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Library Assistant - Improving The Student Experience Of Oxford Libraries Through A Mobile Library Induction, Oliver Bridle, Angela Carritt

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A student’s first week at University is an overwhelming experience with important information being delivered by many different parts of the institution. High student numbers and severe time constraints on contact time between librarians and students means that libraries struggle to effectively communicate advice about services and resources. This issue is further compounded at the University of Oxford by the complexity of the local library system; the second largest in the UK. Research undertaken with Oxford students to ascertain their views on library inductions revealed that, although inductions were valued, they could be poorly timed and leave students overloaded with …

Access To Research Data: Addressing The Problem Through Journal Data Sharing Policies, Paul Sturges, Marianne Bamkin, Jane Anders, Azhar Hussain

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is a growing consensus in the broader research community, including libraries and other information repositories, that sharing of research data is vital both for transparency and possible reuse. Logically the sharing should be in the form of data held in suitable repositories which is linked to effective access points such as library catalogues. The journals in which the research appears have a central role in this process. The JoRD Project atNottinghamUniversityinvestigated the current state of journal data sharing policies through a survey of sample titles, and explored the views and practices of stakeholders including the research community and its …

Measures For Success: Measures Of Quality, Dom Mitchell

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

DOAJ indexes a huge variety of Open Access publishers: from open access megajournals to groundbreaking OA journals to the single journal, operated by one person with limited funding. There is a long-tail of small, single journals publishers indexed in the Directory and they make up the majority. DOAJ's day-to-day processes include considering new journals for inclusion and screening existing journals to ensure compliance to a set of quality indicators and that DOAJ remains a Directory of quality open access journals. To meet this goal, DOAJ uses its own universally applicable list of Quality Indicators. DOAJ will present the list and …

Changes In The Acquisition Process At Ntnu University Library, Rune Brandshaug

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

During the last 2-3 years there have been changes implemented in the acquisition processes at the NTNU university library. These changes have been implemented on different levels in the organization and in many areas.

Selection of vendors for delivery of information resources is conducted through tenders. The library has currently an agreement with 4 vendors, one for journals, databases and e-books, and 3 for printed books. These vendors give the university library access to large online collections of books and journals, often with high quality metadata.

To make the acquisition process more effective, the university library has started to use …

From Hub To Beacon: Evolution And Evaluation Of Spaces In The Learning Commons, Barbara Paton, Belinda Moore

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Learning spaces in academic libraries have changed over the last 15-20 years, emerging initially as spaces labelled as ‘information commons’ and transforming into a variety of spaces described as learning spaces, student hubs, and so on. The financial investment in the development of learning spaces in libraries has been significant. As these spaces have evolved, the evaluation of their impact and success has also emerged as an important issue, from the perspectives of judicious use of financial resources as well as contribution to the student experience and student learning outcomes. The need to undertake formal evaluation of such investments in …

Introducing Agile Principles And Management To A Library Organization, Daniel Forsman, Peter Hansson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries are pressured to adapt to changing conditions due to user demands, behavior, emerging technologies and a need for cost-efficient solutions. Software companies have turned to agile development to stay competitive and to deliver working solutions in a short timeframe. Agile processes are built upon co-operation, iterative workflows and delivering working solutions with a high business value. Agile development and management in an agile organization constitutes a controlled framework of principles with a promise to ensure that the organization focuses on the right things and is able to adapt to new needs.

The Library at Chalmers University of Technology in …

Assessing Data Linking In Transportation Technical Reports, Lisa Zilinski, Paul Bracke, David Scherer

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2013, the Purdue Libraries partnered with the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP), a collaboration between Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), to incorporate the publication of research data sets into the technical report publication process. This project extended an existing process, developed in partnership between the Purdue Libraries, Purdue University Press, and JTRP, which leveraged Purdue's institutional repository to replace artisanal production processes with a more professional approach (Zilinski, Scherer, Bullock, Horton, & Matthews, forthcoming; Newton, Bullock, Watkinson, Bracke, & Horton, 2012). The existing workflow focused on production of textual documents, but did not address opportunities …

Navigating Shifting Sands: Library Redesign In A Time Of Uncertainty, Jennifer Peasley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

La Trobe University is undergoing transformative change. A new strategic plan with goals to double research income and increase technology-enabled online and blended learning provides the context for a new University operating model; reduced government funding is challenging us to work in a much more cost effective way. The Library’s challenge in this time of change is to develop a flexible model for service delivery which closely aligns with the University’s strategies and meets changing student needs, and a cost-effective operating model which enables us to be agile, resilient and respond rapidly and proactively to change. The University’s change process …

