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Acquisitions For Newbies, Jeff Bailey, Linda Creibaum, Kirk Gordon

Charleston Library Conference

Designed specifically for librarians new to the field of acquisitions, this preconference workshop featured an informal introduction to the basics of acquisitions librarianship from three standpoints: an acquisitions librarian, a library director with a background in acquisitions, and a regional sales manager for a key vendor to libraries for e-content and software as a solution.

The session covered a variety of issues related to the acquisition of both monographs and serials, print and e-formats, and database and backfile purchases. Discussions included similarities and differences between acquisitions and collection development (and how they can vary from library to library), ordering considerations, …

Developing A Statewide Print Repository In Florida: The Ucf Experience With Flare, Michael Arthur, Ying Zhang

Charleston Library Conference

Many academic libraries are struggling with collections size reaching or exceeding building capacity. Meanwhile, the movement of twenty-first-century libraries calls for user-centered space. The combination of these two factors has challenged libraries to identify ways to eliminate physical collections without losing access to content.

The academic libraries in the State of Florida, including the University of Central Florida (UCF), have discussed and developed plans for a shared print repository for several years. For the past few years a statewide Shared Storage Task Force was convened with representation from the state university libraries, and eventually formed the Florida Academic Repository (FLARE) …

Imagine More Space In Your Library! Weeding Bound Periodicals, Susan M. Andrews, Sandra K. Hayes

Charleston Library Conference

Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries was out of space and needed more. When there is no possibility of adding square footage to the existing building, other options have to be considered. These space considerations, plus the fact that an increasing number of the periodicals in the Libraries’ existing print collection were duplicated electronically, made the bound periodicals area a prime target for creating space via weeding. The poster presentation that this paper is based upon examines the process that was undertaken, the criteria for deselection, and the problems that were encountered along the way and how they were addressed.

Data To Decisions: Shared Print Retention In Maine, Becky Albitz, Deb Rollins

Charleston Library Conference

Shared print initiatives are gaining visibility across the country. While the majority of programs up to this point, such as the West Storage Trust and the CIC, have focused on journals, a growing number of these cooperative ventures are exploring regional retention of both monographs and journals. The Maine Shared Collection Strategy is one such initiative.

All of a sudden, libraries seem have too much print in their stacks, much of it unused, if statistics are to be believed. The usual solution is judicious de-accessioning, aka weeding, based on various factors such as circulation, age, duplication across formats, and collection …

120 To 12: Reducing Days To Shelf With Vendor Services, Catalog On Receipt, And Automated Bibliographic Overlay Process, Sherle Abramson-Bluhm

Charleston Library Conference

Technical Services at University of Michigan underwent a major reorganization in 2007, combining the Serials and Acquisitions Division with the Monograph Cataloging Division which led to a substantial reduction in time to shelf. Resources were reallocated for the increasing electronic assets and long neglected special projects. This paper details the changes made in staffing configurations and responsibilities, as well as adjustments in workflow, including employment of vendor records for a modified EDI ordering process and utilization of shelf-ready processing for print materials. To speed items to the shelf, new acquisitions were mainstreamed and cataloging on receipt was implemented for materials …

I Hear The Train A Comin’, Greg Tananbaum, William Gunn, Lorraine Haricombe

Charleston Library Conference

In each issue of Against the Grain, Greg Tananbaum's Train column explores what is around the bend on the scholarly communications track. Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas and Chair of the Steering Committee for SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), and William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach at Mendeley, engage in a lively discussion about the transformative issues information providers, publishers, and libraries will soon be contemplating. The session is conversational in nature. No PowerPoints, no canned speeches—just two insightful industry experts talking about access, the role of the library, the state of …

Hyde Park Corner Debate, Elizabeth Chapman, Rick Anderson, Jean-Claude Guédon

Charleston Library Conference

This year’s debate tackled the issue: The Current System of Scholarly Publishing, Whereby Publishers Receive Content for Free and Then Sell It Back to Libraries at a High Price, Must Fundamentally Change. The speakers both presented their arguments, covering topics from scholarly publishing stages, pricing, open access, funding, and beyond to demonstrate the changing environments in scholarly publishing and how to approach these issues in the future.

