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Condition Considerations: An Inquiry Into Recording Conditions In Consortial Collections For The Purpose Of Selecting (And Deselecting) Shared Print Copies, Michael Garabedian

Charleston Library Conference

Following preliminary discussions about a shared print network among Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) institutions in which he determined that artifactual condition would not be a criterion for retention, the author developed an online survey instrument for the purposes of verification. The survey was utilized in a condition survey of mutually held book copies at eight SCELC institutions. More than 3,400 book copies were examined. Findings indicated that although the majority of books are in “good enough” condition for a shared print network, because just 1/3 of the copies have paratextual elements, it is probable that random deselection of …

Adios To Paper Journals—Removed And Recycled—One Mile Long And 75 Tons, John P. Abbott, Mary R. Jordan

Charleston Library Conference

This presentation uses Appalachian State University’s experiences as a stimulus for discussing how we have, and others may, successfully remove in a single swoop several thousand linear feet of little used bound periodicals. This effort opens library areas for new services and spaces. The program will be a resource and guide to others interested in large‐scale deaccessioning projects and includes three deaccessioning projects using online back files from 1) JSTOR; 2) ScienceDirect, Wiley, and Sage; and 3) journals outside of these packages.

Staring Into The Whale’S Mouth: Large-Scale Journal Deaccession At A Small University, Jennifer Dean, Renee Bracey, Peggy Hlavka

Charleston Library Conference

Large‐scale journal deaccession is an all‐consuming project requiring considerable planning and staff time. The Library team at Siena Heights University, a small, Catholic, liberal arts university in rural Southeast Michigan, recently completed such a project. Project is a keyword—a large project like this is not business as usual, and must be managed as a project with appropriate staff from throughout the organization. Further, journal deaccession on this scale is not simple—it involves a change in what libraries have always done. Staff need time to absorb the changes, and to understand all of the ramifications on their future work. Perspectives from …

Wilde About Weeding: An Earnest Effort In Collection Development, Melissa Johnson

Charleston Library Conference

In an effort to create more student space, provide ease of access to resources, and strengthen their collection, a medium sized academic library at a recently consolidated university undertook a major weeding project in 2014. A weeding plan was developed for both the monographs and the serials. Since it was important to get immediate results in removing items from the collection, the print serials section was the first area selected for weeding. Through a step‐by‐step process that involved all members of the library staff, items were evaluated on electronic availability, availability at the other university libraries, the content, the condition, …

Cooperative Collection Development Requires Access: Saltoc—A Low‐Tech, High‐Value Distributed Online Project For Article‐Level Discovery In Foreign‐Language Print‐Only Journals, Aruna P. Magier

Charleston Library Conference

Foreign‐language journals are an essential component of interdisciplinary area studies collections at research libraries but are, by definition, low‐use materials. Librarians who select them seek to broaden these collections, reduce duplication, and enable shared access to them. The challenge is lack of article‐level discoverability: these are print‐only journals, not covered in online indexing/abstracting services. If users cannot discover these articles, then how can cooperating libraries share them, and distribute responsibility for collecting them, which is essential to coordinated collection development?

The SALToC project collaboratively address this issue by creating simple, centrally browsable tables of contents for target journals, through a …

It's Not Just About Weeding: Using Collaborative Collection Analysis To Develop Consortial Collections, Anne Osterman, Genya O'Gara, Leslie O'Brien

Charleston Library Conference

From fall 2013 to the present, the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) has undertaken a pilot collection analysis project with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS). This pilot has involved analyzing the main stacks holdings of 12 of the VIVA member libraries, a total of almost six million records. As is usual for an SCS analysis, the project involved comparing the pilot libraries’ holdings with each other, the consortium as a whole, the state, and the United States, as well as with HathiTrust, the internet archive, and selected peer library groups.

