Full Final Conference Program
Friday, June 4
VISION SESSION 1
STRATEGY SESSIONS GROUP A
TACTICS SESSIONS GROUP A
TACTICS SESSIONS GROUP B
7:00am-8:30am
Breakfast
Location: Starlight Terrace
7:30am-8:30am
Speakers Breakfast
Room: Salon 1-3
9:00am-10:15am
VISION SESSION 1
Linked Data and Libraries
Presenter: Eric Miller, Zepheira, LCC
Room: Salon D&E
The Web is the most successful commerce and communication platform ever conceived. With the development of recent events, the Web is quickly evolving into one of the most pervasive data management, integration and knowledge sharing platforms ever imagined. Linked Data is an emerging set of concepts and technologies for combining and integrating data. Linked Data leverages the Web as an architecture for connecting data, lowering social and technical barriers sharing these connections and accelerating collaboration and social computing. The presentation will provide an overview of Linked Data and highlight several relevant, practical examples of this work. A historical perspective as well as personal observations of the evolving social, policy, government and industry trends that support this effort will also be provided. This presentation will additionally highlight related efforts libraries are currently involved in that leverage Linked Data. This presentation will conclude by suggesting strategic and symbiotic areas of work that will help libraries leverage the potential of the Web and highlight how the Web will benefit from library science principles and practice.
10:15am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-12:00pm
STRATEGY SESSIONS, GROUP A
Strategy A-1
Digital Preservation: The Library Perspective
Presenter: Colin Meddings, Oxford University Press
Room: Salon A-C
Oxford University Press presents the results of research conducted into opinions within the academic library community on digital preservation. In this context the term 'preservation' means the preservation of electronic scholarly literature with the specific goal of ensuring materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students. This survey intends to build on and compliment recent research done by ALPSP into publisher strategies for preservation. Specifically it seeks to understand current digital preservation strategies within libraries, how libraries view the role of publishers in preservation, and attitudes towards existing industry-wide preservation initiatives.
Strategy A-2
Not for the Faint of Heart! A New Approach to "Serials" Management. User Research into Subscription Management Practices Across Print, Electronic, and Monographic Series
Presenters: Jonathan Blackburn, OCLC and Sylvia A. Lowden, OCLC
Room: Salon 5
A growing number of libraries acquire more and more of their serial publication in electronic format. This often necessitates new workflows or revised processes for ordering, renewing, and ensuring delivery of serial-based content. OCLC will be conducting research during the first half of 2010 on how to best understand these new user needs and how they might be combined into a single, integrated, serial and e-product workflow. The presenters will share the findings from this research, as well as, artifacts such as user affinity models, flow models and cultural models, gathered through a process known as Contextual Inquiry/Design. This process focuses on developing systemic solutions to big problems. We hope that the results of this research will encompass the entire "world" of subscribing, including: Current library practices for serial and e-product management – and key challenges, Vendor relationships and how they support these practices Consortial partnerships and the role they play. Additionally, the presenters will talk about the opportunities for improvement indicated by these findings and what may be possible for libraries as we move into the future.
Strategy A-3
It’s Time to Join Forces: New Approaches and Models that Support Sustainable Scholarship
Presenters: David Fritsch, JSTOR and Rachel Lee, University of California Press
Room: Salon 4
Scholarly societies and university presses face serious challenges in the coming years, due to shrinking library budgets and changes to the publishing environment. All agree on the importance of scholarly publishing in the social sciences and humanities; the question is, how can university and society publishing re-gain sustainability? Collaboration among organizations can bring big benefits particularly in the online environment. Can we create models for sustainable scholarship where publishers, librarians, and users all win? This session will explore several recent examples of cross-organizational collaboration, looking closely at the importance of scalable approaches, the need to balance the benefits to all involved, and the role of scholarly values. Speakers will discuss specifically their motivations and experience crafting the new effort recently announced by the not-for-profits, University of California Press and JSTOR, to make UC Press current journals available on the JSTOR platform and to encourage other presses to do the same.
