Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
The research library: scalable efficiency and scalable learninglisld
As research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment, two important trends are emerging. The first is to accelerate the sharing of infrastructure, either through collaborative services or with third party providers. The second is to engage more deeply with the research and learning processes of their campuses. As research and learning processes themselves change, the research library has to respond and this makes being responsive and open to learning very important.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
The research library: scalable efficiency and scalable learninglisld
As research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment, two important trends are emerging. The first is to accelerate the sharing of infrastructure, either through collaborative services or with third party providers. The second is to engage more deeply with the research and learning processes of their campuses. As research and learning processes themselves change, the research library has to respond and this makes being responsive and open to learning very important.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.
Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path...Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 is pleased to announce the public release of “Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path Forward." The report is the culmination of a six-month research project in collaboration with the University Library of the University of California, Davis; the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; and the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. The research project examined how libraries currently assess their resources and services, and areas of opportunity to streamline and visualize library performance through a common and customizable set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboard modules. The research team interviewed library assessment leaders and practitioners across diverse institutions and geographies, and reviewed the current landscape of technology, tools, and services addressing their needs.
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The report concludes that "the majority of library managers approach assessment and evaluation in an ad hoc and reactive manner as questions arise. Managers spend valuable time manually collecting, cleaning, and normalizing data from diverse systems, and then perform one-time or static interpretations. The library managers that we interviewed during our research felt that the availability of a toolkit and dashboard could free them to probe and interpret more data, think more strategically, and develop more meaningful questions about measuring and evaluating library performance. While the scoping research focused on the performance of research libraries, the proposed toolkit and dashboard framework could be adopted and customized by any type of library, including smaller college and university libraries, community college libraries, and public libraries. Institutionalizing the project through sponsorship by an appropriate body or syndicate of libraries would help assure its extensibility nationally and internationally."
Social metadata for libraries, archives and museums: Research findings from t...Rose Holley
The presentative gives research findings from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) on Social Metadata Working Group. The group worked from 2009-2010 researching sites that used social media features before making some recommendations to libraries, archives and museums.
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Keynote presentation at Montana Library Association meeting, Helena, 7 February. It looks at public and academic library directions in a network environment.
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.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
Organizations focus on infrastructure, engagement and innovation. Libraries have emphasised infrastructure (collections, buildings to house those collections, systems, ...). In recent years they have been switching attention into engagement - better integration with their users' workflow, more direct support for research and learning, ...
This is a presentation from the OCLC EMEARC Regional Council meeting, February 2012.
OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
Rachel Frick, OCLC Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, reviews some of the broad agenda items and recent publications related to the work of OCLC Research. Rachel is then joined for two presentations on specific research topics. First, Sharon Streams (OCLC Director of WebJunction) and Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence) present on “Public Libraries and Wikipedia.” Next, Kenning Arlitsch (Dean, Montana State University Library) and Jeff Mixter (OCLC Senior Software Engineer) share their findings on “Accurate Institutional Repository Download Measurement using RAMP, the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal.”
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
**Important note - notes visible in downloaded presentation. **
An overview of research library collection trends. Presented in the context of changing demands of research and learning in a network environment. Behaviors shape technology; technology shapes behaviors. There is also some analysis of the RLUK collective collections study and a quick look at some characertistics of The Bodleian Libraries' collections.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Optimization of ILL Student Employees and Resources through Departmental Cons...davidhketchum
Having merged their Circulation and Interlibrary Loan units, presenters will discuss how and why they combined their student work forces into a single group. The results will be discussed in regards to the number of personnel, materials processed, and the financial considerations. Additional discussion will review how these have impacted services, cost savings, and their influence on future performance goals. Presentation by Joyce Melvin & Michael Straatmann
Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path...Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 is pleased to announce the public release of “Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path Forward." The report is the culmination of a six-month research project in collaboration with the University Library of the University of California, Davis; the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; and the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. The research project examined how libraries currently assess their resources and services, and areas of opportunity to streamline and visualize library performance through a common and customizable set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboard modules. The research team interviewed library assessment leaders and practitioners across diverse institutions and geographies, and reviewed the current landscape of technology, tools, and services addressing their needs.