The Long Arm Of The Law, Ann Okerson, William Hannay, Bruce Strauch, Georgia Harper, Madelyn Wessel

Charleston Library Conference

In this paper, we offer "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." You decide which is which! This session heard from legal experts about topics, such as: the Supreme Court's decision at the end of March 2013 in the Kirtsaeng case; the various spillovers arising from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust enforcement action against Apple and various e-book publishers for price fixing, including substantial settlement(s), subject to court approval; an intellectual property overview focused particularly on MOOCs; and a close look at some seemingly shifting (over time) court views about fair use, particularly transformative uses. All of …

University Presses And Academic Libraries Demystified: A Conversation, Leila W. Salisbury, Peter Berkery, Angela Carreño, Ellen Faran, Fred Heath

Charleston Library Conference

Picking up the thread from last year’s Charleston plenary on the past, present, and future of university presses, panelists engage in a structured discussion designed to demystify the behind-the-scenes workings of presses and libraries and to chart the paths to successful service to the academic community.

Each panelist opens with a brief statement, “One thing I wish everyone knew about publishers/libraries...” Discussion of these key topics will follow:

• Change is the only constant: What is something that is changing/revolutionizing your work? How does that affect your scholarly counterparts?
• Open access material: What is price access and how does the question …

The British National Approach To Scholarly Communication, Lorraine Estelle

Charleston Library Conference

In the UK in June 2012, the Finch Group published its report “Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to Expand Access to Research Publications.” The Finch Group, with representatives from scholarly publishing and UK academia, agreed that the broad open access is the way of the future and that the preferred path is gold open access. On 16 July 2012, the Research Councils UK unveiled its new open access policy informed by the work of the Finch Group. The policy mandates that research outputs must be published in journals that are compliant with Research Council policy on open access and must use …

Plato’S Cave Revisited, Bruce Heterick

Charleston Library Conference

Since the inception of indexed-based web-scale discovery services for libraries, JSTOR has been providing metadata to Primo (Ex Libris), EDS (EBSCO), Summon (Serials Solutions), and WorldCat Local (OCLC). By participating in these services, JSTOR’s aim was to help libraries leverage their significant investments in their discovery service of choice and to help students, faculty, and researchers find the content available on the JSTOR platform at their chosen starting point.

While there have been a number of studies on these discovery services, there is little written about the impact on content usage from the perspective of the content provider. JSTOR has …

Open Access, Public Access: Policies, Implementation, Developments, And The Future Of U.S.-Published Research, Alicia Wise, Amy Friedlander, Howard Ratner, Judy Ruttenberg, John Wilbanks

Charleston Library Conference

In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo directing each US funding agency with over $100 million in annual research expenditure to develop a plan to support public access to the results of research funded by the federal government, including results published in scholarly journals. How has the OSTP memo impacted scholarly publishing so far? What exactly has been achieved so far, and what will it mean for the future of U.S.-published research? This interactive session features a panel of speakers who will be discussing the recent developments and emerging issues from the …

Do Not Be An Invisible Library!, Rick Burke, Matt Goldner, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Franny Lee

Charleston Library Conference

The role of the library keeps changing, particularly with the development of new education models and technologies. User behaviors are changing, too, and libraries need to adapt and use different approaches in providing library services and access to content. Digital tools make online content search easy, but sometimes the value the library brings gets lost, even though it is the library that purchases, sets up, and maintains that online access to content. The most recent Ithaka US Faculty Survey highlights this misunderstanding—a large percentage of scientists feel that “because faculty have easy access to academic content online, the role librarians …

Content, Services, And Space: The Future Of The Library As Lines Blur, David Parker, Rick Anderson, Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Nancy Gibbs, Heather Staines

Charleston Library Conference

Traditional roles of libraries, publishers, service providers, and even patrons are continually changing. Libraries increasingly take on functions previously managed by publishers—in some cases, by actually becoming traditional publishers, through the absorption of university press operations and the creation of IR-based journals, and in some cases by making direct investments in dissemination, by underwriting Open Access APCs. Librarians are expanding into learning, instructional design, software development, and more, providing services around the world to a much wider range of patrons. Meanwhile, patron-driven initiatives are continue to alter the way libraries acquire content, giving rise to questions about how collections are …

What Provosts Think Librarians Should Know, Jeanine Stewart, Elizabeth Paul, John Vaughn, James J. O'Donnell

Charleston Library Conference

Three senior leaders will reveal what Provosts worry about when they think about libraries. Charged to be frank and direct, they will talk about what they value in libraries, but also about what the challenges are that they face that affect how they think about libraries. Budget, facilities, and their perception of what faculty and students want and need will all play into this. This session is an opportunity for a frank exchange of views with real provosts—without worrying about how they react!

