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1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Managing license agreements is an important assignment for E-Resources librarians.  ALMA license module ensures managing license agreements and displaying copyright and ILL permissions in search results. This session provides a workflow for creating license records, adding licensing terms, linking relevant PO lines, inventory and effectively attaching license agreements to e-collections. 

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Hands-on workshop walks through all components of resource access, including identity management, authentication and authorization, and browser technology. Compare systems and discuss considerations for choosing among options. Map your institution’s systems and feel confident supporting all stages of users’ access journey: troubleshooting, communicating among stakeholders, and planning and implementing changes.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

In this highly interactive, practical session, we'll introduce COUNTER Metrics – the standard for usage reporting – and guide you through obtaining and working with your reports. You’ll come away understanding which metrics to use, how to combine COUNTER and other data, and how to communicate your findings to management.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Join our 4-hour workshop to immerse yourself in UX research using primary and secondary mock data. Dive into user testing methodologies, card sorts and tree tests, to make data-driven improvements to your offerings, digital or physical. Learn to craft unbiased questions that bridge the gap between user intentions and actions.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

You have heard about Tableu for collection analysis, but what about PowerBI? Power BI is a free Microsoft product that easily can connect to multiple data sources to visualize and analyze data. This workshop will teach basic skills to create collection analysis reports with a focus on subject diversity.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Join us on an exploration into how we streamlined our Database A-Z list as part of a top-to-bottom LibGuides overhaul. We will walk you through our process and describe the changes, including Athenizing the links, updating all descriptions, removing icons, applying consistent titles, and reviewing and updating subject associations.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This presentation summarizes an interview study that was conducted to understand common issues and challenges that academic librarians face when negotiating with vendors. The results were used to inform content creation of a new OER launching in the first half of 2024 to teach negotiation skills and strategy.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

If you've heard of PowerBI but aren't sure where to start, this presentation will give a brief overview of the tool, explore some its functionalities, and share some use cases. Familiarity with data tools like Excel, OpenRefine, and Tableau are helpful but not necessary.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

The information community is transitioning from the world of journal subscriptions to the new economy of Open Access (OA) articles. The infrastructure, standards, and practices that have been honed over decades no longer fit our work today. We need to work together to create new best practices to support interoperability for new requirements and workflows across organizations; libraries, publishers, and intermediaries. NISO's new working group, "Operationalizing Open Access Business Processes" is analyzing gaps and definining new protocols; this session will describe its progress.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Evolving journal models present challenges for libraries, consortia, publishers, and service providers. The management of the models available is straining thinly staffed library operations. This session will explore challenges faced by all in this ecosystem and explore how to work together to develop solutions that benefit the scholarly communications ecosystem.

5. User Experience & Promotion

The LSU Library's launch of an interactive chat widget in Fall 2021 led to a substantial increase in user engagement. This proposal highlights the dual role of chat as a virtual help desk and a live user-experience reporting tool. Analyzing chat transcripts revealed significant access-related issues, presenting an opportunity to enhance student satisfaction and identify hidden problems within the library's resources. This presentation will primarily address e-resource challenges, including EzProxy stanzas, custom links, and web submission forms, demonstrating the potential of chat as a valuable feedback mechanism. 

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

The University of Wyoming has developed a data mining process using Python and the platforms Dimensions and OpenAlex to pull institutional scholarly publication data to compare open and closed publications for 2022. We interpreted the results within a framework of cost analysis, sustainability, and interactions with other publishing practices. 

3. Organizational Strategies

This presentation describes how a small, centralized team of eresource management staff at University of Toronto Libraries managed transition after significant staffing changes. By scaling eresource competencies, eresource management transitioned to a decentralized model and increased efficiency in workflows. Presenters reflect on documentation, communication, and next steps for moving forward. 

