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A survey was conducted in July 2005 with the results leading to a conference and online community to look at various approaches to managing and accessing electronic resources. Read on to see more results...
1. Which of these areas of electronic resource management are issues you would attend sessions/workshops on if offered? (Check all that apply)
Marketing Electronic Resources: 65
Issues in scholarly communication: 51
Budget creation/projection: 60
Vendor QA (overview of technology/standards): 52
ERMS: Commercial vs. In-house: 86
Vendor, publisher, and librarian communications: 69
Vendor QA (overview of e-resource products): 55
Basic business principles: 33
Extracting and analyzing e-resource data: 97
Issues in management and access of e-journals: 108
Collection development policies: 80
Knowledge of/Standardization of licensing language: 83
Communicating with users about value and trade-offs of e-resources: 60
Electronic Resource Librarians: Who are we, staffing issues, the E-Resources librarian of the future: 82
Improving LIS curricula for Electronic Resources Librarians: 27
Cataloging Electronic Resources: 71
Future of Electronic Resources: 85
Managing non-serials electronic resources: 88
Text responses:
OpenURL/Access
Managing free electronic resources
Preservation/future access of e-resource
Intellectual Property in digital world
changes in coll dev w/ trans to all subs
Adusting staff and workloads
Maintenance (see below)
Preparation of Library staff
Total integration of e-res in lib websit
Archival access (LOCKSS, etc.)
collaboration, proj.mngmt, flat orgs
Communicating with Reference on EResourc
Total: (100%)
2. Do you feel that there are conferences that deal with E-Resources issues to your satisfaction? If so, please list them below:
Yes. NASIG, ALA
LITA or NASIG might be the only thing.. I see other than a session here and there.
NASIG and Charleston. Many of the above topics have already been covered in those conferences. With limited travel dollars....
somewhat at the Charleston Conference and the Nasig conference
No
ALCTS pre-conferences
NASIG has some good sessions, Charleston too.
ACRL in April had some very good programs this year. The "Taming the Electronic Tiger" workshop that the ALCTS put on in January 2004 was very useful (ALA Midwinter San Diego)
No
Charleston Acquisitions Conference
In the UK, the UKSG conference addresses a number of these issues
I think there are many opportunities but no centralized "source" to locate such info or to offer a variety of topics relating to E-Resources.
No. There is an idea or issue covered here and there, but not a focused discussion.
NASIG and the Charleston Conference do a pretty good job offering e-resource programming.
No.
Not that I know of.
ALA annual usually has some programs on e-resources
There are some sessions at general meetings such as ALA and Medical Library Assn.
Charlseton?
ICOLC, Charleston Conf.
No.
Not really, about the only one I've seen who does anything substantial is NASIG.
OLAC (Online Audio-Visual Catalers) does have some information about cataloging electronic resources.
NASIG would be the closest, but the conference is pretty expensive for those whose libraries don't pick up the tab.
NASIG does a fairly good job.
computer in libraries has some helpful sessions
The Charleston conference is good. However, other conferences fail to go into the depth needed and they stay at the introductory level. I find workshops are often better.
Not really, or at least not to the depth/breadth that would be helpful. I know the Charleston conference touches on some of these themes, but it appears to be primarily for Acquisitions/Collection Development librarians. Typically there might be one or two sessions at a conference that are applicable, but usually they tend to be one a general topic regarding electronic resources.
No, most conferences include a session or two, but I can't think of one that is really focussed on these issues.
not really, I enjoy SLA and Charleston Conf. Info Today offers a very overpriced conf for "Content Buyers."
I have been to NASIG and the ALA Annual Conference. There were a few very interesting sessions about eresources but not nearly enough!
NASIG often has some good sessions on dealing with e-resources.
Some are acquisitions-related issues are addressed at the Charleston Conference, "Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition" [www.katina.info/conference].
NASIG did a decent job this last year of dealing with some e-resource issues. Because of the nature of the conference, however, not all e-resource issues were addressed.
No, there are a few sessions here and there at ALA and Computers in Libraries but this proposed conference sounds like it would be more comprehensive and more specific to the issues of eresources.
NASIG
Not really
The Charleston Conference might come closest of any that I have attended.