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The report concludes that "the majority of library managers approach assessment and evaluation in an ad hoc and reactive manner as questions arise. Managers spend valuable time manually collecting, cleaning, and normalizing data from diverse systems, and then perform one-time or static interpretations. The library managers that we interviewed during our research felt that the availability of a toolkit and dashboard could free them to probe and interpret more data, think more strategically, and develop more meaningful questions about measuring and evaluating library performance. While the scoping research focused on the performance of research libraries, the proposed toolkit and dashboard framework could be adopted and customized by any type of library, including smaller college and university libraries, community college libraries, and public libraries. Institutionalizing the project through sponsorship by an appropriate body or syndicate of libraries would help assure its extensibility nationally and internationally."
Social metadata for libraries, archives and museums: Research findings from t...Rose Holley
The presentative gives research findings from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) on Social Metadata Working Group. The group worked from 2009-2010 researching sites that used social media features before making some recommendations to libraries, archives and museums.
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Keynote presentation at Montana Library Association meeting, Helena, 7 February. It looks at public and academic library directions in a network environment.
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.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
Organizations focus on infrastructure, engagement and innovation. Libraries have emphasised infrastructure (collections, buildings to house those collections, systems, ...). In recent years they have been switching attention into engagement - better integration with their users' workflow, more direct support for research and learning, ...
This is a presentation from the OCLC EMEARC Regional Council meeting, February 2012.
OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
Rachel Frick, OCLC Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, reviews some of the broad agenda items and recent publications related to the work of OCLC Research. Rachel is then joined for two presentations on specific research topics. First, Sharon Streams (OCLC Director of WebJunction) and Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence) present on “Public Libraries and Wikipedia.” Next, Kenning Arlitsch (Dean, Montana State University Library) and Jeff Mixter (OCLC Senior Software Engineer) share their findings on “Accurate Institutional Repository Download Measurement using RAMP, the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal.”
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
**Important note - notes visible in downloaded presentation. **
An overview of research library collection trends. Presented in the context of changing demands of research and learning in a network environment. Behaviors shape technology; technology shapes behaviors. There is also some analysis of the RLUK collective collections study and a quick look at some characertistics of The Bodleian Libraries' collections.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Optimization of ILL Student Employees and Resources through Departmental Cons...davidhketchum
Having merged their Circulation and Interlibrary Loan units, presenters will discuss how and why they combined their student work forces into a single group. The results will be discussed in regards to the number of personnel, materials processed, and the financial considerations. Additional discussion will review how these have impacted services, cost savings, and their influence on future performance goals. Presentation by Joyce Melvin & Michael Straatmann
The experience of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana implementing cloud based next gen ILS system WMS, including the selection process and change management work.
Deriving value from analytics requires much more than purchasing technology. University of Kentucky's analytics journey utilized fostering a bottom-up emergent community of practice as well as top-down organizational maneuvers. This presentation shares different aspects of the University of Kentucky score.
Los Angeles County WIC Programs: Developing Infrastructure for Partnered Rese...UCLA CTSI
Los Angeles County Women, Infants and Children (LAC WIC) programs provide supplemental nutrition, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant women or women with children under age 5 who are at nutritional risk. Although LAC WIC programs are often approached with research requests, they do not have a strategic plan to vet, manage or optimize in-house research. This project will create a strategic plan that will provide guidelines and tools to facilitate research of interest to LAC WIC leaders, participants, staff and academics.
Priority-Based Approaches to Accessible Procurement, Planning, and Implementa...Nate Evans
Learn how MSU is taking priority-based approaches to procurement, planning, and web accessibility policy implementation across the institution.
