This document provides summaries of five perspectives from the ALA Annual Conference in 2012. It discusses programming at the conference on bibliography in special collections libraries and the RBMS Task Force on Metrics and Assessment. It also summarizes the experiences of five individuals at the conference relating to opportunities for committee work, connecting with vendors, and relevant programs. Key sessions and speakers are mentioned relating to communicating assessment results, using visualization tools, mobile business intelligence, and linked library data.

1. DISPATCHES FROM ALA ANNUAL
2012: 5 PERSPECTIVES, 1 VENUE
Athena Jackson, Dan Roose, Cheryl Gowing, Lyn
MacCorkle, & Matt Carruthers
August 31, 2012

2. ALA ANNUAL:
RBMS SECTION SERVICE
Athena N. Jackson
August 31, 2012

3. ALA ANNUAL
1) Annual vs. Midwinter
2) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
(www.rbms.info)
3) Committee Work

4. SNIPPET FROM A BUSY SCHEDULE

5. RBMS @ ALA: 2 POINTS OF INTEREST
1) RBMS Programming at ALA:
“The Current State of Bibliography and its Future
as Practiced and Supported in Special Collections
Libraries”
2) RBMS Task Force on Metrics and Assessment

6. BIBLIOGRAPHY IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS?
 David R. Whitesell, Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small
Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
 David Vander Meulen, Professor of English at the University of
Virginia, where he teaches eighteenth-century English
literature, bibliography, and textual criticism and scholarly editing
 James P. Ascher, Assistant Professor of Rare Books and
English at the University of Colorado Boulder
 Moderator, Gerald Cloud, Clark Librarian, William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by The William Andrews Clark
Memorial Library & the Center for 17-18th Century
Studies, UCLA, and the Bibliographical Society of
America

7. RBMS TASK FORCE ON METRICS AND
ASSESSMENT
Charge: The RBMS Task Force on Metrics and Assessment is
charged with examining current practices for gathering and
reporting information to demonstrate the value and impact of
special collections and archives. The Task Force will conduct a
survey of the literature and establish relationships with groups
working on similar issues such as ARL, SAA, etc.; consider both
what activities warrant assessment and how to undertake the
assessment of those activities; and identify needs for best
practices and guidelines that will enable more meaningful
assessment of the spectrum of what we provide to our
various constituencies. The Task Force will provide a
preliminary report by Midwinter 2013 and a final written report
prior to Annual 2013.

8. ALA ANAHEIM 2012
Dan Roose
August 31, 2012

9. OPPORTUNITIES
 Committee Work
 ALA – ALCTS – CRS – USLAJ
 Ulrich‟s Serials Librarianship Award Jury
 Vendor Connections
 Exhibits
 Presentations/Demonstrations
 Meetings
 Relevant Programs
 Learning from Patron-Driven E-Book Pilots

10. THE ASSOCIATION
 Association – ALA (American Library Association)
 Division – ALCTS (Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services)
 Section – CRS (Continuing Resources Section)
 Committee – Ulrich‟s Serials Librarianship Award
Jury

11. ULRICH'S SERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP AWARD JURY
 Charge: To select the recipient of the award for
distinguished contributions to serials librarianship
 Put out a call for nominations
 Received and evaluated three nominations
 Named award recipient: Valerie Bross, Head of
Continuing Resources Cataloging Section at UCLA
 Development and testing of cataloging standards
 Cooperative cataloging & cataloger training
 Presented a citation and $1,500 award at a reception
during ALA annual conference

12. VENDOR CONNECTIONS
 Exhibits
 View new products and innovations
 Meet briefly with vendor reps during exhibits
 Formal Presentations
 EBSCO academic lunch
 Kuali OLE update
 Planned Meetings with Vendor Reps
 YBP
 EBSCO
 Elsevier

