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Journals And Supplementary Data, Betty Landesman

Charleston Library Conference

Supplementary materials provide further information, explanation, or details that complement an article. These materials can include tables, figures, multimedia, and data. There is a growing interest in supplying these materials with an author’s work as possible storage is created for them. This paper discusses supplementary data as it applies to journals. It provides some examples of publishers’ policies regarding supplementary materials and what issues may surface with such policies. Changes in these policies are also discussed to portray the ways in which publishers are adapting to this growing interest in supplementary data. Data citation and storage, such as archiving in …

The Future Of Serials In A Linked Data World, Laurie Kaplan

Charleston Library Conference

Laurie Kaplan is the Director of Content Operations for Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business. Laurie is also currently an MLIS student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. A version of this paper is being submitted as a term project for her Digital Libraries course for the 2012 fall semester.

This paper is based on a presentation prepared by Valerie Bross and Laurie Kaplan, and presented at the 2012 Charleston Conference by Valerie Bross and Yvette Diven (in Laurie’s absence). Valerie’s review of this paper contributed to the final version. Valerie Bross is the Head of the Continuing Resources …

Keeping The Momentum: Moving Ahead With Research Data Support, Hilary Davis, Steve Morris, Barrie Hayes

Charleston Library Conference

From June 2011 to early 2012 the NCSU Libraries and the UNC Libraries took part in the ARL/DLF E-Science Institute to frame a strategic agenda for supporting research data management and its broader e-science needs at our universities. We conducted an environmental scan, interviewed key researchers and administrators, and participated in capstone meetings with peer institutions. Our two institutions represent two strategies with varying degrees of divergence and convergence. At the NCSU Libraries, with no repository explicitly designed for research data, we are focusing on developing a portfolio of services and partnerships to create a “campus collaborative” of experts, tools, …

Open Access/Closed Coffers: Repositioning An Institutional Repository To Reflect Reality, Anna R. Craft

Charleston Library Conference

During 2011, a combination of budgetary and staffing factors led the NC DOCKS institutional repository system at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) to restructure its staffing, policies, and procedures, particularly with relation to the handling of faculty publications. A task force convened to study the issues, and its research and recommendations led to a focus on born-digital files and the scaling back of solicitation and staff support for faculty publications. As expected, the changes have led to a decline in the number of faculty publication added to the database, but student works are set to continue to …

Overview Of The Altmetrics Landscape, Richard Cave

Charleston Library Conference

While the impact of article citations has been examined for decades, the “altmetrics” movement has exploded in the past year. Altmetrics tracks the activity on the Social Web and looks at research outputs besides research articles. Publishers of scientific research have enabled altmetrics on their articles, open source applications are available for platforms to display altmetrics on scientific research, and subscription models have been created that provide altmetrics. In the future, altmetrics will be used to help identify the broader impact of research and to quickly identify high-impact research.

Playing The Odds: Pascal’S Wager And Decision Making In The Long Scholarly Conversation, Douglas Black

Charleston Library Conference

This talk explores some of the philosophical issues surrounding the nature of the scholarly record and current challenges in academic libraries. The discussion arises from a 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education feature on a widely influential 1979 article entitled “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Making Under Risk,” which proposed a new model for how people assess risk and weigh decision factors. The theory has been applied to dozens of disciplines and cited thousands of times, and it has applications in academic collection development as well as everywhere else. It addressed the limitations of Utility Theory, which grew out of …

Trln Oxford University Press Consortial E-Books Pilot, Ann-Marie Breaux, Annette Day, Aisha Harvey, Rebecca Seger, Luke Swindler

Charleston Library Conference

This pilot attempts to create a financially sustainable model for consortial acquisition e-books coupled with needed print copies, while moving the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and partner publishers to a decidedly electronic environment for books that will enhance support for instruction and research across the disciplinary spectrum. Working with their shared book vendor (YBP Library Services), TRLN libraries and Oxford University Press (OUP) hope to evolve a vending model for e-books that other consortia and their partner publishers would find useful.

