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Access and acquisition of digital content always involves some kind of rights analysis and management, even if no license is required to subscribe to that database or ejournal. What rights do libraries have to use the digital content we acquire, why do we have them, and how do we negotiate and manage them? This workshop will help answer those questions by providing a deeper, focused look at the rights associated with the digital content that libraries acquire and support, and how they are expressed through license agreements and existing copyright law. Participants will have the opportunity to advance their knowledge of the legal framework that supports the acquisition of digital content and the use of it by library users. This foundational knowledge will be combined with the practical aspects of license reviews as part of the acquisition and collection management process, as well as a discussion of how libraries comply with these agreements through their technical infrastructure, their support procedures, and through direct communication of their terms. Specific topics to be covered include an overview of licenses as legally binding contracts, how they are constructed, the type of information they contain and how they intersect with existing copyright law, how libraries should manage a breach of license terms, and the relationship between these terms and library services such as interlibrary loan, collection development policy, and support for teaching and learning.
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Did you know EZproxy has pubic service components, technical service components, information technology components and even assessment components? This workshop is for all those new to administering EZproxy as well as anyone interested in learning how EZproxy impacts various library functional units. We will explore EZproxy’s history and purpose, installation options, basic concepts and configuration and general administration.
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E-resource troubleshooting is an increasingly complex and time-consuming activity in the era of web-scale discovery. With multiple systems and access pathways involved, effective problem solving requires a sophisticated bundle of knowledge, skills, and tools. How can librarians and staff become effective and efficient troubleshooters? Through hands-on activities and group discussions, workshop participants will learn several practical approaches to documenting their e-resource access environment, systems, and troubleshooting methods, then create a framework for their own e-resources troubleshooting training curriculum. Presenters will cover key concepts and troubleshooting tools, and help participants understand how to apply those concepts and tools in their own discovery and access environments. Participants will also learn how to evaluate training effectiveness, along with strategies for practical reinforcement of troubleshooting techniques and skills. The presenters work in an Alma/Primo discovery environment, but this workshop is intended to be system agnostic. Participants will leave this session with drafts of training documents specific to their own environments.
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At ER&L 2016, the instructor presented how she used elements of Scrum to manage a collections assessment project. Because of the great benefits she experienced using Scrum, she continues to use Agile methods for large and small projects to effectively juggle competing priorities and meet tight deadlines. Based on attendee feedback, this workshop provides an opportunity for 2017 ER&L attendees to learn more about Scrum and other Agile Movement tools. Commonly used in software development, Agile methods like Scrum and Kanban are simple, practical, and flexible project management methods. This workshop will introduce attendees to Scrum and Kanban through a balance of theory, demonstration, and hands-on application. During this workshop, the instructor will briefly demonstrate how she used elements of Scrum to develop a framework for a comprehensive review of e-resource collections. Attendees will then begin applying Scrum by working in small groups to develop the Scrum elements of “stories” and “tasks” for their own projects.
Next, the instructor will describe Kanban and demonstrate how she uses Kanban in her current position. Attendees will then explore analog and digital iterations of Kanban and create their own Kanban board.
During the demonstrations of Scrum and Kanban, the instructor will illustrate the flexibility of each method and describe how she modified the methods as needed for her work. She will illustrate how using these methods helped not only with getting tasks done, but also helped strengthen project deliverables, increase team morale, and resulted in equitable task distribution among team members.
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Join us for morning yoga led by Kelsey Nunez from Eastside Yoga!
A small number of yoga mats and towels will be in the room for those totally new to yoga. We kindly ask local attendees/regular yoga students, please bring your personal yoga mat to the class.
New to yoga? No need for expensive yoga gear, comfy clothes that you can stretch in. No shoes are worn during yoga. Try not to eat for two hours leading up to your class. Feel free to bring water bottles.
Participants will present a topic (provided just before they begin), for 3 to 3 and a half minutes, accompanied by 10-15 PowerPoint slides selected and arranged by our team of experienced mad library scientists. No preparation required -- No preparation allowed, actually. Participants will be judged (by even madder library scientists), based on criteria ranging from the quantitative use of time and slides to the qualitative general composure and ability to address the topic. A certain amount of artistic license is expected from both participants and judges in their work.
We’re looking for a few hearty folks to join in as:
Join us for morning yoga led by Kelsey Nunez from Eastside Yoga!
A small number of yoga mats and towels will be in the room for those totally new to yoga. We kindly ask local attendees/regular yoga students, please bring your personal yoga mat to the class.
New to yoga? No need for expensive yoga gear, comfy clothes that you can stretch in. No shoes are worn during yoga. Try not to eat for two hours leading up to your class. Feel free to bring water bottles.
Closing keynote and researcher Monica Bulger is interested in how researchers and information specialists are navigating the evolving information environment.
We will be hosting a focus group discussion on Tuesday at 9am on the ways in which the evolving information environment may present new challenges and impact our work as information specialists and researchers. Specifically, we’d like to discuss what seems different in the past year, where we’re feeling overwhelmed or like we need to adjust our usual research/instruction techniques. Together, we will identify what might be ‘new’ or ‘evolving’ challenges to our established practice and the strategies for doing or supporting research.
