This presentation was provided by Lorraine Estelle of COUNTER, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
This document discusses challenges facing university presses in sustaining and reimagining the monograph format. It outlines some of the key challenges like lack of support, library budget cuts, and humanities scholars hesitancy to experiment with open access models. The document also highlights some new models and initiatives university presses are taking to address these challenges, such as open access publishing platforms and projects, discovery programs, and collaborations between presses. Overall, the document examines how university presses are innovating in their efforts to continue supporting high-quality scholarly monographs.
Acquisitions editors play an important role in the publishing process. They solicit projects, assess quality and contribution, support authors to improve work, forecast costs and sales, prepare manuscripts for production, and maintain the reputation of publishing programs. They act as product managers by developing product strategies, overseeing product development, and engaging in product marketing. Acquisitions editors are important for supporting academic innovation, diversity and inclusion, and facilitating public engagement by scholars. They help get important voices and ideas into publication and dissemination.
This presentation was provided by Susan Doerr of The University of Minnesota, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable event "Building Diversity, Building Accessibility, Building Better." This event was held on September 23, 2020.
The Evolving Scholarly Record: Framing the LandscapeOCLC
The document discusses the evolving scholarly record and its framing. It notes that the scholarly record is systematically gathered, organized, curated, identified, and made persistently accessible. The scholarly record is evolving as formats shift from print to digital, boundaries expand to include different types of scholarly outputs, and characteristics and stakeholder roles change. The document proposes framing the evolving scholarly record to define key categories and roles, provide a common reference point, and support strategic planning across domains.
The document summarizes trends in libraries and projects at the UW Tacoma Library. It discusses how libraries have adapted to changes in the information environment like abundance of information online and push technologies. It outlines new roles for librarians like data librarians, digital scholarship librarians, and UX librarians. For UW Tacoma, it envisions the library transitioning from its focus on collections to prioritizing services and becoming integral to the campus community. It highlights faculty and student praise for library support and resources. Upcoming trends and projects may include renovating library space, new technologies, supporting student and faculty scholarship, and enhancing pedagogical support. Key challenges include keeping up with campus growth with limited
This presentation was provided by Charles Watkinson of University of Michigan Press, during the second half of the NISO Two-Part Webinar "Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know, Part Two." The event was held on August 19, 2020.
The document discusses how librarians' mission is to facilitate knowledge creation through improving access to information. It considers how open access publishing is changing the role of librarians and libraries. Key points discussed include how open access affects acquisition of resources, cataloging, collection development, and tracking of faculty publishing and metrics. The document outlines stakeholders within the library and university that will be impacted by these changes and proposes service plans to address issues around acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, and more to adapt to the age of open access.
This document discusses challenges facing university presses in sustaining and reimagining the monograph format. It outlines some of the key challenges like lack of support, library budget cuts, and humanities scholars hesitancy to experiment with open access models. The document also highlights some new models and initiatives university presses are taking to address these challenges, such as open access publishing platforms and projects, discovery programs, and collaborations between presses. Overall, the document examines how university presses are innovating in their efforts to continue supporting high-quality scholarly monographs.
Acquisitions editors play an important role in the publishing process. They solicit projects, assess quality and contribution, support authors to improve work, forecast costs and sales, prepare manuscripts for production, and maintain the reputation of publishing programs. They act as product managers by developing product strategies, overseeing product development, and engaging in product marketing. Acquisitions editors are important for supporting academic innovation, diversity and inclusion, and facilitating public engagement by scholars. They help get important voices and ideas into publication and dissemination.
This presentation was provided by Susan Doerr of The University of Minnesota, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable event "Building Diversity, Building Accessibility, Building Better." This event was held on September 23, 2020.
The Evolving Scholarly Record: Framing the LandscapeOCLC
The document discusses the evolving scholarly record and its framing. It notes that the scholarly record is systematically gathered, organized, curated, identified, and made persistently accessible. The scholarly record is evolving as formats shift from print to digital, boundaries expand to include different types of scholarly outputs, and characteristics and stakeholder roles change. The document proposes framing the evolving scholarly record to define key categories and roles, provide a common reference point, and support strategic planning across domains.