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Online education has led to the widespread adoption of patron driven acquisitions models for streaming video platforms. Kanopy’s Smart PDA program provides value to libraries without compromising access. Several academic libraries - both public and private - will share successes, challenges, and discoveries of this innovative program.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

In the spirit of the Collaborative Futures initiative, the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) consortium advanced its goal of Collective Collecting by undertaking a consortial Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) program. This presentation outlines the rationale, process, outcomes, and lessons learned from the project. Relevant documents will also be shared.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

From 2020-23, ITHAKA ran a pilot to test whether the infrastructure created to support JSTOR and Portico could impact the access to, and preservation of library digitized collections. SCELC and CUNY decided to invest in these new infrastructure services after the pilot. We will discuss their rationale, expectations, and aspirations

5. User Experience & Promotion

'Find a Space', inspired by 'Harvard’s Find a Space', was created to improve wayfinding and address accessibility challenges in our facility.  This presentation will share details about how the site was built in Drupal, the usability work that was done to inform the process, and student response to the project.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

This presentation is based on the findings of a grant-funded study that examined the cancellation of journal packages at four medium-sized Canadian universities.  An outcome of the study is a series of best practices, which reflect on decision-making perspectives of librarians, library administrators as well as faculty and graduate students.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Accessibility is mission-critical to successful use of e-resources. This mission incorporates an accessibility-first approach into the e-resource lifecycle. The session will cover digital accessibility requirements in procurement and contract processes, how to review and validate a vendor’s VPAT, how to advocate for accessibility improvements, and how to document this work. 

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Embark on a practical exploration of how university libraries employ Altmetric and Dimensions through three insightful case studies. First, we'll delve into how these tools inform collection development decisions, offering a nuanced, data-driven approach to journal subscriptions. Next, we'll navigate faculty impact analysis, demonstrating quantifiable measurement of the influence of academic contributions both in and outside of academia. Finally, we'll identify institution research trends and potential opportunities.  Join us for a grounded discussion on the tangible ways data-driven strategies enhance library practices, providing librarians with valuable insights for informed decision-making in their daily roles.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Academic libraries often grapple with implementing and maintaining an Electronic Resource Management (ERM) system due to time constraints or small staff. This presentation examines three different ERM’s in regards to their infrastructure and functionality

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Libraries invest significantly in e-resources with hopes of use. Vendor-provided statistics often lack user-level data. At UH-Manoa, user logins are required for accessing e-resources, whether on-campus or off-campus. This access point data enables the library to comprehend user behaviors, including timing, location, and platforms they use for access. The session will include an analysis of EZ-proxy entry points from 2017 to 2023 covering the periods before, during, and after COVID-19 pandemic.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This session will present the recent e-resources accessibility audit undertaken at Lafayette College, a small liberal arts college. The session will cover the ideation/planning stage, the process of obtaining VPATs/accessibility statements, tracking responses from vendors, coding information using FOLIO's Agreements app, and a discussion of future steps.

4. External Relationships

The challenges related to creating, delivering, and managing new metadata affect libraries, content providers, and library software vendors in unique ways. However, by collaborating and leveraging the expertise of these three stakeholders, the process can be better coordinated and optimized for maximum value and improved workflow efficiency.

5. User Experience & Promotion

This paper explores various methods for promoting electronic resources in a university library to increase usage. From internal marketing to targeting department faculty, this paper provides several approaches that the Pollak Library has trialed to promote electronic resources and the difficulties in determining the sustainability and impact on usage statistics.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

The University of Colorado Boulder migrated to FOLIO in June 2023. This session will cover how the institution developed a robust collection reporting infrastruture using FOLIO's Library Data Platform, an open-source data analytics product. This session will give showcase custom reports and dashboards used to analyze and visualize collections data. 

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Explore how institutional data can help inform collections decisions. Building on information presented during last year’s ER&L, we've enriched our trend analysis of 10 years of course catalog content with enrollment figures and faculty/graduate student research. We'll conclude with initial reflections on determining our collection’s alignment with our trend analysis.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Cognitive Overload concerns may emerge when evaluating LibGuides, or running usability tests with library users. However, Cognitive Overload impacts librarians, too, exacerbating stressors that lead to burnout and attrition. Join us to learn more about Cognitive Overload, how it impacts librarians, and how to supplant it with more sustainable practices.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Interactive Q&A with skits (and songs?) explores key issues with access and distribution mechanisms, such as federated authentication, entitlements signaling in discovery services (e.g., GetFTR), and content syndication. The Helpful E-Resources Librarian and The AI Chatbot compete in a quiz show and it won’t be complete without YOU.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

As AI is already prevalent in higher education; how can academic libraries ensure that students receive the correct guidance at the ‘point-of-need’? This session will explore one university library’s experience of combining Lean Library’s iFraming technology with Springshare’s LibGuides integration to deliver library support directly into patron workflows.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

