Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Recent studies suggest a lack of user-centered data on academic library research guides, as well as the lack of adherence to learner-centered design principles. I will discuss the successful collaborative process, including project managment aspects, whereby CSUMB librarians recreated our new, learner-centered research guides using open-source Library a la Carte.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Subscription agents continue to evaluate their roles in the electronic world, and libraries struggle with whether to use an agent or go direct to the publisher. Based on interviews with librarians, administrators, and subscription agents, the presenters will discuss the benefits and challenges associated with collaborative e-journal management.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this study is to explore the awareness and adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in Pakistani libraries.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This program will chronicle one library’s experience as a beta site for a new ERM system. Milestones in the process will be covered, including needs assessment, determining desirable functionality, communication with the vendor and the release of the final product.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Three groups independently negotiate for and/or license e-content for the not-for-profit academic institutions in Florida: CCLA, FCLA, and ICUF. This program will review the panel’s experience in identifying and meeting the challenges of expanding cooperative licensing and e-resource purchasing efforts across three disparate systems.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
With all the information resources available today, both vendors and libraries face the same challenge: reaching and appealing to the end-user. This session will look at our experience with user testing and focus groups and how the lessons we learned challenged our assumptions and guided our product development and marketing activities.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Harvard University migrated from a local electronic resource management system to a vended ERMS in July 2009. This presentation will discuss Harvard’s implementation of the new system, factors that led to a successful conclusion, and ongoing work to improve and extend use of the system.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
During the last three years, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has undertaken three separate de-duplication projects that involved the de-selection of resources based on their availability through certain methods of electronic access. This presentation will cover criteria, priorities, and procedures used in planning and executing these three projects.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
An overview of how the Kresge Business Administration Library at the University of Michigan has created a library collection to best serve its users in the twenty-first century, looking specifically at programmatic and user needs, duplication of resources, and budget restrictions.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Using data to change the conversation with subject selectors and publishers.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this research is to identify the familiarity, factors which influence the students’ acceptance and the problems which they are facing while accessing e-resources in the female campus of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Librarians working to simplify access to library-provided resources often turn to metasearch or federated search solutions. Some question whether these new services improve the user experience or introduce a new level of complexity to searching. This program is a review of issues and potential solutions for single-search discovery and delivery of services using metasearch.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
From interlibrary loan to OpenURL link resolvers, for years libraries have implemented and maintained services that deliver articles to users who need them. The article is increasingly the primary entity of scholarship. New services, standards, and research are emerging daily - all concerned with the article as an individual item. Libraries are often unaware of these article-related efforts. Join me for a provocative session that will examine the past, present, and possible near- and long-term futures of the article as a scholarly entity in its own right.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Distance, eight time zones and separate network differences create difficulties in communicating needs and solutions for keeping access to electronic resources at Texas A&M University at Qatar available to faculty, researchers and students. Using social networking and tutorial software such as Jing and Camtasia have provided a visual means of communicating what is meant by “access the resource by doing this” or “it doesn’t work anymore.” Going beyond developing tutorials for users who need to access resources using a variety of access methodologies, the librarians responsible for maintaining access have begun creating tutorials to explain access problems and solutions to each other and to vendors, and will demonstrate the ease of using these new visual tools.”
