Full Final Conference Program
Sunday, June 6
TACTICS SESSION GROUP C
VISION SESSION 3
7:00am-8:30am
Breakfast
Location: Starlight Terrace
7:30am-9:00am
Executive Board Meeting
Room: Salon 6-7
9:00am-10:00am
TACTICS SESSIONS GROUP C
Tactics C-1
Beyond Lists and Guides: Using Usability to Help Students Get the Most out of E-Resources
Presenters: Amy Fry, Bowling Green State University
Room: Salon A-C
Most libraries maintain A-Z lists, subject lists and detailed descriptions of their databases and ejournals, usually from metadata housed in ERMs, homegrown databases, or vendor knowledgebases. But do these lists and records really help our users find and choose the most appropriate resources for their research needs? What web design and development choices can we make to help users get the most out of our electronic collections? This presentation will report on background research and web usability testing carried out at Bowling Green State University in Ohio designed to find out how libraries can not just make better lists, but support how users really connect to e-resources. The presenter will provide an assessment of established best practices for the presentation of databases and ejournals on library websites, share the methodology and results of web usability testing conducted at BGSU in 2009-2010, and show the resulting web design changes made using BGSU’s instances of the Millennium ERM, LibGuides, CMS, and Serials Solutions.
Tactics C-2
One Identifier: Find Your Oasis with NISO's I2 (Institutional Identifier) Standard
Presenters: Tina Feick, Harrassowitz and Helen Henderson, Ringgold, Inc.
Room: Salon F-H
Libraries, publishers, vendors, automation system vendors, consortia, platform providers, and institutional repositories are using multiple identifiers for the same institution. NISO's I2 (Institutional Identifier) Working Group has developed the concept of a globally unique identifier string usable in the web environment. Come learn and provide feedback about the metadata to define the identifier to the institution including concerns about hierarchical relationships and legacy identifiers. The session will conclude with a discussion of the implementation plans for a registry for the identifier.
Tactics C-3
Pay-Per-Use Article Delivery at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Presenters: Mindy King, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Aaron Nichols, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Room: Salon 1-3
Exponentially increasing journal costs are a fact of life. Libraries can no longer afford to purchase expensive, low use journals “just in case” an article is needed. Recently, the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Library conducted a pilot, pay-per-use article delivery program that offered “just in time” access to articles our patrons actually need. This pay-per-use article delivery service promises 24 hour, desk-top delivery of articles from more than 3000 journals, and is available to university faculty, staff and students. The key to success of this service is its ease of use. Requests are submitted by completing a standard Interlibrary Loan request – a process our users are already familiar with. Requests from eligible journals are automatically routed into a special queue in ILLiad where staff are easily able to identify articles to order via the pay-per-use method. Over a three month period approximately 400 pay-per-use requests were made. Requested articles were emailed to users along with a short survey asking about convenience and quality of the service. The majority of users expressed that they were impressed with both the speed of the service and high quality (color images, etc) of the articles. When asked how convenient the pay-per-use service was compared to using a print journal in the library 90% of respondents rated the service as more convenient (70% thought it was much more convenient). These results, along with feedback from university faculty, were used to cancel high cost/low use journals in favor of the pay-per-use model, resulting in over $50,000 savings in journals subscriptions. Cancellations are to begin January 2010, at which time the survey will be reopened to gain feedback after the print version is no longer available.
Tactics C-4
Making E-Serials Holdings Data Transferable--Applying the KBART Recommended Practice
Presenters: Jason Price, Claremont Colleges Library and SCELC Consortium
Room: Salon 4
The knowledge base supply chain is fraught with incomplete and unmatchable holdings data. Seemingly simple package updates from a publisher or aggregator to a holdings knowledgebase provider (e.g. ExLibris or Serials Solutions) often require a great deal of manual labor or completely fail due to these mismatches. We'll examine the ways in which publisher adoption of the KBART best practices can improve the update process for libraries and consortia, focusing on the specifics that the practice requires and how librarians can encourage its adoption.
Tactics C-5
Metadata Value Chain for Open Access E-Journals
Presenter: Holly Mercer, Texas A&M University
Room: Salon 5
Tools and services that expedite digital publishing are a boon for small presses and independent journals. The growth of open access journals is due in part to availability of cost-effective publishing platforms. However, going digital is just one step in the process of getting discovered by researchers who begin and end their research online. What roles do libraries and metadata play in a world of full-text searching? This tactics session will explore the metadata value chain from several stakeholder perspectives, with an eye toward improving the discovery and use of small press, independent, and open access e-journals.
10:00am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-11:45am
VISION SESSION 3
Serials Management in the Next-Generation Library Environment
Panelists: Jonathan Blackburn, OCLC; Neil Block, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.; Brendan Gallagher, ByWater Solutions; Robert McDonald, Kuali OLE Project/Indiana University
Moderator: Clint Chamberlain, University of Texas, Arlington
Room: Salon D&E
Technological developments in the Integrated Library System arena are raising questions about the future of serials management. The Open Library Environment Project, OCLC web-scale initiative, open source development, and new products from established vendors are all raising questions about serials management. Can we repurpose publisher and subscription agent metadata? Can we better exchange financial data with parent organizations? Can I really put this kind of information "in the cloud"? What if there is not a serials module in the new system? An expert panel will explore these questions and the benefits and challenges for developments in library systems.
11:45-am-12:00pm
Conference Closing
Room: Salon D&E