The document summarizes trends in libraries and projects at the UW Tacoma Library. It discusses how libraries have adapted to changes in the information environment like abundance of information online and push technologies. It outlines new roles for librarians like data librarians, digital scholarship librarians, and UX librarians. For UW Tacoma, it envisions the library transitioning from its focus on collections to prioritizing services and becoming integral to the campus community. It highlights faculty and student praise for library support and resources. Upcoming trends and projects may include renovating library space, new technologies, supporting student and faculty scholarship, and enhancing pedagogical support. Key challenges include keeping up with campus growth with limited
This presentation was provided by Charles Watkinson of University of Michigan Press, during the second half of the NISO Two-Part Webinar "Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know, Part Two." The event was held on August 19, 2020.
The document discusses how librarians' mission is to facilitate knowledge creation through improving access to information. It considers how open access publishing is changing the role of librarians and libraries. Key points discussed include how open access affects acquisition of resources, cataloging, collection development, and tracking of faculty publishing and metrics. The document outlines stakeholders within the library and university that will be impacted by these changes and proposes service plans to address issues around acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, and more to adapt to the age of open access.
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viabilityjeperez8
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viability
Florida Library Association Conference 2011
Jorge Perez
St. Petersburg College
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
Digital Visitors and Residents: Project Feedbackjisc-elearning
Students and staff have been developing their own digital literacies for years and successfully integrating them into their social and professional activities. The Visitors and Residents project has been capturing these literacies by interviewing participants within four educational stages from secondary school to experienced scholars. Using the Visitors and Residents idea as a framework the project has been mapping what motivates individuals and groups to engage with the web for learning. We have been exploring the information-seeking and learning strategies that are evolving in both personal and professional contexts. In this presentation we will discuss these emerging ‘user owned’ literacies and how they might integrate with institutional approaches to developing digital literacies. We also will discuss the Visitors and Residents mapping process and how this could be utilised by projects as a tool for reflecting on existing and potential literacies and the development of services and systems.
David White, Co-manager , Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
Virtual Verse in the Library: Capturing Online-Only Poetry for Scholarship an...Harriett Green
This document discusses a research project examining issues related to creating an index of online-only poetry. Key findings from the project's stakeholder consultations revealed that scholars and editors discover online poetry primarily through searches and social media. They expressed a need for tools that curate high-quality online journals, allow for reviews and evaluations, and help preserve ephemeral e-publications. While online publishing provides greater exposure and discoverability, stakeholders also discussed challenges like copyright concerns, a bias against online works for tenure, and the impermanence of some e-publications. Overall, respondents saw value in digital literature's democratic qualities and expanded artistic possibilities, though some lamented a loss of tactile experience from print to screen.
Evaluer les nouvelles plates-formes de services web et leur impact sur les bi...ABES
This document summarizes a presentation about evaluating new web-scale library platforms and their impact on librarianship. It discusses the current state of U.S. libraries and challenges they face, including declining budgets and staffing. Emerging technologies like mobile devices, cloud computing, and big data analytics are also discussed. The presentation argues that librarians should focus on their mission of improving communities through facilitating knowledge creation. New library service platforms can help extend libraries' resources and services online. The conclusion emphasizes that libraries should focus on users' needs and position themselves as places for lifelong learning and knowledge creation.
The document discusses the future of reference services in libraries. It covers how information users, information sources, technology, and libraries are changing and how this impacts reference. Key points include that users have high expectations and many information options. Technology like the internet and mobile devices is transforming access. Libraries need to provide reference services through various digital channels to meet users where they are. Examples are given of innovative ways different libraries are adapting reference to new technologies and user needs. The goal is for participants to think creatively about how to improve their library's reference services.
