2023 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP ONLY
**An additional ticket is needed to attend this workshop. Register here.

The Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop is designed as a hands-on training course that will introduce attendees to current standards and practices, elements and terminology used in the cataloging of electronic serials. This course is based on Resource Description and Access (RDA) as interpreted by current CONSER policy and practice with special attention paid to the differences in the cataloging of print and electronic serials. Attendees will participate in hands-on exercises which will include use of tools and documentation in support of cataloging with RDA. Knowledge of print serials cataloging practices is not required but attendees should be familiar with the MARC standard.

In addition, the workshop will introduce attendees to the use made of e-serial MARC records outside of the traditional library catalog (eg, library discovery systems and knowledgebases).

Participants in the workshop will be able to:

• describe the differences between cataloging print serials and electronic serials.
• catalog an electronic serial following current CONSER practices.
• understand the various options for providing access to e-serial full-text (ie, knowledgebase, manual cataloging).

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP ONLY 
**An additional ticket is needed to attend this workshop. Register here.

Higher education institutions are facing significant accountability pressures to prove that their efforts produce valuable results and their resource expenditures are justifiable. In addition to traditional business intelligence strategies, colleges and universities have adopted learning analytics methods to investigate issues of student learning and success. Learning analytics are the “measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of [student and other data] for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs” (Siemens, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330605). Learning analytics have helped institutions optimize advising, predict student retention, and increase student engagement. Feeling the same pressures as their institutions, as well as the desire to contribute to student learning and success, academic libraries have begun to participate in learning analytics practices.

Nonetheless, regardless of the benefits that could accrue, learning analytics unquestionably presents challenges to student privacy, thus straining the professional ethics commitments that librarians make to uphold user confidentiality, respect privacy in information seeking and use, and support intellectual freedom. Librarians may feel a desire to refrain from engaging with campus learning analytics projects, meaning that librarian values around privacy and confidentiality are missing from campus conversations. This workshop seems to overcome this hesitancy by providing training about privacy and other related ethical issues associated with learning analytics through structured, reflective activities that enable participants to plan for proactive engagement with campus learning analytics work and contribute to the development of privacy protections in learning analytics.

This workshop is an offering of Prioritizing Privacy, a multi-faceted continuing education program to train academic library practitioners to comprehensively address privacy and other related ethical implications of learning analytics projects. Prioritizing Privacy is funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant. Additional information is available on the project website (https://prioritizingprivacy.org/).

Participants in the workshop will be able to: 

• Describe the social, political, and technological elements of learning analytics in higher education, generally, and academic libraries, specifically.
• Analyze learning analytics and the ways in which they may create privacy harms.
• Develop library learning analytics approaches that are based in privacy by design and the profession's code of ethics.
• Design an action plan for engaging with learning analytics, information privacy, and ethical practice at one’s home institution.

2 -3 hot breakfast items on daily rotation - eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, crepes, etc.
Steel Cut Oatmeal with toppings
Granola & yogurt with toppings
Whole and cut fruit
Muffins, Tea Bread
Selection of juices, coffee, and tea

Vegetarian and Gluten-Free items will be available

One Twenty 5 Cafe is located on the lobby level and offers additional food items for purchase.

AI and robots are being deployed throughout our society to not only assist humans but to act in their place. For instance, virtual teams can now include a digital human as a team member. These digital humans are designed to look and behave like humans in hopes of encouraging others to engage with and care about them in the same way they do other humans. Not surprisingly, there have been recent calls for robot rights and citizenship. Similarly, humans are augmenting themselves through various technology upgrades ranging from hearing aids, pacemakers, bionic arms, and exoskeleton body suits. As humans become increasingly cyborg-like in their existence, many have questioned the value of distinguishing between humans and machines. Yet, little thought has been given to the implications of blurring such lines. For example, in what ways does the elevation of machines to humans devalue or at least change what it means to be human? There is much to think about and prepare for as we knowingly or unknowingly re-create what it means to be human.

From traditional COUNTER usage statistics to mining faculty publications, the methods for assessing an e-resource collection are overwhelming. This presentation discusses the methods two librarians at a university library tried, and which we best fit the needs of our assessment while building a collection assessment program for health sciences resources.

