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Don’T Leave The Faculty At The Station: Introducing Faculty To Collection Development Grants, Don J. Welsh, Martha E. Higgins, Stephen D. Clark

Charleston Library Conference

In 2012, a collection analysis report was published outlining the results of a year‐long study of the College of William and Mary Library collections comparing it to those of other peer institutions using OCLC’s collection analysis software. As a means to address some of the deficiencies brought out in the report as well as provide outreach and curricular support, the library began to offer collection development grants to college faculty. This has been a fruitful experience to build collaborative efforts with faculty; to fill gaps in the library collections; enhance curricular and faculty research support; and to provide outreach to …

The Challenge Of Evaluating And Developing An Interdisciplinary Collection: The East Asian Collection At The Public College, Ewa Dzurak, Kerry Falloon, Jonathan Cope

Charleston Library Conference

When the faculty of the College of Staten Island, CUNY (CSI) introduced a new baccalaureate level program in East Asian Studies the library faced the challenge of evaluating the adequacy of its holdings to support the program and its future development. Multidisciplinary fields of study (e.g., East Asian Studies) that pertain to a specific geographical or cultural area present a unique set of evaluative issues because their subject content cannot be confined to set classification ranges, rendering the traditional methods of collection analysis inadequate. This poster will present the results of an evaluation of CSI’s East Asian Studies collection, discuss …

No Crystal Ball: Planning For Certain Future Cuts When The Future Is Uncertain, Paoshan W. Yue, Gail F. Stanton, Karen S. Grigg, Beth Bernhardt

Charleston Library Conference

This paper is a combined presentation from the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Many academic libraries have to make decisions about journal and database subscriptions before the university releases the upcoming budget. Often, it is necessary to not only make decisions for the following fiscal year without a final budget, but to plan ahead and forecast for an additional year. The University of Nevada, Reno Libraries approached it with a comprehensive collection review, covering print and electronic journals, journal packages, and databases. A wide range of data from various sources was brought …

Do Libraries’ Needs Still Match Publisher Offerings? “The Truth Is Rarely Pure And Never Simple” (Oscar Wilde), John Banionis, Nadia Lalla, Don West

Charleston Library Conference

Given the continued state of strained library budgets and increasing content offerings from publishers, the authors set out to investigate this current environment from the perspectives of both library and publisher. After reviewing the array of publisher offerings as well as ongoing collection development issues faced by libraries, the authors moderated an open discussion with their peers to determine if any new models and solutions offered by publishers help to address these concerns, and if not, what the library community would like to see as an ideal acquisitions model.

Breaking It Down: Electronic Resource Workflow Documentation, Alexandra Hamlett

Charleston Library Conference

Managing electronic resources is a fairly complex process faced by librarians with ever more frequency in today’s digital environment. In an effort to approach the possibility of purchasing an electronic resource manager (ERM), electronic resource workflow processes were investigated and documented. The life cycle of electronic resources takes a very different form than that of its print counterpart, and it can prove immensely useful to the library to examine these workflows. Such workflow documentation can offer the opportunity for analysis, exposure of problem areas, occurrences of overlap or duplication, and can lead to discussions amongst faculty and staff that are …

Library Of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation, Ted Westervelt, Donna Scanlon

Charleston Library Conference

The Library of Congress has a fundamental commitment to acquiring, preserving and making accessible in the long term the creative output of the nation and the world. The Library has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and longterm access, especially with regard to digital formats. The Library is doing this to provide guidance to its staff in their work of acquiring content for its collection, but we also seek to share this with other stakeholders, from the creative community to vendors to other libraries, each of which …

Changing Library Operations, Allen Mckiel, Jim Dooley, Robert Murdoch, Carol Zsulya

Charleston Library Conference

The following article was presented in a panel discussion which explored library operational adaptations to the changing technologies of information distribution and usage. The librarians on the panel presented glimpses of the changes occurring in their library operations as they transition to services without print. The librarians explored, through the evidence of their changing library operations, a range of topics, for example: trends in e‐resource acquisition and usage; changes in consortia; processing and organizational changes; and developments in open access publishing and library e‐publication. After initial presentations, the panel and moderator encouraged questions, comments, and discussion with attendees.

Good Things Come In Small Packages: Getting The Most From Shared Print Retention And Cooperative Collection Development With A Small Group Of Libraries, Teresa Koch, Cyd Dyer, Pamela Rees

Charleston Library Conference

In June 2013, the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI‐CCI), inspired by a Charleston preconference on data‐driven shared print collections, was established. CI‐CCI went from being just an idea to a formal, MOU‐governed organization in just six months. It is consists of a group of five mid and small central Iowa private academic libraries. Members are Central College, Drake University, Grand View University, Grinnell College, and Simpson College.