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The growing e-book market raises questions regarding access. Many libraries use their catalogs as a conduit to e-books because of user expectations and because vendors offer free MARC records. This presentation explores the challenges associated with these records including information quality, user expectations, and cataloging workload. A checklist regarding these issues is provided.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide general guideline for design of a low cost digital library providing services that are most frequently required by various categories of special library users in developing countries. This paper also aims at illustrating strategies and method approaches that can be adopted for building such projects. Seeing the importance of designing an inexpensive digital library as basic principle for the design accordingly, the utilisation of today’s ICTs and freely available open sources software is the right path for accomplishing such goal. The paper intends to describe the phases and stages required for building such projects from scratch. It also aims at highlighting the barriers and obstacles facing Arabic content and how could such problems overcome
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
What are libraries doing to promote the use of electronic resources? This research uses a thorough literature review to describe what techniques libraries are trying, identifies which are the most commonly used, and provides an evaluation of how a library determines its marketing strategy to be a success or failure.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Rapid developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have changed the traditional concept of libraries. Modern academic libraries are more powerful, dynamic and can reach their users without the restrictions of geographical boundaries. In this Internet era libraries fast moving to digital mode and can be accessed universally. With the advent of new communication technologies libraries redesigned their services to borderless world and become lifeblood of the community. Use of ICTs in libraries has become great advantage for its users as they open up opportunities for interoperability and information exchange. Users can access wide variety of information resources such as text, sound, images etc according to their needs under one umbrella. Therefore, application of ICTs provides considerable impact on the way in which libraries relate to their user communities and become an essential part of evolving information society.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Did you know that about 40% of Reference Questions are Serials or ESerials related such as finding Journals and Articles and Newspapers, or using Online Directories, etc. What do you know about Serials Holdings Standards? NISO Z39.71 & MFHD?Are you up-to-date on the latest jargon and directions in Serials admin & management? How do holdings get formulated and coded? Join this workshop to learn about these concepts with hands-on examples and suggestions for better library practice with Serials Holdings Standards.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
GALILEO, Georgia’s Virtual Library, has been capturing usage data from its system since 1995 and aggregating data from vendors since 2002. The history of GALILEO’s engagement with providing meaningful data for meaningful purposes is full of adventure, hope, set-backs, and opportunities. Learn how one consortia has braved the impossible to deliver the adequate, and hopes for a more a-COUNTER-able future.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Electronic resources are a significant component in the development and management of any library collection. Every year, libraries invest a lot on acquiring and marketing of these resources. However, the extent to which the resources are utilised is unknown. This study therefore, sets out to examine critical capacity requirements for utilisation of e-resources by medical schools in Uganda, and determine to what extent the e-resources are utilised to support teaching, learning and research.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Description of a method for creating transparent and scalable OpenURL quality metrics. This system compares metadata quality across content providers. The reports can be used to inform acquisition decisions when evaluating content providers that offer OpenURL linking from their sites.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Ethical problems arise in the course of daily business. Leaders/managers must give these problems serious thought in order to produce optimum results for their employer and community, while sustaining their personal integrity. In our information-driven society, these issues take on an even greater importance. This highly interactive workshop will address the ethical considerations information professionals find themselves dealing with each day; the impact of technological advances on their ability to determine the appropriate response to a particular situation; and the expansion of responsibilities to include the education of clients as to ethical use and management of information content as well as technology. Since ethical issues evolve into legal requirements, understanding the premises under which we currently operate and making certain our policies and procedures are grounded in an ethical framework is critical.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Unique emerging learning session focusing on explaining and using “Digitally Continuous Learning” behaviors, how we learn digitally, and the rising importance of informal learning as a Killer App. Finally, an exploration of Digital Ephemera to position educators at the edge of emerging learning cultures.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
This article examines the existing status of use of electronic resources in different types of libraries of Bangladesh. An attempt has been made to identify the constraints that hinder the use of electronic resources in libraries of Bangladesh. Finally it proposes some solutions to promote the use of electronic resources in libraries of Bangladesh.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The presenter will share her experiences with developing and teaching a three-unit graduate course on electronic resources management at an ALA-accredited graduate school. The session will cover what library science students need to know, how to introduce new concepts and terms, and how to fit the course into the library science curriculum.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Smaller public and academic libraries never seem to have enough funds to accomplish everything we’d like. Google provides free access to a sweet suite of services that allow smaller libraries to do more with less. With little or no technological experience, these tools allow for easy collaboration, enhanced communication, and nifty innovation. Discover how to make the most of Google tools, like Google Docs, Picasa, and Google Wave, in the areas of reference, outreach, and staff communication.