>For ER Librarians, migrations are a necessary evil. Migrations are often long and require involving many different communities for training or informational purposes. Examples of migrations include authentication tools, ILS, ERMS, and discovery. This talk discusses two librarians' collaboration amidst these changes, emphasizing adaptability, time management, and consortium-related challenges.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Collecting and collating usage statistics for Emory University Libraries has been a cumbersome and complex process. In September 2022, a group of librarians and staff created the Usage Statistics Task Force.  This presentation will focus on describing our process for creating a Usage Statistics program, utilizing ALMA’s SUSHI harvesting functionality.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Database lists sometimes lack a sense of purpose or meaning to our users. Best practices have changed since their introduction. Database content can now be incorporated into discovery layers and publication finders. Our committee’s findings show how to shape database lists in today’s environment by utilizing intentionality, browsing, and instruction.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Change is often necessary. Are there user experience mental models and change management strategies that can assist with large-scale library system changes - both within and outside the library? The migration experience of one academic library will be presented along with lessons and tips for managing change successfully.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Managing e-resources can feel a lot like that hilarious scene in "I Love Lucy" where chocolate candy comes down a conveyor belt so quickly that Lucy and Ethel can't wrap them fast enough.  Learn how one librarian uses AirTable to keep track of the life cycle of e-resources.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Discussions around streaming media often focus on the big streaming vendors. However, many smaller producers and vendors offer platform-neutral video files that libraries must make accessible to patrons. This talk will discuss factors to consider in determining the best way for your library to launch access to these streaming files.  

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

The University of Maryland College Park is an active participant in 7 transformative agreements, generating a substantial amount of data. This presentation will present our method of tracking these agreements, as well as the creation of a new Tableau dashboard, enabling real-time insights into usage, cost avoidance, and trends across agreements and subject areas.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Libraries have the opportunity to take a more active role in evangelizing for and therefore helping increase accessibility of resources in partnership with vendors. This panel features speakers who are seeking to proactively address accessibility challenges in a range of scholarly communications and publishing contexts with a focus on e-books.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

As a USMAI member, we are currently in the process of a consortial-level migration to Alma/Primo VE. During this presentation, the speaker will outline our method of reviewing and updating electronic resource data across various systems and elaborate on our collaboration with the consortium to meet the e-resource migration requirements. 

5. User Experience & Promotion

This session will describe how NC LIVE, a statewide library consortium with 209 member libraries, improved the accessibility of their e-resource collections on a statewide level. Attendees will receive concrete examples for how to conduct accessibility audits, work with vendors on accessibility issues, and add accessibility language to licenses.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures is central to the strategic plans of many College and Department units at higher education institutions, including NC State. What can we learn from analyzing these plans considering equitable practices in collections and scholarly communication? The presenters will explore potential connections between the two.

5. User Experience & Promotion

In May 2023, the Texas Tech University Libraries launched the LibKey Discovery integration with Ex Libris Primo. This presentation provides an overview of our implementation strategies and describes our initial assessments of the integration, including usability testing and an analysis of LibKey Discovery and Alma Link Resolver usage statistics.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

CC-PLUS open-source software enables institutions and consortia to automate harvesting and reporting of COUNTER5 usage data from over 400 providers.Originally developed by PALCI with IMLS funds, KYVL received a LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant to continue development, including simplified in​ stallation and UX enhancements.Join us for a demo and documentation.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

This presentation will explore automating the "tagging" of broken link tickets within LibAnswers. Starting with a Python script that identifies the tickets by relevant keywords and moving to an exploration of the potential application of machine learning, the goal is to save time and ensure accuracy of ticket tagging.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Learn how Digital Theological Library improved e-resource discovery and access using the NISO Recommended Practice of library-specific KBART-formatted holdings reports. Attendees will learn about KBART automation and how the process has been implemented by Wiley and Project MUSE to register these collections in WorldCat and output bibliographic records.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

The US workforce is experiencing rapid turnover and libraries are not immune. This presentation examines the associated challenges that are unique to ERM and explores simple but effective strategies current ERM librarians and their supervisors can use to create resilient systems that will set new staff up for success.