Digital And Physical: Coevolving Formats In Today's Research Libraries, Cynthia Sorrell

Charleston Library Conference

Academic libraries have been at pivotal crossroads for some years as deans and their staffers realize the perplexing shortage of shelf space for print volumes while at the same time determining the optimum balance of physical resources on shelves in light of the exploding world of online digital information. The question of what is the best format for the library users’ research, teaching, and scholarship continues to be analyzed, assessed, and discussed. As a result, new and innovative library business models are evolving that consider dramatically "revisioning" floors of library space to accommodate the ever‐changing needs of library users while …

Shelf Ready Doesn't Always Mean Ready For The Shelf, Stacey Marien, Alayne Mundt

Charleston Library Conference

The Acquisitions and Cataloging Departments at American University have embarked on a partnership whereby an acquisitions specialist uses a cataloging checklist to check various aspects of shelf ready records for correctness and accuracy. Any books that don't meet the requirements of the checklist are automatically routed to the Cataloging Department for additional copy cataloging. Over the course of several years of refining the checklist, the number of approvals bypassing Cataloging has gone from 24% to 60%, which has freed up the Cataloging Department to work on more original and complex cataloging work. This has also led to other collaborations between …

Condition Considerations: An Inquiry Into Recording Conditions In Consortial Collections For The Purpose Of Selecting (And Deselecting) Shared Print Copies, Michael Garabedian

Charleston Library Conference

Following preliminary discussions about a shared print network among Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) institutions in which he determined that artifactual condition would not be a criterion for retention, the author developed an online survey instrument for the purposes of verification. The survey was utilized in a condition survey of mutually held book copies at eight SCELC institutions. More than 3,400 book copies were examined. Findings indicated that although the majority of books are in “good enough” condition for a shared print network, because just 1/3 of the copies have paratextual elements, it is probable that random deselection of …

Adios To Paper Journals—Removed And Recycled—One Mile Long And 75 Tons, John P. Abbott, Mary R. Jordan

Charleston Library Conference

This presentation uses Appalachian State University’s experiences as a stimulus for discussing how we have, and others may, successfully remove in a single swoop several thousand linear feet of little used bound periodicals. This effort opens library areas for new services and spaces. The program will be a resource and guide to others interested in large‐scale deaccessioning projects and includes three deaccessioning projects using online back files from 1) JSTOR; 2) ScienceDirect, Wiley, and Sage; and 3) journals outside of these packages.

Staring Into The Whale’S Mouth: Large-Scale Journal Deaccession At A Small University, Jennifer Dean, Renee Bracey, Peggy Hlavka

Charleston Library Conference

Large‐scale journal deaccession is an all‐consuming project requiring considerable planning and staff time. The Library team at Siena Heights University, a small, Catholic, liberal arts university in rural Southeast Michigan, recently completed such a project. Project is a keyword—a large project like this is not business as usual, and must be managed as a project with appropriate staff from throughout the organization. Further, journal deaccession on this scale is not simple—it involves a change in what libraries have always done. Staff need time to absorb the changes, and to understand all of the ramifications on their future work. Perspectives from …

Wilde About Weeding: An Earnest Effort In Collection Development, Melissa Johnson

Charleston Library Conference

In an effort to create more student space, provide ease of access to resources, and strengthen their collection, a medium sized academic library at a recently consolidated university undertook a major weeding project in 2014. A weeding plan was developed for both the monographs and the serials. Since it was important to get immediate results in removing items from the collection, the print serials section was the first area selected for weeding. Through a step‐by‐step process that involved all members of the library staff, items were evaluated on electronic availability, availability at the other university libraries, the content, the condition, …

Cooperative Collection Development Requires Access: Saltoc—A Low‐Tech, High‐Value Distributed Online Project For Article‐Level Discovery In Foreign‐Language Print‐Only Journals, Aruna P. Magier

Charleston Library Conference

Foreign‐language journals are an essential component of interdisciplinary area studies collections at research libraries but are, by definition, low‐use materials. Librarians who select them seek to broaden these collections, reduce duplication, and enable shared access to them. The challenge is lack of article‐level discoverability: these are print‐only journals, not covered in online indexing/abstracting services. If users cannot discover these articles, then how can cooperating libraries share them, and distribute responsibility for collecting them, which is essential to coordinated collection development?

The SALToC project collaboratively address this issue by creating simple, centrally browsable tables of contents for target journals, through a …

It's Not Just About Weeding: Using Collaborative Collection Analysis To Develop Consortial Collections, Anne Osterman, Genya O'Gara, Leslie O'Brien

Charleston Library Conference

From fall 2013 to the present, the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) has undertaken a pilot collection analysis project with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS). This pilot has involved analyzing the main stacks holdings of 12 of the VIVA member libraries, a total of almost six million records. As is usual for an SCS analysis, the project involved comparing the pilot libraries’ holdings with each other, the consortium as a whole, the state, and the United States, as well as with HathiTrust, the internet archive, and selected peer library groups.