Librarians from Grand Valley State University will discuss their library's move to FOLIO. They will discuss the migration process, show personalized workflows, introduce Locate (FOLIO's new OPAC), show integrations with other library systems and highlight homegrown tools that work with FOLIO like self-service reports, suppression tool, and a location updater.

The growing preference for open access has led libraries into transformative agreements with publishers. As the University of Kentucky Libraries has entered a new round of negotiations, we have questioned whether these types of agreements are worth it or if they are just the Big Deal under a new name.

After multiple budget cuts, what is left in our collections? A collection assessment program is critical for identifying gaps in the collection and determining if we are still meeting users' needs. In this session, you will learn how one librarian developed an assessment program for a midsize, primarily undergraduate university.

As demands on budgets continue to grow, so do calls for libraries to demonstrate the extent to which the resources, facilities, and services they provide contribute to abstract outcomes like "student engagement" or "research impact." This session will help attendees identify meaningful measures for these nebulous concepts.

Libraries are increasingly concerned about protecting and advocating for library values in a progressively monopolized vendor landscape. This presentation describes the initial implementation of professional standards and principles through a licensing playbook. This systematic process includes strategies for collaboration, consistency, evaluation rubrics, model language, and fall back language.

This presentation describes our attempt to use factors like discipline, publisher, and library availability to measure diversity of titles available and used in an EBA program. The presenters will discuss the extent to which reliance on use-based selection would lead to collection diversity/conformity and the limitations of their methods.

2028 will mark the centenary of completion of OED’s First Edition. In the run-up to that milestone, the OED team is undertaking a series of projects designed to extend the OED’s usefulness, value, and reach. Join us in previewing some of these developments:

1. A brand new website that will allow users a beautiful new experience
2. New ways to delve into our rich lexical data – a vital asset for any librarian wanting to ensure their institution has the tools needed for top-class academic research in the 21st Century
3. A look at some of the projects to expand the content in the OED, such as the Word English programme
4. Teaching and other additional resources

Libraries are driving change in their institutions and across the industry. They’re changing their focus from reactive to proactive by implementing new technologies that embed their services in the workflows of students, faculty, researchers and staff.
 
In this session, we’ll explore these technologies and their impact on the visibility and reach of the library. You will learn how libraries are using their management systems as the base for new and improved services that enable their staff and their stakeholders to work with more confidence, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, improving outcomes across their institutions.

This session will explore ways electronic library collections can support student access to - and affordability of - course materials, how faculty and librarians can better work together on ensuring curricula are supported, and how campus bookstores play a role in this evolving ecosystem.

In 2021, the MIT Press launched Direct to Open (D2O), a new collective action model built to support the open access publication of digital monographs. Join us to look under the hood of the model and investigate usage, impact, participation trends, lessons learned, and more after year one.

For generations, library consortia have provided leadership for licensing, shared infrastructure, resource sharing, professional development, and other critical areas. Consortia are continually evolving and adjusting as their communities' priorities shift. The presenters will envision and explore ways in which consortia might evolve for even greater impact over the next decade.

The number of Open Access articles available in hybrid journals is increasing.  Yet limitations of link-resolvers makes discovering and linking to this content difficult.  This presentation will discuss how article level-intelligence helps libraries expand collections, improve discovery, and enable better access to Open Access articles in hybrid journals and more.

Learn about Project MUSE’s work towards a Subscribe to Open (S2O) offer built around our flagship collections of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. MUSE is uniquely positioned to offer one of the first Subscribe to Open programs on an aggregator platform, as the host to more than 700 current journals from more than 200 not-for-profit publishers, and over 25 years of experience providing essential scholarship to thousands of libraries worldwide. This session will provide an introductory overview of our plans for an S2O offer, expected to roll out for the 2025 calendar year subscription term.

Controlled digital lending (CDL) is a method that allows libraries to replicate the right to loan their legally acquired items in a digital format to patrons under controlled conditions. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NISO is developing a recommended practice to help streamline implementation of this library lending application.

Primary sources bring content alive for students and make for fantastic teaching tools. They encourage critical thinking and place student-led research at the center of pedagogical approaches. Digital technologies, such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) Transcription and data mining, have opened new research pathways for students as much as they have for professional researchers. Still, transformational possibilities through collaboration among librarians, teaching staff, and publishers of primary sources can further facilitate discovery, learning and independent research. Join AM and partners at Baylor University for a discussion of how these collaborations enable faculty and students to create new scholarly pathways across a range of disciplines.  

