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Yes, We Kanopy, Stephanie Church, Paul Heyde
Yes, We Kanopy, Stephanie Church, Paul Heyde
Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship
The Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University has experience in both print and electronic Demand Driven Acquisitions. Now, we are experimenting with on-demand streaming media with the help of Kanopy, a distributor of online videos from a variety of popular documentary filmmakers and producers. This poster will cover our library's implementation strategies, integration with our discovery layer and ILS, outcomes from the initial months of the pilot, usage statistics and assessment, as well as user feedback.
Gift Books Received At Uri July 2014 To June 2015, Michael Vocino
Gift Books Received At Uri July 2014 To June 2015, Michael Vocino
Technical Services Reports and Statistics
Gift books, DVDs, and sewing patterns received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2014-2015. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated. During the year a total of 2,155 books, 15 DVDs, and 2265 patterns were received.
“The Commitment Problem”: Spending To Zero To Maximize The Efficiency Of The Collections Budget, Robert M. Cleary
“The Commitment Problem”: Spending To Zero To Maximize The Efficiency Of The Collections Budget, Robert M. Cleary
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
The difficulty for a library to spend their collections budget efficiently is a timeless problem. The diversity of a typical budget, with its mix of one-time and continuing funds, for an array of resources that have both regular and sometimes irregular frequencies, provides great challenges. Approval plans, usually expending one-time funds, generate expenditures that contain high variability on a weekly basis. Standing orders for serials fall into the same category. With some effort, it is possible to expend all continuing funds. But it is the commitments that do not result in expenditures, with funds remaining in cash balances that can …
Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2014-2015, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2014-2015, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Technical Services Reports and Statistics
Annual Report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island for FY15. Covers personnel, work flow, special projects, and serial, monograph, and e-resource acquisitions. Supplemental files include data on library materials expenditures by a number of variables as well as important working documents from the year.
Ebook Management: A Moving Target, Carole Correa-Morris
Ebook Management: A Moving Target, Carole Correa-Morris
Faculty and Staff Publications
Since our presentations on ebook management at past IUGs, one lesson learned is that the process is always evolving. As our academic ebook collections increased in size and complexity, we then added patron driven ebook plans (PDAs,) consortia-wide programs, and migrated to Sierra. The result has been ongoing fine-tuning of our methods to handle record loads from various suppliers and duplication across multiple platforms. With increasing attention on ebooks at our campus, the process needs to be effective. This presentation will highlight the steps we developed, then updated for Sierra, to efficiently administer ebooks, ensuring dependable access for our users.
Opportunities Beyond Electronic Resource Management: An Extension Of The Core Competencies For Electronic Resources Librarians To Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communications, Angela Dresselhaus
Opportunities Beyond Electronic Resource Management: An Extension Of The Core Competencies For Electronic Resources Librarians To Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communications, Angela Dresselhaus
Angela Dresselhaus
This paper will provide an overview of current topics in Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications DS/SC and draw connections between these new areas and the traditional skill set of electronic resources librarians (ERLs). Commonalities between the skills outlined in the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians (CCERL) and those needed for success in DS/SC will form the basis of the author's recommendations for involvement in these new areas.