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The New Collection Development: Planning And Assessment To Promote Innovation, Daniel C. Mack

Charleston Library Conference

Library collections are in the midst of a radical transformation. Rapidly evolving technology, innovations in distributing and accessing content, new models of pricing, repurposing of library spaces, and shrinking collections budgets create a new environment for collection development. This new environment requires that librarians participate in a variety of new collection development activities beyond just selecting content.

In the emerging library collection development landscape librarians must engage with the disciplinary content of collections as well as a range of other areas. New areas of responsibility might include: information technology, including issues of personal data curation; copyright, open access, and scholarly …

Do-It-Yourself Title Overlap Comparisons, Melissa Belvadi

Charleston Library Conference

Discovery service indexing content can be highly customizable, which makes traditional title overlap analysis published by third parties less meaningful for a library making new subscription or cancellation decisions. This article presents a method for conducting basic title overlap analyses in‐house at minimal cost, tailored to the specific configuration of the library.

Acquisitions In A Nutshell, Linda Creibaum, Jeff Bailey, Star Holloway

Charleston Library Conference

Designed specifically for librarians new to the field of acquisitions, this session featured an informal introduction to the basics of acquisitions librarianship from three standpoints: a veteran acquisitions and serials librarian, a library director with a background in acquisitions, and a librarian who began her first professional appointment in 2013.

The session covered a variety of issues related to the acquisition of both monographs and serials in various formats, plus database and backfile purchases. Discussions included definitions, ordering considerations, avoiding purchase of duplicate resources, negotiating prices and access options, licensing, selecting vendors and jobbers, and various services that vendors’ representatives …

“But That’S The Way We’Ve Always Done It”: Shifting From A Liaison To A Centralized Model Of Collection Development, Amanda R. Scull

Charleston Library Conference

This session discussed the shift away from a subject liaison model of collection development to a centralized model in a small academic library from the perspective of a newly centralized Collection Development Librarian. The session addressed the limitations of the subject liaison model, the challenges faced during transition, and the functional realities of centralized collection development. I discussed outreach, selection, and assessment as the three major areas where the change to centralization has required new policies and approaches to communication.

Outsourced And Overwhelmed: Gaining A Grasp On Managing Electronic Resources, Matthew D. Harrington

Charleston Library Conference

Outsourcing the management of electronic journals has significantly reduced the autonomy academic libraries have over their collections’ metadata, as well as the ways in which that data is collected, organized, and made available to the library. However, the ephemerality of this metadata makes quality control burdensome and costly on the corporate end and necessitates ongoing title tracking and maintenance for the library. As a result, the quality of data in outsourced knowledge bases is often inversely proportional to the library’s tolerance of “bad data,” as well as its inability to tell the difference. This session demonstrates how an MS Access …

Creating A Standard Of Practice For License Alternatives, Christina M. Geuther, Mira E. Greene

Charleston Library Conference

A gap exists in library literature for license alternative practices. Although licensing processes are a new concept, there is enough knowledge of best practices that will apply to alternatives. Much of the life cycle of electronic resources with and without licenses remains the same; therefore, a workflow can be framed for alternatives. Kansas State University created a standard workflow for managing license alternatives in its management systems Verde and Alma. We based this standard on the differences between licenses and their conventional alternatives, the NISO Shared Electronic Resource Understanding, and terms of use without registered or signed agreement. Aspects of …

Moving A Library Can Be Easy, But Planning And Project Management Is Key, Katie Gohn

Charleston Library Conference

In the summer of 2007, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) received 48 million dollars to plan and build a new library. Planning for the moving of the collection began shortly thereafter. This paper details specific collections projects completed by UTC Library faculty and staff that resulted in a flawless move that took only 11 days to complete. The luxury of time to complete a collection inventory and accurate measurement was key, but so was selecting the right people for the project.