The goals for this project were varied, but unlike most library …

Moving Librarian Collecting From Good To Great: Results From The First Year Of A Librarian Liaison Collaborative Monographic Purchasing Project, Genya O'Gara, Carolyn Schubert, Lara Sapp, Michael Mungin

Charleston Library Conference

As Collins (2001) found in his evaluation of how companies evolve from “good” to “great,” one of the key components of such a transition is to focus less on continuing tasks, and more on NOT continuing tasks. Today’s librarians are juggling instruction, reference, collection development, outreach, and the need to develop new expertise in emerging areas, such as data curation, multimedia resources, institutional repositories, and more. Librarians cannot responsibly continue all traditional tasks while facing shifting budget priorities and new responsibilities. As noted in ARL’s Issue Brief (2012), “never before have we been required to grasp so many dimensions of …

Successful E‐Resource Acquisitions: Looking Beyond Selecting, Ordering, Paying, And Receiving To Discovery And Access, Denise Branch

Charleston Library Conference

E‐resource acquisitions began as a complex process and libraries struggled to manage it. When e‐resources first arrived, librarians spent considerable time determining how to acquire these resources. A movement ensued to generate the best methods for selecting, ordering, negotiating licenses, choosing content, and paying. Libraries were prompted to develop new workflows. Time has passed and acquisitions functions have mostly been standardized. However, with the acquisition of e‐resources comes the challenges of discovery, access, and user needs. Now that many libraries feel more comfortable in acquiring e‐resources with the help of technology, cloud‐based services, and task coordination, they are moving beyond …

Keeping It Real: A Comprehensive And Transparent Evaluation Of Electronic Resources, Karen R. Harker, Laurel Crawford, Todd Enoch

Charleston Library Conference

There will be a time when your library will need to evaluate all of your electronic resources. How would you do it? In response to a cut to our materials budget, we have developed a method that condenses a large amount of information into a few select criteria. In this day‐long workshop, we walked through the process using the Decision Grid process developed at the University of Maryland at College Park (Foudy and McManus, p. 533‐538) as a starting point. The workshop leaders first demonstrated each step of our process, and then the participants worked in small groups (5‐7) using …

Collection Development, E-Resources, And Meeting The Needs Of People With Disabilities, Axel Schmetzke, Cheryl Pruitt, Michele Bruno

Charleston Library Conference

Access barriers do not only exist in the physical environment but also online. Just as certain architectural design features make it possible, or impossible, for people with certain disabilities to move about independently, so does design of the electronic environment, which includes all the library e‐resources, creates either enabling or disabling conditions for certain individuals. Recently conducted research reveals a rather grim picture: while policy statements issued by professional library organization call for inclusive selection and procurement procedures, books on collection development do not cover the issue adequately. When librarians make decision about the selection of specific e‐resources, the needs …

Are E-Book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable?, Aaron K. Shrimplin, Jennifer W. Bazeley

Charleston Library Conference

The academic e‐book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E‐book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring electronic rather than print format. E‐book acquisition models like patron‐driven acquisition and short‐term loan have now become commonplace and available from a multitude of consortia, publishers, and aggregators. With the wide availability of these models, is there still value in buying e‐books through package deals?

To help answer this question, we will present the results of a usage‐based analysis of Wiley e‐books. Since 2012, Miami University Libraries have purchased …

E-Book Rights: Advocacy In Action, Katy Gabrio, Whitney Murphy

Charleston Library Conference

E‐book rights advocacy efforts began nearly from the moment the format appeared. The topics have evolved over time but significant issues and the need for ongoing discussion and negotiation remain. To this end, Macalester College published an E‐Book Advocacy Statement in 2013. Since then several libraries have signed on. Most importantly, productive conversations with e‐book providers and vendors have ensued. These conversations have led to a better understanding of the library, publisher, and e‐book provider points of view as well as helped strengthen library/vendor relationships that are rooted in a willingness to deeply engage on these topics while appreciating one …

The Buck Stops Here: Assessing The Value Of E-Book Subscriptions At The Columbia University Libraries, Melissa J. Goertzen, Krystie A. Klahn

Charleston Library Conference

Over the past four years Columbia University Libraries (CUL) has seen exponential growth in electronic book (e‐book) purchasing. These purchases have not only increased the depth and breadth of the collection, but they have also created new opportunities for remote learning and instant information access. In turn, this new push for purchasing electronic has created new demands in assessment to understand the true benefit of these resources, most notably in regards to annual e‐book subscriptions.