A Delightful Challenge: 330 Days, $410,000 For Books, And No Staff Added, Kathleen A. Sullivan

Charleston Library Conference

This presentation explains the challenge that The Phoenix Public Library was faced with when given $410,000 to purchase, receive, catalog, process, and pay for approximately 20,000 replacement library books within a 9-month period without additional staff. With only two Collection Development librarians available to order the replacements and no added staff to catalog and process these materials, staff looked for other ways to accomplish targeted, community-based material purchases in a fraction of the time usually allotted to such a large project. This paper concentrates on this challenge and explains the process taken to achieve the outcome. Ideas and implementations for …

Shared Journals: Save Space, Improve Access With The Maryland Shared Distributed Journal Collections Project, Barbara J. Snead

Charleston Library Conference

The continued growth of collections poses many challenges when it comes to storage space for all types of libraries. Academic libraries have the most difficulty accommodating this growth due to their attempts to preserve materials. While converting existing journal collections to electronic format is a popular, tempting solution, budget constraints and lack of online surrogate availability make this a difficult process for most academic libraries. Budget constraints also prohibit smaller university libraries from reassigning low-demand materials to remote storage facilities. This paper offers one solution to this situation, which was taken by the library at Groucher College, and describes its …

Not Your Mother’S Pda: The Transition From Pda Pilot To Full Acquisitions Integration, Bruce Fyfe, Erin Gallagher, Nicole Nolan, Harriet Rykse, Nazi Torabi, Yves Vanier

Charleston Library Conference

Western Libraries and Ingram Content Group worked together to establish a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) program that has been incorporated into the regular acquisitions workflow at Western. Some features of the program include: all titles selected for addition to the PDA collection are filtered through the approval profiles established by the librarians, the library’s holdings are uploaded to Ingram weekly so that duplicate titles are avoided, invoices for purchased PDA titles are sent weekly, and holdings for un-purchased and purchased PDA records are updated weekly. A PDA Working Group established the program at Western by meeting with collections librarians to …

Wasted Words?: Current Trends In Collection Development Policies, Matt Torrence, Audrey Powers, Megan Sheffield, Maureen James, Donna K. Rose, Carol I. Macheak, John R. Warrick

Charleston Library Conference

The transition to electronic resources and the changing role of the collection development librarian are having a tremendous impact on the manner by which libraries select and acquire new materials. The goal of this research project was to further elucidate the current trends of collection development policies in members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as well as gauge current use and future efficacy. The survey was designed and sent to librarians responsible for collection development at university-affiliated ARL libraries in order to obtain a current picture of academic collection development policies, and how they are changing due to …

Ebb And Flow: A Selection To Access Workflow For Consortia Pda, Denise Pan, Yem Fong, Mary Beth Chambers, Yumin Jiang

Charleston Library Conference

In the traditional workflow for delivering electronic resources to patrons, acquisitions have been the bridge between collection development and cataloging. However, new Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) purchasing models have reordered workflows and reemphasized communications. The sequence of activities differs since e-book discovery precedes purchasing activities. Workflow complexities are further exacerbated in a consortia environment. The University of Colorado (CU) system collaborated to implement a consortium PDA pilot with Ingram Academic on the MyiLibrary platform in December 2011. This presentation provides an overview of the pilot program and describes the workflow used for shared selection, cataloging, purchasing, and assessment of e-books …

Smart Pull For Remote Storage: How To Keep (Mostly) Everyone Happy When Making A Large Collection Move To Remote Storage, Tom Klingler

Charleston Library Conference

This paper includes an in-depth look at one university library’s technique in down-sizing its collection to make room for new services and to provide patrons with a more relevant, useful collection of books. Kent State University’s “smart pull” process included moving a large collection of books to remote storage to create these new services in the library. This process led to the sorting of the library’s large collection based on factors such as low use and publication date. It also allowed for continuous sorting of the collection as demand for books in the remote storage increased. The paper discusses its …

Distinctive Collections: The Space Between “General” And “Special” Collections And Implications For Collection Development, Daniel Dollar, Gregory Eow, Julie Linden, Melissa Grafe

Charleston Library Conference

Many libraries separate collection development activities into two broad categories, that of “general” collections versus “special” collections. Although this makes for a clean distinction between two areas of library activity (roughly the work of librarians as distinct and separate from that of archivists), in between these two poles lie “distinctive collections”—items that are neither especially rare nor unique (special), but are also not run-of-the-mill monographs or journals. Government documents, numeric datasets, ephemera, area collections, audiovisual media, born-digital materials—these are all recognized subsets of library collections with their own frameworks (more or less developed) for acquisition, cataloging/metadata, preservation, inter-institutional collaboration. Falling …