Following this session, participants will develop new ideas on how to collaborate across departments and with vendors to get greater value out of their primary source materials 

Electronic resource retention decisions often revolve around COUNTER data and usage. An element that is sometimes overlooked, however, is e-resource discoverability. This presentation will present a rubric for assessing e-resource access points in Discovery Layers and library websites, including presenting an OhioLINK survey of collection managers and a case study.

Datasets and non-traditional research outputs are a growing use case for institutional repositories. We quantify how much FAIRer institutional repository outputs are and examine other benefits like reuse metrics and Altmetrics. Librarians can use this to quantify the value of their role and their institution's investment in the repository.

Faced with an increasingly complex online environment through which libraries provide access to scholarly resources, librarians have found it difficult to educate users in protecting their personal information and online behaviors from inappropriate and sometimes unauthorized use while promoting the personalization services that users find beneficial. Modeled after the long-running Peanuts cartoon with Lucy offering advice for 5 cents, this interactive session will tackle key privacy issues in the researcher, vendor, and library framework. It will kick off with John Felts of Coastal Carolina staffing his post as "Privacy Librarian" while training a new library employee.
After this tour through privacy issues, a panel will highlight the context in which these patron questions exist. Topics will include privacy in accessing online content, sharing information for personalization, who has access to third party data, and privacy challenges in open access publishing.

This spring, our librarians had to deselect $300,000 in databases. This was a journey like no other for us.  This presentation will cover the process the librarians went through to make informed and fair decisions on which databases to deselect and the impact it had on academic learning and research.

Selecting a platform to host your organizations research output can be difficult. There are commercial and open-source options and many considerations depending on the content you plan to host. Learn how our library navigated the process, made the wrong decision, and eventually came out on top.  

You’ve worked hard on your library’s special, distinctive, and primary source collections: you’ve cataloged them, digitized them, and shared them on your website. Are they being found by the scholars who need them for teaching and research?
Hear how libraries worldwide are partnering with JSTOR, a part of the non-profit ITHAKA, to make their collections openly accessible, bring greater visibility to their institution, and offer long-term preservation through Portico.
During this short talk, Bruce Heterick, Senior Vice President of Open Collections and Infrastructure, will highlight how scholars are accessing thousands of primary resources thanks to hundreds of charter libraries opening access to their special collections. Bruce will delve into qualitative and quantitative data on how partners are amplifying impact – and how you can, too. 

BattleDecks@ER&L is on, it’s in-person, its’ the tenth time, and it’s not-to-be-missed.  Hone your public speaking, nonsense making, and shenanigan managin’ skills.

What is it?
Battledecks or Powerpoint-Karaoke.Participants will present a topic (provided just before they begin), for 3 to 3 and a half minutes, accompanied by 10-15 PowerPoint slides selected and arranged by our team of experienced library scientists. No preparation required, No preparation allowed, actually. Participants will be judged based on criteria ranging from the quantitative use of time and slides to the qualitative general composure and ability to address the topic. A certain amount of artistic license is expected from both participants and judges in their work.

When is it?
Battle Decks ER&L is Monday, March 6th, beginning at 7:00 pm following the Vendor Reception & Tabletop Exhibit.

How do I get involved? 
We’re looking for a few hearty folks to join in as:

• Participants – Sign up early to secure your spot.  We’re looking for up to 8 contestants.
• Volunteers – We’ll need a few folks on hand to help run the show as timekeepers, random drawing wranglers, and stern security to keep the contestants from escaping.

If you are up for any of these roles, please contact Jesse Koennecke (jtk1@cornell.edu or @JayTeeKayOne) or sign up at the ER&L Registration Desk.

2 -3 hot breakfast items on daily rotation - eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, crepes, etc.
Steel Cut Oatmeal with toppings
Granola & yogurt with toppings
Whole and cut fruit
Muffins, Tea Bread
Selection of juices, coffee, and tea

Vegetarian and Gluten-Free items will be available

One Twenty 5 Cafe is located on the lobby level and offers additional food items for purchase.

CU Boulder Libraries went live with the new EDS UI in 2022. For this project we used a GitHub Projects board and applied Agile and Kanban principles to the board. We will discuss why we chose this method and analyze how this method has worked for us so far.