In 2013, a new position aimed at developing an e‐book strategy for CUL was devised. Shortly thereafter, a position was created in the Science and …

Collecting And Acquiring In Earnest (The 14th Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch), Wendy Bahnsen, Yumin Jiang, Ramune K. Kubilius, Emma O'Hagan, Andrea Twiss-Brooks

Charleston Library Conference

In this year's sponsored but no holds barred lunch, host Wendy Bahnsen (substituting for colleague Nicole Gallo) offered a brief greeting, and Ramune Kubilius provided the traditional “year in review” synopsis of developments since the last Charleston Conference. Panelists then shared insights and led discussion on earnest attempts to meet users’ information needs and satisfy administrations’ budget and other expectations. No matter how information has become repackaged, two formats remain important in health sciences communication: books and journals (articles). Speakers focused on library experiments with these formats. Is PDA a solution? Bahnsen contributed highlights and findings from a survey by …

Taming The Wilde: Collaborating With Expertise For Faster, Better, Smarter Collection Analysis, Jacqueline Bronicki, Cherie Turner, Shawn Vaillancourt, Frederick Young

Charleston Library Conference

The importance of collection assessment and evaluation has been a hot topic due to increasing budget restrictions and the need to prove worth to stakeholders through evidence‐based evaluations. More robust collection analyses, like comparisons of holdings usage to ILL requests, and gap analyses, are increasingly embraced by the library community. Less thought, however, has been given to how to best conduct these analyses to ensure that the cleanest data is used and that the data tells the right story. The data to do these types of analyses often reside in complex systems and web‐environments, which may not be fully understood …

Ill As Acquisitions: Implementing And Integrating Pod In A Research Library, Edward F. Lener, Ladd Brown

Charleston Library Conference

This paper describes Virginia Tech's implementation of a purchase‐on‐demand (POD) program designed to complement the traditional interlibrary loan workflow. POD can offer a way to obtain otherwise unavailable or unlendable content or to get many items at lower cost than a typical borrowing transaction. POD also offers another means of building the collection through purchases of materials we know will get at least one use. We share key details of our program from pilot phase to its broader integration into the acquisitions workflow.

An Evaluation Of Readcube As An Interlibrary Loan Alternative, Elizabeth J. Weisbrod

Charleston Library Conference

Libraries are continually searching for more affordable ways to provide access to research materials. The rising costs of journal subscriptions, site licenses, and interlibrary loan have made libraries look for new methods of providing those materials. In 2014, Auburn University Libraries began a pilot project to test the feasibility of using ReadCube, an article delivery service, as a method of patron‐driven acquisition for scholarly journal articles. ReadCube allows users immediate access to articles from Nature Publishing Group journals at a lower cost than document delivery, but with usage restrictions.

This case study evaluates ReadCube as an alternative to interlibrary loan …

What You Need To Know About Moving Collections And Acquisitions Into An E-Dominant Model!, Gerri Foudy, Lila A. Ohler, Lenore A. England

Charleston Library Conference

Two different University of Maryland Libraries discuss how they have moved to an e‐dominant model, the reasons why, and the new acquisitions strategies libraries can use in crafting an e‐dominant collection. Whether your organization is a large ARL library like University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) Libraries or a nontraditional online library like the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Library, there are many strategies for taking advantage of the new acquisitions environment and rethinking how to build collections in an e‐dominant world. At UMD, adopting an e‐dominant model has been a gradual change over time, allowing the library staff …

Supporting Rapidly Growing Online Programs In Times Of Change, Mary Ann Mercante, Ying Lin