Many touch on the issues (e.g. NASIG) but not indepth enough for those of us who do this full-time.
I think E-Resources are covered scantily by several conferences, but there is nothing that is focused on it and it would cost too much to attend all the various venues where E-Resources are covered.
No
AALL workshop on Managing electronic resources July 15, 2005 San Antonio, TX Innovative Users Group, various programs on e-resources 5/05 San Francisco, CA
North Carolina Serials Conference
The Charleston conference and NASIG both tend to have many e-resources programs and I have found them to be very, very helpful.
NO
To a degree, the LITA conference does, though it often gets too technical.
I think that NASIG does an increasingly better job of dealing with e-resources--but it would be nice to have our own conference.
Charleston Conference covers some E-issues
NASIG annual conference
The eresource meetings at NASIG and ALA have been good, but I think a focused conference on this topic is a great idea and would be very helpful.
NASIG covers many of these issues but I still seem to need continuing help with problems that keep cropping up.
No
NASIG is turning into an E-Resources conference and has good balance between print & e-resources. ALA also. If ERIL had a conference I imaging it would be something like NASIG and have the same people.
NASIG, ALA, Charleston, and now there are many speciality conferences being offered. Also, there are various list servs now dealing with electronic resources from the various aspects. I don't see the need for the conference you are proposing for those who have been working in this arena for some time. Perhaps it is useful for a librarian new to the field. I suppose one problem that this type of conference could address is the problem of meeting conflicts at ALA or NASIG where you want to attend more than meeting on e resources. This conference could allow everyone to go to everything.
Not really. Internet Librarian is fairly decent and touches on a number of isssues, as do Educause sessions...
MId-winter has useful discussion sessions. NASIG covers these areas also.
NASIG
I am new to this position, so I haven't attended NASIG or Charleston yet. But, from what I've heard so far, we need all the help in this area that we can get!
Just a beginner in this field, but I ain't seen anything out there yet.
The Charleston Conference
NASIG, CIL, Charleston
NASIG does a good job for serials e-resources, but it doesn't cover the whole universe of e-eresources
NASIG, ALA
no
No - Computers and Libraries briefly addresses some issues, but I feel that it does not go into enough depth
If there are, I don't know about them!
NASIG; some presentations at ALA (ALCTS)
The Charleston Conference each November!
The Charleston Conference comes the closest at this point and tends to cover many aspects and provides the best forum for discussions between librarians and publishers/providers. However the technical aspects are spread among many different conferences from LITA, ASIST, SLA, JCDL, etc.
No
No. NASIG does o.k., but it could be more.
Yes, NASIG
I regularly attend ALA, however I feel that topics related to e-resource management were lacking at both 2005 ALA conferences. Either the programs were essentially sales presentations, or the topics were too broad.
ALA, NASIG and Innovative Users Group are all helpful
Somewhat. Charleston Conference; ALA and SLA Annuals; local state conferences somewhat, Internet Librarian, etc. But, nothing truly focuses on this area entirely.
No, I don't feel like there are currently any conferences that deal with E-Resources to my satisfaction. NASIG touches on some of these issues, but I could really use something that's more focused on e-resources.
I have found NASIG to be very informative. Ihave not been to Charleston but that is another conference that seems to be a popular gathering for ER librarians. ALA is so big and there are different committees addressing different issues of e-resource management but I don't see ALA as useful as NASIG.
No I don't. Library conferences *always* have important sessions on electronic resources, but most are scattered among other areas that may conflict. A focused conference that deals with electronic resources issues could be very useful, but it would need to be clearly relevant in order to attract people from other options.
3. What issues related to E-Resources would you like to see addressed at professional library conferences that are currently not?
Training experienced staff how to incorporate more technology and eresources into their daily work flow...in a manner that is useful and not preachy.
Statsitics, Marketing, and Licensing.
Pricing models. Let's have lots of libraries talk about the specifics of the deals they negotiate.
Licensing (in greater detail than covered in most conferences), OpenURL/modern access issues.
overall library buy-in: support at the administrative level--how to get it, how to give it.
