2022 Preliminary Program

BIG QUESTIONS
ON THE LIVE STREAM

Catch some big ideas in our Live Sessions blocks​ on the live stream. ​​Our program will have a virtual main stage surfacing these big questions of great interest to our community.

Ask questions and chat with presenters during a live Q&A session.

ON-DEMAND SESSIONS
& SHORT TALKS

Learn a lot from one another in On-Demand Sessions & Short Talks with live text-based Q&A.

Our program will have 100+ talks from our community. These sessions and short talks will be available to consume on-demand at the beginning of the conference.

Leave questions and comments anytime. Ask questions and chat with presenters during a text-based Q&A session.

COMMUNITY
CONNECTIONS

Share and support one another in ​daily ​​Community Connection opportunities for networking​ ​​and topical ​discussions​ that deepen the reach of topics we’re exploring at ER&L.​

Join us each day for a variety of community-focused networking experiences such as moderated discussions and small group video chats.

MEET WITH EXHIBITORS

There will be daily opportunities to meet with and hear from Camp ER&L exhibitors and sponsors, aka the fine purveyors at the Camp ER&L General Store.

WELLNESS ACTIVITIES

Practice self-care with daily offerings such as virtual yoga sessions and meditations. Prior experience not necessary. 

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Enjoy some laughs and entertainment with fellow campers in activities such as a live music show, a game show session, and an interactive virtual happy hour experience.

Monday, March 14

11:30am – 1:00 pm

Welcome to Camp ER&L!

• Platform Orientation
• Welcome from the Conference Coordinator
• Committee Updates
• Live Q&A

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CT

Opening Keynote Panel: Aligning Library Business Practices and Library Values

A recent proliferation of values-based projects show librarians working on aligning library business practices with the values of librarianship such as access, privacy, confidentiality, diversity, and social responsibility. We will hear from leaders of several such projects and consider how well our work is aligned with our values currently, how we got here, and what practices may need to adjust. We will end by considering what each of us can do. Read more about the panelists. 

• Library Values at Work
  Dr. Maria McCauley, Director of Libraries for the city of Cambridge; PLA President-Elect
• Licensing Privacy Project
  Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services & Instruction, University of Illinois
• Library Partnership Certification for Journal Publishers
  Rachel Caldwell Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Evaluating the Accessibility of E-Resources with the Library Accessibility Alliance (LAA)
  Sara Belmont, Web Developer, William & Mary Libraries
• Ethical Financial Stewardship
  Katy DiVittorio and Lorelle Gianelli, Collections Strategies at Auraria Library
• Mapping the Values-Driven License Agreement
  Scarlet Galvan, Area Lead for Assessment and Planning and Collection Strategist Librarian, Grand Valley State University Libraries
• Doing the Diversity Work in Scholarly Communications – A quick look at the last 5 years
  Charlotte Roh, Reference and Instruction Librarian, California State University San Marcos

Live Group Discussions (Gatheround)

3:30-4:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• Adventures in Transformative Licensing

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

10:00 am – 11:30 am CT

What does our ‘new normal’ look like?

The pandemic disrupted everyone’s lives, challenging us to create a new normal in life and at work. We want to reflect on what this new world looks like. We’ll start with a big picture view of how we see each other, how we collaborate, how we learn, and what shifts have happened in our larger communities. Then, we will dig into some specific examples, such as engaging with users, training new staff, and managing collections. These three talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• Gimme S’more: Perspectives of Vendors and Library Workers on Vendor Services
• The Evolving Consortia Landscape
• How Libraries Can Thrive Today! Gaining Insight into the 2021 State of Academic Libraries Report
• with Live on-camera moderated Q&A

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm CT

How has our work changed?

Change is typical in managing e-resources but the last two years have brought new and dramatic shifts to our ecosystem. From working remotely to new user needs and delivery methods, the way in which we conduct business has changed. This has impacted our operations, business relationships, budgets, and processes. We will explore best practices, case studies, and lessons learned across all aspects of the e-resource lifecycle. These three talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• The Benefits and Challenges of Moving to Federated Authentication: Considerations for Impacts on Privacy and User Experience
• Leading a (Not So) Flawless LSP Migration training program: Success and lessons learned
• “R-V There Yet?” On the Road to Whole Ebook ILL
• with Live on-camera moderated Q&A

1:20 – 1:40 pm CT

What’s New from ProQuest and Ex Libris

Live sponsored presentation with Jim Lynch, Head of Sales at ProQuest Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate, to share what’s new for academic libraries and answer questions.

