veryDisco: The Evolution of Discovery at Claremont
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The document discusses the evolution of discovery tools at Claremont University library. Teams studied openURL implementation, federated search products, and next generation OPAC ideas. The library's strategic goals were to create an interface with high usability, intuitiveness, robustness and relevance across the library, enterprise systems, and non-licensed and licensed content sources. The library joined beta programs for Summon and Primo, releasing Summon in fall 2009 and planning to overlay Primo in spring 2010 to provide an integrated discovery environment.
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The document discusses the vision of James A. Blaisdell for the Claremont Colleges library system in 1923, wanting small colleges united around shared library resources. It notes changes in collections, technology, the roles of librarians, and students. The chief information officer suggests ways for librarians to respond to challenges, such as increasing discovery of resources, leveraging fewer staff through partnerships, collaborating more with faculty and students, focusing collections on what makes them unique, and emphasizing assessment.
Communication Strategies for Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration
This document outlines strategies for strengthening the brand and reputation of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) through improved collaboration and communication. It discusses the history and vision of CUC as a collaborative group of small colleges. Key areas of focus are identified, including building a unified brand, defining the value proposition, developing brand resources, promoting collaborative initiatives, and embodying the CUC brand through strategic planning efforts. Specific strategies proposed include trademark registration, establishing design standards, template development, and opportunistic partnering with member institutions. The goal is to optimize external positioning while also building internal clarity around the consortium's brand.
Fear Factor, Amazing Race, or Survivor: Threats & Opportunities for Libraries...
The document discusses threats and opportunities for libraries and publishers in a post-subscription age. It notes that libraries need to ensure their continued relevance by focusing on services like expertise, space, and helping users manage information rather than just collections. New pricing and business models are needed like usage-based pricing that treats access more like a utility. Libraries also need to focus on making collections discoverable and driving users to related content in new formats.
Tipping the Cow: Reorganizing Staff to Support Electronic Resources
Presentation at ER&L, Austin, 3/1/2011 on organizational restructuring to support management of electronic resources in academic libraries.
Niso usage data forum 2007
This document discusses using quantitative usage data to understand user behavior with information resources. It provides examples of how to pose questions about how services may affect users, develop theories to explain the effects, and test the theories by analyzing usage data. Specifically, it examines how improving starting and accessing resources increased their usage. It also looks at how grouping resources increased searching and how stable archives allowed more re-use of content for teaching. The document advocates studying additional user behaviors like monitoring, networking, extracting and analyzing to further understand impact of services.
Size Matters: Engaging Your Users Where They Are @
John McDonald presented at the 2010 American Society for Information Science and Technology spring workshop on engaging library users through digital displays of varying sizes. He discussed the conceptual design, hardware, content, and results of pilot programs at Claremont Colleges Library that installed low-power digital signs and a large multi-touch screen. The signs aimed to provide wayfinding, announcements, and promotional content to patrons, while the touch screen allowed interactive exploration of resources. Feedback showed the displays successfully engaged users and increased awareness of library services.
Oberlin Group Library Statistics
This document discusses analyzing 6 years of statistics from the Oberlin Group of liberal arts colleges. It describes transforming the data, checking for outliers, testing correlations between variables, and building a regression model. It finds that high group attendance impacts reference transactions but not circulation. High gate count results in high circulation. Circulation depends on volume count. The document also explores predicting US News rankings based on library-specific data like expenditures, staff salaries, collections, and transactions.
Statistics for Librarians: How to Use and Evaluate Statistical Evidence
This document discusses how to use and evaluate statistics in library research. It covers types of library statistics that can be collected, such as gate counts, computer use sessions, and circulation numbers. It also discusses important concepts for research design when working with statistics, including validity, reliability, and generalizability. Key steps in research design are outlined, such as developing a research question and hypotheses, defining data, collecting data, and analyzing results.
NISO Webinar on Usage Data: An Overview of Recent Usage Data Research
This document summarizes a webinar on recent usage data research. It discusses new ways to collect usage data, theoretical analysis of usage data, citation and usage data measures, illustrating citation networks, analyzing open access citations, evidence based analysis of usage data using local analytics tools and studies of ebook usage. Future directions discussed capturing non-text media usage, developing standards for robust database analysis and statistical measures.