RLUK Warwick Meeting | Academic Book of the Future, Samantha RaynerResearchLibrariesUK
This document provides an overview and progress report of the Academic Book of the Future project. The key points are:
1) The project is a collaboration between UCL, KCL, and other partners, funded by the AHRC and British Library, to examine the roles, purposes, production, curation and use of academic books.
2) Over the past year the project team has engaged with over 200 collaborators from publishers, libraries, booksellers and academic institutions to discuss issues around the academic book.
3) Preliminary analysis of REF2014 data on submitted books provides insights into publisher trends and book outputs across subjects that can stimulate further discussion.
4) Upcoming activities include publishing outcomes of
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Librarians are increasingly focused on incorporating outreach, engagement, collaboration, and innovation into everyday tasks such as programming, collection development, instruction, and reference support. Many libraries are turning their attention to what is happening outside of their spaces to improve services and resources inside their spaces. Some institutions are moving away from traditional models of reference, instruction, and collection development and toward creating active mobile spaces where communities can come together to collectively produce, curate, and consume information.
The Rutgers University Art Library looks outside its walls to connect with the local campus and New Brunswick communities with the goal of providing innovative programming that engages a wide range of patrons while highlighting the library’s collections and local scholarly research.
This paper will look at outreach and engagement and examine how these activities affect collection development and highlight library collections. Six case studies from the Rutgers University Libraries will be used as examples: The Rutgers Art Library Exhibition Spaces (RALES), the Rutgers University Libraries Coloring initiatives, button-making, LEGO play, an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, and Banned Books Week.
Libraries face new challenges in the digital age, including decreasing budgets, changing user expectations, and new competitors. To remain relevant, libraries must embrace technologies like e-books, mobile apps, makerspaces, and 3D printing. They must redefine their roles and spaces, prove their value through metrics, and position their librarians as agents of change. By responding quickly to trends, reinventing themselves creatively, and meeting communities' evolving needs, libraries can future-proof their important roles.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Scholarly Requirements for Large Scale Text AnalysisHarriett Green
This document summarizes findings from interviews conducted as part of a user needs assessment for the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Key findings discussed include:
- Scholars have challenges with data acquisition and management when conducting large-scale text analysis, such as obtaining good quality data and building reusable datasets.
- Generating and negotiating results is difficult, as scholars desire more control over tools and workflows and better archiving of data and algorithms.
- Research collaborations present challenges around work styles and the need for test datasets that multiple researchers can work with.
- Teaching and training needs include resources for faculty looking to learn about digital tools and challenges integrating computational methods into humanities classes.
The document discusses strategic responses for academic librarians facing disruptive changes in technology and user needs. It suggests five strategic responses: 1) creating digital libraries of rare holdings, 2) establishing institutional repositories, 3) providing infrastructure for open access journals, 4) increasing partnerships with faculty, and 5) transforming service models like reference desks. The discussion addresses how these may differ from traditional library functions and implications for LIS education.
Redefining Academic Library Roles: How Trends in Higher Education are Drivin...Constance Malpas
This document summarizes a presentation about how trends in higher education are driving changes in academic libraries and library roles. It outlines trends like increasing stratification of institutions, fiscal constraints, adoption of new technologies, and more emphasis on student success. These trends are pushing libraries to adopt new roles in areas like digital scholarship, coordinated collections management, learning analytics, and facilitating adaptive and competency-based learning. New library roles and operational models will vary depending on the type of institution, with elite universities retaining distinctive services while others rely more on shared resources and commercial options.
The document discusses several recent developments related to open access and e-books:
1) The World Bank approved a new open access policy for its research outputs allowing public distribution and reuse of its work.
2) A Pew Research Center report examined how the rise of e-books is affecting libraries and their patrons. Librarians believe e-books have been good for libraries and reading in general.
3) Brazil will allow prisoners to have sentences reduced by reading books and writing essays on them.
The document then discusses how the book is being transformed from a simple digital copy to a new networked object, and how this impacts concepts like openness, libraries, readers and knowledge.