The goals for this project were varied, but unlike most library …

Moving Librarian Collecting From Good To Great: Results From The First Year Of A Librarian Liaison Collaborative Monographic Purchasing Project, Genya O'Gara, Carolyn Schubert, Lara Sapp, Michael Mungin

Charleston Library Conference

As Collins (2001) found in his evaluation of how companies evolve from “good” to “great,” one of the key components of such a transition is to focus less on continuing tasks, and more on NOT continuing tasks. Today’s librarians are juggling instruction, reference, collection development, outreach, and the need to develop new expertise in emerging areas, such as data curation, multimedia resources, institutional repositories, and more. Librarians cannot responsibly continue all traditional tasks while facing shifting budget priorities and new responsibilities. As noted in ARL’s Issue Brief (2012), “never before have we been required to grasp so many dimensions of …

Successful E‐Resource Acquisitions: Looking Beyond Selecting, Ordering, Paying, And Receiving To Discovery And Access, Denise Branch

Charleston Library Conference

E‐resource acquisitions began as a complex process and libraries struggled to manage it. When e‐resources first arrived, librarians spent considerable time determining how to acquire these resources. A movement ensued to generate the best methods for selecting, ordering, negotiating licenses, choosing content, and paying. Libraries were prompted to develop new workflows. Time has passed and acquisitions functions have mostly been standardized. However, with the acquisition of e‐resources comes the challenges of discovery, access, and user needs. Now that many libraries feel more comfortable in acquiring e‐resources with the help of technology, cloud‐based services, and task coordination, they are moving beyond …

Keeping It Real: A Comprehensive And Transparent Evaluation Of Electronic Resources, Karen R. Harker, Laurel Crawford, Todd Enoch

Charleston Library Conference

There will be a time when your library will need to evaluate all of your electronic resources. How would you do it? In response to a cut to our materials budget, we have developed a method that condenses a large amount of information into a few select criteria. In this day‐long workshop, we walked through the process using the Decision Grid process developed at the University of Maryland at College Park (Foudy and McManus, p. 533‐538) as a starting point. The workshop leaders first demonstrated each step of our process, and then the participants worked in small groups (5‐7) using …

Collection Development, E-Resources, And Meeting The Needs Of People With Disabilities, Axel Schmetzke, Cheryl Pruitt, Michele Bruno

Charleston Library Conference

Access barriers do not only exist in the physical environment but also online. Just as certain architectural design features make it possible, or impossible, for people with certain disabilities to move about independently, so does design of the electronic environment, which includes all the library e‐resources, creates either enabling or disabling conditions for certain individuals. Recently conducted research reveals a rather grim picture: while policy statements issued by professional library organization call for inclusive selection and procurement procedures, books on collection development do not cover the issue adequately. When librarians make decision about the selection of specific e‐resources, the needs …

Are E-Book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable?, Aaron K. Shrimplin, Jennifer W. Bazeley

Charleston Library Conference

The academic e‐book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E‐book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring electronic rather than print format. E‐book acquisition models like patron‐driven acquisition and short‐term loan have now become commonplace and available from a multitude of consortia, publishers, and aggregators. With the wide availability of these models, is there still value in buying e‐books through package deals?

To help answer this question, we will present the results of a usage‐based analysis of Wiley e‐books. Since 2012, Miami University Libraries have purchased …

E-Book Rights: Advocacy In Action, Katy Gabrio, Whitney Murphy

Charleston Library Conference

E‐book rights advocacy efforts began nearly from the moment the format appeared. The topics have evolved over time but significant issues and the need for ongoing discussion and negotiation remain. To this end, Macalester College published an E‐Book Advocacy Statement in 2013. Since then several libraries have signed on. Most importantly, productive conversations with e‐book providers and vendors have ensued. These conversations have led to a better understanding of the library, publisher, and e‐book provider points of view as well as helped strengthen library/vendor relationships that are rooted in a willingness to deeply engage on these topics while appreciating one …

The Buck Stops Here: Assessing The Value Of E-Book Subscriptions At The Columbia University Libraries, Melissa J. Goertzen, Krystie A. Klahn

Charleston Library Conference

Over the past four years Columbia University Libraries (CUL) has seen exponential growth in electronic book (e‐book) purchasing. These purchases have not only increased the depth and breadth of the collection, but they have also created new opportunities for remote learning and instant information access. In turn, this new push for purchasing electronic has created new demands in assessment to understand the true benefit of these resources, most notably in regards to annual e‐book subscriptions.