"It takes a village" management approach. A single person can not do everything well, and isolated departmental approaches of the past (tech svcs, public svcs) are not effective approaches. What new,integrated approaches can be taken to improve overall support from start to finish for E-Resources?
Management of free electronic resources (new open access journals, grey literature and government information) and relationship with management of "traditional" electronic resources (subscription e-journals, e-books, CD-ROMs)
Inconsistency among vendors in implementing e-resources - with the end user in mind, as well as the librarians who do the work behind the scenes. A focused group could, for instance, make a collective stand to Lexis Nexis (invite them to a meeting like ALA did with Google) to have them get past their arrogance, user-unfriendliness, etc. (what are they doing with all of our money anyway?) and become OpenURL compliant.
I'm interested in e-resource procedural and training resources for para-professional staff; how to introduce non-electronic resource staff to the electronic resource publishing environment in an organized, thoughtful manner; figuring out an efficient mechanism to confirm institutional access to paid all paid electronic resources; establishing e-resource workflows that reduce redundancy.
I think it would be just monumentally helpful to have the focus of a conference be on the issues of the electronic resources librarian - not on websites or even serials, per se. You only get little pieses of helpful information at current library conferences.
The amount oftime and various skills needed to be an Electronic Resources Librarian.
Revamping the cataloging guidelines for e-resources. (No one else seems to be complaining)
More Vendor QA (overview of technology/standards), more Future of Electronic Resources
Most of the items I checked off above are great places to start.
Redesigning traditional library organizational structures to accommodate the new tasks, workflows, priorities of e-resources. These are discussed by e-resource people, but less often by those in charge of the "traditional organizations". How can the e-resource people lead this conversation when we may not yet have the power/authority to affect change and when those with that power/authority may resist a reduction in their spheres of influence?
marketing and promoting resources, how do you keep patrons from being overwhelmed by choices
All those issues above. We are all struggling with the same concerns. Analysis of purchased resources, including usage statistics analysis, etc. is an area we personally could improve on.
Most of the topics checked above.
We're experiencing dramatic changes in coll development as our budget is consumed by subscriptions, and further consumed by a few subscriptions. I feel unprepared for this change and not sure how to manage it.
How to deal with budgets! In MLIS school, we did not have any courses on how to create, manage or even understand big academic institution multi-budgets that have to take into account mathematical equations, formulas or simply that have compartimented costs between print and online (for example) which does not reflect our world anymore. Another issue is how to move from one type of budget to another one more adapted to our new electronic era! Also, I would like to find out more about how Collection Services elsewhere are reorganizing their workflows to take into account all these new eresources (and less and less print). How is support staff being involved in this, are support staff workloads being redefined, what kind of training do they need, etc. I have heard one session about this at NASIG (which was a non-formal discussion in a conference room) where people talked about the problems but no one had any suggestions. What came out however is the fact that professional staff (librarians) have heavier workloads now because of all the electronic material and not much is going to support staff and that anyways, support staff seem to be quite reticent about moving to electronic and taking on new tasks. Also, the scholarly communication issue is important especially to research universities!
Some of the items I checked off in #1 -- particularly communicating with users about value/trade-offs, marketing, and extracting/analyzing use data.
Definitely marketing. Communicating with users AND STAFF about value and trade-offs of e-resources. Extracting and analyszing e-resource data.
I would like to know how others are consistently tracking usage of e-resources. Do they track all of their e-resources or a select few? If they track all of them, how do they do it? How do they store the stats? How do they compare stats between e-resources? How often do they run reports on the stats and how do they run the reports? What reports have proven most helpful? I would also like to see some ways libraries are budgeting for e-resources. With so many pricing models available, how do you compare one e-resource's price to another? Some have a one-time fee and then a hosting fee, some are simply a yearly access fee, etc.
standardization amongst and between the various vendors and more flexibility in customization on things like Article Linker
I think most of the issues are addressed at one conference or another, but one focused only on e-resources would be a welcome addition.
Much of what I've checked off above are not covered or are covered for folks just entering the field. We need all those topics above covered at a higher level for those of us who have been in the field for a few years or more.
All of those checked in question 1
Practical aspects of management; who enters data, if not online who keeps it and how.