Attitude And Practices Towards Marginalia An Exploratory StudyAnita Miller
This document summarizes a research study on reader attitudes and practices regarding marginalia (written notes in books). The study explores differences in how readers engage in marginalia for printed texts versus e-books. It aims to identify preferred reading formats, the value readers place on marginalia, and challenges of practicing marginalia digitally. Literature on the history and importance of marginalia is reviewed. Previous studies found most students prefer printed books and lack knowledge of annotation tools for e-books, though digital reading is increasing. This study examines reader needs, behaviors and responses regarding marginalia in e-books to inform developers.
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viabilityjeperez8
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viability
Florida Library Association Conference 2011
Jorge Perez
St. Petersburg College
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
Digital Visitors and Residents: Project Feedbackjisc-elearning
Students and staff have been developing their own digital literacies for years and successfully integrating them into their social and professional activities. The Visitors and Residents project has been capturing these literacies by interviewing participants within four educational stages from secondary school to experienced scholars. Using the Visitors and Residents idea as a framework the project has been mapping what motivates individuals and groups to engage with the web for learning. We have been exploring the information-seeking and learning strategies that are evolving in both personal and professional contexts. In this presentation we will discuss these emerging ‘user owned’ literacies and how they might integrate with institutional approaches to developing digital literacies. We also will discuss the Visitors and Residents mapping process and how this could be utilised by projects as a tool for reflecting on existing and potential literacies and the development of services and systems.
David White, Co-manager , Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
Virtual Verse in the Library: Capturing Online-Only Poetry for Scholarship an...Harriett Green
This document discusses a research project examining issues related to creating an index of online-only poetry. Key findings from the project's stakeholder consultations revealed that scholars and editors discover online poetry primarily through searches and social media. They expressed a need for tools that curate high-quality online journals, allow for reviews and evaluations, and help preserve ephemeral e-publications. While online publishing provides greater exposure and discoverability, stakeholders also discussed challenges like copyright concerns, a bias against online works for tenure, and the impermanence of some e-publications. Overall, respondents saw value in digital literature's democratic qualities and expanded artistic possibilities, though some lamented a loss of tactile experience from print to screen.
Evaluer les nouvelles plates-formes de services web et leur impact sur les bi...ABES
This document summarizes a presentation about evaluating new web-scale library platforms and their impact on librarianship. It discusses the current state of U.S. libraries and challenges they face, including declining budgets and staffing. Emerging technologies like mobile devices, cloud computing, and big data analytics are also discussed. The presentation argues that librarians should focus on their mission of improving communities through facilitating knowledge creation. New library service platforms can help extend libraries' resources and services online. The conclusion emphasizes that libraries should focus on users' needs and position themselves as places for lifelong learning and knowledge creation.
The document discusses the future of reference services in libraries. It covers how information users, information sources, technology, and libraries are changing and how this impacts reference. Key points include that users have high expectations and many information options. Technology like the internet and mobile devices is transforming access. Libraries need to provide reference services through various digital channels to meet users where they are. Examples are given of innovative ways different libraries are adapting reference to new technologies and user needs. The goal is for participants to think creatively about how to improve their library's reference services.
RLUK Warwick Meeting | Academic Book of the Future, Samantha RaynerResearchLibrariesUK
This document provides an overview and progress report of the Academic Book of the Future project. The key points are:
1) The project is a collaboration between UCL, KCL, and other partners, funded by the AHRC and British Library, to examine the roles, purposes, production, curation and use of academic books.
2) Over the past year the project team has engaged with over 200 collaborators from publishers, libraries, booksellers and academic institutions to discuss issues around the academic book.
3) Preliminary analysis of REF2014 data on submitted books provides insights into publisher trends and book outputs across subjects that can stimulate further discussion.