12:00pm-1:30pm
Lunch on your own
1:30pm-2:30pm
TACTICS SESSIONS GROUP A
Tactics A-1
Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians
Presenters: Sarah Sutton, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Room: Salon 1-3
Electronic resources librarianship is a relatively new specialization among librarians but one that has become nearly indispensable in the face of rapidly evolving technologies for information organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination. In this session I present the results of my dissertation research in which I explore and define the relationship between qualifications for electronic resources librarians sought by academic library employers and qualifications for electronic resources librarianship obtained through formal librarian education in the master’s degree. Using content analysis of position advertisements I determine the qualifications for electronic resources librarians sought by academic libraries. The most prevalent of these qualifications I then seek in course descriptions and syllabi of ALA accredited librarian education programs in the U.S. The results will inform the development of core competencies for electronic resource librarianship.
Tactics A-2
Don’t Pay Twice! Leveraging Licenses to Lower Student Costs
Presenters: Angela Riggio, UCLA and Bonnie Tijerina, UCLA
Room: Salon 4
In early 2008, students approached the UCLA Library with their concerns about the high prices of printed course readers, which are filled with content the Library owns or leases. Through investigations of e-resource licenses, course pack pilot projects, and campus partnerships, the library worked to reduce the cost of course readers, at times significantly. The exercise highlighted important issues and considerations regarding the licensing of electronic materials, and stressed the importance of communicating specific license terms to users via an electronic resource management system. In this Tactics Session, two UCLA librarians will delineate efforts to lower the cost of printed course readers produced on campus by educating campus partners (Associated Students of UCLA, Academic Publishing, Student Government) about e-resource licensing and approaches to provide meaningful access to licensing terms.
Tactics A-3
Integrating Usage Statistics into Collection Development Decisions
Presenters: Dani Roach, University of St. Thomas and Linda Hulbert, University of St. Thomas
Room: Salon 5
Cost per use and usage data are not the sole tools supporting collection development decisions, but they continue to play a key role, especially in these economic times. The co-presenters of this tactic session work at a medium-sized Midwestern private university and have extensive experience in both gathering data and collection decision making based on that data. One of the presenters served on NISO’s committee charged with developing the CORE standard. Prior to and during that process, she developed expertise and a system to move large amounts of cost data from Innovative Interfaces, Inc (III) – ILS to Serials Solutions 360 Counter product, to calculate cost per use. The other presenter manages the collection development process for the university and serves as a subject liaison. In those roles she encourages her colleagues to use the data and employs the data in evaluating her journals and databases. The session will cover an overview of local methods using Microsoft products, III, and Serials Solutions 360 Counter. Print use statistics gathering and presentation will also be discussed. Training liaisons, local evaluation tools and the collection decision making process will round out the session showing the value of gathering and using the data. Whether a library needs to justify continuing a high cost subscription, compare competing resources or downsize a journal collection usage statistics are critical in providing a rational basis for evaluation that can be explained to our constituents.
Tactics A-4
Oasis or Quicksand, Implementing a Catalog Discovery Layer to Maximize Access to Electronic Resources
Presenters: Ellen Safley, University of Texas at Dallas Libraries and Debbie Montgomery, University of Texas at Dallas Libraries
Room: Salon 6-8
How do you make it easier for undergraduates to find electronic journals and other e-resources? Librarians at The University of Texas at Dallas Libraries conducted several rounds of focus group testing on a traditional online catalog and discovered where the system trips up most undergraduates. In response to the testing, a catalog discovery layer was implemented. This program will describe the results of the focus group testing and how faceted searching has improved discovery of electronic journals and other e-resources. In addition, the session will provide the audience with the decisions that were made in order to avoid the problems the staff encountered during the implementation of the new system.
Tactics A-5
Shelf-Ready? An Alternative for Library Checking In and Claiming Print Journals?
Presenters: Julie Su, San Diego State University Library; Jose Luis Andrade, Swets Americas; and Bob McQuillan, Innovative Interfaces Inc.