13. ELEPHANTS IN A THREE-RING CIRCUS: LEARNING
FROM PATRON-DRIVEN E-BOOK PILOTS
 Presented by Linda Di Biase, University of
Washington
 Three separate demand/patron-driven e-book pilots
at University of Washington:
 Ebrary
 EBL / YBP
 EBL / YBP / OCA (Orbis Cascade Alliance)

14. DEMAND-DRIVEN E-BOOK ACQUISITIONS
 Allocate a budget amount, and typically prepay to a
vendor deposit account
 Select a set of potential titles
 Load discovery records into the online catalog
 Patron usage of a specific title triggers a purchase
 Invoices are generated automatically
 Permanent records are added for purchased titles

15. THREE PILOTS AT UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON
 Ebrary
 July 2010 – February 2011
 $40,000
 7,500 available titles in humanities/social sciences
 10 activities trigger a purchase
 EBL/YBP
 April 2011 – Present
 $37,000
 9,500 available titles
 Short term loan model; 3 STLs triggers purchase
 EBL/YBP/OCA
 July 2011 – Present
 $462,000 from 37 member academic consortium
 16,000 available titles
 Short term loan model; 10 STLs triggers purchase of 5 copies
owned by all libraries

16. AT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
 Allocated $50,000 in 2011/2012
 Use EBL as aggregator in partnership with YBP
 Load discovery records from our current YBP slip
plan into the catalog weekly for new EBL titles
 Reading a title online for 5 minutes or downloading
for offline reading triggers a purchase
 13,893 records have been loaded
 First triggered purchase was April 24, 2012
 385 purchases have been triggered to date
 $28,580 in expenditures

17. TAKEAWAYS
 Short term loan options (borrow, not purchase)
 Access vs. collection building
 Collect user information
 User status, campus, etc.
 Balance with the need to maintain user privacy
 Usage analysis of patron selections vs. traditional
firm order selections
 Identification of high and low use subject areas
 Consortial opportunities for cost savings

18. LET THE DATA TALK
Communicating Assessment Results to Stakeholders
LLAMA – MAES
Library Leadership & Management Association
- Measurement, Assessment & Evaluation Section
Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:30-3:30 pm
Cheryl Gowing

19. LET THE DATA TALK
 Cory Lown, NCSU
 Klara Maidenberg, Ontario Council of University
Libraries
 Jamie Hollier, Colorada State University
 Este Pope, Coconino Community College
 Robert Dugan, University of West Florida
 Rachel Besara, Florida State University

20. CORY LOWN: LET THE DATA TALK

21. 9128732198432789543287
6784905043267812837698
7843928364382398731092
3478957438298374209123
0980934591283754845645
8934678238328009748349

22. 9128732198432789543287
6784905043267812837698
7843928364382398731092
3478957438298374209123
0980934591283754845645
8934678238328009748349

23. LOWN: PREATTENTIVE ATTRIBUTES
Form
 Orientation
 Line length
 Line width
 Size
 Shape
 Curvature
 Marks
 Enclosure
• Color
– Hue
– Intensity
• Spatial Position
– 2D

24. LOWN: GUIDING PRINCIPLES
 Look up individual
values
 Compare individual
values
 Precise values required
 Large amount of data
 Lines to express
change over time
 Bars to show rank or
relationships
TABLES GRAPHS

25. WHICH IS CLEARER?

26. KLARA MAIDENBERG: VISUALIZING …..

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Chats per 1,000 FTE
Fall 2011

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Too much assistance
Too little assistance
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The librarian provided me
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Yes, 96%
No, 4%
Would you use this service again?
67%
21%
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Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Very poor
The service provided by the
librarian was…
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A last resort for getting library help
A poor way of getting library help
A satisfactory way of getting library
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A good way of getting library help
My preferred way of getting library
help
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User Surveys

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31. ESTE POPE: PREZI TO THE RESCUE