Harnessing Open Internet Media Resources, Dorothea J. Coiffe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic librarians support the efforts of teaching and learning at our institutions. Media librarians select and acquire media that support and enhance an instructors’ mission to accomplish their goals. Though the use of moving images for pedagogy is not new, wading through the myriad of online moving image websites is a daunting task. This paper will explore how one altruistic institution and a hard working librarian produced a shareable global open resource of a moving image/hypermedia hub. This community college media librarian’s hypermedia resource of moving image websites, which uses SpringShare’s Content Management System (CMS) as a platform, has continued …

Open Versus Closed: Private Versus Public - A Library And Research Perspective, Tom Cochrane

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This keynote presentation starts with a consideration of the privacy and security obligations of libraries in their universities and moves on to an assessment of choices to be made in the policy and practice of optimising access. It proposes a view of a “threaded” principle underlying professional responses to censorship, to the invasion of the privacy of users, and on to interacting with the open agendas that have developed in the digital age. These agendas include open source, open content licensing, open access and open data. It reviews how these agendas mesh with rapid changes in the techniques and capabilities …

Information Security, Mikko H. Hyppönen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The online threat landscape does not stand still. One of the best ways to understand the threats is to understand the attackers and their motives. Who are the attackers? What makes them tic? Where are they going? And what's going to happen next?

The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In Norway, as internationally, Open Access (OA) policy states that officially funded research should be open to the public. This paper touches upon the EU’s new OA-initiative (Horizon 2020) before giving a short description of the guidelines from the Norwegian Government and the National Research Council of Norway, as well as NTNU’s and other Norwegian Universities’ OA policies. Through the Norwegian CRIStin database, which was established in 2010, Norway has a national system for registration of academic publishing. Reporting these and other data concerning academic activities to the government partially dictates funding. Together with institutional archives for realizing green OA …

Library Learning Spaces In The Digital Age, Anne Horn, Bernadette Lingham, Sue Owen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Students describe the Library as being central to their learning, offering focus and inspiration, enabling access to information and technologies, and collaboration with peers. Deakin University Library’s building redevelopment program has been integral to the Library’s re-imagined value proposition for students learning in the digital age. The introduction of new generation library and learning spaces strengthens the University’s offer to students for a brilliant education where you are and where you want to go through premium cloud and located learning experiences that are personal, engaging and relevant.

The Library’s building projects are distinctive in terms of location and the built …

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing To Support Performance Measurement In Estonian University Libraries: A Case Study For Acquisition Process, Kate-Riin Kont

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries today are included in the general demand for cost transparency and effective cost management. In the current socio-economic situation, it is challenging to cope with the same or reduced resources in managing the same processes and activities, so that the quality of the result would not be affected. The need of library managers to justify their costs to their parent organizations has become particularly important, perhaps even more important than ever in the history. With the data they have traditionally collected, libraries can assess details about the costs of collection building; what they need now are reliable data about …

Integrated Communication - And Service-Infrastructure For Libraries, Christoph Mitscherling

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In terms of research support, Technische Universität München (TUM) University Library strikes out in new directions. The eRIC (eResearch – Communication and Infrastructure) initiative aims to develop an integrated communication and data management infrastructure for accompanying the complete life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer.

eRIC attaches particular importance to the analysis and development of models and tools for communication between researchers and libraries, both among eRIC project partners and within research teams. In cooperation with an international team of scientists and library staff, we will develop suitable communication and decision-making structures, establish a research accompanying consultation infrastructure as …

To Get Or Not To Get The Kaust Library E-Resources Acquisition Experience, Rindra M. Ramli, Ola A. Kabli

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the challenging times of budget cuts and reviews, libraries are faced with issues such as justifying acquisition, negotiating deals and reviewing current subscriptions (pertaining to electronic resources) among others. With the rapid growth of electronic resources, libraries have to continuously assess their acquisition models and policies to constantly ensure that they are balancing their budget and users’ needs as well. This paper highlights the role played by Technical and Digital Services (TADS) section of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) library (Saudi Arabia) in acquiring the electronic resources (electronic books, electronic journals, databases, image and reference) for …

From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

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Publisher Profile: Oclc

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Random Ramblings: "You Can't Always Get What You Want": When Academic Libraries Say No, Bob Holley

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Curating Collective Collections: Shared Print Mou's: Thoughts On Future Coordination, Sam Demas

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Blurring Lines: Learning Belongs In The Library: Three Reasns This Must Eventually Be So, David Parker

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Oregon Trails: Literary Snob, Thomas Leonhardt

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Questions And Answers: Copyright Column, Laura Gasaway

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Decoder Ring: A Funny Thing Happened When Amazon Bought The Forum, Jerry Spiller

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From The Reference Desk: Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

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Redrawing The Line: Challenging The Publisher-Library Relationship, Jane Harvell, Joanna Ball

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Hunters And Gatherers: The Future Of Search, Andrea Fallas

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Analyze This: Usage And Your Collection, Elisabeth Leonard, Kathleen Mcevoy

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Marketing Academic Libraries: Marketing, Mission, And Administration, Matthew Ismail

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