4) Upcoming activities include publishing outcomes of
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Librarians are increasingly focused on incorporating outreach, engagement, collaboration, and innovation into everyday tasks such as programming, collection development, instruction, and reference support. Many libraries are turning their attention to what is happening outside of their spaces to improve services and resources inside their spaces. Some institutions are moving away from traditional models of reference, instruction, and collection development and toward creating active mobile spaces where communities can come together to collectively produce, curate, and consume information.
The Rutgers University Art Library looks outside its walls to connect with the local campus and New Brunswick communities with the goal of providing innovative programming that engages a wide range of patrons while highlighting the library’s collections and local scholarly research.
This paper will look at outreach and engagement and examine how these activities affect collection development and highlight library collections. Six case studies from the Rutgers University Libraries will be used as examples: The Rutgers Art Library Exhibition Spaces (RALES), the Rutgers University Libraries Coloring initiatives, button-making, LEGO play, an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, and Banned Books Week.
Libraries face new challenges in the digital age, including decreasing budgets, changing user expectations, and new competitors. To remain relevant, libraries must embrace technologies like e-books, mobile apps, makerspaces, and 3D printing. They must redefine their roles and spaces, prove their value through metrics, and position their librarians as agents of change. By responding quickly to trends, reinventing themselves creatively, and meeting communities' evolving needs, libraries can future-proof their important roles.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Scholarly Requirements for Large Scale Text AnalysisHarriett Green
This document summarizes findings from interviews conducted as part of a user needs assessment for the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Key findings discussed include:
- Scholars have challenges with data acquisition and management when conducting large-scale text analysis, such as obtaining good quality data and building reusable datasets.
- Generating and negotiating results is difficult, as scholars desire more control over tools and workflows and better archiving of data and algorithms.
- Research collaborations present challenges around work styles and the need for test datasets that multiple researchers can work with.
- Teaching and training needs include resources for faculty looking to learn about digital tools and challenges integrating computational methods into humanities classes.
The document discusses strategic responses for academic librarians facing disruptive changes in technology and user needs. It suggests five strategic responses: 1) creating digital libraries of rare holdings, 2) establishing institutional repositories, 3) providing infrastructure for open access journals, 4) increasing partnerships with faculty, and 5) transforming service models like reference desks. The discussion addresses how these may differ from traditional library functions and implications for LIS education.
Redefining Academic Library Roles: How Trends in Higher Education are Drivin...Constance Malpas
This document summarizes a presentation about how trends in higher education are driving changes in academic libraries and library roles. It outlines trends like increasing stratification of institutions, fiscal constraints, adoption of new technologies, and more emphasis on student success. These trends are pushing libraries to adopt new roles in areas like digital scholarship, coordinated collections management, learning analytics, and facilitating adaptive and competency-based learning. New library roles and operational models will vary depending on the type of institution, with elite universities retaining distinctive services while others rely more on shared resources and commercial options.
The document discusses several recent developments related to open access and e-books:
1) The World Bank approved a new open access policy for its research outputs allowing public distribution and reuse of its work.
2) A Pew Research Center report examined how the rise of e-books is affecting libraries and their patrons. Librarians believe e-books have been good for libraries and reading in general.
3) Brazil will allow prisoners to have sentences reduced by reading books and writing essays on them.
The document then discusses how the book is being transformed from a simple digital copy to a new networked object, and how this impacts concepts like openness, libraries, readers and knowledge.
Attitude And Practices Towards Marginalia An Exploratory StudyAnita Miller
This document summarizes a research study on reader attitudes and practices regarding marginalia (written notes in books). The study explores differences in how readers engage in marginalia for printed texts versus e-books. It aims to identify preferred reading formats, the value readers place on marginalia, and challenges of practicing marginalia digitally. Literature on the history and importance of marginalia is reviewed. Previous studies found most students prefer printed books and lack knowledge of annotation tools for e-books, though digital reading is increasing. This study examines reader needs, behaviors and responses regarding marginalia in e-books to inform developers.