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/2017/sessions/index.php/public/presentations/view/323
Curlew Research Brussels 2014 Electronic Data & Knowledge ManagementNick Lynch
Life Science externalisation and collaboration overview and the challenges that Life Science companies face in delivering successful data sharing with their partners in either Open Innovation or pre-competitive workflows
A call to librarians to use their library powers in the community beyond the walls of their institutions as the open data folks need their knowledge!
Title:
Open Sesame: Open Data, Data Liberation and New Opportunities for Libraries
Abstract:
Cities and data producers are quickly embracing Open Data, albeit unevenly. The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) has been a pioneer in broadening access to data for nearly two decades. This session will examine the relevance of Data Liberation in terms of Open Data and explore how librarians can step up to the plate to make Open Data/Open Government as successful as DLI.
Speakers:
- Wendy Watkins, Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Ernie Boyko, Adjunct Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Tracey P. Lauriault, Post Doctoral Fellow, Carleton University (tlauriau@gmail.com)
- Margaret Haines, University Librarian, Carleton University
When forced into a corner we do have options: I suggest we choose to be activ...Charles Darwin University
A presentation to the English Australia Ed Tech Symposium - Plenary Address.
Abstract: Those institutions that have pivoted rapidly from teaching face-to face to teaching fully online have learned many lessons over the last 18 months, both good and bad. But for some, this has been nothing new, instead it’s simply been business as usual. We have seen that those who fared better have well established frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enhanced learning offerings. That is, they have recognised processes that define how they translate what they have in policy, procedures and planning into practice. Such a framework can be found within a number of quality tools, that are designed to provide institutions with clear guidelines as to what need to be in place to facilitate a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. Once present, it makes it easier to undertake online teaching that does more than just mimic face-to-face practice, providing a robust platform to allow innovative pedagogies to thrive. Typically, this means the online learning has, or can become far more, active, collaborative and authentic. This presentation with share some of the things that have been observed across the higher education sector over the last 18 moths that we can all learn from.
Ethical Dilemmas in Collection Development of Open Access Electronic ResourcesNASIG
All across the nation, universities are being called into critical conversations about social justice. The ALA Code of Ethics calls on librarians to “uphold the principles of intellectual freedom” and “distinguish between our personal convictions and professional duties.” Our ethics shape our engagement in these critical conversations. In my presentation, I will address the ethical dilemmas raised in open access electronic resources from predatory journals, to article processing charges (APCs), to xenophobic collections. We will discuss how our professional ethics are applicable to and stretched by the goals of open access. Real examples of ethical dilemmas will be shared for open discussion.
Slides on "Let’s Predict the Future: Conclusions" for a workshop session on "Predicting the Future" held on 3 June 2014 at the SAOIM 2014 conference in Pretoria, South Africa and facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis.
See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/saoim-2014-lets-predict-the-future-workshop/
Similar to The SHARES Partnership, Plus Tracking Trends in ILL Cost and Transaction Data (20)
Communicating library impact beyond library walls: Findings from an action-or...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Communicating library impact beyond library walls: Findings from an action-oriented research agenda: A collaborative effort. Presented at Universidad Javeriana, October 1, 2018, Bogota, Colombia.
"You can just tell whether a website looks reliable or not." People's modes o...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). "You can just tell whether a website looks reliable or not." People's modes of online engagement. Keynote presented at Universidad Javeriana, October 2, 2018, Bogota, Colombia.
Factors influencing research data management programs.OCLC
Connaway, L. S., & Matusiak, K. (2018). Factors influencing research data management programs. Workshop presented at the Università di Teramo, October 15, 2018, Teramo, Italy.
Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovativ...OCLC
Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T., Hartel, J., Kendall, L., Rebmann, K., Rang, T., & Yontz, E. (2018). Teaching research methods in LIS programs: Approaches, formats, and innovative strategies. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 9, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
OCLC ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant ProgramOCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). OCLC ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program. Presented at ALISE 2018 Conference, February 8, 2018, Denver, Colorado.