Georgia Tech is always searching for new ways to increase discovery of eResources. Users frequently have trouble accessing online articles and navigating away from the paywall. Learn how we implemented several tools on the discovery layer and in popular search platforms to enhance user experience and aid in seamless discovery.

This session will cover three institutions' decision to move to FOLIO, the open-source library management system. It will cover pain points at each library and how FOLIO helped to solve them, migrating to an open-source system with vendor support, insights into the implementation process, and staff and end-user feedback.

This session will provide an overview of the Dimensions and Altmetric Platforms. Additionally collection development use cases such as analysing OSTP impact in collection development will be covered. Lastly the session will cover impact of closed vs open access publications in social media. All electronic resources librarians and directors are welcome to attend.

By the end of the session attendees will:

1. Understand the basics of Dimensions and Altmetric Platform
2. Learn how to use US Funder Filter to conduct OSTP analysis
3. Understand the footprint of their publications in social media outlets.

E-Resource usage statistics often focus on COUNTER reports, particularly the Standard Views such as TR_J1 or PR_P1. But are we missing valuable information contained only in the COUNTER Master Reports? Come explore the Master Reports and learn about CELUS, a tool to manage and analyze usage statistics.

Become part of the data exchange on the web. This presentation will explore the efforts of a private research university around data enrichment and syndication, by using BIBFRAME as the foundation for transforming data and creating enriched resources within a connected graph.

TIND is starting our ascent to Mt. ERM and have arrived at first base camp: license and policy management. University of Southern Indiana will provide updates on their progress, share their experience surveying the traditional and alternative routes, and what they aim to discover at the top. Campfire chat encouraged.

How can university libraries ensure patrons receive library support at the ‘point of need' and secure equity of access? This session will investigate University of East Anglia's experience of embedding Springshare's (LibGuides/LibChat) feature into their patrons' workflows.

A new report investigating perspectives on undergraduate workflows found that 63% of patrons use Google to find resources compared to 35% using library websites. This session explores Bangor University library’s vision and plan to increase student engagement with resource lists and embedding EzProxy into research workflows to support researcher impact.

Following this session, participants will be able to:

• See how incorporating tools into patron workflows at the ‘point of need’ enables students to access library resources even when they begin searching for content on Google.
• Improve digital pedagogy and quality control via resource list management making it easier for students to find and engage with the right resources.
• Learn how one university library is planning to use digital services at different points of the patron workflow to increase engagement of library-subscribed resources.
• Learn how one university has helped students engage with the resources that the library is responsible for, no matter where they sit departmentally, and how this ties into the library’s vision.

Cambridge University Press has been exploring the role of EDIB in publishing: not just our staff composition, but also functional aspects such as title commissioning and what metadata to provide for these.

Join Publisher Amy Laurent as she explores how metadata, which is rooted in history itself neither equitable nor diverse, can best incorporate EDIB principles.

How do we move beyond established parameters to build an equitable, inclusive, safe future for our authors, library customers, and ourselves?

This presentation will discuss the current state electronic resource librarianship. The first section will include a discussion of the range of skills and expertise that E-Resources Librarians are expected to possess. The second section will provide an analysis of electronic resources position descriptions and institutional mobility.

What is the role of the library in signposting and providing access to reference and citation management tools? This session will discuss the issues around referencing that researchers face and the role of the library in supporting them, looking at two librarians' experiences of supporting user adoption of reference managers.

In a 2015 ALCTS E-Forum, 83 percent of participants indicated maintaining a discovery layer and traditional catalog. This presentation revisits this discussion, demonstrating how libraries can conduct ILS infrastructure and discovery layer mapping analyses. Shortcomings with discovery layers may reveal inconsistencies in ILS infrastructures, as with material types and locations.

This session will provide suggestions to successfully navigate an E-Resource Librarian's first six months at an academic library. The session will serve as an introduction to e-resources work, and will provide relevant examples from the presenter's experience as a new E-Resource Librarian at Appalachian State University, a mid-sized academic institution.

Join us to hear from the finalists and participate in a community vote for the winner!