32. POPE: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

33. RACHEL BESARA:
MOBILE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

34. BESARA: ROAMBI : INSTANT

35. BESARA: ROAMBI : VISUAL

36. BESARA: ROAMBI : INTERACTIVE

37. ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012
LYN MACCORKLE
 Linked Library Data
 Linked data and the next generation of catalogs
 Linking data across libraries, archives and museums
 LC Bibliographic Framework Transition Update
 Data (Digital) Curation as a Form of Collaborative
Research
 Preconference: Building Digital Collections using
Islandora

38. LINKED DATA?
Linked data is about exposing, sharing, and reusing pieces of
data distributed across the web. As a publishing technique it is
focused on interoperability, statements NOT documents, and
building relationships and meanings using a formal set of W3C
semantic web standards and practices. The data is structured
so computers can un-ambiguously read it.
Things that must be present:
 Openly licensed data
 The data must be structured as RDF (Resource Description
Framework) triples
 using URI (Uniformed Resource Identifiers) as addresses
(preferably those that can be „dereferenced‟ .. e.g. URLs)
 HTTP protocol

40. LIBRARY LINKED DATA PROJECTS
 OCLC projects include
 WorldCat has linked data added!! Conference announcement
 VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
http://viaf.org/
 Dewey Linked Data
http://dewey.info/
 FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)
http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/
 Working with Europeana (European Union) to improve quality of its
linked data
http://www.europeana.eu/
 Getty will provide all authorities & vocabularies in linked
format
 LC Bibliographic Framework in Transition project. MARC21 >
to linked data model
 http://loc/gov/marc/transition

41. OCLC ADDS LINKED DATA TO WORLDCAT RECORDS

43. RESOURCES
“Metadata, linked data, and the semantic web” In:
Metadata for Digital Collections, by Steven J. Miller
(Neal-Schuman: 2012), 303-324.
Link data for libraries. OCLC video released 20120809
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWfEYcnk8Z8
Take Away! Viewshare: Interfaces to our heritage
Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views
(interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to
experience your digital collections. The results can be saved in
linked data format.
Site: http://viewshare.org/
Example: A location map and timeline created in Viewshare is in the
landing pages of the Florida Documents Collection:
http://merrick.library.miami.edu/specialCollections/asm0567/

44. VIEWSHARE

45. VIEWSHARE EXAMPLE

46. DATA CURATION AS A FORM OF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

47. HUBZERO

50. RESOURCES
 Software resources for humanists
 Bamboo Dirt
Registry organized by methodology / interest and
a list of recommended packages
http://dirt.projectbamboo.org
 Take Away! Omeka
CMS for collections and exhibits
http://omeka.org/

51. BUILDING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS USING
ISLANDORA (DRUPAL CMS + FEDORA DAM)

52. ISLANDORA DEVELOPED BY
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND'S ROBERTSON LIBRARY

53. ROBERTSON LIBRARY DIGITAL MAP EXAMPLE: ZOOM & DRAG

54. EXAMPLES OF SERVICES USING ISLANDORA

55. ISLANDORA RESOURCES
 Take Away! Islandora software site and sandbox
http://help.islandora.ca/ala2012
 Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video
Repository
http://library.sc.edu/mirc/
 Digital Collection of Spanish Music
http://digital.march.es/clamor/en
 Editing Modernism in Canada
http://editingmodernism.ca/
Shared Canvas (http://www.sharedcanvas.org/)
 Island Lives, University of Prince Edward Island Library
http://www.islandlives.ca/
 Esdora: Digital Object Repository
http://esdora.ornl.gov/


56. TIPS FOR SURVIVING YOUR FIRST
ALA ANNUAL
Matt Carruthers
August 31, 2012

57. TIPS FOR SURVIVING YOUR FIRST ALA ANNUAL
1) It‟s OK to be overwhelmed (at first)
2) Plan early; plan completely
3) Be prepared to throw that plan out the window
4) If you want to network, get out of the convention
center

58. ONE FINAL NOTE
 Slides and other relevant notes will be posted to the
Libraries intranet