Investing in library users and potential users: The Many Faces of Digital Vi...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Investing in library users and potential users: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents. Presented at SLA-AGLA, March 6, 2018, Muscat, Oman.
Academic library impact: Improving practice and essential areas to researchOCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Academic library impact: Improving practice and essential areas to research. Presented at Bar-Ilan University, March 11, 2018, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Studying information behavior: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and ResidentsOCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Studying information behavior: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents. Presented at Bar-Ilan University, March 11, 2018, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Online engagement and information literacy: The Many Face of Digital Visitors...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Online engagement and information literacy: The Many Face of Digital Visitors & Residents. Presented at the Bibliostar Conference, March 15, 2018, Milan, Italy.
People's mode of online engagement: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and R...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). People's mode of online engagement: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents. Presented at the iConference, March 26, 2018, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Applying research methods: Investigating the Many Faces of Digital Visitors &...OCLC
Connaway, L. S. (2018). Applying research methods: Investigating the Many Faces of Digital Visitors & Residents. Presented at the American University, March 29, 2018, Rome, Italy.
Using Qualitative Methods for Library Evaluation: An Interactive WorkshopOCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Marie L. Radford. 2016. "Using Qualitative Methods for Library Evaluation: An Interactive Workshop." Presented at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) Conference, Zadar, Croatia, June 14.
Visitors and Residents: The Hows and Whys of Engagement with TechnologyOCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2016. “Visitors and Residents: The Hows and Whys of Engagement with Technology.” Presented at the Library Association of the Republic of China (LAROC) Annual Meeting, Taiwan, December 10.
Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning ...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 22.
Visitors and Residents: Interactive Mapping Exercise WorkshopOCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and William Harvey. 2017. “Visitors and Residents: Interactive Mapping Exercise Workshop.” Presented at the ASIS&T Regional Meeting, Dublin, Ohio, March 3.
Where are We Going and What Do We Do Next? Demonstrating the Value of Academi...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2017. “Where are We Going and What Do We Do Next? Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries in Time of Uncertainty.” Presented at the RLUK Conference 2017, London, United Kingdom, March 9.
Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research AgendaOCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research Agenda.” Presented at the ACRL 2017 Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 23.
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The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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The SHARES Partnership, Plus Tracking Trends in ILL Cost and Transaction Data
1. OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting
University of Melbourne • 2 December 2015
The SHARES Partnership,
Plus Tracking Trends in ILL Cost and Transaction Data
Dennis Massie
Program Officer, OCLC Research
2. Basic SHARES facts and principles
• 86 institutions
• 114 OCLC symbols
• 9 countries
• 4 continents
• Self-governing
• Easy to get started
• Academic, museum,
law, medical, national,
public
• SHARES Agreement
– Consider each request
– No blanket restrictions
– Below market rates (via
IFM)
– Expedited delivery
– Lending returnables
overseas optional
– Reciprocal onsite access
3. Examples of SHARES engagement
opportunities
3
Advisory or Working Group People Institutions Countries
SHARES Executive Group 8 8 2
SHARES Best Practices Working
Group
11 10 3
SHARES Shipping and Packaging
Task Force
9 9 3
ILL Cost Calculator Working Group 3 3 2
4. Routine
Workflow
Cooperative
Workflow
Exceptional
Workflow
REVIEW
Request Via ILL system
Collaboration between
Special Collections (SC)
and ILL
Directly to SC
Is material held in a
special collection?
ILL staff
Collaboration between
borrowing and lending
institutions
Lending institution
Reference Interview
At borrowing
institution—
reference desk and
ILL staff
Collaboration of ILL and SC
staff in both institutions
By lending institution—SC staff
Inter-institutional
communication
how?
ILL system
ILL system and
email/phone
Direct contact between two SC’s
Internal
communication
how?
ILL system
ILL system and
email/phone
Direct contact between SC/ILL staff
and other departments
Stipulate for
Research Use?