3. Organizational Strategies

eResources and scholarly communications are intertwined more than ever. We will share how we’ve made connections across these traditional silos to share our individual spheres of knowledge with each other and leverage them to work together on shared projects and interests (e.g., read & publish agreements, APC discounts, etc.).

2. Collection Development & Assessment

What do we have, and how much did we pay for it? These questions can be surprisingly complicated to answer when collections documentation isn’t centralized – especially for a new team. This presentation will discuss how OHSU Library created a “collections map” to help quickly answer questions about electronic subscriptions.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

This session will provide an in depth look at how MSU libraries accomplished the goal of creating cost savings through a comprehensive evaluation of e-resources subscriptions, with a focus on a collection analysis report provided by Cloudsource+, a new discovery platform by SirsiDynix which aggregates open access content.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This presentation will describe a cross-departmental workflow to incorporate the accessibility of online resources into the renewal cycle. We’ll review the steps and decisions involved, what we’ve learned, and where we are now. This session will encourage participants to improve accessibility of online resources by incorporating it into their workflow.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Libraries are frequently asked to show value in the academic landscape.  Due to the sheer cost of electronic resources, it is critical to review statistics in a meaningful way.  This session will help make sense of the numbers by using nontraditional resources and will provide attendees with tips and techniques.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Accessibility is a journey not a destination, especially for e-resources. This presentation covers a variety of ways you can begin your e-resource accessibility journey including using Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPAT), the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), accessibility tools, and licensing terms. Accessible e-resources benefit everyone; libraries, publishers, and authors.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

In response to disorganized yearly invoice tasks in our academic library, we introduced an electronic resource workflow. This centralized approach, using task decomposition, pinpointed efficiency areas and led to a structured ClickUp table, later refined on Excel. Historical data provided usage insights, and a detailed key streamlined a 7-step invoice process, ensuring precise record-keeping.

3. Organizational Strategies

Two years ago, UH Libraries implemented a restructure that reclassified subject liaisons as collections or teaching librarians. We will discuss benefits and challenges we’ve experienced in implementing the functional collections model, how effectively it enables holistic, collaborative collections work, and how well librarians and faculty have adapted to the model.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

In 2023, the OSU Libraries and nine partner institutions migrated from Alma/Primo to FOLIO/EDS with the assistance of EBSCO Discovery Services. This session will provide insight into the process, focusing on inventory data, circulation, and users. We’ll also share lessons learned in managing this major shift in library operations.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Book-banning legislation is in the spotlight but procurement statutes, introduced and passed with little notice, also affect what libraries purchasing resources with public funding can and cannot purchase.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center conducted a citation analysis to determine where faculty are publishing and open access publishing trends. The actions based on the results of this analysis including gaps in the collection, acquisitions decisions, and emerging publishing trends will be shared.

5. User Experience & Promotion

This session explores the rise of Generative AI in academia. Participants will gain insights into current trends and explore use cases and opportunities across teaching, learning, and research. We’ll also spotlight upcoming features and tools that Clarivate has in store for integrating GenAI in academic settings.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Good news, modern LSPs feature jobs that automatically update your library's content, saving you from manually loading files on a monthly basis. However, sometimes these processes need maintenance or troubleshooting and the documentation can be thin. This presentation will demonstrate two automated Alma processes and discuss maintenance and troubleshooting tips. 

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

There are many advantages to synchronizing your knowledge bases that benefit your library. However, with reduced staff, the rapid changes across e-Resources, and working with multiple vendors, synching knowledge bases can seem daunting. Panelists will share why and how they chose to synchronize knowledge bases to support their library’s strategy.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Almost 300 North American institutions now offer their researchers the option to publish their work openly through a transformative agreement with IOP Publishing. They are a key driver for the uptake of open access publishing in North America and make it easier for researchers to publish their work OA.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Divine Mercy University uses EZproxy Analytics to collect and analyze monthly counts of Academic Writer usage by module and program. Learn how EZproxy Analytics helps you visualize and analyze e-resource data, and answer questions about e-resource usage and how it relates to student learning outcomes at your organization.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Northeastern University authors are prolific researchers dedicated to OA publishing. To facilitate, the Library worked with multiple publishers establishing favorable Transformative Agreements. Northeastern-affiliated authors can now opt to have APCs discounted or fully covered. Evan Simpson, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning & Academic Engagement, will share his real life experience evaluating and implementing TAs.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

