The document discusses the changing landscape for university libraries. It summarizes the context of higher education funding cuts in the UK and increased globalization and technology. It then provides an overview of the University of York library, including key facts, governance structure, and strategy to support research, teaching and learning. The library is focusing on developing services for researchers, teachers and students and measuring quality through surveys and indicators.
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) - Workshop: In...Ronald Snijder
This tutorial is part of a number of sessions on the Institution as Publisher. The goal of the tutorial is to help interested librarians become Open Access publishers. The tutorial will start with a landscape overview and will use case studies from UCL press, Manchester University Press and Stockholm University Press. In a few hours, all the essential elements of academic publishing will be addressed: the workflow in publishing from manuscript submission to publication; the business plan; the technical infrastructure; funding models to sustain Open Access publishing; attracting authors to publish with the press.
The Future is a Moving Goal Post: Change Management in Academic LibrariesIFLAAcademicandResea
IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Change Management in Academic Libraries, presented by Gulcin Cribb, University Librarian, Singapore Management University.
Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing: A Burgeoning Service Model in the ...IFLAAcademicandResea
IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing: a Burgeoning Service Model in the Open Access Sphere, presented by Jody Bailey, Head of Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University Libraries, and Ted Polley, Social Sciences & Digital Publishing, IUPUI University Library.
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) - Workshop: In...Ronald Snijder
This tutorial is part of a number of sessions on the Institution as Publisher. The goal of the tutorial is to help interested librarians become Open Access publishers. The tutorial will start with a landscape overview and will use case studies from UCL press, Manchester University Press and Stockholm University Press. In a few hours, all the essential elements of academic publishing will be addressed: the workflow in publishing from manuscript submission to publication; the business plan; the technical infrastructure; funding models to sustain Open Access publishing; attracting authors to publish with the press.
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IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Change Management in Academic Libraries, presented by Gulcin Cribb, University Librarian, Singapore Management University.
Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing: A Burgeoning Service Model in the ...IFLAAcademicandResea
IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing: a Burgeoning Service Model in the Open Access Sphere, presented by Jody Bailey, Head of Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University Libraries, and Ted Polley, Social Sciences & Digital Publishing, IUPUI University Library.
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Kara Jones (University of Bath) "Getting there from here: changes for academi...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
This workshop will explore the skill sets for scholarly
communication including questions about future
requirements, the language we are using in this space and,
beyond skills, what type of people are suited to different
aspects of librarianship. Scholarly communication requires
people who are able to be flexible in their approach, rather
than ‘rule followers’, which may mean a fundamental shift
in the library workforce into the future. Working collectively,
the session will consider the implications for upskilling our
‘legacy’ workforce.
Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutes with respect to
data management training and support.
Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projectsto serve the long tail of research data.
Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations.
Conclusions:Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
The session will present the key findings of a joint
Loughborough University and Taylor & Francis project
looking at postgraduate user experience in the digital
library. Using the findings from ten research students’
diaries collected over an eight-month period, we will focus
on the findings as they relate to the academic journal and
article including: evaluating different publishers’ platforms
and their UX; identifying the approaches and skills needed
in identifying papers relevant for their research; and
approaches to storing papers.
Librarians and faculty members now have the opportunity, through open access publishing, to work together to make faculty-produced scholarly content available to the entire academic community, not just to those scholars or institutions privileged enough to afford it. The University of South Florida Libraries have been working with bepress’ Digital Commons platform to create a substantial institutional repository that includes open access journals, conference proceedings, and data sets, among other materials. Publication of open access journals at USF officially began in 2008 with the launch of Numeracy from the National Numeracy Network. Library staff members are currently involved in a variety of activities, including negotiating memorandum of understandings, loading backfiles, registering DOIs with CrossRef, designing layout, doing final publication steps, and assisting with technical issues. In 2011, our institutional repository, Scholar Commons @ USF, went live, allowing the library to pull fragmented collections previously hosted on other platforms into a single system with improved discoverability. This session will discuss some of these efforts, what is involved, how we have retrained existing and new staff, and plans for future directions.
A brief overview of the Information Services Team’s response to a rapidly changing Higher Education and Research environment at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick.
Donna O Doibhlin
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Invited presentation for Cambridge University Library, 10 February 2011. Reviews trends in research library collections including e-resources and special collections; discusses principles and practice of library process redesign to free up time for new initiatives.