Implicit Consider emphasizing Explicit criteria
Reviewing
Infrastructure
Written guidelines
Collaboration between
borrowing and lending
departments
Elaborate decision tree, multiple staff,
institutional level decision
Mutual disclosure of
ILL and SC facilities
We trust you Approved checklist Facilities report
Forms
ILL transaction work
form and IFM
Extra insurance and/or
forms for special
handling
Use agreement, insurance forms, art
museums loan agreement, etc.
DECIDE
Decision Maker ILL staff
ILL and SC consult when
necessary
SC staff, curator, possibly director
Original or
Surrogate?
Surrogate or
predetermined
originals
Prefer to lend surrogate,
consider original
Case-by-case consideration
Published/unpublish
ed?
Some published and
predetermined
unpublished material
types
Some published OK.
Unpublished material
on a case-by-case basis
Consider lending published and
unpublished materials
Use Rights
Borrower’s
responsibility
What any reasonable SC
staffer would do
Search, monitor and control
thoroughly
Trust and Training
ILL training and
expertise
ILL and SC cross-training on
handling fragile
materials
SC training and experience only
LEND
Oversees loan
transaction
ILL staff Staff in ILL and SC SC specialists
Quality Control
Usual packager, usual
shipper, mailroom or
ILL
Special ILL or SC packager
SC/preserv staff prepare special
supports and deliver with the
material
RETURN
Deliver
Usual shipper, with
use/handling
conditions
Expedited shipper, extra
insurance, special
handling instructions
Deliver from SC to SC—call me when
you get it
5. Routine
Workflow
Cooperative
Workflow
Exceptional
Workflow
REVIEW
Request Via ILL system
Collaboration between
Special Collections (SC)
and ILL
Directly to SC
Is material held in a
special collection?
ILL staff
Collaboration between
borrowing and lending
institutions
Lending institution
Reference Interview
At borrowing
institution—
reference desk and
ILL staff
Collaboration of ILL and SC
staff in both institutions
By lending institution—SC staff
Inter-institutional
communication
how?
ILL system
ILL system and
email/phone
Direct contact between two SC’s
Internal
communication
how?
ILL system
ILL system and
email/phone
Direct contact between SC/ILL staff
and other departments
Stipulate for
Research Use?
Implicit Consider emphasizing Explicit criteria
Reviewing
Infrastructure
Written guidelines
Collaboration between
borrowing and lending
departments
Elaborate decision tree, multiple staff,
institutional level decision
Mutual disclosure of
ILL and SC facilities
We trust you Approved checklist Facilities report
Forms
ILL transaction work
form and IFM
Extra insurance and/or
forms for special
handling
Use agreement, insurance forms, art
museums loan agreement, etc.
DECIDE
Decision Maker ILL staff
ILL and SC consult when
necessary
SC staff, curator, possibly director
Original or
Surrogate?
Surrogate or
predetermined
originals
Prefer to lend surrogate,
consider original
Case-by-case consideration
Published/unpublish
ed?
Some published and
predetermined
unpublished material
types
Some published OK.
Unpublished material
on a case-by-case basis
Consider lending published and
unpublished materials
Use Rights
Borrower’s
responsibility
What any reasonable SC
staffer would do
Search, monitor and control
thoroughly
Trust and Training
ILL training and
expertise
ILL and SC cross-training on
handling fragile
materials
SC training and experience only
LEND
Oversees loan
transaction
ILL staff Staff in ILL and SC SC specialists
Quality Control
Usual packager, usual
shipper, mailroom or
ILL
Special ILL or SC packager
SC/preserv staff prepare special
supports and deliver with the
material
RETURN
Deliver
Usual shipper, with
use/handling
conditions
Expedited shipper, extra
insurance, special
handling instructions
Deliver from SC to SC—call me when
you get it
9. • Megan Gaffney, University of Delaware
• Justin Hill, Temple University
• Ralph LeVan and JD Shipengrover, OCLC Research
• Margarita Moreno, National Library of Australia
• Moi!