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
This sessions explores technologies of Web 2.0 as they relate to learning styles and needs of users. Examples of technologies and how they benefit and ignore populations will be explored.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This session will highlight succesful strategies for gaining campus participation in institutional repositories. Three librarians who manage OpenSIUC will discuss their experience in designing and implementing an effective marketing program, recruiting content and expanding collections, and conducting assessment and analysis.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Cornell University has had mixed results obtaining accurate cost-per use data for e-journals. In many cases, it is a simple feat of comparing the subscription cost to the COUNTER compliant usage data, but as we look deeper, and we continue to attempt to automate this process as much as possible, we uncover complexities that make this a considerable challenge. The matrix of possibilities for determining the actual cost associated with a particular e-journal title from amongst packages, combined subscriptions, and free with other titles scenarios makes it difficult to assign costs to individual titles. We will share our experiences and help attendees to better understand the complexities involved.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The Impact Factor is the de facto standard for assessing ‘quality’ and importance of published research. There is serious doubt about its relevance and general applicability. Individual article-level metrics, network analyses and social commenting are viable alternatives. How to combine their advantages into an indicator as convenient as the impact factor is more problematic.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
As we have changed the majority of our new acquisitions from print to online format, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries have responded with new approaches to managing these collections. Some of these changes, such as implementing a new staffing structure, strengthening communication channels with other teams in the library, and streamlining of workflow processes have been moderately successful. Other changes, such as incorporating support staff into eResource workflow and implementing management tools that work effectively for eResources have been less successful. We are finding that the lack of an effective communication and management tool has hampered our best intentions. We will discuss our analyses of these successes and failures and where we think we need to go from here.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
We all wrestle with trying to get statistics for our electronic resources that we can actually USE to manage the resources appropriately. Many conference attendees have relied on third party vendors or technical staff to assist in data collection and analysis. The NIH Library was unable to do either. This presentation will describe what we WERE able to do, or at least try, and how it worked.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The presentation illustrates a project carried out by Electronic Resources Management task group at the Arizona State University Libraries to reorganize the subject drop-down list of e-resources with the purpose to improve access and making the public interface more user- friendly. Moreover, challenges and limitations encountered will be discussed along with the suggestions for the future enhancement.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Implementation of emerging technologies and interactive user interfaces generates digital collections that appeal to increasingly technologically savvy researchers. This presentation will present an overview of emerging technologies incorporated in Ball State University Libraries digital collections.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
How can an academic library increase faculty awareness of, and investment in, the digital repository? One strategy is to create searchable and citable items out of digitally captured events and artifacts. These unusual bitstreams can entice faculty to use the repository when articles and technical reports don’t draw them in.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The digital information revolution has seen an increase in the creation of numeric data and a corresponding rise in the use and re-use of this data for the purposes of research, teaching, and learning. This presentation will provide an overview of the types of numeric data services currently delivered by academic libraries and explore future directions.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Libraries are beginning to enter the world of e-publishing. The Library can work with small societies and faculty wishing to move to online publication of their titles. This presentation will focus on practical tips and considerations for moving a print title online and also for starting new e-journals. Most of the issues are outside the expertise of journal editors but that dovetail nicely with other work in libraries.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This presentation allows San Francisco State University to share our information about patron usage of catalog enhanced services and a journal article recommendation service. The presentation looks at features offered by Syndetic Solutions and LibraryThing added to our online library catalog. We also evaluate the bX article recommendation service from Ex Libris. A summary of usage statistics is included.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
As electronic resources positions have been created in academic libraries, the literature shows that they have most often been added to serials, technical services, or collection maintenance departments. This presentation will argue that many aspects of electronic resources management are best suited to inclusion within public services departments and will use the creation of an Electronic Resources Coordinator position at Bowling Green State University as a case study for this argument.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Far-reaching economic challenges impacts academic libraries’ operations: budget, staff, resources. Economic forecasts predict the financial crisis for universities will continue through 2012 /2014. Cline Library Northern Arizona University strives to meet these challenges still providing the e-content required for curriculum support through a process of informed, strategic decision analysis.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This presentation will talk about how the inherent characteristics of a digitized historical newspaper image collection have posed challenges to the creation of metadata. It will also address how these difficulties were overcome through careful planning, as well as consistent but flexible plan execution, with inputs from both student employees and professional staff.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Despite the excitement surrounding Web 2.0 in academic libraries, many librarians do not appreciate the level of apathy many students have towards social technologies. Using data gathered from discussion boards, experience, and a full-semester course on Web 2.0, the case is made that library uptake of Web 2.0 is proceeding without sufficient awareness of patron attitudes.