Room: Salon A-C
As libraries face severe budget cuts, hiring freezes, or layoffs, traditional serials functions and processes such as check-in, claiming, and binding are closely scrutinized and are under pressure to make drastic changes. Some libraries have already stopped or are tempted to discontinue check-in and claiming for print journals; others are barely keeping their heads above water. But, is this the only option or the best option? Can we maximize automation for check-in with minimal or no staff intervention? Can claims be processed and resolved by a third party service? Is it time to entertain the concept of shelf-ready service for print serials? This program will examine issues related to print journal processing in a time of severe economic downturn. It will explore the potential of collaborating with serials vendors and ILS automation tools to deliver current issues shelf-ready, with automated batch check-in and claims processed. The session does not intend to present a perfect product or service, but only to demonstrate promising applications and solutions to traditional labor-intensive journal receiving processes. The presentation welcomes discussions and encourages other innovative ideas from the audience.
Tactics A-6
What Can the Cataloger Do with an ERM?
Presenter: Steve Shadle, University of Washington Libraries
Room: Salon F-H
Did you think that ERM was just for tracking licensing, cost, and other management information for electronic resources? In this session, a cataloger from the University of Washington discusses problems they have encountered with managing catalog record sets and describes how they are using ERM for managing the cataloging of sets, both electronic and microform.
2:30pm-2:45pm
Break
2:45pm-3:45pm
TACTICS SESSIONS, GROUP B
Tactics B-1
Can't We Write a Little Script for This? Managing Serials Data and xISSN
Presenters: Roy Tennant, OCLC, Mike Beccaria, Paul Smith’s College; and Adam Traub, St. John Fisher College
Room: Salon A-C
Have you ever been stuck trying to figure out the alternate title of a publication, see when the online edition started, or looked into the peer-review status of journals for a department-wide project? xISSN is a Web Service available from OCLC to help with all of these situations and more. Come hear how two different librarians from Paul Smith's College and St. John Fisher College created scripts, mash-ups and modules using xISSN to help manage the stream of serials data via machine-to-machine processing for their staff and users.
Tactics B-2
Industry Initiatives - What You Need to Know
Presenters: Ross MacIntyre, Mimas, The University of Manchester
Room: Salon F-H
Professional societies worldwide have undertaken projects that can affect and inform NASIG members. There are numerous initiatives underway that have some effect on the serials industry, from production, purchase and provision, to consumption, usage analysis and archiving. This session would aim to provide a brief introduction to such developments, including some of those involving UKSG. Learn about their initiatives such as Project Transfer, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART), Journal Usage Factor, Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (PIRUS) and JISC's Usage Statistics Portal project.
Tactics B-3
Let the Patron Drive: Purchase on Demand of E-books
Presenters: Jonathan Nabe, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Room: Salon 1-3
Southern Illinois University Carbondale initiated a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) program in the late fall of 2008. Via the MyiLibrary platform, the University community gained access to over 8000 titles from hundreds of publishers. This session will discuss the ins and outs and ups and downs associated with purchasing e-books on demand. We will discuss the plan from various viewpoints, including acquisition, cataloging, collection development and budgeting, and assessment. With over a year’s worth of data, we will detail results and provide analysis of user behavior and preferences, costs, subject coverage, staffing issues and workflow implications. Comparisons with print collection purchases and use during the same time period will be made.
Tactics B-4
Licensing Electronic Journals Through Non-Subscription-Agent "Go-Betweens"
Presenters: Betty Landesman, NIH Library and Pinar Erzin, Accucoms, Inc.
Room: Salon 4
Conventional licensing wisdom says that libraries work either through subscription agents or directly with publishers. There is in fact a middle way, where for-profit or not-for-profit organizations handle pricing inquiries, terms and conditions, and often customer service on behalf of multiple publishers. And the libraries can work with one middleperson instead of many separate publisher contact. This session will describe the whys and hows of this novel form of outsourcing from the perspective of two such organizations, Accucoms and faseb.org.
Tactics B-5
Like a Haven in the Shifting Economic Sands
Presenters: Melissa Beck, UCLA Law Library and Valerie Bross, UCLA Libraries
Room: Salon 5
Discussion of how the UC CONSER Funnel has used e-learning tools for training & community-building in lean economic times. What types of activities are supported by these tools? What are the lessons learned about organizing successful sessions? What are some of the pitfalls to avoid?
4:00pm-5:30pm
Business Meeting and Brainstorming
Room: Salon D & E
Agenda and Brainstorming Topic
Dinner and Evening Activities on your own. Don't forget about Palm Springs VillageFest. Also, Palm Springs Restaurant Week starts tonight!
