All Sessions

“The library is all about books.” “Libraries can’t charge for services.” The customers don’t want to learn.” “We must have databases!” When we have a mental model of something, it shapes our behavior and limits our creativity in finding solutions. With all the changes in the library world, innovative, out of the box thinking is required. Come do some mental model busting and experience how shifting your thinking can open a new world of possibilities for you and your library.

An informal meeting to share information regarding print archive projects

Meeting of Big Heads

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A pre-conference session for academic assessment librarians and senior management. Presented by Joe Matthews, noted library consultant, library assessment guru, co-author of the award winning book "Listening to the Customer", as well as "The Customer-Focused Library: Reinventing the Public Library from the Outside-In".
Sponsored by Counting Opinions.

Meeting of the ALCTS Transforming Collections TG

EBSCO-sponsored awards to recognize contributions of community college librarians. Pre-registration is required for dinner. Social hour begins @ 6:00. Tickets and registration to be handled through ACRL.

Meeting of the Chief Collection Development Officers IG

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Discovery systems are powerful tools to help users find information resources across the breadth of the library's online holdings. Many of these tools offer APIs for libraries to build their own user interfaces to the search index, allowing a library to keep site visitors within the library until the time they access the full text of a resource. What are the pros and cons of keeping discovery local? This talk will explore the user interaction, interface design, and user expectations of such homegrown interfaces.

Libraries are usually organized for patrons who know what they want-the layout, guiding and catalogue all support the focused user. Research in the UK has demonstrated that many library patrons do not have specific authors and titles in mind; they are looking to be tempted while browsing. Rachel Van Riel will explore the implications of this research for managing library spaces, book collections and displays. She will show how to create an 'Impulse' area near the front door of the library can have a dramatic effect on both circulation and patron satisfaction.

What if you could customize your library system, the same way you do your Facebook page or iPhone—and then share it? The OCLC WorldShare Platform lets you share apps, ideas and creativity with the entire library community and beyond. Hear from a panel of app-makers about their innovations and how you can use them.

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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Librarians and journalists can work together more effectively to contribute and create value added content to our community. Both thrive on the same mission of providing information to the masses, as well as preserving the history of their communities. This can be done by showing our communities how to make and preserve their own news, build and create community histories and provide access to information in a timely fashion without compromising integrity and validity of the content important to communities at hand.

Speakers:
- Amy Buckland, eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator (McGill University)
- Marsha Iverson, Public Relations Specialist (King County Library System)

The linked data movement is an effort to develop best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. This panel will examine efforts to create an environment in which all cultural heritage institutions can more easily contribute to the open Web.

The greatest challenge for discovery systems is providing users with the most relevant search results out of the immense landscape of content. Similar to human interaction between two parties, where people adjust in tone, language, and subject matter, discovery systems need to “understand” the user’s context as well as the materials’ scholarly value. The session will describe Ex Libris Primo’s approach to relevance ranking. In addition to employing traditional information-retrieval methods that have been adapted to scholarly data, ScholarRank takes into account the intrinsic academic value of materials along with information about the user and the user’s research needs.

Meeting of the Catalog Form and Function Interest Group

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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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"If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go farther, go together." This African proverb exemplifies the power of working together as a community.

Learn how consortia are experimenting with new forms of collaboration to improve their services, demonstrate their value, and increase the visibility of their members. And learn ways to creatively think about new types of partnerships that can take us from “institution-scale” to “Webscale." Participants will have the opportunity to share examples of successful, new collaborative projects or services they have formed, and how these new relationships have served to strengthen their interactions with their communities, libraries and library users.

"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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Novelty and innovation are needed to respond to today's challenges. Libraries and librarians are hungry for new and creative approaches to asking questions and finding answers.

Cooperation among school and public libraries has been reported in the literature as early as 1876. Professional discussions, research and writing regarding collaborative partnerships fall into two approaches: cooperation and Joint use. This program address the extent to which this library service model transforms education into a community-wide literacy program, shaping and defining the democratization of societies and moving communities along the path to sustainability. Attendees will learn of current research findings that this library service model contributes to community literacy, lifelong learning and a sense of community at a cost savings.