2023 Track Hightlights
Our program planning committees have molded ER&L tracks over the past 18 years. The PPC Track Chairs have prepared the highlights within each of their tracks.
1. E-Resources Management & Licensing
The E-Resources Management & Licensing track offers a diverse collection of sessions covering many different aspects of our work. The ever-changing landscape of library management systems continues with several sessions addressing migration to both FOLIO (‘They Built It and We Came‘ and ‘Meet librarians whose institutions made the move to FOLIO‘) and Alma (‘Migration Wins and Woes‘). Other institutions will share how they utilize different types of tools to improve their ERM workflows, including ConsortiaManager, TIND, LibWizard, and Asana.
‘Transformative Agreements Nitty Gritty‘, ‘Article-Level Intelligence‘, and ‘Sustainable Open Access Publishing‘ address issues of open access publishing, while ‘S’more skills for everyone‘ examines the importance of negotiation and scaling when developing open educational resources. Most libraries have to deal with the complexities of managing streaming video collections, and our presenters will share their own lessons and experiences through ‘Manage Streaming Video Licenses Using Google Workspace‘, ‘Streaming Video Management in Academic Libraries‘, and ‘Streamlining Streaming Video‘. If you’re new to the e-resources profession, there will be lots of great information to help you hit the ground running, including ‘Keep calm and clear your cache‘ and ‘10(ish) Questions to Ask and Answer…‘.
These are just a select few of the more than 30(!) valuable sessions in our E-Resources Management & Licensing track and we look forward to learning with you!
View the 2023 E-Resources Management & Licensing Presentations
TRACK CHAIR:
Erin Finnerty
Electronic Resources Librarian
Temple University
2. Collection Development & Assessment
Data analysis and collection assessment continue to be a strong trend this year. We will hear about projects and pilots related to data-driven approaches to collection management on topics including de-selection, eBooks, serials, and databases. Novel approaches to ongoing collection assessment and managing annual renewals with workflow enhancements will be shared. We will also hear how collection assessment is more than just getting the numbers; it can be used to review how collection development policy impacts the library’s strategy in fulfilling its role to support teaching and learning, including research and resources focusing on inclusive teaching in the disciplines.
View the 2023 Collection Development & Assessment Presentations
TRACK CHAIR:
Ranti Junus
Systems Librarian, Electronic Resources
Subject librarian for Library Science and Museum Studies
Michigan State University Libraries
3. Organizational Strategies
The always eclectic Organizational Strategies track is full of sessions focused on thriving in the present and preparing for the future for both librarians and organizations. Whether the future entails migrating to a new system migration, fighting cybercrime, onboarding staff, managing burnout, or thinking about a new career, there is something for everyone. And back by constant demand, learn how to manage being a new electronic resource librarian and managing resources as a team. Join us for a lively discussion about these important topics while finding your allies and co-conspirators in the field.
TRACK CHAIR:
Julie L. Glascock
Director of Acquisitions and Eresources
Vanderbilt University
4. External Relationships
In today’s digital world, libraries work together with publishers, vendors, various library consortia, and other colleges on campus to improve library services for their users. Although it is crucial to keep these connections strong, are we as librarians making the most of our partnerships with different stakeholders? The presentations on the “External Relationship” track will delve into whether these partnerships have been successful. This year’s conference will have four informative sessions. There will be two sessions that will be on-demand sessions offered at the beginning of the conference. On March 9 at 1:30 PM, the session presenters for these on-demand sessions will be accessible online to answer our questions.
Hear the experiences from a library and a publisher on how their collaborations enabled faculty and students to use primary resources as their teaching tools and encouraged students’ critical thinking to create new scholarships. Attend the presentation to see how publishers, faculty, and librarians worked with students to make it easier for them to find primary sources, which helped the students create their own independent research.
No one can ignore the importance of having good training to master an activity or a job. As libraries invest a huge amount of their collections budget in procuring expensive databases, it makes sense to get appropriate training for users to ensure the optimal use of the resource. In this session, the presenter will talk about the importance of vendor-led training and share their ideas on how to make this training more effective.
Libraries engage in outreach activities by aligning with campus strategic priorities to demonstrate the value of their contributions to various campus stakeholders. We will hear about how a library can help colleges and faculty on campus that license content on their own. We will hear about librarians’ experiences on how they assisted other campus units in reviewing licenses for the content that campus units were licensing. This in turn gives librarians a chance to offer their expertise and be a part of the campus culture.
Annual subscription renewal is a complex process, and often librarians and subscription agents work together to simplify and streamline it. The presenters in this on-demand session will highlight how a subscription agent, ILS vendors, and librarians worked together to analyze the renewal process, enhance data points in the ILS to expedite the renewal process, and what efficiencies this collaboration offered to the libraries.
TRACK CHAIR:
Kavita Mundle
Clinical Associate Professor, Head of Resource Acquisitions and Management
University of Illinois at Chicago
5. User Experience & Promotion
The User Experience and Promotion track will provide multiple opportunities for engagement on topics that include discoverability, assessment, accessibility, user experience, and equity. With a full session on incorporating access analysis in resource retention and short talks on breaking barriers to access by utilizing seamless discovery, ILS infrastructure and discovery layer mapping analyses, understanding user adoption of reference managers, student engagement perspectives into patron workflows for discovery, investigating embedding Springshare LibGuides/LibChat feature into workflows and transforming data using BIBFRAME, this track will not disappoint. With an accessibility focused poster on the need for audio description in streaming films, and on-demand sessions covering deduping ebook titles within discovery to improve the patron experience, an in-depth discussion on the environmental scan of search presentation on library websites, assignment-aligned information literacy instruction, remapping subject headings in discovery services to support EDI principles, marketing strategies and techniques to promote the LibKey Suite to users, maximizing visibility of resources on the open web, and a comparative analysis of e-Journal platforms, this track has so much to offer!
TRACK CHAIR:
Kaci Resau
Electronic Resources Manager
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
6. Scholarly Communications & Library Publishing
TRACK CHAIR:
Kate Hill
Library Services Engineer
EBSCO Information Systems