Collections Are For Collisions: Let Us Design It Into The Experience, Steven J. Bell

Charleston Library Conference

We talk about collections all the time: how to build and share them; how to provide access; how to enlist the community in selecting; how to prove the value of collections; how to use collection statistics. We even talk about collections that are hidden and how to get rid of the ones we no longer need. What we infrequently discuss is how to get community members connected with the collections. A hot topic of conversation, particularly in the design of work environments, is how to create collisions that lead to good outcomes. In this plenary session, Steven Bell, Associate University …

If The University Is In The Computer, Where Does That Leave The Library? Moocs Discovered, Meredith Schwartz, Lynn Sutton, Rick Anderson, Meg White

Charleston Library Conference

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are disrupting the traditional view of learning and the academy. Using technology, high-quality courses taught by some of the brightest minds are now available to unprecedented numbers of students. The university now has the potential to be in the computer. If the university is truly in the computer, what does that mean for the library?

In this plenary session, Meredith Schwartz from Library Journal shares highlights from her article “Massive Open Opportunity: Supporting MOOCs in Public and Academic Libraries,” with an emphasis on academic communities. Key topics include definitions, current and future trends, and the …

“Lifelong Learning” In 6 Minutes And 40 Seconds, John Dove

Charleston Library Conference

In the spirit of “anything worth doing is worth doing superficially,” the author provides, in classic “PechaKucha” style, a presentation on Lifelong Learning. Tasked with describing how Credo Reference can affect the quality of teaching and learning, the author presents examples of inspiration for this topic in a “shotgun” presentation, encouraging presentation attendees to learn more about MOOCs and the opportunities they present for education, educators, libraries, and students.

Scholarly Societies, Scholarly Publishing, And The New Information Ecology, Robert Kieft, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Brandon Nordin, Steven C. Wheatley

Charleston Library Conference

Since the founding of the Royal Society in the 1660s and with the development of disciplinary fields in the later nineteenth century, scholarly societies have established themselves as mediators of the professional lives of faculty and as vital components of the ecology of scholarly communication. In their interactions with libraries, societies may appear primarily as publishers of newsletters, books, reports, journals, indexes, and databases, but they also promote the creation and diffusion of knowledge by serving as hubs for professional activity, contributors to the making of public policy and opinion, providers of education, representatives of the interests of their members, …

Discovery Or Displacement? A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study Of The Effect Of Discovery Systems On Online Journal Usage, Michael Levine-Clark, Jason Price, John Mcdonald

Charleston Library Conference

In this first large-scale study of the effect of discovery systems on electronic resource usage, the authors present initial findings on how these systems alter online journal usage by academic library researchers. The study examines usage of content hosted by four major academic journal publishers at 24 libraries that have implemented one of the major discovery systems, EBSCO's EDS, Ex Libris’s Primo, OCLC’s Worldcat Local, or SerialsSolutions’s Summon. A statistically rigorous comparison of COUNTER-compliant journal usage at each library from the 12 months before and after implementation will determine the degree to which usage rises or falls after discovery tool …

Librarians In The Postdigital Information Era: Reclaiming Our Rights And Responsibilities, Jenica P. Rogers

Charleston Library Conference

The best libraries were never simply buyers and warehouses for information, but something more, centered around synthesis and access and creativity. As the information ecosystem has shifted, forcing our attention to the operational side of how we manage information, some of us have lost sight of that. We hand over our shrinking resources to prominent for-profit publishers and vendors, because it is how the system works, without considering what our role in that system is, has been, and might be. It is time to remind everyone that the power of libraries lies not in our passivity but in our action …

Beyond Implementation: Making Your Erms Work For You, Andrea Langhurst, Stacey Marien, Kari Schmidt

Charleston Library Conference

The University of Notre Dame started building CORAL (http://erm.library.nd.edu/), a modularized open source ERM, over two years ago. Implementation caused workflow changes, including deeper information sharing with stakeholders, enhanced record-keeping and increased efforts and options for institutional knowledge storage. Likewise, American University, after learning about CORAL’s workflow utilities, implemented the Resources module to solve ongoing and emerging workflow issues when responsibility for some e-book ordering shifted from the ERM unit to the Acquisitions unit. Learn how ERM practices were enhanced and expanded at the two Libraries through the use of this flexible system.