Changing Operations Of Academic Libraries, Jim Dooley

Charleston Library Conference

The University of California, Merced (UC Merced) opened in 2005. Both the campus and the library are celebrating their first decade of operation. This paper will examine decisions made at the founding of the library and which of these decisions remain valid today. The focus will be on collections, technical services, reference services, instruction, digital assets, and space.

Going Local: Creating Unique And Special Collections In An Academic Library, Arielle Lomness

Charleston Library Conference

Over the past two years, the University of British Columbia–Okanagan Library has undertaken a review to update their special collections and focus on the local geographical areas and targeted populations. From this, a localized, accessible, and unique collection has emerged that can better serve the students and faculty on campus, as well as community user groups in the area. This project helped to grow the community engagement focused strategic direction of the university and increase the visibility of the library in the surrounding community through building new relationships.

This paper will focus on examining the roles libraries can play in …

Weeding Out In The Open: What Will The Neighbors Think?, Michael Demars, Ann Roll

Charleston Library Conference

Weeding is often an emotionally charged topic for both librarians and faculty. A healthy print collection needs weeding, but the campus community is often nervous and concerned about this practice. In preparing for a large scale monograph deselection project at California State University, Fullerton’s (CSUF) Pollak Library, library faculty and administration grappled with how to productively and efficiently involve the large CSUF teaching faculty in the weeding process. Library systems staff developed an innovative web‐based tool that enables faculty to easily provide feedback on deselection candidates on a title by title basis. This paper explains the thoughts behind the project, …

Purchasing E‐Books From Life And Physical Science Society Publishers: Trends And Considerations, Kelli J. Trei, Erin E. Kerby

Charleston Library Conference

This study evaluates e‐book publishing by professional life and physical science societies. In order to be good stewards of their resources, collection managers should always be aware of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions and access issues when contemplating an e‐book purchase. This can be difficult due to the wide variety of publishing models employed by society e‐book publishers. In this study the authors examine various life and physical science societies that publish e‐books, including factors such as DRM and access conditions, and purchasing options. The results provide information for collection managers to consider when purchasing e‐books from society publishers, as …

Acquisitions Everywhere: Modeling An Acquisitions Data Standard To Connect A Distributed Environment, Eric M. Hanson, Paul W. Lightcap, Matthew R. Miguez

Charleston Library Conference

Acquisitions functions remain operationally crucial in providing access to paid information resources, but data formats and workflows utilized within library acquisitions remain primarily within the traditional integrated library system (ILS). As libraries have evolved to use distributed systems to manage information resources, so too must acquisitions functions adapt to an environment that may include the ILS, e‐resource management systems (ERMS), institutional repositories (IR), and other digital asset management systems (DAMS).

This presentation is intended to articulate a vision for applying standards‐based practice—as already employed for resource description—to acquisitions functions in a variety of metadata schema and systems. Utilization of standards …

A Crossroads For Collection Development And Assessment, Its Fallout, And Unknowns: Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas Reich

Charleston Library Conference

Where do we go from here? Achieving goals of sustainable resource collections through a thorough collection assessment is evermore challenged by fallout and unknowns lurking ubiquitously. There is an ever‐increasing competition for both physical space and economic space. We’re at an important crossroads for collection development, collection assessment, and libraries themselves. Change and assessment must be sustainable. To be effective, change must create its own momentum. Three years into our collection assessment project, momentum has been steady and efforts continue. However, we’ve encountered fallout and unknowns which we hadn’t planned on, and these are of an institutional and political nature.

Changing The Conversation: Using Agile Approaches To Develop And Assess Collections Holistically, Genya O'Gara, Cheryl Duncan

Charleston Library Conference

In 2013–2014, James Madison University (JMU) Libraries embarked on an endeavor to create a flexible, holistic model for developing, managing, and assessing collections. The effort began by surveying what qualitative and quantitative data was being collected that could inform big‐picture questions about whether library collections were meeting evolving campus research needs. The investigation included an in‐depth literature review, the launch, evaluation, and adoption of several pilot projects, and ultimately the construction of an evaluation rubric and disciplinary subject snapshots that articulate both the impact of collections and potential gaps within them at institutional and departmental levels.