The future of reading in a digital age horava charleston 2012Tony Horava
This document summarizes Tony Horava's presentation at the Charleston Conference on November 8, 2012 about the future of reading in a digital age. It outlines how reading is changing with ebooks and mobile devices, discusses various trends seen in studies, and compares characteristics of print and digital reading. Implications for libraries around supporting different media and ensuring relevance are also touched on.
The future of reading in a digital age charleston 2012Tony Horava
This document summarizes a presentation on the future of reading in the digital age and what it means for libraries. It discusses trends showing declines in literary reading and the rise of e-reading. New forms of reading are interactive, social, and fragmented across multiple devices. While print remains popular for some uses, digital formats allow for new reading experiences and communities. Libraries must support all media and embrace change to remain relevant in a changing reading landscape.
"Well, Of Course Students Will Love Them!" An Ethnographic Study of Undergra...The CTW Library Consortium
This study examined undergraduate students' use and perceptions of eBooks. Interviews revealed that while students could define eBooks, they had difficulties finding, accessing, and using them effectively. Platforms were not intuitive and students preferred print for long-form reading. They enjoyed searching within books but found other features confusing. Students hoped eBooks would become more tactile, collaborative, and have intuitive interfaces and offline access in the future. The study provided insights into how student and librarian perspectives on eBooks can differ.
This document summarizes findings from faculty surveys about use of scholarly monographs. It finds that monographs remain very important to researchers, especially in humanities. While e-book usage is growing, print still dominates for in-depth reading. Searching and skimming are easier digitally. Over time more believe e-books could replace print, though humanities remain less convinced. The document also notes historians' heavy reliance on Google Books for discovery and access.
This document summarizes findings from faculty surveys about user practices and needs related to scholarly monographs. It finds that monographs remain very important to researchers, especially in the humanities. While e-book usage is growing, print books still dominate for in-depth reading. E-books are most useful for searching, skimming, and exploring references. The transition from print to digital is happening gradually, with fewer than 20% of faculty believing digital collections could replace print within five years. Google Books is an important resource for discovery but cannot replace in-depth reading of full texts.
User Engagement with Digital Archives: A Case Study of Emblematica Online Harriett Green
This presentation discusses a usability study conducted on Emblematica Online, a digital archive of emblem books. The study involved interviews and usability testing with scholars to understand how they engage with digital collections and what features would help their research. Key findings include that digital collections expand access to rare materials and interdisciplinary research. Users wanted improved searching, annotation tools, and contextual information. The presentation argues digital collections could advance scholarship by facilitating interdisciplinary work and innovative teaching while complementing print materials.
The document summarizes a panel discussion on the future of libraries held at SUNY Potsdam College. The 6 panelists discussed how user behaviors and technologies are changing libraries. Users now expect instant access to information anywhere through mobile devices. Libraries are providing more digital resources and collaborative spaces while print collections decline. New models like purchase-on-demand and e-books are shaping library collections. Discovery tools aim to improve search across resources but challenges remain regarding evaluation, serendipity and supporting different user levels.
Reimagining the Monograph - AAUP 2017 Annual MeetingAlex Humphreys
Monographs are increasingly making the print-to-digital shift that journals started twenty years ago, opening up new possibilities for the ways that a long-form argument can be presented and communicated. Yet a richer online environment for scholarly monographs has not come to pass, or at least not at scale. In October 2016, JSTOR Labs, an experimental platform development group at JSTOR, convened a group of scholars, librarians, and publishers to unpack the design issues around the presentation of digital monographs. The group proposed a set of principles for reimagining the presentation of monographs in order to improve the user experience and increase the value of ebooks to scholars. In this presentation, we will introduce these principles, which are outlined in a new white paper available at http://labs.jstor.org/monograph and demonstrate a prototype that the JSTOR Labs group built based on the working group’s feedback: a topic-based navigational aid for monographs called Topicgraph. We will reflect on the implications of these principles for authors, researchers, libraries and publishers. Last, we will contemplate next steps for this work and explore and seek audience input on potential future prototypes and directions. This slide deck includes the results from an activity with the audience, which they voted on potential future prototypes.