We shifted from Word documents to Powerpoint presentation forms of reports following the format developed by Nancy Duarte in Slide:ology.  In addition, we integrated links to Power BI charts that are interactive and up-to-date. These SlideDoc (R) reports are more user-friendly and enable us to provide our insights more clearly.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Years in the making and soon to be released, members of NISO’s KBART Standing Committee will discuss the new proposed KBART Phase III Recommended Practice. With its new support for multimedia content and transliterated Author/Title data, KBART Phase III will take a more holistic approach to supporting e-resource content management.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Spreadsheets aren't everyone's best friend, but organization is key when managing numerous serial renewals and faculty streaming video requests. To ensure that we're cognizant of our budget, trackers help us monitor incoming invoices, price increases, cancellations, departmental partnerships, and document streaming video requests by means of copyright and fair use. 

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Book approval plans are a common way for libraries to automate the acquisition of books using criteria developed by the library. This session will cover the basic elements of setting up a book approval plan and how to assess the effectivness of the plan in acquiring diverse and timely materials.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Many academic libraries face challenges in evaluating cost-per-use and managing electronic resource subscriptions. Seton Hall’s Acquisitions and Data Services units discovered an efficient, time-saving, and user-friendly solution by integrating Microsoft PowerBI and CELUS, an e-resources usage data harvesting and analysis software, reducing library expenses while sustaining content availability.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Melissa Anderson and Tiffany Norris knew both the website and discovery layer of their library needed upgrading, and they took on these projects simultaneously to make for a smoother transition for patrons at their small, liberal arts college. The project was ultimately successful and well received!

5. User Experience & Promotion

Database descriptions are typically a blend of vendor-speak, jargon, and legacy information that creates confusion and usability barriers, inhibiting users from selecting the best tools for their research tasks. This project sought to identify best practices for database asset descriptions through usability testing co-designed with library student employees.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Migrating to new software is a daunting task particularly if the library users and staff have customary to using one software for very long period. I would like to share a systems librarian perspective on Illiad to Tipasa migration process, including challenges we faced, and the issues that we troubleshoot.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Georgia Tech Library worked on an Accessibility audit for eBook vendor platforms.This audit was performed because of questions received from users about screen reader compatibility for eBook platforms. This presentation will discuss our methods and findings!

4. External Relationships

Many books, articles, videos, and other resources are often inaccessible or not sufficiently accessible to people with perceptual, cognitive, physical, or other disabilities. Remediation of this course material helps provide accessible content to users; campuses want to share this output across institutions to prevent double work. Metadata is a critical component of ensuring an efficient and successful accessibility workflow. The NISO Accessibility Remediation Metadata (“ARM”) Working Group is working to review and standardize a proposed metadata model to more broadly support these important efforts.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Providing library personnel with regular reports on acquisitions and resource usage supports day-to-day decision-making and collaboration among departments. This presentation demonstrates how a medium-sized library increased their capacity for regular reporting by using Excel’s Power Query to automate data extraction from multiple sources, data cleansing, and report generation.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

The University of Maryland College Park Libraries have adopted progressive data strategies to effectively manage the rising amount of data surrounding continuing resources. This presentation delves into our robust data acquisition methods emphasizing exploration and review to ensure effective resource allocation.

3. Organizational Strategies

At one institution we have been exploring how shifts toward Open Scholarship could impact the work in our library, especially within technical services. This presentation will introduce the questions we should be asking as well as address opportunities, barriers, and support needed to for us to contribute to Open.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

When a long standing consortial package of databases undergoes dramatic changes, it can feel like being tossed out the airlock without a spacesuit! This presentation will cover the methodical, accessible way databases were analyzed to determine what losses would hurt, and which we could live without throughout these changes

2. Collection Development & Assessment

We will describe how and why we implemented MINES for Libraries after a three year hiatus and include more questions without burdening the respondents.  We will also describe how we used Power BI to provide insights into the results for our stakeholders.

3. Organizational Strategies

When facing budget constraints, securing funding for positions without a direct connection to student success is difficult. In this short talk, you’ll hear how a management team successfully advocated for behind-the-scenes positions by “shooting for the moon and aligning the stars” with approaches that can be tailored to your context. 

