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Meeting of Big Heads

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Meeting of the ALCTS Transforming Collections TG

Meeting of the Chief Collection Development Officers IG

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Open to anyone interested in the Administration of Collection Management. This meeting will have four 15 minutes speakers, two from public and two from academic libraries. They will speak on the Administration of Public Libraries from their point of view. Then there will be a 30 minute discussion on the topic.

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The last year has been an exciting one in the scholarly communications arena; it has seen the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI's on public access to federally funded research and data, the rise and fall of the Research Works Act, the Cost of Knowledge site, development of the DMP Tool and other data management related resources and training, the petition to the White House on public access to federally funded research, the Modern Language Association's call for evaluators to give digital scholarship full regard, among other items of note.

The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group invites you to join your colleagues for an open, guided discussion of the many events internal and external to the library community related to scholarly communications. Please come ready to share what has been significant to your work and organization and to talk about how the library community can continue to engage in the important work around scholarly communications.

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Electronic Resource Librarians can't work in a vacuum. Collaboration with colleagues in our libraries, on our campuses, or within our consortia as well communication with subscription agents and vendors are an important part of an ERL's responsibilities. The discussion will center on the research and experience of electronic resources librarians as they work with other players on the electronic resources scene to foster effective relationships.

The presentations will be followed with a question and answer session, as well as an open forum for audience members to share experiences with the panel participants and each other.

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Please join us for a discussion about "Transforming Collections," as we continue a discussion begun at Midwinter by exploring how different libraries and consortia are dealing with the transformation of our collections. Our distinguished panelists will share their experience and perspective on such trends such as patron-driven acquisitions, E-book approval plans, collaborative collection development, and the development of collaborative, curated, subject collections. Following the presentations, we will have a Q&A session and share our own experiences, gaining new ideas we can implement in our own Libraries.

Speakers:

Keith Powell, Head of Acquisitions, University of California, Irvine

Jill Emery, Collection Development Librarian, Portland State University

Jennifer Younger, Executive Director, Catholic Research Resources Alliance and Edward H. Arnold Director of Hesburgh Libraries Emerita, University of Notre Dame

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"The Evolving Challenges of E-Resource Preservation," a meeting presented by the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College & Research Libraries Interest Group

The transition of library collections from print to electronic formats has presented extraordinary challenges to traditional concepts of preservation. This meeting’s program will address were some of these challenges stand in the rapidly evolving information landscape. The program will feature three short presentations:

“Accessing e-Content in the Portico Archive: Balancing Librarian Needs for Preservation and Ongoing Access” by Ken Difiore (Director of Outreach and Participation Services, JSTOR/Portico): Portico defines digital preservation as “the series of management policies and activities necessary to ensure the enduring usability, authenticity, discoverability and accessibility of content over the very long term.” This definition of digital preservation is the driving force behind our preservation philosophy and practical applications. We will explore these preservation choices through the representation in the audit access provided to over 17,000,000 articles & nearly 17,000 books and the user access provided via trigger and perpetual access to over 580,000 articles & books.

“Perpetual Access to Continuing Resource Collections: We are not Quite There Yet” by Regina Koury (Electronic Resources Librarian, Idaho State University): Idaho State University library had a list of 2012 journal cancellation recommendations from all departments. In preparation for the coming journal cuts, many of which were online only, we joined LOCKSS. This presentation will talk about which headaches joining LOCKSS solved, how we tried to persuade publishers who are not in LOCKSS to join and show examples of library losses when there is no perpetual access agreements in place."

“Evolving Preservation Challenges for Online Resources: The LOCKSS Program Response” by James Jacobs (Government Information Librarian, Stanford University): The LOCKSS Program [www.lockss.org], based at Stanford University Libraries preserves what publishers publish; the author's words and the presentation and branding. It enables libraries to keep what they buy on local preservation LOCKSS boxes, separating payment from access.

Following the presentations, we hope for a lively and engaged discussion.