In order to remain …

Bam: The Basic Access Model For Content Mining Agreements, Darby Orcutt

Charleston Library Conference

The Basic Access Model (BAM) provides a reasonable and practical framework of business terms for libraries and vendors to agree on how to facilitate user access to digital content for content mining purposes, as well as a principled and agreed upon industry foundation for future cooperation. BAM has already opened up significant content for mining access. The sooner we can open up our collections—both as libraries and as vendors—to the new and emerging tools and methods of content mining researchers, the more relevant we and our collections will be.

Implementing Collection Life Cycle Management, Annie Bélanger

Charleston Library Conference

In a time of increasing physical collection space pressures and rapidly evolving higher education institutions, a holistic understanding of the collection life cycle, a strategic approach to collection development and retention, and increased stakeholder engagement is needed. Some librarians struggle with what materials to withdraw, especially if there is faculty opposition, and how to move forward collaboratively. This article will explore leveraging the experience of leading the local culture shift in a large Association of Research Library, the principles, policies and methods required to shift mental models towards what must be retained, facilitating withdrawal decisions, and connecting collection development with …

An Account And Analysis Of The Implementation Of Various E‐Book Business Models At Queensland University Of Technology, Australia, Martin Borchert, Colleen Cleary

Charleston Library Conference

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a leading university based in the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and is a selectively research intensive university with 2,500 higher degree research students and an overall student population of 45,000 students.

The transition from print to online resources is largely completed and the library now provides access to 450,000 print books, 1,000 print journals, 600,000 e‐books, 120,000 e‐journals and 100,000 online videos. The e‐book collection is now used three times as much as the print book collection.

This paper focuses on QUT Library’s e‐book strategy and the challenges of building and managing a …

Back To The Future: Re‐Examining The Need For Shelf‐Ready Processes In The E‐Book Environment, Susan J. Martin, Pamela D. Ward, Brittney L. Washington

Charleston Library Conference

Shelf‐ready processing of print materials is a commonly available service from library book vendors, and many libraries outsource these services in order to help save staff time and costs, and to expedite the process. However, in the age where print monographs are increasingly replaced with e‐books, do these services still make fiscal sense? In the spring of 2015, the Texas Woman’s University Libraries were looking to expand shelf‐ready services to a second vendor, but before doing so opted to do a feasibility study to see if shelf‐ready services were still needed and economical. This paper presents the findings of a …

One Library’S Successful Venture In Providing Comprehensive Streaming Media Services, Allyson Mower, Mary Ann James, Catherine Soehner, Maria Hunt, Dave Heyborne, Joni Clayton

Charleston Library Conference

Thoroughly understanding what professors and instructors needed to accomplish their teaching goals with streaming video was the first step enabling one academic library to successfully manage a rapid increase in demand for streaming media. The second element was incorporating an expert understanding of copyright law and the nature of the video marketplace.

This paper will strive to educate librarians and other professional library staff on how they can best integrate media streaming into mainstream library services for their campus faculty, as well as how to provide a full range of streaming services. The paper also will address workflow, communication with …

Human Services Internship With Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network, Madison Duncan

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Madison Duncan is a Lafayette, Indiana native and senior in the College of Health and Human Sciences. In this snapshot, Madison describes an internship experience with the Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network (INRN) that helped prepare her for work with nonprofit agencies.

Purdue Habitat For Humanity International Trip, Zack Mccormack

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Zack McCormack is an advanced practice professional pharmacy student in the College of Pharmacy. In this article, Zack describes his experience with the Purdue Chapter of Habitat for Humanity—a nonprofit, Christian housing ministry with a belief that everyone should have access to decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Walking Among The Haitians: Cultural Experiences In Haiti, Chris Gonzales, Brendan Schneider, Brian Wagler

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Chris Gonzales is a senior in animal sciences and hails from Terre Haute, Indiana. Brendan Schneider is a senior in electrical engineering, originally from Kohler, Wisconsin. Brian Wagler is a junior in agribusiness management from Milroy, Indiana. In this article, they describe their journey and cultural experiences in Haiti and how they worked to exchange agricultural information with the local people to further develop agriculture in Haiti in addition to developing their own understanding of agriculture.