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

Charleston Library Conference

Are collection development policies viable today? In order to answer that question, librarians at the University of South Florida, Tampa Library sent out a survey to all academic ARL Libraries to obtain a holistic picture of academic collection development policies, how they are changing due to the abundance of electronic resources and new methods of data-driven acquisition. 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 further elucidates the current trends of collection …

Measuring And Applying Data About Users In The Seton Hall Library, Rachel E. Volentine, Lisa M. Rose-Wiles, Carol Tenopir

Charleston Library Conference

We present data on how faculty and students at Seton Hall University use scholarly articles and books, how the library can present its findings to stakeholders, and how librarians can learn from these findings to better meet user needs. The data were gathered using questionnaire surveys of university faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students as part of the IMLS Lib-Value project and based on Tenopir and King Studies conducted since 1977. Many questions used the critical incident of the last article and book reading to enable analysis of the characteristics of readings, in addition to characteristics of readers. Seton Hall’s …

Discover Eds: Tales Of Implementation And Use, Audrey Powers, Lily Todorinova, Shannon E. Fox, Athena Hoeppner, Mary Page, Rafal Kasprowski, Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger, Alyssa Koclanes, Virginia Polley, Robb M. Waltner

Charleston Library Conference

This paper supplements the panel, which was delivered in a “Lively Lunch” format and included presentations by librarians who have employed EBSCO’s Discovery System (EDS) in their academic institutions. The panelists addressed several important aspects of launching a discovery system in an academic library, such as Implementation; Information Literacy; and Assessment, Usability and Customization. The implementation component included technical aspects, business requirements, enhancing the operability of link resolvers, launch preparation, and implementation success. The information literacy portion addressed how academic reference services and library instruction have been transformed because of EDS. Assessment, Usability and Customization focused on customizing the search …

Positive Feedback: Using Interlibrary Loan Transaction Log Data To Inform Collection Development, Teresa Negrucci, Forrest Link

Charleston Library Conference

The Associate Librarian for Access Services and Collection Management at Brown University Library requested an analysis of user and bibliographic data for faculty requests in the BorrowDirect and ILLiad systems to provide some insight on possible gaps in the library’s monographic collection from the faculty perspective. They processed and analyzed the data from both of these systems to determine these gaps and find a way to fix them. This paper explains their steps and provides a brief look at the positive feedback on their approach, all of which helped them to achieve a more successful process of collection development and …

Positively Perplexing E-Books: Digital Natives’ Perceptions Of Electronic Information Resources, Tara T. Cataldo, Amy G. Buhler

Charleston Library Conference

Anecdotal evidence from user surveys and the experiences of information professionals portray a picture that today’s students (i.e., “digital natives”) do not differentiate between the variety of information resources online. The issue of container only becomes problematic to these students when they have to produce a scholarly work and cite their information sources. Then the question becomes, “What is it?” This paper will present preliminary data from a survey of university students on how they recognize and label electronic information resources. The authors will explore such questions as: Do users recognize an e-book as a book? If not, how do …

Everything That’S Wrong With E-Book Statistics: A Comparison Of E-Book Packages, Karin Byström

Charleston Library Conference

This poster presentation highlights the problems that exist in defining “a download” for e-books. Even though there is a COUNTER code of practice, a download can still be defined as either a page, chapter or title use. Many e-book publishers don’t follow COUNTER at all, and then the differences are even bigger. Libraries face many problems because of this, and this poster aims to raise awareness on the problems concerning analyzing e-book usage statistics.

Striving For Uniqueness: Data-Driven Database Deselection, Jeremy M. Brown, Geoffrey P. Timms

Charleston Library Conference

As libraries endure an ongoing crisis of available funds to meet inflating electronic content costs, the idea to dispatch the perceived least important e-resources to help balance the budget is a tempting solution. Mercer University Libraries recognizes the challenge of finding areas in which to cut back on its resources. They closely examine their subscriptions to prioritize their patrons’ needs, maintain budgetary equilibrium, and remain true to their goals. The Library Systems Department has worked to develop their own tool to assist decision makers with pertinent information about the uniqueness of both their full text and index databases and packages, …

The Truth Is Out: How Students Really Search, Beth S. Bloom, Marta Deyrup

Charleston Library Conference

The transition to electronic resources and the evolution of digital technologies has provided the public with the ability to conduct research without physically stepping into a library. This has led to the development of research habits using Internet search engines, mainly Google, which follow students to college. This presentation discusses the results of a two-year study of students’ online research behaviors which show that many students are comfortable with their current research habits and have little motivation to adopt new ones. Five examples of student research behaviors from the study are included to portray the burgeoning problem and provoke interest …