If You’Ve Got It, Flaunt It!: Refocusing A Collection With No Connection, Jennifer Ditkoff, Rodney Obien

Charleston Library Conference

Many libraries have a unique collection within their space that holds value and importance but has lost its connection to the college curriculum and the undergraduate research on campus. These collections may have had different people overseeing them over time or had changes in funding. They might have been created without thinking about the big picture. The paper examines one college library’s experience of turning an underused and unfocused collection into a vibrant and relevant part of the library through collaboration with key constituents in the academic and local community and staying true to the mission and vision.

Accidental Collection Assessment: The Ncsu Libraries Collection Move, Annette Day, John Vickery, Hilary Davis

Charleston Library Conference

In January 2013, the NCSU Libraries will open a brand new library, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. Approximately 1.4 million volumes will be transferred to the new library from existing campus locations for opening day, with the majority of those collections being housed in an automated retrieval system (bookBot) and not in open stacks. A collections move of this size requires strategic planning reinforced and guided by a lot of data, assessment, and clean-up of records, items, and processes. This system-wide effort has given us unique and unprecedented opportunities to assess our collections, their scope, access, composition, and trends …

Proving The Value Of Library Collections, Lea Currie, Amalia Monroe-Gulick

Charleston Library Conference

Proving the value of library collections has always been a concern of collection development librarians. Librarians have devised creative methods of gathering evidence to demonstrate to university administrations the essential role that libraries play in research productivity. In an attempt to demonstrate the value of library collections, the authors from the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries conducted a citation analysis study utilizing KU science faculty publications. Using a random sampling of faculty from the departments of Physics, Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, and Geology, the authors developed lists of the citations in these faculty publications and checked to determine if KU …

Running A Contest To Encourage Timely Monograph Ordering, Carol J. Cramer

Charleston Library Conference

An age-old problem: Whatever deadline you set for placing monograph orders, you receive a big burst of orders at the last minute. Acquisitions staff beg for book orders one month and get flooded with orders the next. Librarians at Wake Forest University tried to mitigate this problem by running a contest: spend 65% of your target by an early deadline, and your fund wins a share of a cash prize. The presenter will discuss how the contest idea proved an effective incentive for selectors and how it served to make acquisitions work more steadily.

What Is Keeping You Up At Night? A Discussion Of Current Hot Topics In Collection Development, Susanne Clement

Charleston Library Conference

In this interactive lunch discussion, participants discussed the top issues in collection development that kept them up at night. Unlike the collection development issues included in the ARL “Issue Brief: 21st-Century Collections,” released in May 2012, these participants talked about very local and immediate issues as compared to the strategic issues listed in the ARL document. The collection development issues that were discussed can be grouped into several broad categories: budget, discovery tools, collection management, and media collections.

A Real Challenge: Incorporating Patron-Driven Acquisitions Programs Into Collection Development Strategies And Budgets, Steven Carrico, Trey Shelton

Charleston Library Conference

Many academic libraries are struggling to revise collection policies and develop improved methods of allocating budgets that integrate Patron or Demand-Driven Acquisitions plans. Two Acquisitions Librarians from the University of Florida will discuss how academic libraries are meeting this challenge and describe how their library has modified collection management policies and approval profiles, and reallocated material budgets to incorporate their ongoing PDA programs.

You Call That Perpetual? Issues In Perpetual Access, Chris Bulock

Charleston Library Conference

Ensuring perpetual access to electronic resources is a difficult and multifaceted process. Many issues stand in the way of seamless ongoing access and challenge traditional definitions of “perpetual.” License agreements are often vague on the issue. Librarians and vendors often fail to properly track the content to which an institution is entitled after a contract has lapsed. New e-book editions complicate access to previous editions. Multimedia resources may rely on quickly outdated software, so that they become unusable even if the content still has value. These challenges, as well as strategies for working through them, are discussed in relation to …

Point Of Care Tools And Libraries: 12th Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch, Deborah D. Blecic, Wendy Bahnsen, Susan Klimley, Ramune K. Kubilius