Engaging students through user experience (UX) at UALSandra Reed
The document discusses a user experience (UX) project conducted at the University of the Arts London (UAL) libraries to engage students and inform the development of library spaces. The project used ethnographic methods like observations, touchstone tours, focus groups, and reflective logs to understand student behavior and needs. A student UX team helped with mapping, observing, and gathering feedback. The project provided recommendations for existing spaces and new buildings based on the findings. It demonstrated how UX methodology can provide valuable insights for improving services and facilities from the student perspective.
The document summarizes a study on how Pratt School of Information Science and Library students use digital libraries. A survey of 57 students found that they typically use digital libraries less than twice a week, mainly for academic purposes. About half found digital libraries very useful and satisfied with results. Students view advantages as convenient remote access and currency of information, while disadvantages include lack of help from librarians and shallow or inaccurate information. Definitions of digital libraries varied, showing a lack of consensus on what a digital library encompasses.
This document summarizes research into digital textbooks. It includes:
- Literature reviews finding students still prefer print textbooks for in-depth reading due to easier concentration, comprehension and annotation. However, digital offers convenience and lower costs.
- User research at universities finding students use laptops, not tablets, and value tangible benefits of print like speed and navigation.
- Expert interviews noting print has emotional value and digital should offer new benefits, not replicate print. Students have complex content workflows.
- The document develops hypotheses around digital textbooks being used as a laptop extension of print textbooks, and increasingly via tablets. It explores features, user flows and designs to support these hypotheses.
What Is the Impact of Digitizing Books, 2013Marc Prensky.docxAASTHA76
What Is the Impact of Digitizing Books?, 2013
Marc Prensky is a software designer and author of Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning and
From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom.
Colleges and universities should ban nonelectronic books to improve the way faculty teach and students
learn. A print textbook ban will not discourage reading, nor diminish the value of the ideas within books.
In fact, e-books liberate ideas. Faculty can augment texts with additional multimedia materials that
enhance the content. Moreover, faculty can expand e-text discussion to students outside the classroom,
enriching the educational experience. Digital texts are also accessible anywhere, at any time, while
printed books, once read, are often closed and shelved. Electronic textbooks free ideas from the printed
page and will move education into the twenty-first century.
Recent news that South Korea plans to digitize its entire elementary- and secondary-school curriculum by 2015,
combined with the declining cost of e-readers and Amazon's announcement earlier this year [2011] that it is
selling more e-books than print books, prompts an interesting question: Which traditional campus will be the first
to go entirely bookless? Not, of course, bookless in the sense of using no book content, but bookless in the
sense of allowing no physical books. My guess is that this will make some institution famous.
Already, just about everything that an undergraduate needs to read is available in electronic form. Whatever isn't
there electronically, librarians, students, or professors can easily scan, as many already do.
Some colleges are already heading in this direction by requiring or handing out iPod Touches, iPads, Kindles, or
Nooks, often preloaded with textbooks and other curricular materials, or by disallowing paper texts for online
courses. But I suggest that it's time to go much further: to actually ban nonelectronic books on campus. That
would be a symbolic step toward a much better way of teaching and learning, in which all materials are fully
integrated. It could involve a pledge similar to the one that language students and instructors at Middlebury
Language Schools take to speak only the foreign languages in which they are immersed during the study
program.
I'm not advocating that we get rid of the good and valuable ideas, thoughts, or words in books—only that
we transfer them to (and have students absorb them through) another form.
In this bookless college, all reading—which would still, of course, be both required and encouraged—would be
done electronically. Any physical books in students' possession at the beginning of the year would be exchanged
for electronic versions, and if a student was later found with a physical book, it would be confiscated (in return for
an electronic version). The physical books would be sent to places and institutions that wanted or needed them.
Professors would have a limited time in which to convert their personal .