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Since 1990’s many academic libraries signed multi-year contracts to subscribe to electronic journal packages from large publishers. The process helped the transition from print to electronic and also added value and convenience by placing more content on the desktop of a faculty or student than they previously had from the specific publishers involved. With recent collection budget cuts, many academic libraries are having second thoughts about journal package arrangements, which force them to spend too much money on journals they don’t need and which make it difficult to pay for journals from smaller publishers and scholarly monographs. The purpose of this presentation is to share our experience in developing a methodology for evaluating the cost effectiveness of journal packages. The presentation addresses a number of important issues and provides best practices that should be followed during a review. Analyzing usage statistics data, costs per subscribed and unsubscribed titles, use of subscribed and unsubscribed titles will be discussed. Practical guidance in demonstrating the value, or lack of value, of a deal will be provided.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This presentation offers best practices for developing an institutional repository based on the presenters’ experience establishing an institutional repository at Kansas State University Libraries. Their best practices focus on the pivotal role of library liaisons and value-added services in ensuring the success of the institutional repository.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
For many years, libraries have been dreaming about a simple, easy, fast search solution that unifies all of the resources into a single repository. Current solutions for managing access to resources in the library only offer a very lengthy listing of resources with no compelling starting place. Recently, an emersion of the Discovery Layer, or Next-Generation Catalog, has been put in place to create a compelling starting point for library patrons. This talk will discuss how these Next-Generation library discovery applications can go beyond the local library holdings and beyond federated search to offer a single Google like search service across all local and subscription resources.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The easy decisions have been made; the formats have been flipped when possible. Now what? This program will discuss using the serials decision database to guide collection managers through realignments, interacting with agents and planning for the collection challenges yet to come.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This presentation will address how one university re-vended their A-Z list. Two librarians will discuss the strategies and processes involved for both the library and vendor with migrating data and setting up the newly vended service. Challenges and lessons learned from both the library and vendor’s perspective will be discussed.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
As emphasis shifts from print to electronic, a library’s organizational capacity or ability to manage workloads with sufficient numbers and levels is strained. R2 Consulting comments on the most salient trends and recommendations regarding library operations. University of Colorado Denver Auraria Library provides local examples of reinventing staffing and workflow.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Implementing OCLC’s Worldcat Local search tool allows for more effective bridging of teaching, research, and service. This session focuses on the changes that its implementation has brought to Saint Xavier University, the first library in Illinois to use Worldcat Local. The effects have been immediate and dramatic.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Moving data about library resources among systems often engenders data cleanup processes. What is the best way to clean up data? Which tools and skills for non-programmers can help? See how the University of California, Riverside Libraries tackle this issue, then share tips and techniques in an open forum.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This Pre-Conference will take the participants through the process of brainstorming, creating, and implementing a successful marketing plan. The participants will have the opportunity to learn about successful marketing campaigns, start their own plan to market e-resources at their institution, and to work with the presenter and fellow participants to come up with some creative ideas to apply when they return home.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
For many academic libraries, the investment shift from traditional printed materials to electronic resources continues to gain momentum with every budget cycle. This ongoing shift often creates a new set of challenges for library staff to find ways to effectively analyze cost data, usage statistics and other information to ensure they are getting the most from their electronic resources investment. In this session, three representatives from the system vendor and academic library fields each share their insights on tools, resources and strategies being used to meet this challenge. Topics include usage statistics harvesting methods (e.g., COUNTER, SUSHI, etc.), cost analysis and other reporting tools that are critical for many of these libraries.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This project addresses academic librarians’ growing need to demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) and value of the library to various stakeholders of the institution (faculty, students, policy makers, etc.) and to guide library management in the redirection of library funds to important products and services. The project was part of a study to validate the methodology of the 2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study on ROI that focused on measuring the return in research and grant funding supported by the university’s financial investment in the library. This presentation outlines some of the preliminary findings from the survey, particularly the research efficiencies garnered by faculty taking advantage of electronic access to the Library’s research tools.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
New Mexico State University Library is exploring the potential of virtual worlds such as Second Life, and the impact the virtual worlds will have on information and library services. The presentation will discuss the education aspects of virtual worlds and NMSU Libraries’ experiences on how users utilize their virtual library.
ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
In August 2009 the St. Edward’s University Scarborough-Phillips Library began implementation of Innovative Interface’s Electronic Resource Management System. This presentation will focus on the results of a survey of III’s ERM. In addition to the survey results, we will include advice from our own ERM implementation.
artadobbs November 8th, 2009
Make your voice heard by voting for sessions you would like to see at the ER&L Conference. Today we are posting a preview of 98 proposed sessions for ER&L ‘10. You will have the opportunity to vote on the topics most important to you. Each proposed session will be a post and you can give your vote to as many sessions as you want. You can only vote for a proposal once, of course - to do so click on the “Yea” next to the proposal you wish to see at ER&L. The responses will help the ER&L Program Planning group finalize our schedule.