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CT

How do we demonstrate our values?

Librarianship comes with values that many of us strive to incorporate in our work. We will explore the ways in which we are opening and expanding access to e-resources as well as consider the environmental impact of digital collections in our libraries. These presentations will grapple with our responsibility to protect user privacy, how we center student users in our profession, and the ways in which we can create open and equitable access to information. These three talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• The Environmental Impact of Electronic Collections: Exploring the Carbon Footprint of Electronic Resources 
• Values-Based OA Negotiation for Library Consortia
• Making Open Access Books Work: A Library-Press Partnership Perspective
• with Live on-camera moderated Q&A

10:00 am – 11:30 am CT

• Are your collections accessible? Building relationships and workflows to increase library resource accessibility.
• Challenges of Classroom Film Screenings and How Libraries Can Help
• How Libraries Can Partner with Faculty to Implement Text and Data Mining
• Increasing student satisfaction through resource list usage: A case study from the University of Worcester
• Increasing Student Research Outcomes with Gale Primary Sources Learning Centers
• Interweaving Service Management in Libraries
• Tying the Knot: Coordinating HathiTrust ETAS Across Catalog and Discovery systems
• Using COUNTER R5 Item Reports to Understand Article Use
• Using Collections Data Science to Demonstrate Library Value and Inform Community-Driven Acquisitions
• Virtual Reality’s Support for Soft Skills Development in Higher Education Students

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm CT

• Alma Time Savers: Assessing CZ Collections & Monitoring Task List Updates
• [Case Study] Leveraging Federated Authentication to simplify remote resource access during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Herding Cats: Creating a new employee onboarding program during a pandemic; tales from Vanderbilt University’s First Heard Onboarding Committee
• How Stuff Works: Unsub Solved! One library’s best practices for using Unsub to evaluate and unbundle journal packages.
• Inclusive Publishing: How Scholarly Publishers are Addressing Systemic Disparities
• Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Library Best Practices: What, Why and How?
• Partnering with Publishers and Vendors to Improve Metadata Worldwide: An OhioLINK Case Study about Collaborating with Springer Nature and OCLC on High-Quality MARC Records and e-Resource Metadata
• Show and Tell: My Library is Using ERM in FOLIO
• Tag Team (Integrated Library System) Wrestling: Pre-& Post-Covid Acquisitions, Discovery, and Fulfillment

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

• Beyond the library wall: Using library skills to build a career outside of libraries
• Dave’s Top Ten List: Common E-resource Access Issues
• Developing a data-driven approach to library organizational development
• Out of the Frying Pan and into the Campfire: How to Successfully Navigate a Library Reorganization and Not Get Burned

SHORT TALKS:

• 3 Keys to Setting Clear Employee Expectations
• Affordable Scholarly Resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences: What Can MUSE Do For You?
• Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) – A Community-Driven Approach
• Cutting the Frills: Streamlining the Database A-Z List during Migration
• Discovery Search Customizations: Analyzing Top Search Terms to Develop Tailored Results for Library Users
• Expiring Soon: Improving a Patron Notices Workflow for Mediated Kanopy Licenses
• Faculty realized the library can help with course materials. Now what?
• Guiding Patron Discovery ‘In the Workflow’: a case study from an academic and research library in the U.S.
• How Does Your (Workflow) Garden Grow? Embracing Organic Workflow Development in Response to Rapid Change and Urgent Timelines (and COVID!)
• How OpenAthens is improving user experience with the new MyAthens Plus
• Managing Technology Problems: Using SpringShare LibAnswers as a Ticketing System
• NISO’s Creation of Standards for Controlled Digital Lending to Support its Implementation Everywhere
• Pairing repositories and altmetrics: demonstrating the impact and engagement of research from overlooked disciplines
• Supporting learning and teaching using a Reading List Management System
• Troubleshooting Training: For Newbies or Managers

Live Group Discussions (Zoom/Gatheround)

1:30-2:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• What does the ‘new normal’ mean?
• I Got 99 Problems and Producing an Accurate e-Title Count is Most of Them

3:30-4:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• Everything Old Is New Again: How Has Our Work Changed?
• Flexible Work Arrangements through the Pandemic and Beyond

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

10:00 am – 11:30 am CT

How do we address access, diversity, inclusion, and equity?