Working Group
10. Our aspirations for the calculator
• Provide fresh data about current models
• Help establish best practices
• Facilitate comparison to anonymized peers
• Support evidence-based decision-making
11. Use Cases
• Users want to know:
– Their resource sharing unit costs
– How those costs evolve over time
– How their costs compare with peers
• Users would like to project:
– The financial impact of joining a consortium
– Of buying a certain piece of equipment
– Of implementing a new service
12. The system calculates Staff costs and reports
only totals for each category.
You’ll enter the salary data and review the
system-calculated totals on private worksheet
tabs that only you will see.
13. • Next 4 months:
– Beta testers will register and submit their data
– OCLC software engineer will build database and reporting
functions
– Beta testers will test reports
• Next 6 months:
– “Early interest” folks will be invited to submit data
– We’ll open it up to everyone
– We’ll work with various groups and organizations to encourage
use
• Google OCLC ILL Calculator for more information.
Birthing an ILL Cost Calculator
14. OCLC ILL statistics
FY13 FY12 FY11 FY10 FY09
ILL requests 8,858,368 9,192,189 9,587,429 10,248,942 10,279,215
Year on year 4% 4% 6% 0.29%
Between FY09 and FY13, OCLC ILL has seen a 14% reduction in total number of
ILL requests.
Anecdotal evidence tells us that US libraries are seeing an ongoing increase in
their borrowing.
OCLC wants to learn more about various trends in fulfillment.
15. • As of December 2014:
• Made up of 11 institutions with sophisticated,
innovative resource sharing operations
• Some long-established members, some newer
Involved in all manner of consortial
arrangements within and outside the group
• Would serve as an excellent illustration of
current trends in the research library community
16. • What numbers of borrows and loans has each
institution executed in each of the various resource
sharing venues in the past 5 years?
• What factors determine the requesting method or
model used for each request?
• How/why is all this changing over time?
• How will it most likely change in the future?
OCLC/Borrow Direct ILL Study
17. ARL vs Our Study
Why might the numbers
differ?
Institutions with multiple
libraries and with complex
ILL set-up’s might not have
reported all activity to us.
Both sets of data are self-
reported, and possibly
compiled by different
people.
Potential fiscal/calendar
confusion
Overall, study participants
reported 97.9% of what
was reported to ARL. 0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
2010 2011 2012 2013
ARL
Our study
18. Circ-to-Circ is where the growth is.
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
2010 2011 2012 2013
C2C
Trad
19. Growth is due to new players.
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
400,000
450,000
2010 2011 2012 2013
Overall ILL Activity
Founders J2002 Newbies
20. – What is the strategic thinking behind the groups you
join? Technologies you adopt? Workflows you
establish?
– What forces are at work driving your choices?
– Who are your users, and what needs do they hope
will be met by your collection sharing services?
– What user experience do you offer? What do you
aspire to offer?
– What would you like to learn from this data, or any
data?
– How will collection sharing evolve over the next 5
years?
6 Basic Questions for BD ILLer’s
21. • Automate the routine.
• Build in predictability.
• Push staff tasks lower in the hierarchy.
• Introduce efficiencies, relax restrictive policies.
• Partner in concentric circles.
Strategic thinking
22. • Chart OCLC ILL interactions in detail as new
members joined Borrow Direct
• Isolate returnables and non-returnables
• Overlay expenditures and demographics onto
collection sharing data
• Report out
• Repeat study with the CIC
Next steps/further study
23. • As of December 2015:
• Made up of 14 institutions with
sophisticated, innovative resource sharing
operations
• Some long-established members, some newer
Involved in all manner of consortial
arrangements within and outside the group
• Set up their consortial borrowing process to run
through ILL rather than Circulation
29. • Chart OCLC ILL interactions in detail as new
members joined Borrow Direct
• Isolate returnables and non-returnables
• Overlay expenditures and demographics onto
collection sharing data
• Report out
• Repeat study with the CIC
• Repeat study with some subset of the
Asia Pacific partnership libraries?
Next steps/further study