Kelly Smith October 2nd, 2009
Go here to register.
Your registration for the ER&L Conference includes:
Early registration rates (through December 1, 2009):
ER&L will offer student and needs-based awards to attend the conference or participate online - more details will be announced soon. Conference presenters receive 50% off registration, so consider submitting a proposal by October 30th.
Kelly Smith September 23rd, 2009
Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L), a volunteer-run conference,
is looking for tech-savvy IT Specialist to administer its online
resources. The conference serves as a venue for cross-departmental
collaboration and discussion concerning how electronic/digital
resources and paradigms are transforming the field of librarianship.
Summary
ER&L is looking for an individual or individuals who are efficient,
dedicated, and self-motivated for this project. This project is a
great opportunity for those interested in library science to become
acquainted with the work on the leading edge of the electronic/digital
resources as well as the people who are doing it. User-friendly tools
are the priority, and the Specialist will need to work closely with
conference participants and planners to ensure this. At the same time,
the Specialist will need to be comfortable using both off-the-shelf
(openly available) tools as well as developing some in-house tools
depending on feasibility for the situation in question.
The online resources use a mix of systems, including Open Conference
System (OCS), MediaWiki, Wordpress, and various third-party APIs with
locally hosted PHP scripts. Additional tools for a virtual conference
will be needed and can be one of the areas in which the Specialist can
take a lead.
MediaWiki is used to run the main conference site and to host planning
documentation. OCS is used for proposal submissions and, with use of
third-party APIs, registration management and payment. Wordpress is
used for group blogging.
Required skills
Familiarity with web-based development, including FTP and
development/production sites
Familiarity with PHP
Familiarity with MySQL or other SQL-based database
Familiarity with HTML/CSS markup and use
Excellent communication skills
Ability to accurately assess task requirements
Self-directed and able to learn new skills and obtain resources as
needed for completing tasks
Comfortable using documentation and existing resources to assess and
implement third-party APIs
Additional preferred skills
Exposure to Smarty templating engine or other templating system
Familiarity with PayPal API or other e-commerce API with a postback system
Experience working with object-oriented programming in PHP
Experience developing add-ons or extensions to open source systems
Experience with installing and/or maintaining MediaWiki-based sites
Experience in finding and installing add-ons or extensions for any of
the systems mentioned in the job summary
Time Commitment
September, 2009 – May, 2010.
Time varies depending on skill set of the IT Specialist; on average
5-10 hours a week, with some weeks being heavier and many lighter. A
work plan and timeline will be developed jointly with the Specialist
at the start of work to assess this.
Benefits
The ER&L IT Specialist will be given a $2,000 stipend to be paid as followed:
$1,000 by December 31, 2009
$1,000 by May, 2010
Complimentary registration to attend the 2010 ER&L Conference located
in Austin, TX
ER&L is willing to work with a Library/Information School to create a
practicum opportunity for a graduate student.
Submission
Please submit a letter of interest and resume/summary of relevant
experience to Bonnie Tijerina at bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com by
September 30, 2009.
ER&L Conference Committee September 1st, 2009
ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2010 Conference to be held February 1-3, 2010 with pre-conferences on January 31st. The conference location will be on the campus of the University of Texas, Austin at the AT&T Conference Center. Some sessions will also be a part of an online conference. Topics include managing, selecting, assessing and marketing e-resources as well as issues in digital rights and relationships in and out of libraries.
View Track Descriptions:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2010/schedConf/trackPolicies
Proposal Deadline:
Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early. The Proposal Deadline is October 30, 2009.
Proposal Evaluation:
The committee will evaluate each proposal on the basis of subject matter (including, but not limited to, the issues listed in the topic descriptions), clarity, and timeliness. We will also hold a period of open voting to allow potential attendees to help shape the program. Proposals should be for original work that has not been published. We may request that some presenters combine sessions with complementary subject matter.
Compensation:
Presenters receive 50% off the cost of registration.
Presenters asked to participate in an ER&L Online Conference will receive free conference registration.
More info:
ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services. The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources.
We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment.
More information about the Call for Proposals is available at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2010/schedConf/schedConf/cfp
Questions:
Please direct questions about the Call for Proposals to Elizabeth Winter (elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu). Please direct questions related to preconferences to Xan Arch (xanadu@stanford.edu).
ER&L ‘10 conference details are online at: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org
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