FINALIST 1: 
Integrating Resources into Research Design
Dr. Olga Koz and Dr. Jorrin-Abellan
Kennesaw State University

As a research librarian, I curate resources to add value to their content and make them discoverable by researchers. Sometimes, librarians acquire, manage, and promote e-resources without taking one more step, integrating these resources into the research workflow. Since 2016, I have been fortunate to collaborate with researchers and technologists on the Hopscotch web tool (HWT) and, since 2018, on the Interactive Research Methods lab (IRML) to help novice researchers develop well-informed and rigorous research designs. The HWT and IRML are widely recognized as examples of a learning, research, and design space that assist not only researchers from Kennesaw State University but are open and available to anybody.

I recommend resources and integrate the databases and e-collections into each research design step to complement and enrich the content developed by the leading author of the Hopscotch model and the lab, Dr. Jorrin- Abellan, and the IRML team. Adding each resource to the web tool or the IRML virtual library guarantees increased usage. Linking to resources at the point of need when students design research or work through guided instruction within the Hopscotch web tool promotes e-books, e-journals, or databases such as Sage Research Methods and helps me to acquire resources that are recommended by faculty.

I want to submit for award consideration the latest innovation of the Hopscotch and IRML team, the literature review design interactive tool. Since 2020, when we designed and launched the Hopscotch Literature Review Design tool, it has been accessed by 1253 users, viewed more than 4000 times, and used to create 138 literature review protocols or designs. In addition, the version of this interactive design tool has been embedded into several courses for Ed.D. students and adopted by 24 doctoral students working on their dissertations and research proposals. With assistance from the Library Systems librarian, researchers, and students from the College of Computer Science, we are currently working on an AI-based dynamic and contextual recommendation system and search box. It will assist users of the Literature Review Design Tool or other HWT versions with customized content retrieval from the library databases, open access repositories, and Hopscotch knowledge base.


FINALIST 2: 
Amazon Alexa Skill as an Artificial Intelligent (AI) Tool for Academic Library Services
Dr. Santosh Kharat and Dr. Shubhada Nagarkar
Savitribai Phule Pune University

Introduction: AI is changing the world and the lives of people and enhancing economies and organizations. Voice recognition is one of its advanced applications that have been used in Google search, Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and ChatBot. These products help to retrieve information easily and even to order products to receive it to doorstep. Libraries are ahead where AI is being used for various purposes viz. Library of Congress, Ohio-based Worthington libraries, and Pellucent Technology Company use Amazon Alexa Skill cloud-based voice service for their users. In the current project, we have used Amazon Alexa as AI tool for users at the Library of PUMBA (Department of Management Sciences founded in the year 1971 in the Savitribai Phule Pune University and it is known as PUMBA.) to locate the book and the shelf/cupboard number. This voice-based service is useful for voice-based information retrieval in which users will be less dependent on library catalogs and staff. Voice-based library resources locator will save the time of the users.

To achieve this PUMBA Library has purchased Alexa, and related services to build the question-and-answer skill to provide information about the cupboard number of physical books. To build the customized questions and answers the blueprint services https://blueprints.amazon.com) were used. Special arrangements have been made for Alexa with the instructions for usage. At this initial period students found it an amazing service in which they can talk with Alexa in the library to find out the direct cupboard number. As the PUMBA library has approx 1000 students and less number of staff, this voice-based book locator service would be used heavily in near future. Apart from the book locator service, information for the selection of relevant books with other applications of AI will be introduced. The library has already implemented the QR code technology (Publication: Kharat, S. A., Panage, B. M., & Nagarkar, S. (2017). Use of QR code and Layar app for academic library services. Library Hi Tech News, 34(3), 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-12-2016-0060.) And will use more AI based applications in near future.

Conclusion: - Amazon Alexa & their skill is one the artificial intelligent tools. But smartness is more users’ friendly than intelligent and smartness is nothing but the development of smart services using new tools and to satisfy smart users of the library. In short, provide smart service to smart users using smart equipment. It is up to individual librarians how they incorporate new technology into practice. The library can deliver voice experiences service to the users. Anyone can build skills into Alexa easily and without coding. Academic libraries will be more popular in the future by their voice service using Amazon Alexa.