Charleston Library Conference

This session included a discussion about point of care tools in the health information setting. Klimley provided a presentation on the point of care tools landscape that highlighted the importance and relevance of this topic now, evaluations that have been published about these tools, funding issues, and desirable elements of the tools. The presentation included examples of marketing techniques and product advertisements to portray the various claims and testimonials regarding these products, which provided a critical discussion on the products and their use in health information settings. A lively discussion followed the presentation to allow participants to express some of …

Collection Development And Acquisitions Policies And Procedures: Do They Meet The Needs Of Today’S Academic Library Environment?, Jeff Bailey, Linda Creibaum

Charleston Library Conference

With recent vast changes in formats, purchase/subscription options, and funding sources, many librarians are wondering if their existing policies, procedures, and processes are meeting their library’s needs in the current environment.

The presenters hope to create a survey of current practices in library collection development in order to aid librarians seeking different/improved means of doing these duties. Bailey and Creibaum began by providing information on past and present collection development methods of the Dean B. Ellis Library of Arkansas State University, including a brief overview of their allocation formula which is used to determine distribution of funds to departments. Following …

E-Books For All: Working To Establish An E-Book Dda Program Within Usmai, Lynda Aldana, Joyce Tenney, David Swords

Charleston Library Conference

USMAI is interested in providing unified, cost-effective, and creative approaches to the sharing of information and knowledge resources across its 16 libraries at public universities and colleges in Maryland. One approach USMAI has taken to achieve this goal is working to provide their patrons with increased access to more e-book collections by investing more in e-book purchases. This presentation addresses this approach as it relates to the expansion of pre-existing independent demand driven acquisitions (DDA) programs to create a consortium which would include all 16 libraries within USMAI. The project would provide access to e-book collections across these libraries to …

National Union Catalog: Asset Or Albatross?, John P. Abbott, Allan G. Scherlen

Charleston Library Conference

Midsize academic libraries face many unique challenges, particularly in the greyer areas of collection management. This presentation addresses these challenges faced by libraries in midsize institutions and how they differ from those at larger research institutions. It focuses on the presenters’ study of midsize library attitudes toward retaining or weeding the iconic National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints and the reasoning behind each. The generations of librarians who used the NUC and other analog sets are passing from the scene in academic libraries, and the incoming digital native librarian knows little or nothing about them. The fate of the NUC is …

The Purdue University Research Repository (Purr): Providing Institutional Data Services With A Virtual Research Environment, Data Publication, And Archiving, Courtney E. Matthews, Michael Witt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This presentation was part of the larger workshop "Institutional Repositories Dealing with Data: What a Difference a 'D' makes!

Beyond Jee: Finding Publication Venues To Get Your Message To The ‘Right’ Audience, Amy S. Van Epps

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Very few publications exist outlining the different publishing opportunities within engineering education as a discipline. Most researchers think immediately of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), and as the primary publication associated with the American Society for Engineering Education it is a logical first thought.

Questions arise with new graduate students and young faculty who are trying to learn the scope of engineering education as a research discipline and need to identify possible publication venues. A broad list of publications has been generated and is maintained by the ASEE Student Division in cooperation with the Center for Engineering Learning and …

Educating For Evidence Based Decisions In Engineering: The View As Librarian And Instructor, Amy S. Van Epps

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The First Year Engineering program at Purdue University is regularly reviewed and revised to adapt to the needs of the students, feedback from teaching faculty, and the changing needs of the university curriculum. In the last year, a unifying theme was added to the class to help tie all the different activities together. That theme was “evidence based decision making in engineering”, a perfect fit for introducing and discussing information literacy many times throughout the semester, rather than in a single, isolated session.

As instructor for one section of the class, the author identifies benefits to including this message throughout …

University Press/Library Cohabitation And Collaboration, Charles Watkinson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This presentation was given at a meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) on June 22, 2013. The session of which it was part explored the different models of collaboration between university presses and academic libraries and featured speakers from Cornell, Georgia, Arizona, and Purdue University.

Overview: The Role Of Information Policy In Resolving Global Challenges, Sharon A. Weiner

Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) Policy Briefs

Governments in many countries recognize the importance of knowledge-based societies whose citizens are adaptable and have the means to engage in continuous learning. Information societies can address global challenges far more readily than those that do not adopt its characteristics of ICTs (information and communication technologies) and connectivity; usable content; infrastructure and deliverability; and human intellectual capability.