Experiencing The Culture Of Cap-Haïtien: A Trip To Haiti, Alacyn Cox, Kamille Brawner, Kylie Echard

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Alacyn Cox and Kamile Brawner, third-year students, and Kylie Echard, a second-year student, are in the College of Agriculture. In this article, they provide readers with a glimpse of their first impressions on the economy, traditions, and culture they experienced during a study abroad, service-learning experience in Haiti.

Boiler Out! Program: Where Cultures Cross For Community Services, Quynh P. Nguyen

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Quynh Nguyen reflects on what she has learned from serving the community, from interactions with international students at Purdue, and how her volunteerism supports her current major in pre-pharmacy.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. —Mother Theresa

Ldpe-Based Bio-Plastics, Vijaya Sangawar, Amit Gadre, Ganesh Yerawar

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

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Polyethylene-Based Bio-Plastics Could Be The Optimal Solution For Plastic Wastes, Vijaya Sunil Sangawar, Amit Gadre, Ganesh Yerawar

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.

What Are The Predictors Of System-Wide Trust Loss In Transportation Automation?, Stephen Rice, Scott R. Winter, John E. Deaton, Ismael Cremer

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Prior research has examined how individuals place trust in single (e.g., Meyer, 2001, 2004) and multiple (e.g., Geels-Blair, Rice, & Schwark, 2013) automated devices when one fails. This has shown that participants are influenced by system-wide trust (SWT). What has been missing is an investigation into what types of people succumb to SWT effects. The current study attempts to replicate SWT findings and identify possible predictors of individuals likely to be influenced by SWT. The findings did demonstrate a replication of SWT. The study found that ‘‘feelings of negativity when automated devices fail’’ was a significant predictor of …

Detangling The Interrelationships Between Self-Regulation And Ill-Structured Problem Solving In Problem-Based Learning, Xun Ge, Victor Law, Kun Huang

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

One of the goals for problem-based learning (PBL) is to promote self-regulation. Although self-regulation has been studied extensively, its interrelationships with ill-structured problem solving have been unclear. In order to clarify the interrelationships, this article proposes a conceptual framework illustrating the iterative processes among problem-solving stages (i.e., problem representation and solution generation) and self-regulation phases (i.e., planning, execution, and reflection). The dynamics of the interrelationships are further illustrated with three ill-structured problem-solving examples in different domains (i.e., information problem solving, historical inquiry, and science inquiry). The proposed framework contributes to research and practice by providing a new lens to examine …

Are You Still With Us? Managing Mobile Phone Use And Group Interaction In Pbl, Gillian Hendry, Sally Wiggins, Tony Anderson

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

As mobile phone technology becomes more advanced, so too does its presence in everyday life. Research has shown, for instance, that students are using their mobile phones in classroom settings, a practice that holds both potential advantages and disadvantages. In group work, these interactions may have consequences for group dynamics in that orienting to a mobile phone can display a shift in an individual’s attention to the group. The current essay details a research project conducted on problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials in the United Kingdom in which student groups were video-recorded as they worked. A discursive psychological analysis focused on …

Using Everyday Objects To Engage Students In Standards Education, Margaret Phillips, Paul Mcpherson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This paper describes an innovative approach to standards education in an undergraduate mechanical engineering technology design course. The work is focused on making standards appeal to students by using “everyday objects” (e.g. toaster, ladder, grill, etc.) as catalysts to introduce the topic of standards in a way that connects to students’ daily lives. The project involves instructor-librarian collaboration to incorporate information literacy and campus library resources into the standards curricula, so that students not only become familiar with standards resources, but also proficient at searching for and locating the documents. Preliminary results and observations indicate this is an effective approach …