Kara Jones (University of Bath) "Getting there from here: changes for academi...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
This workshop will explore the skill sets for scholarly
communication including questions about future
requirements, the language we are using in this space and,
beyond skills, what type of people are suited to different
aspects of librarianship. Scholarly communication requires
people who are able to be flexible in their approach, rather
than ‘rule followers’, which may mean a fundamental shift
in the library workforce into the future. Working collectively,
the session will consider the implications for upskilling our
‘legacy’ workforce.
Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutes with respect to
data management training and support.
Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projectsto serve the long tail of research data.
Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations.
Conclusions:Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
The session will present the key findings of a joint
Loughborough University and Taylor & Francis project
looking at postgraduate user experience in the digital
library. Using the findings from ten research students’
diaries collected over an eight-month period, we will focus
on the findings as they relate to the academic journal and
article including: evaluating different publishers’ platforms
and their UX; identifying the approaches and skills needed
in identifying papers relevant for their research; and
approaches to storing papers.
Librarians and faculty members now have the opportunity, through open access publishing, to work together to make faculty-produced scholarly content available to the entire academic community, not just to those scholars or institutions privileged enough to afford it. The University of South Florida Libraries have been working with bepress’ Digital Commons platform to create a substantial institutional repository that includes open access journals, conference proceedings, and data sets, among other materials. Publication of open access journals at USF officially began in 2008 with the launch of Numeracy from the National Numeracy Network. Library staff members are currently involved in a variety of activities, including negotiating memorandum of understandings, loading backfiles, registering DOIs with CrossRef, designing layout, doing final publication steps, and assisting with technical issues. In 2011, our institutional repository, Scholar Commons @ USF, went live, allowing the library to pull fragmented collections previously hosted on other platforms into a single system with improved discoverability. This session will discuss some of these efforts, what is involved, how we have retrained existing and new staff, and plans for future directions.
A brief overview of the Information Services Team’s response to a rapidly changing Higher Education and Research environment at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick.
Donna O Doibhlin
This presentation, by Tito Sierra, was given as part of the Program on Information Science brown bag series.
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Travel industry is particularly affected by changes in consumer’s decisional process. This presentation proposes a diagnostic and recommendations for travel and tourism industry managers.
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Lamar Soutter Library Director Elaine Martin reviews the training initiatives, e-science developments, and questions that are being asked as librarians move from bounded to blended professional roles.
Janette Burke, Monash University, explores the shift to e, and it doesn't just stand for electronic but engaging, exciting, embracing change, enabling learning.
Buildings and spaces: Are they relevant in the virtual environment?IFLA
This presentation covers library buildings, spaces and users in the current environment. It highlights how Singapore libraries have evolved and their approaches to library spaces. A case study of Singapore Management University Libraries is presented. Other libraries covered are National Library Board (Early Literacy Library), National University of Singapore (Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library), Nanyang Technological University, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic.
This presentation is part of the Executive Library Management Programme (ELMP) course by the Library Association of Singapore in August 2014.
Research 3.0: Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Research Services
Presented at Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
April 4, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca Bryant
Visiting Project Manager, Researcher Information Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The landscape of academic research has changed rapidly in the past decade, with access to high-performance networks, and the focus on data-intensive and interdisciplinary scholarship. Research libraries in North America are developing new services and programs aimed at meeting scholars’ needs for data-intensive, and interdisciplinary research support. Examples of some emerging programs include:
• Supporting digital research (graphical information systems, digital humanities, survey research methodologies, working with large datasets)
• Educating users about copyright and author rights
• Supporting content-creation and publishing activities in numerous ways: institutional repository to store and host works, establishing maker spaces, and developing infrastructure and workflows for more formal library-located publishing efforts
• Collaboration with research offices to educate researchers about federal mandates for open access publications and datasets
• Establishment of data management and archival resources
• Partnering with third-party vendors and with consortia to achieve scale-efficiencies and facilitate impact
• Development of researcher information management systems to support collaboration, discovery, and reporting
We present a case study of the development of a suite of new tools and services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign within its newly established Office of Research to support digital scholarship and to provide sustained and broad access to research. We will also discuss the significant challenges and opportunities of library/campus partnerships for cyberinfrastructure and research support.
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The UK Survey of Academics 2012, conducted by Ithaka S+R, Jisc, and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), examines the attitudes and behaviours of academics at higher education institutions across the United Kingdom.
"A survey of performance measurement and assessment practice in SCONUL member libraries"
Delivered at the 8th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services.
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ARL and SCONUL Assessment Initiatives: Synergies and OpportunitiesStephen Town
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Ten Northumbrias: contribution and celebrationStephen Town
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Performance and innovation culture in academic libraries: the role of LibQUAL...Stephen Town
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Evaluation of Library & Information Services: Does it lead to innovation and effectiveness?