5. User Experience & Promotion

The proliferation of information sources can prevent information seekers from finding authoritative resources in libraries. Given increased investments in e-resources, libraries must  simplify management and discovery of these resources. Panelists will discuss tools that add efficiency to e-resource management and increase the visibility of libraries and their collections.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Navigating usage statistics as a beginner electronic resources librarian can be daunting. This presentation aims to introduce techniques and tools to streamline usage statistic collection, cleaning, and organization for reoccurring assessment. Learn about how SUSHI, COUNTER reports and Excel can be used to communicate usage and better understand your collections.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This presentation introduces an open-source web database application designed to centralize essential Electronic Resource Management (ERM) data from various platforms, tackling the challenges of dispersed and multi-platform data exchange. Speakers will provide live demonstrations, explain how to adapt this tool, and discuss ERM challenges, technical hurdles and future development plans.

5. User Experience & Promotion

After noticing a decrease in user reporting resource issues as well as an increase in the use of self-service help pages, Grand Valley State University Libraries did an exploration of five years of tickets. This presentation will delve into our findings.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Librarians can have a huge impact working with faculty to facilitate successful development and adoption of quality Open Education Resources (OERs) on their campuses. Come to this session to discover six Open Access primary source collections rich with content covering 20th and 21st century social movements that support learning in many humanities disciplines. These collections are curated to focus on hidden and marginalized voices, which also helps advance DEI principles in collection development.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Demonstrating return on investment is a constant struggle for librarians. This presentation will demonstrate how to collect relevant statistics, the importance of creating pertinent quantitative thresholds for factors such as overlap and cost per use, and presenting data in a way that is understandable for those with decision making abilities.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

In our presentation, we outline our research workflow that employs text mining on C&RL and C&RL News, tapping into Scholarcy's AI and Obsidian's mapping. Balancing data volume, accuracy, and time-efficiency, we illustrate the convergence of traditional library studies with advanced AI tools and knowledge graphs.

3. Organizational Strategies

Given most libraries’ significant investment in e-resources, how can we leverage expertise from across our organizations to make more informed choices about acquisitions and discovery? In this presentation, an e-resources librarian and liaison coordinator will discuss how they have taken steps to improve communication, break down silos, and share information.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

At San Francisco State University, we engage selectors in both selection of titles from our Evidence Based Aquisition (EBA) programs and choosing which EBA programs to renew using subject-based criteria and usage-based analytics. In this talk we will share rubrics and workflows and discuss next steps to improve the process.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Negotiation is a key component of e-resources, affecting the outcomes of current and emerging content models. Yet, we rarely consider how identity influences advocacy and communication. By exploring the impact of gender and racial identity, we can address major blocks to negotiation, identify effective strategies, and “shoot for the stars”.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Library data is everywhere but sharing that data once it has been collected presents a challenge. Spreadsheets need updating while platforms like Alma Analytics require special permissions and expertise. This session demonstrates how to solve these issues by using Google Colab and Alma's API to create a Data Dashboard.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Launched in 2002, COUNTER provides libraries with consistent, reliable e-resources usage data for assessment and collection development purposes. Reporting continues to evolve as do systems used to collect/ analyze metrics. Yet limitations remain. The mission of this intrepid space cadet: to boldly explore the potential of AI for COUNTER reporting.

3. Organizational Strategies

This presentation will be focused on the issues related to ER librarian burnout.  The presenter will offer some anecodotal advise on ways to change the workplace expectations and encourage attendees to change some work and home habits for better self-care.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This presentation will illustrate how two colleges applied different approaches for ordering, invoicing, activating, and cataloging eBooks in Alma. The importance of staff training is at the forefront of the discussion as well as management challenges, system’s changes, and consortium impact on local processes. 

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

This poster will explore the process, benefits, and challenges of moving a journal from a large, commercial publisher to a nonprofit university press through a case study of Imaging Neuroscience.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

As more electronic resources become COUNTER(R5) compliant, we have more comparable usage data available to us, however, we may not have the time nor staffing to collect all this data, let alone analyse it. Activating automated SUSHI harvesting wherever supported, frees up staff time for more effective collection assessment.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

Explore McMaster's case study on PLOS' CAP program at our poster session. Learn about our assessment framework for gauging the impact of such agreements on research output, budgets, and equity in OA publishing. Discover how strategic goals can guide your assessment and gain insights into data selection for OA Publishing.