FINALIST 3:
Modernizing the Monograph Purchase: Moving from Paper Slips to the "Purchase Request Platform"
Daniel Huang, Maccabee Levine, and Boaz Nadav Manes
Lehigh University

The Lehigh University Libraries realized that while we were receiving a significant number of paper tickets of lost, missing, and often requested/used monographs, there was no central receiving or decision-making point for those paper tickets. When the Libraries tried to purchase replacement or supplemental print copies, we discovered that managing the decision process was far from systematized and relied on email, in-person conversations, or other methods that delayed our response time. Nor was there oversight and service standards assessment.

Having learned from our previous use of the Jira ticketing system regarding the power of collaboration, we applied that knowledge to create a new type of middleware that did similar collaboration but added the transformative toolkit of hooks from external systems into one decision process: the Purchase Request Platform (PRP). We also wanted to make this freely available for any library to implement, versus a custom Jira setup.

Past requests at the library can be entered via barcode wand at the circulation desk or other identifier in the back office into Jira. The resulting Jira tickets are populated with information from external sources:
-Vendors (currently Amazon Prime, but we are working on including Ingram, GOBI, Oasis, and others)
-Usage data from our internal circulations
-Consortial holdings
-ILL usage (coming soon)
-And more!

Subject and outreach librarians are able to collaborate not only with Circulation staff but also Acquisitions personnel to quickly make decisions without doing repetitive lookups of information sources. All stakeholders can instead focus on collaborating to make a great purchase decision even faster! And if there is no time, the Purchase Request Platform will eventually help automate those decisions on top of Jira’s accountability and oversight features.

The Purchase Request Platform is built with flexibility in mind. Any publisher, broker, etc. can provide an API to automatically embed information on availability, format types, price, etc. We are committed to developing the PRP further to include direct patron requests, quarterly review of ILL statistics as a form of DDA, and strea

During this session, we will explore leveraging undergraduate course catalog data in creative ways to inform library decisions. We will review the mining of structured course catalog data and discuss inferences that can be drawn from a statistical analysis of our results.

Keep Calm and Clear your cache, let's talk tools and techniques that may help new eResources librarians! This session talks about how a new electronic resources librarian evaluated ERM workflows and mapped the systems and workflows for authentication, discovery, and library management. Create best practices for documentation and streamlined workflows.  

No two e-resources positions are identical. If you're new to the profession, your position, or to a type of institution, it can be daunting to identify everything you need to know. These ten questions are a place to start understanding how you will be managing e-resources at your institution.

Please complete this RSVP to sign-up for the luncheon.  Adding to your schedule does not guarantee a spot. 

Ensuring equity in research, creating new and modern pathways to information for any user, and having more choice of software applications to best serve users are central to EBSCO’s solutions. In many ways, we look at the life of an information resource; we create ways for users to optimally access, search, choose and use information, and for librarians to enjoy the right software and the best end-to-end workflows for the management and discoverability of
information. To support these efforts, EBSCO focuses on open source, linked data, and an open infrastructure.

At our luncheon, you will learn about EBSCO’s work:

• Ensuring access to trustworthy and diverse information, and delivering new experiences to users
• Creating new pathways to information and collection analysis
• Providing libraries with more choice of software applications to support and enhance librarian workflows
• Providing libraries with more choice in the procurement, deployment, and management of their library services platform

Join us for an engaging video and discussion over a delicious lunch.

This luncheon is by invitation only. Adding to your schedule does not guarantee a spot. 

First-person narratives reveal authentic voices in a way that official reports often lack. Discover underrepresented perspectives found in Gale’s Women’s Studies Archive, Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories, and more. This session will feature specific primary source collections available in these resources as well as tools for exploration. Additionally, we will cover Gale Case Studies as an exciting new way to enrich the teaching and learning of critical social issues through the examination of primary sources.

Join Steve Roses on Tuesday, March 7, for an upcoming presentation to learn why over 1,000 U.S. institutions subscribe to HeinOnline. Steve will discuss the value HeinOnline continually adds, such as 130 new journals in the last year alone and our newest topical databases on water rights and employment law. Steve will also highlight new features in HeinOnline, including an interactive taxonomy of more than 1,500 subjects. The presentation will be held from 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm CST, and you can join live in person or virtually. Toward the end of the presentation, Steve will reserve time to answer any questions you may have. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about HeinOnline!

Many libraries struggle to maintain their online resources while trying to fill vacant eresources positions. Let's talk tools and techniques! What are best practices for managing eresources in the interim?  What do new eresources librarians wish the library had done differently? What do they need in their new role?