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3. The questions posed …
• Context
– HE Funding
– Globalisation
– Technology
• Repositories
• Digitisation & use
– Customer base
• Business & Industry
• Library
• Provision decisions
• Promotion
• Value (of resources)
• Proof of worth
– Developing services for
• Researchers
– Literature evaluation
– Bibliometrics
• Teachers
– Information literacy
• Students
– Basic academic skills
– Plagiarism
4. Summary
• HE Context
• University Context, based on York
• The University Library
• Strategy, Quality & Value
• Changing stakeholder needs
– Current issues & service developments
9. • Founded 1963
• UK top 15; RAE 8th; World
103rd; Russell Group;
WUN
• 15,265 students
• >30 departments in
humanities, social
sciences, science
• Campus growth
– Heslington East
• Collegiate and inclusive
The University of York
10. The University Plan
• Excellence
• Internationalisation
• Inclusivity
• Sustainability
11. University of York Distinctiveness
• Excellence
• Growth … but preservation of community
• Global focus and reputation
• Commitment to partnerships
• Commitment to the locality and region
• Making significant & increasing investments in
information systems & services
• Unique and distinctive academic foci and
related collections
13. • > 1m items
• >120 staff
• Archives extensive &
unique
• Developing digital library
expertise
• Director of Library &
Archives 2007; Director of
Information 2009
• Part of a broader
Information Directorate
The University Library
14. Branch Libraries & beyond
• York Minster: the oldest and
largest Cathedral Library in
the country
– Operated under a unique
partnership between the
Dean & Chapter and the
University of York
• King’s Manor Library
• Associations with
– The Railway museum
– Yorkshire Country House
partnership
– York Museums Trust
15. • Directorate bringing
together Library & IT with
some merged services
• Aims:
– Support the Director in
strategy fulfilment
– Ability to offer joined up
services, particularly in new
user facilities
– Better structured to deliver
University Information
Strategy
Information Directorate
16. Library Finance
• Staff (50%)
– Numbers 150; 100 fte
– Cost £3.8m
• Content (40%)
– Books £0.6m (up through new fees)
– Serials £2.3m (static)
• Other expenditure (10%) £0.4m
• Income (£0.4m), capital (£25m+) & new fees (£0.7m)
33. How we build Library Value?
• Library relational capital
– within and beyond the University
• Library tangible & intangible capital
– including Human capital development
• Library virtue
– contribution to transcendent outcomes
• Library momentum
– quality maturity and pace of change
35. Content Strategy
• Academic repositories
• Digitisation
– Resources
– Service
– Backfiles
• Embedding into learning
• Key texts
• Modern media capability
36. Content decision making
• Complex
– No longer departmental alone
– Proliferation of possible investments
– Licensing
• Still largely historic
– Financial pressure dictates ‘one in, one out’ approach
• Value
– Little realistic ROI measurement
– Cost per use a factor
37. Cost and Value
“focusing on cost without being able to
demonstrate [service] value and quality …
leaves the initiative to people whose chief
concern is cost-control or profit: the funders
and the vendors”
Whitehall, T (1995)
39. Library Survey Questions
Affect of Service
• AS-1 Library staff who instill confidence in users
• AS-2 Giving users individual attention
• AS-3 Library staff who are consistently courteous
• AS-4 Readiness to respond to users’ enquiries
• AS-5 Library staff who have the knowledge to answer user
questions
• AS-6 Library staff who deal with users in a caring fashion
• AS-7 Library staff who understand the needs of their users
• AS-8 Willingness to help users
• AS-9 Dependability in handling users’ service problems
40. Library Survey Questions
Library as Place
• LP-1 Library space that inspires study and
learning
• LP-2 Quiet space for individual work
• LP-3 A comfortable and inviting location
• LP-4 A haven for study, learning, or research
• LP-5 Space for group learning and group study
41. Library Survey Questions
Information Control
• IC-1 Making electronic resources accessible from my home or office
• IC-2 A library Web site enabling me to locate information on my
own
• IC-3 The printed library materials I need for my work
• IC-4 The electronic information resources I need
• IC-5 Modern equipment that lets me easily access needed
information
• IC-6 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to find things on my
own
• IC-7 Making information easily accessible for independent use
• IC-8 Print and/or electronic journal collections I require for my work
52. Library Survey: E-resource comments
• The more books available electronically, the better, though being
able to make copies of key texts at a reasonable price is a decent
alternative.
• For York Science Park residents it would be ideal if we could offer
them access to all Library services and electronic journals. It would
be fantastic if this could be offered as part of the value of being on
the science park and involved with the University of York.