3. Organizational Strategies

Starting in 2020, the Mardigian Library's Tech Systems team saw retirements which led to a combined 80-year loss of cataloging experience. These major losses of institutional knowledge forced us to revise how workflows were documented in order to anticipate future staffing changes. These revisions are discussed in this presentation. 

5. User Experience & Promotion

With so many obligations, updating LibGuide content can easily end up on the back burner. Upstate Medical University launched a new project to review all published guides once a year. The e-resource librarian will explain the main goals and the process used, as well as hopes for improving future reviews.

3. Organizational Strategies

Starting a new position is fraught with challenges, one being connecting to library stakeholders. This session will discuss one librarian's experience entering a new job and working to overcome institutional trauma to improve communication between library departments, faculty/staff, and students.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

When the Big Deals for monographs, video media, and other single purchases become unsustainable, libraries will need new data methodologies. The lack of an overarching data schema for vendor information prevents collaborative analysis and purchasing automation (with or without AI). We propose a new data schema to solve these problems.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Journal metrics are useful data for collection assessment, but leveraging these data at scale can be challenging. Here, Python code is used to automate the process of comparing journal metrics data against a library's link resolver, generating informative reports -- useful for collection development and program reviews -- in minutes.

3. Organizational Strategies

The USM Technical Services Department embraced the use of Kanban Boards to onboard new staff. This poster looks at the processes developed to onboard our new Collection Management Librarian and the resources covered in the training, with an emphasis will be placed on covering the basic resources and recommended courses. 

2. Collection Development & Assessment

This poster explores streaming video perceptions and usage at a community college. It examines faculty and student survey results on resource awareness, intended use, satisfaction levels, and benefits. These findings are considered in relation to subject-specific usage and search/view counts. The poster contributes to the wider discussion on academic video resources.

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Streaming videos are an increasingly popular teaching tool in higher education.  However, the cost of streaming videos for libraries is unsustainable.  This presentation is going to compare the cost of continual streaming video purchases against the cost of e-book purchases as a percentage of the Stony Brook University Libraries’ budget.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Responding to troubleshooting tickets is a key part of e-resource management. By looking at a ticket through the lens of the lifecycle, we can create best practices, improve patron satisfaction, and encourage staff to make sure that problems are fully resolved prior to closing out tickets.

3. Organizational Strategies

Explore how we work effectively in remote/hybrid environments using asynchronous communication to manage library systems. We will walk you through our process and discuss the tools and methods to gather ideas, document issues, track progress, and maintain clear communication channels.

5. User Experience & Promotion

When we made the switch to using LibGuides for our library website six years ago, we followed basic accessibility principles. How well has that design stood the test of time - and how has the content created since then (by many authors) fared? The answer: a web accessibility audit. 

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

I found myself suddenly negotiating license agreements six months into my unrelated first professional librarian position. After five years I ruminated on what I know now that I wish I had known then. This poster will help librarians new to licensing develop a foundation for their licensing career.

5. User Experience & Promotion

It began with a challenge, "what makes a learned person?" As a librarian, challenge accepted! But don't take my word for it, I use words of those more eloquent. A marketing poster brings the SUU Library to the students' pockets for ultimate UX with a parting challenge through the art.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Working together, ERM, Acquisitions, Collection Development & Resource Sharing areas are working together to obtain license information, set up licenses in Alma, and add the RapidILL lending notes to Alma e-collections. Also after setting up licenses and adding the note, publishing profiles set up to send the information to RapidILL.

5. User Experience & Promotion

As digital resources move beyond traditional text-based material, from streaming videos and interactive courses to cutting-edge virtual experiences, we need to reevaluate conventional promotional strategies and take a fresh look at what constitutes valuable usage. Our panel will discuss successful strategies they’ve used in their libraries to meet these goals.

5. User Experience & Promotion

The University of Minnesota Libraries regularly collaborates with campus IT to conduct usability evaluations of the Libraries website and discovery layer (Primo). This presentation will discuss how these usability projects are managed, including scenario development, and compare results from two recent evaluations of Primo, conducted in 2020 and 2023.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Academic Publishers of varying sizes and disciplines will discuss aspects considered when developing their OA journal transformation strategies. Publishers represented include HSS, STM, small, large, society & university press.  The session will be moderated by an Open Access leader. Desired audience includes librarians and publishers ready to learn and discuss. 

