. Librarians use the ILCC skills goals and learning objectives to focus plans for single information literacy …

The Implementation Of A Patron-Driven Acquisitions Program At An Academic Library, Doug Way

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Over the past several years there has been a growing interest among academic libraries in patron-driven acquisitions (PDA). As part of a broader shift in its collection development philosophy an academic library decided to implement a large-scale PDA program, and in the fall of 2009 added to its catalog 50,000 MARC records for books it did not own. This session will examine the first year of this project. The rationale behind that decision, the financial and collection impact on the university, lessons learned, and the state of PDA at this university today and in the future will all be discussed.

Designing And Preserving Special Collections, Sharon Bradley, Suzanne R. Graham

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Our collections' unique holdings can make the greatest impact to scholarship, and yet our special collections often suffer from a lack of staff expertise to preserve and describe unusual formats. An experienced special collections cataloger and a special collections librarian will share the basics of standards-based cataloging and preservation of these formats. Program will include hands-on practice with creating a metadata record for a manuscript and a photograph collection (with attention paid to perceived impact of RDA).

Resource Description & Access, Suzanne R. Graham

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For a decade, the cataloging world has relied upon the _Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd ed. revised_ to guide its work. As soon as July 2011, AACR2 might be replaced with a new cataloging code, Resource Description & Access (RDA)

RDA is still a work in progress, but this talk covers the main goals in greater detail and points out a couple of the major changes to our MARC records (major new fields and subfields) that appear in records already.

Staffing The Repository: How To Build Your Team And Use It Effectively, Brad Matthies

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Brad Matthies, Access Services Librarian and Project Manager for Digital Commons at Butler University, discusses the development of DigitalCommons@Butler, offering valuable suggestions for managing a repository with limited staff and resources.

Among the topics covered in the webinar: using the staff you have available to best advantage; developing successful, scalable workflows; and maintaining momentum over time.

Over the last two and a half years, and with no more than half an FTE dedicated at any one time, Brad and his team have brought Digital Commons@Butler from several hundred objects to over 2,000 objects. Just in the past year, it has …

Incorporating Millennium Catalog Records Into Serials Solutions’ Summon, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Patrick J. Roth

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Experiences From The Field: Choosing A Discovery Tool For Your Unique Library, Christine K. Dulaney, Jennifer Castaldo, Tom Klingler, Doralyn Rossman, Laura Wrubel

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Our users want an easier way to search library resources; currently, there are many discovery tools available, which can seem daunting. How do you know which one will work for your unique library? Librarians from different types of libraries—an online library, a land-grant school, a law library, a private university, and a consortium— describe how they evaluated the available products and made decisions on which tools to implement. A variety of platforms are discussed, including: Ebsco’s Discovery Service, III’s Encore Synergy Discovery, Serials Solutions’ Summon, and even a homegrown solution. Discover what libraries are looking for in these tools, strategies …