Changing the Structure of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access, Open Archives, a...
Traditional scholarly publishing involves commercial and society journals with editorial boards and peer review. New publishing models like open access, open archives, and author self-archiving have emerged due to electronic publishing advantages and rising journal costs. Open access involves free access to content while retaining traditional structures. Open archives allow free depositing of articles in repositories. Author self-archiving allows authors to publish their own research freely online. These new models shift costs from consumers to producers and provide quick publication but quality assurance and discoverability are concerns that need to be addressed for viability. A mix of models is predicted to continue with disadvantages regarding organization, discoverability, quality, and access.
OpenURL Resolver: The Perfect Librarian
The document discusses how OpenURL resolvers help academic researchers with their information seeking behaviors such as browsing, chaining, differentiating, extracting, managing, and accessing information. OpenURL resolvers act as an unmediated recommender system that is transparent to users and helps users find relevant resources. It also helps library staff with tasks like verifying, recommending, organizing, and informing users. An example is provided of how an OpenURL resolver can help a user find a record and then provide options to access, manage, and end their information seeking process through chaining, differentiating, and accessing other relevant sources.
COUNTER Update
COUNTER provides standards and guidelines for online usage statistics to help libraries assess collections and publishers evaluate journals. Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice introduces new reports and specifications to provide more comprehensive and consistent usage data. It also strengthens compliance procedures, requiring annual independent audits to certify adherence to the COUNTER Code of Practice. Looking ahead, COUNTER aims to further develop standards for new media types and communities while focusing on user-centered metrics.
Consortia Level Collection Evaluation
This document discusses evaluating collections at the consortia level using quantitative data. It provides examples of collection evaluations done for Elsevier ScienceDirect and Wiley InterScience. These evaluations analyzed usage, value, and price to evaluate the value of collections and individual titles. Current projects also aim to compare society and commercial publishers. Quantitative evaluation can help negotiate contracts and identify sustainable pricing models going forward.
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Discovery or Displacement?: A Large Scale Longitudinal Study of the Effect of...
Discovery or Displacement?: A Large Scale Longitudinal Study of the Effect of...
Making the Data Work: Telling your story with Usage Statistics
Making the Data Work: Telling your story with Usage Statistics
Ebook Availability Revisited: A Quantitative Analysis of the 2012 Ebook Aggre...
Ebook Availability Revisited: A Quantitative Analysis of the 2012 Ebook Aggre...
What OCLC Data Analysis Reveals About SCELC Libraries
What OCLC Data Analysis Reveals About SCELC Libraries
Communication Strategies for Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration
Communication Strategies for Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration
Fear Factor, Amazing Race, or Survivor: Threats & Opportunities for Libraries...
Fear Factor, Amazing Race, or Survivor: Threats & Opportunities for Libraries...
Tipping the Cow: Reorganizing Staff to Support Electronic Resources
Tipping the Cow: Reorganizing Staff to Support Electronic Resources
Size Matters: Engaging Your Users Where They Are @
Size Matters: Engaging Your Users Where They Are @
Statistics for Librarians: How to Use and Evaluate Statistical Evidence
Statistics for Librarians: How to Use and Evaluate Statistical Evidence
NISO Webinar on Usage Data: An Overview of Recent Usage Data Research
NISO Webinar on Usage Data: An Overview of Recent Usage Data Research
Changing the Structure of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access, Open Archives, a...
Changing the Structure of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access, Open Archives, a...
veryDisco: The Evolution of Discovery at Claremont
- 1. the evolution of discovery at Claremont John McDonald Library Claremont University Consortium October 2, 2009 Discovery veryDisco
- 6. Strategic Picture Interface High Usability, Intuitive, Robust, Relevant Library Enterprise financial admin student Non Licensed Content Open Web Catalog Digital Library Licensed Content Digital Preservation insurance, recovery, immutability
- 8. Discovery environment results Major vendors all doing something, but no company or product was doing what we wanted or needed Still opportunity for entrepreneurship Choose ‘best of breed’ to build integrated system Leverage what librarians do best – store, organize, retrieve, display information
- 9. Vendor Scan
- 13. Eventually content will be ingested by Summon
- 14. Primo will be overlaid for the interface and advanced information management features
- 15. Released Summon in beta form to students at start of Fall semester
- 18. name: student
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