4. External Relationships

Libraries and publishers play pivotal roles in information dissemination, making them prime targets for cyberthreats.  Join a panel of industry experts in discussing real-life examples, best practices, and the importance of cybersecurity collaboration. Gain insights and practical steps to enhance these partnerships, and strategies for combating unauthorized access and threats.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Which topic will trip up the vendor? How much does the publisher really know? What answer is lost to the librarian? Come watch colleagues battle it out to see who knows the most about managing electronic resources in the digital world.

5. User Experience & Promotion

This session will describe the journey to create a more efficient, user friendly, and accessible library homepage. How one librarian used a combination of html coding, dream website designs, ChatGPT, usability testing, and a love of life-long learning to completely redesign their library homepage. 

4. External Relationships

Roseman Univserity of Health Sciences Library evaualted the existing Interlibrary Loan practices, Clio and Docline, and determined the need for a more automated system. After an evauation of needs we agreed on implementing RapidILL into our workflow to hopfully reduce manual intervention and patron wait times.

4. External Relationships

Eliminating barriers for readers everywhere is the principal goal of open access, but how can we ensure that barriers are not perpetuated as open access becomes the standard in scholarly publishing? Learn about some practical steps that librarians can take to foster inclusion and global equity in scholarly publishing.

5. User Experience & Promotion

Join our 45-minute session to discover how, through a content audit, a department learnt the benefits of involving stakeholders from the outset. Learn from the experience of an academic library’s web team as they share their successes, setbacks, and invaluable lessons, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder engagement in decision-making.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

Stanford Libraries migrated to FOLIO in the summer of 2023. At last years conference I presented on how we created our staff training plan. In this presentation I will describe our actual traning plan, show some of our materials, and share what worked and what did not.

4. External Relationships

As library professionals using complex Integrated Library Systems, we are often inundated with difficult-to-comprehend technical information. Pauline Bickford Cline, a Discovery Services Specialist with Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), will outline best practices and insider tips for developing documentation that can be read and understood by consortia and library employees who may not have experience with more technical library concepts. With her unique perspective as a prior library employee now working for a consortium, she will share her experience translating Ex Libris documentation into FLVC LibGuides and developing trainings for Florida colleges and universities, breaking down the process of communicating technical concepts into accessible steps.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

As license agreements evolve to open publishing agreements, library (and publisher) workflows evolve, too! The ESAC library community of practice has developed internationally-accepted workflow recommendations and metadata requirements to improve efficiency and get the most out of your agreements. Come with your workflow questions and learn the latest approaches!

5. User Experience & Promotion

SeamlessAccess is producing a toolkit that gives librarians a framework for auditing their resource access. This presentation explores Usability & Privacy and features a library case study using this toolkit to identify and address access-related issues, assess potential ethical or legal exposure, and identify best practices and recommended next steps for moving forward. We will also demonstrate how this toolkit can serve as a communications tool to enable librarians to improve knowledge and awareness within their teams as well as with key stakeholders outside the library.

3. Organizational Strategies

Controlled digital lending involves circulating digital copies of legally obtained print books. A NISO panel will discuss the CDL framework recommended practice, highlighting public response, industry gaps, and the need for improved accessibility. They emphasize interlibrary lending and propose a unified patron experience between digital lending (ie "CDL-Adjacent") practices.

6. Scholarly Communication & Library Publishing

The 2023 State of Open Data report reveals disparities in open data support across countries and disciplines. It recommends tailored, context-specific strategies for research data management engagement. This talk explores survey demographic variations and suggests how institutions can use the data to inform their approaches.

1. E-Resources Management & Licensing

This session is designed to help academic librarians, vendors and supporters understand the rationale, benefits, challenges, and best practices associated with implementing alumni access to library resources, maintaining alumni access, and its potential role in broader relationships, outreach, and branding efforts.  

4. External Relationships

Reasearch shows that students are embracing generative artificial intelligence (AI), but do they know the proper uses and hazards when it comes to AI. Faculty want original composition and critical thinking in classroom assignments from students. Librarians are needed to explain digital information literacy and copyright to students and assist faculty with AI classroom policies.