This big question will address access, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We will discuss if we are doing enough to prioritize content accessibility and whether we are deliberately and thoughtfully shifting legacy practices in order to provide respectful and equitable metadata and authority control. We will also consider how we design or use tools, processes, and systems to include more voices. These five talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• Building Partnerships to Improve the Accessibility of Library E-Resources
• This Presentation Will Make You Uncomfortable: Flagging Problematic Language in Discovery Tools
• Supporting DEI initiatives through accessible, usable interfaces
• Challenges and Opportunities with Surfacing DEI Content
• Inclusive Search: Discovery That Understands
• with Live on-camera moderated Q&A

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm CT

How has our work changed?

Change is typical in managing e-resources but the last two years have brought new and dramatic shifts to our ecosystem. From working remotely to new user needs and delivery methods, the way in which we conduct business has changed. This has impacted our operations, business relationships, budgets, and processes. We will explore best practices, case studies, and lessons learned across all aspects of the e-resource lifecycle. These three talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• Sustainable Models of Electronic Resource Access for Text and Data Mining: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future
• Hitting Refresh: How two university libraries pivoted to a new LSP and what opportunities were identified in the process
• Exploring the Evidence Base for Electronic Access Troubleshooting: Where Research Meets Practice
• With Live on camera moderated Q&A

1:20 – 1:40 pm CT

Live Presentation from Elsevier

Sponsored presentation with Elsevier. 

2:00 pm – 3:20 pm CT

What does innovation look like?

Innovators thrive in the e-resources ecosystem by implementing new, creative ideas and technologies to improve current practices and develop newer, more efficient ways to accomplish our goals.Are we doing our work in the best ways possible using what is available to us? Are we thinking about how new technologies might benefit e-resource management? Are we contemplating new partnerships as our work evolves? These three talks will be followed by a group panel Q&A on our big question.

• System Statuses in Discovery
• Do data curators dream of electronic resources? Integrating licensed datasets into e-resource workflows
• Finding a path forward: The use of Python to support technical services work in academic libraries
• with Live on camera moderated Q&A

3:20 – 3:40 pm CT

Technology from SAGE Innovators Award Winner Announcement

ER&L attendees are invited to join a face-paced Innovations award finalists and award announcement session. We’ll hear from the 3 finalists, host a real-time community vote, and name the top award winner. Learn more about this award.

10:00 am – 11:30 am CT

• Boxing the Needle: Finding Your Way through the Licensing Forest
• Build it! Share it! Taking a Campus OER Community of Learning to Open: Building an OER Community of Learning and converting the interactive course to learning objects on an open platform.
• Digital textbooks for institutions: Cambridge’s approach, from functionality to editorial philosophy
• Do I need to pick a side? How libraries can support affordable learning
• Equitable Access and Textbook Affordability
• “Ignorance is NOT bliss-It won’t solve your problems, it just presses the snooze button”: Addressing the problems of ‘Click Agreements’ using Process Improvement
• It’s (perpetually) Complicated: Tracking Perpetual Access Rights from Consortial License Agreements
• On Track for Success with Course Content Support: Reducing Textbook Costs for Students with E-book Selection

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm CT

• Accessibility and VPATs: rubric for scoring VPATs for completeness and accuracy
• Accessibility in eResources
• Captioning for a Captive Audience: Accessible Online Video for Library Patrons
• Disseminating Faculty & Student Publications: Creating a Database at a Small Health Sciences University
• OUP journals: Transforming the world’s largest university press to open
• Take Action: Improve Digital Accessibility in Your Organization
• Text Mining at the University of Chicago: Licensing, Discovery, and Support
• The Analytics of Value: Leveraging data to show library success
• The Details of Data-driven Deselection: Print book withdrawals in a print and e-book world
• We Can Do More: Meeting the Need for Digital Resources By, For, and About Indigenous Peoples

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CT

• Misguided Metrics: The Case for Context in Journal Evaluation
• Navigating Mountains of Books: Using Title Matching to Convert Physical Collections to “E”
• We’re not out of the woods yet: Revamping LibGuides from the ground up