If you have questions about this meeting, please contact the Interest Group Chair, Patrick Carr (carrp@ecu.edu) or Chair-Elect, Melissa Behney (mbehney@wesleyan.edu).

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What will library collections look like in the near future? A distinguished panel of academic and public library leaders will discuss the current landscape, dramatic changes taking place in how we define library collections, and innovative ways for libraries to transform collections in the global information environment.

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Join us for a lively discussion on rapid changes in staffing and workflow in electronic resources management. Following a 10-15 minute presentation by an invited speaker to spark discussion, participants will share experiences on a range of topics and key issues.

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Evaluating Big Deals
Due to major budget cuts over the past three years UNC Greensboro has had to look closely at cutting its ‘Big Deal’ journal collections. After gathering use statistics, pricing, impact factors, and other journal information, a spreadsheet was constructed to compare the library’s Big Deals. By examining parameters such as total cost, total use, cost per use, and cost per title, the library was able to determine the cost of subscribing to high-use journals and identify which collections could be cut. This process was helpful in showing to administrators which Big Deal is right for the University and which could be eliminated. Other organizations are now using this model to evaluate their Big Deals.
Presenter: Beth Bernhardt
Electronic Resources Librarian, Jackson Library
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Using User Data Analysis to Inform Decision Making
Over the past 15 years, JSTOR has logged millions of user interactions. We are now feeding this data into a virtual warehouse which can be queried and explored from a variety of perspectives. What can this data tell libraries about their users, research and teaching on their campuses, and what trends can we understand more broadly? Hear about some of our early explorations, the ways JSTOR uses this data to inform feature and program development, how we use custom analyses to help advise libraries on collection development, and bring your ideas and questions to help shape the way librarians can harness this data in the future.
Presenter: John Lenahan
Associate VP, Institutional Participation and Outreach
JSTOR

An Analysis of EBook Equivalent Coverage at The College of New Jersey Library
This presentation details the methodology of a study which compared the eBook offerings of major aggregators with circulation data and patron ILL requests. The results were examined from both a subject and imprint date perspective. Attendees will be presented with a tool to help them make more informed decisions regarding eBook collecting and learn that eBooks may meet only a fraction of the demand for monographic scholarly output. They will also be given a quantitative basis for deciding which subjects are best served by a strategy of patron driven acquisitions.
Presenter: Forrest Link
Acquisitions Librarian, TCNJ Library
The College of New Jersey

How to Win Friends and Relocate Materials: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Collection Moves
The time is ripe for assessment of collections before, during, and after any significant physical transfer of library materials. By approaching collection moves with a deliberate and multi-faceted strategy in mind, collection managers and other interested parties can draw multiple benefits from a given project, some perhaps not typically associated with the transfer of physical materials. This presentation will describe a collection management project undertaken at the University of Kentucky’s William T. Young Library during 2010-2012, focusing on the assessment strategies and variables employed to bring the project to completion, as well as the benefits derived through the application of those strategies. The audience will be invited to contribute by describing their own experiences with collection moves and associated outcomes.
Presenter: Heath Martin
Director of Collections, William T. Young Library
University of Kentucky

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Meeting of the Creative Ideas in Technical Services IG

The purpose of this forum is to nurture new authors by giving them an opportunity to present research and receive feedback as they prepare manuscripts for publication. Proposals for the forum were refereed by the ALCTS/CMS Publications Committee. The first presentation, by Kristin E. Martin, Sandra L. De Groote, and Deborah D. Blecic from the University of Illinois at Chicago, is entitled "Comparison of Citation Use Patterns to Link Resolver and Vendor Statistics in Journals in the Health Sciences Fields." The second presentation, by David Beales from California Polytechnic State University (formerly from Imperial College London), is entitled "Modeling the Cost of Abandoning the Big Deal: A Case Study from the UK."

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Program of "hot" topics and up to the minute issues.

Open to anyone interested in collection development issues in public libraries. The group will be discussing current topics of interest in collection development. Anyone interested in collection development and management is welcome to attend.

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