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Estelle "Thinking About Usage in the Humanities"
1. Humanities Roundtable
2021: The Monograph in
the Evolving Humanities
Ecosystem
NISO Virtual Conference
Wednesday, October 20, 11am - 4:00pm (Eastern)
3. Waking up in the British Library
Remembering 2005
• Prof. Justin Champion, discussed the way in
which Early English Books Online not only
influences teaching and research in a traditional
sense, but also shifts the dynamic between
teacher and learner, invigorating new avenues
of research for both. …‘If we collectively assume
that one of the central functions of an arts and
humanities degree is to develop skills of
assessment, interpretation, and analysis, that’s
best done in dialogue with primary sources.’
4. Waking up in the British Library
• Matthew Steggle, from Sheffield Hallam University. “He
was also enthralled by the new ways it enabled research
across texts. Years of his PhD research were overshadowed
by a search of EEBO-TCP that took just a couple of
minutes.”
• Article Title: “Waking up in the British Library “
Author: Emma Beer
Publication Date: 30-April-2005
Publication: Ariadne Issue 43
Originating URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/wakingupinbl-rpt/
5. STEGGLE, MATTHEW. “THE CRUCES OF
‘MEASURE FOR MEASURE’ AND EEBO-TCP.”
The Review of English Studies, vol. 65, no. 270,
Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 438–55,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541111.
8. Challenges of
interpreting usage data
• Matthew Steggle found (I think) three physical
books in the British Library, and (I think) eight in
EBBO.
• In COUNTER reports that would be:
• Unique_Item_Requests= 8
• Unique_Title_Requests = 8
• 8 is not an impressive number but might inform
“years of his PhD research”
10. Thinking About Usage in the
Humanities
We have some work to do … librarians and publishers
11. Screen vs.
paper habits
“Habit and attitude appeared to be important, and a digitally
born textbook is by far the best alternative to a print
textbook when it comes to studying. But even those who
prefer to read on screens are originally native paper readers,
and as long as the existing application interfaces cannot
address the shortcomings of screens regarding spatial
landmarks, we will keep returning to paper under certain
circumstances.”
• Myrberg, Caroline, and Ninna Wiberg. 2015. “Screen Vs. Paper:
What Is the Difference for Reading and Learning?”. Insights 28 (2):
49–54. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.236
12. What the
students told us
2016
“The [print] book just isn’t always available in the library because ten people
have taken it already, so you have no choice but to use the e-book. Print books
are just easier on your eyes and tangible, whereas e-books? You just can’t feel
it in your hand and it’s just not really the same for me. A [print] book is an
asset that you’ve got, whereas e-books just feel like it’s something in the
background that you don’t really own.”
13. What the
students told
us
“I tend to use print books a lot more than I do e-books,
primarily probably for the reason that a lot of the books that I
have to read for my course are very long, hundreds and
hundreds of pages long. Maybe it’s a psychological thing, but
I like to know where I am in the chapter or in the book, I like
to keep flicking back to the end of the chapter to see how far
I’m going.”
14. What the
students told
us
“DRM (digital rights management) is Saleh Ahmed’s biggest
bugbear. ‘It feels pretty much like medieval armour or a
chastity belt. I want to be able to use e-books on different
devices and I do understand everything, but if you don’t treat
the users with respect, they will go somewhere else, or they
will try to remove it. ”
• Estelle, Lorraine. 2016. “What Students Told Us About Their Experiences and Expectations of Print
and E-books”. Insights 29 (1): 31–36. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.281
15. There are many nuances associated
with the use of ebooks and electronic
resources
• Usage statistics are useful, particularly for trends
across time, cost per use, but they are not a measure
impact.
• Low usage numbers may result in high impact e.g.,
three requests of a primary source material might
inform years of PhD research.
• We cannot compare usage of primary source
materials or of monographs with the use of journal
articles – particularly articles in the sciences.
• User habits and expectations … we haven’t solved
screen v. paper problem yet.