We’re looking for 8-12 volunteers to be part of focus group at 9am on Tuesday at ER&L.
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Success in research stands or falls with discovery. Discovery, after all, is the entry point to the library’s collections. With this in mind, EBSCO has focused much of its development efforts on EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which has become the discovery service of choice for thousands of libraries worldwide. So how does EDS support success in research? From its unique approach to relevance ranking, the inclusion of subject indexes, to an array of customization options delivered by our library service engineers, there is much that goes into EDS. This presentation will provide an overview of EDS. The presenter will present the core EDS features and functionality that drive success in research and will look at the array of ways in which libraries can work with EBSCO engineers to customize EDS to meet specific institutional and user needs.
Learning objectives: participants will learn about EDS, its core features and customization options that support success in research.
Whether through a serials review process or a detailed study, analyzing the value of e-resources at regular intervals is important to ensure their fit within your library’s collection and budget. While COUNTER statistics are vital for comparable analysis and reporting, there are other metrics and features that can be used to help assess, manage, and promote resources - giving more benefits to the end user.
We’ll look at how other metrics (i.e. impact factors, ILLs, turnaway statistics) and qualitative factors (i.e. perpetual access, open access, scholarly research support, recommendations, user feedback, classroom use, and curricula matching) offer actionable insights for librarians. This session will provide some perspectives and case examples, and a forum for discussing these issues.
What if your usage and sales reports went beyond *how* your users leverage your resources to tell the story of *why* they use your resources? What if these reports combined statistics with demographics so you could determine how to best serve individual user types?
Gaining this level of insight often requires surveying users and hours of analysis. During this session, ProQuest’s Diana Peterson will talk through how libraries leverage Patron Analytics, the EBL-originating feature recently relaunched on ProQuest Ebook Central, to skip this time-consuming process. She’ll offer three examples of ways libraries use Patron Analytics to showcase their library’s value as well as offer best practices around combining the data it collects with other ProQuest features, including patron-driven acquisition models like Access-to-Own, to build a collection that best meets the needs of the researchers that it serves.
We released our new admin portal in late January and our focus was moving beyond usage data. We are measuring impact with a set of new data capture tools to assess the video viewers perspective on the efficacy of the video, the viewers use-case or reason for watching the video and a beta tool to offer customized in-video assessments that can feed gradebooks in learning management systems as well as aggregate data in the admin portal. These are new features but the data is rolling in, so we will give a quick overview of the impact measures in the admin portal and share some of our early data.
Join us for morning yoga led by Kelsey Nunez from Eastside Yoga!
A small number of yoga mats and towels will be in the room for those totally new to yoga. We kindly ask local attendees/regular yoga students, please bring your personal yoga mat to the class.
New to yoga? No need for expensive yoga gear, comfy clothes that you can stretch in. No shoes are worn during yoga. Try not to eat for two hours leading up to your class. Feel free to bring water bottles.
Effective collection management and funding advocacy require that academic library materials budgets reflect the complexity of their underlying acquisitions. The proliferation of electronic resources have led to a substantial increase in the complexity of collection management tasks and the overall impact on the library’s budget sustainability. Monitoring and counteracting the inflation gap brought by the uncontrollable increases in subscription prices, as well as successful advocacy for acquisitions funding are essential parts of electronic resources management today. Libraries need to effectively communicate with their constituents and support their funding requests with powerful data, which the traditional – pre-electronic resources era – budget structure is unequipped to provide.
In the digital era, libraries are in need of an expanded budget structure that accounts for the four critical aspects of the acquisitions process – material type, format, acquisition mode, and discipline – and is able to provide transparency and visibility, support long-term planning and ongoing spending control, as well as facilitate reporting and advocacy.
This innovative budget structure was created and implemented in The Claremont Colleges Library in 2012 and is being used for a fifth consecutive fiscal year. During this time, it has evolved with the changing needs of the organization and the industry and has proven its adaptability and resilience.
Using the structure has significantly improved the transparency of the library’s activities and contributed in a powerful way to regaining faculty and administration’s trust in the library’s stewardship of institutional resources.
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EZproxy is running at your institution. You’ve added and updated some content stanzas. You’ve used the web Admin interface to clear suspensions and restart EZproxy. But you need to know more. This is the workshop for you!
This workshop is for those who have some experience working with EZproxy but feel they need/want to know more about what it can do and how to administer it more effectively. Do you wonder what some of the directives mentioned on the listserv actually do? We’ll take a look at them. Would you like your EZproxy to use a campus-wide authentication system such as Shibboleth or LDAP? We’ll explore how to configure EZproxy to work with those systems. Have you seen other institution’s login page, error page, suspension page, etc., and wondered how you can make yours look like those? This workshop will describe how to edit those pages and others you can add. Is your awareness of the web Administrative interface limited? We’ll go over everything that page has to offer you as an administrator. In addition, we’ll discuss how to more effectively troubleshoot problems by considering the three facets of the remote connection process: user, network, EZproxy.
All this and so much more.
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