v-lookup:
“Use the VLOOKUP function to search the first column of a range of cells, and then return a value from any cell on the same row of the range.”
Syntax: VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, [range_lookup])

How to identify duplicates in Excel 2007 without blowing them away:
Use the subtotal function
or
Use conditional formatting: Select cells [or choose cells with certain conditions] > Home > Styles > Conditional Formatting > Manage Rules > New Rule > [type in condition(s) > Apply Rule

Diane Carroll has two macros:

1) Title: WSU Wizard using EXCEL Authors: Ellis, Cindy; Carroll, Diane
This Wizard (and there really is a wizard) will clean up Innovative data of initial articles and ending periods.  It will also separate ISSN into four columns and remove the extraneous data.  It can also add up costs from order records with multiple posting with some editing.

https://research.wsulibs.wsu.edu:8443/dspace/handle/2376/2246

2) Title: Procedures for creating a Serials Decision Database. Author: Diane Carroll

Nick Peterson’s Merge macro.  Will match on any identifier you select and move data from one worksheet to another.  PDF explains how to use it and the EXCEL spreadsheet contains the Macro. I LIVE AND DIE BY THIS ONE.

https://research.wsulibs.wsu.edu:8443/dspace/handle/2376/2277

This record has procedures on how to download Web of Science authored and cited records and how to get order record information from Innovative for a defined period of time (uses character base to do this).  I loaded this information to make available all procedures I use to create a serials decision database.  It is not perfect.

It was pointed out that one can select all XML text (control+a) and paste (control v) into Excel without problems. It formats beautifully.

Margaret Hogarth margaret.hogarth@ucr.edu

~40 people in attendance

Publisher pricing models:

• How to manage pay-per-view in a library-mediated situation
• Always going to be a diversity of models and exceptions to rules when dealing with multiple publishers
• Rockefeller UP: met with DeepDyve http://www.deepdyve.com/ to examine the article renting project. iTunes model of 99cents per article (no printing / 24 hours). One ramification might be to remove OA after 6-months and restrict all the way back due to loss of predictable subscription revenue, so it might result in more restriction in access.
• Duke UP: article-level is a fulfillment nightmare and eliminates the ability to do risk-assessment / sales prediction/projection (easier to compare journals to journals to identify peers and predict what revenue would be if they acquired a particular journal).

Recommender services:

• How do recommender services work? WOS looks at the citation trail forward and backward. bX looks @ the usage patterns of all the institutions that contribute to the service. Using the aggregate data, they determine what people naturally look at when they look at other things.
• MESUR.org / Johann Bollen: Aims to look at what people are using now, now what they’ve cited from years past…how can we tell what’s coming in the future?
• How do we track what kind of an impact research funding has? Example: NSF grant funding, once the grant is over, what kind of publication/impact does the grant result in directly, and indirectly?
• Duke UP…exploring the token model: would you expect perpetual access? This would be a fulfillment nightmare. This might depend on the library.
• CCC-like model / broker for managing different types of access for an article (use for semester / coursepack / archive it yourself / have perpetual access)
• CalState is using CCC as a broker for a patron-driven pay-per-view program

Value of the journal as container…

• Journal as a brand
• Journal as a recommender service (they are related in some way, so they’re packaged together)
• Quality control—producing a set of articles of a certain quality
• Couldn’t we find other ways to collect
• How will we find things in 20 years [or 100?] if we don’t have a citation (jtitle/volume/issue)?
• Publishers have motivation to keep track of how they organize articles.

Room 105:
Adventures @ the Article Level
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer (Kansas State)

These Roundtable sessions scheduled for 1:45 pm Tuesday:

Auditorium 204:
Collaboration between Public Services & Technical Services
(Charlie Bennett-Georgia Tech)

Room 203:
Adoption of Standards
(Todd Carpenter-NISO)

Alexandra Angeletaki-NTNU (Norway):
NTNU librarians/instructors are doing a pilot project, using e-readers pre-loaded with the assigned texts for a course at the beginning of the semester.

How are others using e-readers?  Comment here or email alexandra.angeletaki<at>ub.ntnu.no

Nafiz Zaman Shuva-University of Dhaka (Bangladesh):
Library staff/librarians in universities in Bangladesh are appointed/promoted based on political experience, not on MLIS training, so it is difficult to educate users on use of e-resources.  Use is low due to low funding, even if universities are part of a consortium.

Do you have ideas for places to for assistance for developing countries to get the training they need for librarians on e-resource concepts and topics?  How about for international consortia to join?  Comment here or email nafiz_z<at>hotmail.com

Charlie Bennett-Georgia Tech:

Who has had a good (or bad?) experience with collaboration between departments on different “sides” of the library (public services and technical services)? Some comments from others were:

• Good: e-resources/collection development group with acquisitions and reference folks who make decisions together
• Good: public services librarian working with usage statistics because she is new/young/”fresh” and has an engineering background
• Good: librarian work with both access/activation (back-end) and helping users @ a public services desk (This is a great idea–make sure you try to work the ref desk if you are an ER librarian!)
• Bad: try to ask the other “side” what decisions they’ve made and why, informally (this alone does not work very well).

Join Charlie tomorrow for a Round Table in Amphitheater 204 for more discussion/brainstorming about this.  Comment here or email charlie.bennett<at>library.gatech.edu

Todd Carpenter-NISO:
Lots of people are talking about NISO at the conference. How can we raise standards implementation on the priority list of vendors/publishers/librarians?   Todd suggested a few things:

• Educate yourselves on NISO and other standards bodies
• Insist on standards adherence in contracts. Talk w/vendors and publishers about standards adoptions (they want to hear that this is important to customers). Attend focus groups and user meetings.
• Participate in open source development that can adhere to standards.
• See who (vendors/pubs) is and isn’t working with standards working groups and ask them why not. Encourage them to participate.
• Get involved. Participate in the standards process.

Comment here or email tcarpenter<at>niso.org

Awa Zhu-University of Wisconsin:
Looking for participants for a survey/interview for her dissertation.  The topic is:  “Who or what decides who can access what information under what conditions?”  If you are a librarian with 3 or more years of experience who can participate in a 30-minute interview, please email xzhu2<at>wisc.edu

David Bigwood-The Lunar and Planetary Institute:
Are there any Texas libraries who aren’t members of TexShare?  More libraries can now join since the legislature is no longer in charge of membership.  Email bigwood<at>lpi.usra.edu

Sally Krash-Southwest Research Institute:
What are people spending for their e-resources?  She’s not asking about specific resources, but about budgets.  She particularly wants to talk to other special libraries so that she can take some pressure off of their materials budget by showing comparable institutions’ e-resource budgets.  Email sally.krash<at>swri.org

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