This panel will discuss how the library can be embedded in the instructional design process and support faculty in diversifying course content while aiming to increase equity. Initiatives like OpenSyllabus, FORRT, AuthorAID, and SRMT have emerged to support faculty and the library with open content and pedagogies. 

With millions of papers published every year, information overload is a growing problem in many disciplines. In this session, we detail our journeys dealing with an increasingly unmanageable number of papers published each year and growing reproducibility concerns, and a tool we developed to help us understand research findings in context.

Using Tableau visualizations from a multi-year analysis of COUNTER 5 data, this poster will emphasize why an over-reliance on the "item request" metric can skew perceptions of end-user behavior. It will show why COUNTER's investigation and search metrics can provide a clearer insight on how patrons discover and access e-resources. 

We analyze uptake of APC waivers for two pilot transformative agreements with large publishers at a large public university, including uptake across author status and discipline. We also examine publications that were not originally identified as eligible for the agreement by the publishers to identify the reasons for their absence.

The University of Toronto began a 3 year agreement with OverDrive in 2020 to accommodate limited access to print titles during pandemic closures. This poster presents a case study of how our “pandemic-driven” OverDrive acquisition strategy was re-considered and invited new collection development strategies (audiobooks!) and partnerships within the university.

How can we show our faculty and students that accessibility is important to us? This poster will put forth our challenges and solutions when the need for audio description in our streaming films led us to identify platforms that will assist libraries with this request.

Academic libraries spend millions on databases. Good training impacts the ROI of these purchases. Vendors are expected to provide database training upon request. But one-size-fits-all training models are unideal, especially for librarians. Libraries can support vendors by identifying/communicating specific training needs. Follow one academic library's journey to improve vendor-led training.

Richard & James will discuss how you can future proof your remote access with user experience in mind. They will help you to understand the different types of authentication and explore how OpenAthens delivers a complete solution for access to resources.

Learn about a multi-institutional project developing open educational resources (OER) to equip academic library workers with negotiation skills within the context of academic libraries work with third party vendors. Presenters will share project learnings thus far providing insights regarding e-resource negotiations and resources to aid participants in their own negotiations.

Recent research suggests that cyberattacks in higher education are on the rise while libraries' competency in addressing cybersecurity is mixed. Join our panel of one publisher, one vendor, and one librarian as we discuss practical strategies and best practices for libraries to better protect themselves from increasing threats of cybercrime.

In this session, we’ll provide a brief history of the development and launch of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) open access funding model. We’ll highlight the impact that the program has had thus far. We’ll then provide an update on the progress of the expansion of the model to all review journals in 2023. We’ll also touch on the general reception and support the model has received thus far. Finally, we’ll provide a brief introduction and details about The Charleston Advisor, a well-known publication that we recently acquired, which provides product reviews of web-based resources for the library market.

Libraries are increasingly driven to collaborate on infrastructure projects to share data across platforms and technologies. Stakeholders from ReShare, FOLIO, LDP, and CCLP, are building opportunities for cross-project collaboration to exchange data, needs analyses, strategy, and to support sustainability while being driven by a set of shared principles and values.

While library practitioners are constantly acquiring skills and knowledge, the ways we share that knowledge are in flux. Whether it's the shift from a page budget to an article economy, or the move from paywall to OA, LIS publications are reimagining themselves and their role in the scholarly community.

This session will focus on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model as a way to achieve open access. S2O is an equitable, innovative and pragmatic model that works within the existing subscription procurement infrastructure. As a unique model that does not rely on APCs, S2O strives to achieve equity in access to publishing for all authors, regardless of research funding available.

The session will feature presentations from two non-profit publishers and one non-profit aggregator using the S2O model as well as a library that supports the model. The panelists will share learnings and successes from their use and implementation of S2O, including the rationale for selecting S2O among the plethora of OA models available. Annual Reviews is the first publisher to pilot S2O in 2020 and has extended the model to all of their journals for 2023. Annual Reviews will discuss its experience flipping an entire publisher’s portfolio using the S2O model. University of Toronto Press will share the perspective of a university press program in applying the S2O model to a journal launch. Project MUSE will discuss its plans to implement S2O to support open access across multiple journals. Columbia University Library will present its experience in supporting various models of OA, with particular focus on the S2O model and its benefits for libraries.