• The things that matter by far the most to me in my research work
are electronic access to journal articles and a good ILL service.
• I use the electronic access facilities extensively - often to access
publishers web sites via Shibbolith login
53. Library Survey: E-resource comments
• The personal service is great, however i would like to see more electronic
sources (especially key texts) and a more consistent web-search service
• The system of accessing online journals and electronic resources from the
library website is too long and complicated. I don't want the library
website to be opening several tabs to reach one page, it would be good if
this could be made neater.
• Electronic access to journals is by far the most important service for me.
• Electronic resources (particularly the ability to access PDF journals from
my campus accommodation or from home) are very important to me. I
really appreciate the ability to get certain books online.
54. Social Science cluster issues
• Data sets demand; costs prohibitive
• Advice and support for data management
– Content very different across disciplines
– National vs local options
• Interdisciplinary
– Inter-institutional partnerships eg DTCs
– Journals cross-department
– Journal cost sharing?
56. The Future …
• of research
• of the university
• of the research library
• of scholarly communication
57. ARL Scenarios 2030
• What values are assumed
in the scenarios?
• How does this link to
value?
• What is the resulting
library value proposition?
58. Scenario 1: Research Entrepreneurs
• Competition and
outsourcing
• Information value
high
• Personality cult
relationships
• Linking stores and
discovery
59. Scenario 2: Reuse and Recycle
• Collaboration
• Information value low
• Relationships across
groups
• Research
management and
professional training
60. Scenario 3: Disciplines in Charge
• Specialised Universities
• Data stores high value
• Political skills valued
• Research information
decoupled &
disaggregated
61. Scenario 4: Global Followers
• End of Western
hegemony
• IP looser?
• Relations with East
critical
• Global communal
library?
62. Academic virtue cycle
“We encourage reading, because people who
read more write more, people who write more
get cited more, and people who get cited more
get more grants, and reputation for themselves
and the University”
63. But …
• “Needs are endless…” (Thorhauge, 2010)
• The journal article is now not the only answer
to scientific communication
• The academic journal could be seen as
meaningless in the e-environment if no longer
freighted with reputation
• Publishing adds value, but a large component
of this value is provided by Universities
themselves
64. Key Research developments
• Research support inconsistent
• Research management systems not in place
• Research Information Systems for
– Publications (Repositories)
– REF evidence eg PURE
• Research services for
– Open Access
– Research Data Management
65. Other areas to “catch up”
• Infrastructure especially wifi provision
• End user training and awareness to unleash benefits
• Quality of content to attract staff and research income
• Communication & colllaboration tools
• Investment in the website
• Reporting from business systems (e.g. Agresso, SITS)
• Supporting core business in learning and teaching
• Student recruitment and marketing using online tools
66. Information Services SWOT
Strengths
• Building / Physical Space
• Creativity and Collaboration
• Embedding Academic Liaison into departments
• Partnerships and Collaborations
Weaknesses
• Celebration/Communication of achievements
• Patchy engagement with student bodies
• Links with planning (MTP/LTP)
• Fragmentation with staff in different office buildings
67. Information Services SWOT
Opportunities
• Student experience funding
• New forums for engagement - Academic Co-ordinators, GSA
Forum, Student/staff liaison groups
• Membership of RLUK
Threats
• Above inflation increases in content subscription costs
• Raised expectations in new funding regime
• Needs for funding with student growth
• Open Access
68. Resulting current Library issues
• Change and staff culture & capability
• Extension of traditional role
• Digital media, services and curation
• Pedagogical change & technology
• Relationships
• Information policy
• Publishing
69. Recent additions to the portfolio
• Open access publishing management
• Research data management
• Digital archiving (multimedia)
• Widening participation outreach
• The University Art collection
• Digital signage
70. Forthcoming Developments
• Customer Service Excellence
• Open Access Publishing
• Research Data Management
• Implementation of new Library Management
System (Alma)
• 10th Northumbria Conference, 22nd-25th July
• Digitisation of core/unique resources
72. Conclusions 1
• Costs must be controlled
– Individually
– Institutionally
– Collectively
• Purchase choice must shift to value
– Quantitative measures insufficient
– Qualitative evaluation critical to debate
– Understanding and influencing of new user
behaviours
73. Conclusions 2
• Maximising return
– Better awareness
– Active exploitation
– Intermediate guidance
• Minimising overheads
– Licensing, compliance and bureaucracy
– Active engagement with publishers at all levels
– Charging back for University contributions?
– Managing expectations