SHORT TALKS:

• Amplifying Hidden Voices in Digital Primary Source Databases
• Beyond journals and books: Keeping KBART relevant in a changing information landscape
• Don’t Leave a Mess: Electronic Resources Succession Planning
• Getting the most from the Science family of journals
• One Is the Loneliest Number: The Self-Training Electronic Resources Librarian
• “Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?”: UI Design Innovations for Discovery that Counter Expectations But Increase Search Effectiveness for Diverse Users
• Re-evaluating Big Deals: A More Sophisticated Approach to Unbundling
• Removing Barriers to Access: Welcome to Better Content Delivery
• Scholarly Database Indexing: Implications for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Researchers
• Success in Succession: inheriting acquisitions knowledge during Electronic Resource Librarian onboarding
• What Do We Publish and How Do We Know?: Comparing Bibliometrics Tools to Assess Research Outputs

Live Group Discussions (Zoom/Gatheround)

11:30 AM-12:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• What happens around the campfire, stays at the campfire: E-Resource Management in Alma
• Usability, Inclusivity in Library Digital Spaces
• Navigating Access without a Compass

3:30-4:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• Changing Workflows, Changing Priorities
• Documenting workflows and knowledge: paving the way for smoother transitions

Thursday, March 17, 2022

10:00 am – 11:30 am CT

• Amplify Vendor-Provided TDM Content Utilizing Open-Source Jupyter Notebooks
• Beyond the Clipboard: Jira for Eresource Oversight and Accountability
• Cross-departmental Collaboration for Successful DDA and EBA Management
• Getting your campers to sing-along in key: Project management in your library
• OpenAthens Statistics – Enhance Your Library Services
• UT and Alma D: Leveraging a library management system to provide access to digital content and facilitate controlled digital lending
• Set It and Forget it? Librarian, Publisher, and Vendor Perspectives on why you should choose KBART Automation

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

• Cloud Security and Library Resources
• View from a Bridge: Changing collection development practice and gaining efficiencies at a liberal arts university
• Implementing Cyclical Renewal Assessments
• Making the Cut: Killing the Library Materials Budget
• The Farmer and the Cowboy Can Be Friends: The Value of Strong Partnership Between University Libraries, Security Offices and Campus IT

SHORT TALKS:

• Are digital tools the new content? Librarians as pivotal to the accessibility of digital tools
• Building a One Stop Shop: Using Salesforce as an ERM
• Collections Strategies without Subject Selectors: Restructuring and Rethinking Collections Services
• Experimenting with Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) as 5-Year E-Resource Usage Snapshots
• Fetch SUSHI APIs and Record Report Status in Google Spreadsheet by Using Google Apps Script
• Gotta Catch ’em All! Plugging the holes in University of Arizona Libraries Article Demand
• Implementing a Copyright Chatbot at SMU Libraries : Technology, Challenge and User Experience
• NISO Attacks! Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers
• No ERM, no worries: How to manage ER without an ERM
• No Results Found : Using Alma’s Primo Zero Result Searches Report To Inform Library Instruction and Improve User Experience
• No subscription, no problem: Using Article Galaxy Scholar to deliver non-subscribed article content

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CT

SHORT TALKS:

• CORAL ERM for Public & Academic Libraries: Low Risk, High Reward
• Getting Out of the Forest: Privacy-Focused Web Analytics in Your Library
• Improving the Visibility and Discovering of Scholarly Research on Social Media
• Leveraging Usage Consolidation and FOLIO for Renewal Analysis
• Library-Sourced eTextbooks and Student Perspectives: Mixed-Methods Study Using the COUP Framework
• NISO’s New Recommended Practice for Video & Audio Metadata
• Navigating Consortia: Data-Driven Review of Consortial Memberships
• Putting the librarian on the patron’s shoulder: how to bring library chat tools into the patron workflow to increase engagement
• Serials Threshing: separating the wheat from chaff to find value in large journal package renewals
• There’s gold in them thar hills but bandits on the highway: Challenges faced by libraries collecting and enriching institutional publications and research data

Live Group Discussions (Gatheround)

1:30-2:00 PM CT

• Daily Coffee Chat
• Come Pitch a Tent and chat about E-Resources & Discovery
• Know Your Rights! Libraries’ roles in copyright for scholarly communication services