Annual Conference
 Full Final Conference Program USER GROUP MEETINGS 7:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Breakfast Room: Windsor Ballroom (only) 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. NASIG Executive Board Meeting Room: Oakland Heights Room (12th floor) 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. 1. EBSCO A-Z (Robert Bland, University of North Carolina-Asheville) Location: Grand Ballroom, Salon A EBSCO provides libraries with a variety of services through its A-to-Z and MARC Record Service products. The purpose of this meeting is to gather input from the users of these services about how the services are being used in individual libraries, to make recommendations to EBSCO about enhancement of services, and to discuss tips and techniques for getting the most from the services. 2. III Millennium: Serials, ERM and more! (Sarah Glasser, Hofstra University, and Deberah England, Wright State University) Location: Grand Ballroom, Salon B Information sharing session on using the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Millennium integrated library system to manage serials and electronic resources. Tips, tricks, and what's new with III are some of the topics that will be discussed. Bring your questions and comments. 3. ScholarlyStats User Group meeting (Christine Stamison, Swets) Location: Grand Ballroom, Salon C ScholarlyStats is an online portal for library usage statistics designed to provide a single point of access to vendor usage statistics. Come and learn what's new with ScholarlyStats and what is coming next. Customers and prospects alike are welcome to come and present feedback. 4. Serials Solutions User Group: Integrating Serials Solutions Products into E-Resource Work Flow (Andree Rathemacher, University of Rhode Island and Tracey Thompson, New Mexico State University) Location: Alexander Room (2nd floor) Discuss how your library uses products such as 360 Core, 360 Resource Manager, and 360 Counter to manage and provide end-user access to e-resources. Share how your library has integrated these products into your work flow, including what level of staff in what areas of the library work with the products. For those who use the 360 Counter product to gather usage statistics, share your strategies for matching usage data from vendors with the databases you have selected in Serials Solutions, and how to enter cost data effectively. 5. SirsiDynix User Group Session (Sharon Dyas-Correia) Location: Victoria Room (2nd floor) The session facilitator will lead participants in a discussion of possible enhancements and common issues for SirsiDynix products related to Serials. 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a,m. Tactics -C1 Registration Ruminations: Do Your End Users Have Access to Everything You’ve Paid For? Presenters: Kristina Krusmark, EBSCO Information Services; Mary Throumoulos, Rollins College Online resources have been a major innovation in the dissemination of scholarly content. However, in the decade or so since online journal content was first widely introduced, the challenges in acquiring, administering, and providing access to that content remain, and many librarians continue to struggle with those challenges. In particular, the processes of registering, activating, and providing ongoing support to e-journals can be overwhelming, as evidenced by the fact that, in many cases, a significant portion of a library’s e-content is never activated. These challenges cause ongoing frustration--not only among library staff assigned to manage e-related processes, but also among end users who expect timely access to content. This session will present workflows, issues, challenges, and opportunities for increasing efficiencies in e-journal registration and management. The presenters will also address the role of the vendor, as an intermediary between libraries and publishers, in assisting with the process to ensure that content is accessible to end users and that the library's investment in that content is realized. Tactics-C2 Creating Core Title Lists for Print Subscription Retention & Storage/Weeding Presenter: Shirley Rais, Loma Linda University Room: Grand Ballroom, Salon B Usage statistics from 1994-2006 were compiled and analyzed in order to: 1) create a core list of subscribed titles that should be retained in both print & electronic formats, 2) determine which subscriptions could be flipBped to electronic only, and 3) identify print titles in the journal stacks that should remain accessible, be removed to storage, or be withdrawn from the collection. The Statistical analysis resulted in 2 lists: "Top 300" current subs. That should be retained in both print & electronic formats, and top 450 journals with the highest historical use that should remain accessible in the journals stacks. I will report on how we arrived at the 2 lists and how I've used them for 2008 & 2009 renewals and in our journal weeding process. Tactics-C3 Using a Local ERMS to Manage EJournals: Can It Get Any Better Than This? Presenter: Polly Khater, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Room: Grand Ballroom, Salon C The Smithsonian Institution Libraries uses a locally developed and maintained database for managing electronic resources. Journal and database titles, vendors, ILL usage, and SIL PURLs are collected and tracked for free and subscribed content in one central access tool. This session will discuss the current workflows along with the pros and cons of such an arrangement, and some possible future directions for SIL. 11 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. What Color Is Your Paratext? Presenter: Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef Room: Grand Ballroom How do we judge authority in a world where content is protean, provenance is vague and identity is cheap? This talk will propose some concrete steps that librarians and publishers can take in order to create a new epistemic infrastructure for identifying trustworthy content on the web. 12:30 p.m.-12:45 p.m. Conference Closing: Next Conference Announcement – Prizes
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