In 2013, a new position aimed at developing an e‐book strategy for CUL was devised. Shortly thereafter, a position was created in the Science and …

Collecting And Acquiring In Earnest (The 14th Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch), Wendy Bahnsen, Yumin Jiang, Ramune K. Kubilius, Emma O'Hagan, Andrea Twiss-Brooks

Charleston Library Conference

In this year's sponsored but no holds barred lunch, host Wendy Bahnsen (substituting for colleague Nicole Gallo) offered a brief greeting, and Ramune Kubilius provided the traditional “year in review” synopsis of developments since the last Charleston Conference. Panelists then shared insights and led discussion on earnest attempts to meet users’ information needs and satisfy administrations’ budget and other expectations. No matter how information has become repackaged, two formats remain important in health sciences communication: books and journals (articles). Speakers focused on library experiments with these formats. Is PDA a solution? Bahnsen contributed highlights and findings from a survey by …

Taming The Wilde: Collaborating With Expertise For Faster, Better, Smarter Collection Analysis, Jacqueline Bronicki, Cherie Turner, Shawn Vaillancourt, Frederick Young

Charleston Library Conference

The importance of collection assessment and evaluation has been a hot topic due to increasing budget restrictions and the need to prove worth to stakeholders through evidence‐based evaluations. More robust collection analyses, like comparisons of holdings usage to ILL requests, and gap analyses, are increasingly embraced by the library community. Less thought, however, has been given to how to best conduct these analyses to ensure that the cleanest data is used and that the data tells the right story. The data to do these types of analyses often reside in complex systems and web‐environments, which may not be fully understood …

Ill As Acquisitions: Implementing And Integrating Pod In A Research Library, Edward F. Lener, Ladd Brown

Charleston Library Conference

This paper describes Virginia Tech's implementation of a purchase‐on‐demand (POD) program designed to complement the traditional interlibrary loan workflow. POD can offer a way to obtain otherwise unavailable or unlendable content or to get many items at lower cost than a typical borrowing transaction. POD also offers another means of building the collection through purchases of materials we know will get at least one use. We share key details of our program from pilot phase to its broader integration into the acquisitions workflow.

An Evaluation Of Readcube As An Interlibrary Loan Alternative, Elizabeth J. Weisbrod

Charleston Library Conference

Libraries are continually searching for more affordable ways to provide access to research materials. The rising costs of journal subscriptions, site licenses, and interlibrary loan have made libraries look for new methods of providing those materials. In 2014, Auburn University Libraries began a pilot project to test the feasibility of using ReadCube, an article delivery service, as a method of patron‐driven acquisition for scholarly journal articles. ReadCube allows users immediate access to articles from Nature Publishing Group journals at a lower cost than document delivery, but with usage restrictions.

This case study evaluates ReadCube as an alternative to interlibrary loan …

What You Need To Know About Moving Collections And Acquisitions Into An E-Dominant Model!, Gerri Foudy, Lila A. Ohler, Lenore A. England

Charleston Library Conference

Two different University of Maryland Libraries discuss how they have moved to an e‐dominant model, the reasons why, and the new acquisitions strategies libraries can use in crafting an e‐dominant collection. Whether your organization is a large ARL library like University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) Libraries or a nontraditional online library like the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Library, there are many strategies for taking advantage of the new acquisitions environment and rethinking how to build collections in an e‐dominant world. At UMD, adopting an e‐dominant model has been a gradual change over time, allowing the library staff …

Supporting Rapidly Growing Online Programs In Times Of Change, Mary Ann Mercante, Ying Lin

Charleston Library Conference

In May 2012, Maryville University launched two online graduate Nursing programs. Twenty‐eight months later, 2,321 students from across the United States were enrolled as online‐only students in these programs. Two additional Nursing graduate programs are going online as well as an MBA program. Concurrently, Library space is being reconfigured to accommodate student support services from other areas and to provide more learning spaces for students. With less space for physical collections and more students to support, Maryville University Library is trying to find ways to provide better research support for all its students. How Maryville is handling these challenges and …

Earnestly Seeking Greater Flexibility: The Pros And Cons Of Pay‐Per‐View Journal Access, Marija Markovic, Steve Oberg

Charleston Library Conference

This presentation sheds light on a relatively new phenomenon that needs more earnest consideration from all kinds of libraries: the switch to a pay‐per‐view (PPV) access model for journals. The presenters, one from a corporate library background and one from an academic background, have extensive experience in utilizing PPV. They detail pros and cons of PPV and how it allows for greater access for users with more financial flexibility for acquisitions budgets. Discussions among acquisitions and collection development librarians in recent years have focused on demand‐driven acquisitions (DDA) for e‐books. The presenters believe that PPV for journals is in the …