Charleston Library Conference

In May 2012, Maryville University launched two online graduate Nursing programs. Twenty‐eight months later, 2,321 students from across the United States were enrolled as online‐only students in these programs. Two additional Nursing graduate programs are going online as well as an MBA program. Concurrently, Library space is being reconfigured to accommodate student support services from other areas and to provide more learning spaces for students. With less space for physical collections and more students to support, Maryville University Library is trying to find ways to provide better research support for all its students. How Maryville is handling these challenges and …

Earnestly Seeking Greater Flexibility: The Pros And Cons Of Pay‐Per‐View Journal Access, Marija Markovic, Steve Oberg

Charleston Library Conference

This presentation sheds light on a relatively new phenomenon that needs more earnest consideration from all kinds of libraries: the switch to a pay‐per‐view (PPV) access model for journals. The presenters, one from a corporate library background and one from an academic background, have extensive experience in utilizing PPV. They detail pros and cons of PPV and how it allows for greater access for users with more financial flexibility for acquisitions budgets. Discussions among acquisitions and collection development librarians in recent years have focused on demand‐driven acquisitions (DDA) for e‐books. The presenters believe that PPV for journals is in the …

We’Re E‐Preferred. Why Did We Get That Book In Print?, Ann Roll

Charleston Library Conference

While California State University, Fullerton’s Pollak Library has an e‐preferred approval plan for all subject areas, the Library still continues to receive a number of print titles on approval. However, 25% of the print approval books received in the 2013–14 fiscal year were published by only eight publishers, all of which actively publish their books in e‐format. This paper investigates the reasons why print books were supplied over potentially available e‐versions. In some cases, individual titles were only published in print, while others were available as e‐books, but could only be purchased within collections. Others were available for purchase as …

Turning A Crisis Into An Opportunity: Dda And Pda At Uta Libraries, Peter Zhang

Charleston Library Conference

Facing a 72% cut in our monographic acquisitions budget in FY13–14, University of Texas Arlington Libraries turned a crisis into an opportunity. We examined print monographs’ circulation data and discovered the hard truth that the “just‐in‐case” acquisition model is neither sustainable nor serving our users well. Subsequently, our approval plan was put on a virtual mode: no more approval book shipments. We implemented demanddriven acquisition (DDA) programs for both electronic and print books and put broader patron‐driven acquisition (PDA) programs in place to meet our users’ needs.

Patron-Driven Acquisition: What Do We Know About Our Patrons?, Monique A. Teubner, Henk G. J. Zonneveld

Charleston Library Conference

This paper describes how Utrecht University Library is trying to reach a sustainable and efficient PDA model, offering more e-books to our users.

PDA e-books were made available in the catalog. We developed an efficient back office process for updates, deletions and financial administration. We did pilot programs to test PDA as an acquisition model. During the pilot anonymized user data was collected of patrons and their use of PDA e-books.

Due to heavy usage and too fast depletion of budget we had to adjust our PDA model. The collected data helped to understand the development of costs and to …

Self-Publishing And Collection Development: Opportunities And Challenges For Libraries, Robert P. Holley

Purdue University Press Books

The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink channels of production, distribution, and access as it applies to the new content. Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries will address multiple aspects of how public and academic libraries can deal with the increase in self-published titles.

While both academic and public …

Bet You Missed It, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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A Special Review--A Review Of Pagans: The End Of Traditional Religion And The Rise Of Christianity, Andrew T. Alwine

Against the Grain

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Little Red Herrings--Dc + Seug, Mark Y. Herring

Against the Grain

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Optical Disc Archiving And International Standards, Hiroko Ito

Against the Grain

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Both Sides Now: Vendors And Librarians--It's In Everyone's Best Interest To Require An Agenda To Make An Important Meeting With A Vendor More Productive, Michael Gruenberg

Against the Grain

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And They Were There--Reports Of Meetings, Ramune K. Kubilius, Sever Bordeianu, Wendy Pederson

Against the Grain

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