Presenters will share with the community some of the benefits and challenges of S2O from the perspective of publishers, aggregators, and libraries.

This panel discusses how our electronic resource team focused on collaboration to improve communication and workflow development. By using these frameworks, we expanded our understanding of how to solve problems and how to support our coworkers during times of change - i.e., all the time! 

Which topic will trip up the vendor? How much does the publisher really know? What answer is lost to the librarian? Come watch colleagues battle it out to see who knows the most about managing electronic resources in the digital world.

Library departments are often described as being "siloed" by virtue of the different work they perform at their institutions, but both support end-user success in learning and research. By realizing their interdependencies, reference and resource management departments can build solidarity and help one another better fulfill their service roles. 

Making electronic resources available to users can be challenging when multiple services are being incorporated.  After migration to Alma, our library had to create new ways for a few of our services to be made available to our users. LibWizard helped us achieve that.

Join your colleagues and friends on a casual (or competitive, if that’s your way) morning run or walk through UT Campus.  This 5K (3.1 miles) or 2.4 miles with a shortcut starts at the AT&T Center, heads through part of the campus and around the stadium, then back to the starting point.

Meet at 7:00 am by the lower lobby entrance of the AT&T Center. See the course map below.

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Start in front of AT&T Center lower lobby entrance

Left/North from AT&T Center, to 21st St

Right/East to Speedway

Left/North on Speedway to Dean Keeton St

Right/East to Robert Dedman Dr

Right/South to E. 20th St

Right/West to San Jacinto

Right/North to Dean Keeton

Left/West to Speedway

Left/South back to 21st

Right/West to University

Left/South to AT&T Center

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2 -3 hot breakfast items on daily rotation - eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, crepes, etc.
Steel Cut Oatmeal with toppings
Granola & yogurt with toppings
Whole and cut fruit
Muffins, Tea Bread
Selection of juices, coffee, and tea

Vegetarian and Gluten-Free items will be available

One Twenty 5 Cafe is located on the lobby level and offers additional food items for purchase.

Presenter discusses implementation of CUP Transformative Agreement and lesson learned at FGCU library regarding cost savings and empowerment of faculty. Attendees learn what a library should do before and after establishing a Transformative Agreement and what specific measures should be taken to educate faculty regarding scholarly Open Access Publishing.

This presentation will examine the cost and use of Oxford University Press ebooks in two consortia to determine the return on investment of consortial ebook purchasing for different library types and the variables that impact it. Attendees will learn how publishers approach pricing and how both benefit from consortial agreements.

The UK Libraries has faced the same challenges that other libraries have had on recent years. These have included the sudden shift to online and streaming resources during the pandemic, budget reductions, and addressing DEI needs both immediate and systemic. In order to address these needs, the UK Libraries has changed its budget model and philosophical approach to managing the budget.

FOLIO is an open source library software project created through a collaboration of libraries, developers and vendors. Stanford will be implementing FOLIO in August 2023. We have been creating a training plan for a smooth transition so staff will know what's expected of them and feel ownership of change

Open Research models frequently focus on Medical and STEM content, overlooking HSS. This session exposes some of the unique challenges in supporting Open Access across HSS disciplines and proposes ways publishers and libraries can work collaboratively to better serve these research communities in sustainably opening their work.

Zayed University Library adopted demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) and Evidence-based models for its e-book collection development. The number of records generated, the high chance of duplicate acquisition, implementation of discoverability posed challenges for the library technical services librarians. This session looks into the workflows necessitated and the strategies adopted to detect and fix the problems.

Over the past couple of years and post-Covid, UNLV Libraries has noticed an evolution in the preference for digital collections and formats for Humanities and Architecture students and faculty.  This short-talk will address this change in format preference and discuss the methodologies for selecting digital content. 

Join us as we delve into the ways in which technology can be used to create more inclusive and equitable libraries. Our keynote speaker will present their research on the informational needs and access barriers faced by LGBTQIA+ students in academic libraries, and demonstrate how the concept of identity literacy can inform the development of technology tools that support diversity, equity, and inclusion in library and information science. This talk will challenge us to think about the role of technology in promoting social justice and foster a deeper understanding of the power of technology to break down barriers and build more inclusive and equitable libraries.