Negociation of licenses/contracts Going to vendors for electronic resources Any chances of standardizing the prices that libraries are paying for electronic resources vs different prices set for different libraries
Our biggest problem is the maitenance of electronic journals, particularly those in packages: tracking titles added and dropped, changes in coverage, changes in embargo periods, changes in URLs, changes in access restrictions, etc. We have tried outsourcing but were not satisfied with the results.
Everything I checked above. In addition, I would like more timely information that what is presented at major conferences and a solid opportunity to mix with more of my kind.
Something to tell traditional librarians that eresources are here to stay and they need to learn them better!
More on budgeting and acquisition issues.
I'm especially interested in the management of non-serial e-resources
I need a workshop that teaches me to develop databases and how to interface these with the web.
I'd like to hear more from Publishers and Vendors about how their in-house workflows are managed for e-resources and how they differ from print resources.
I think the issues have been explored, but putting them altogether in a targeted conference where there is also time to share information with other participants, and enough space that interested parties are not closed out, would be highly valuable.
How to keep track and manage all the aspects of managing e-resources.
See above
I especially like these from your list above: Electronic Resource Librarians: Who are we, staffing issues, the E-Resources librarian of the future ERMS: Commercial vs. In-house Managing non-serials electronic resources
ARchive and licensing issues relative to cancellation of e-only subs.
Management management management - all the issues you listed above
Analyzing e-resource data and translating that into informed renewal decisions
Same as above, but a specific session geared towards folks who are just starting out as electronic collections managers would be excellent.
I would like to see more on usage statistics-not just about Project COUNTER and other standards initiatives, which are greats, but more on how on other libraries are actually dealing with the usage statistics they get from vendors. How they make decisions regarding procedures, what procedures they follow etc. I guess kind of a "best practices" type of thing.
collaboration, proj.mngmt, flat orgs, distributed leadership
those listed above. more about managing ER, with tight budgets (especially as a small academic institution) and average info tech skills - homegrown solutions
Nothing in addition to what is listed above.
Evaluation and use; staffing issues; ERM implementation
Almost any topic, but especially those relating to license agreements, access set-up, comparing usage, selecting one product over another.
none
There is still a disconnect between LIS graduates and the ubiquitious nature of these types of resources in the librarian environment. There needs to be greater understanding by librarians concerning how these resources are developed in-house at publishers/providers and how these practices impact the provision to libraries (a widening of the e-resource cycle if you will).
The sessions related to e-resources that I have attended at conferences tend to focus on academic or public libraries. I work at a research institution that does not fit into these categories. I would like the issues to be brought up without being linked to a certain type of library (or to a certain type of ILS).
Mostly, I feel that the issues need to be delved into more. I find that mostly it is very basic information that is conveyed at conferences. A special conference for librarians who already understand the basic underlying issues would be great -- so that more in depth ideas can be addressed.
I'd like to see more information on how people are divying up the work load and making the conference "support staff friendly" would be useful. They're doing more of the work (or should be) so some of the training could/should be aimed at them.
Something that would clarify the difference between E-Resources and online journals.
I think the main probem with professional library conferences is that they are too large - they are not set up for discussions between librarians. A smaller venue devoted to electronic resources management would be welcomed.
The e-resources librarians I know all have issues with workflow and workload management. Managing email requires a whole different level when important documents and action items are so commonly distributed this way and the volume is so high. Most of us are buried in the details and feel overwhelmed and disorganized (even if we were organized in a former life). Strategies for dealing with this issue would be valuable.
See above list and choices. Overall "best practices" for different types of libraries, and perhaps sizes of collections, would be very helpful to have.
I'd like to see more on the knowledge of/standardization of licensing language, ERMS solutions/implementations, and budget creation/projection. But almost everything on the list in #1 looks good to me!
Communication between libraries, vendors, publishers is very poor. We could resolve problems more efficienlty if we would have correct data shared between these players. In the physical world the libraries had the chance to check the physical objects. In the e-resource world librarians ar loosing control and have no way of checking all resources without receiveing clean data from publishers and vendors.
Relationship of electronic resources personnel to other departments and 'legacy' workflows. Statistics management and meaning!!!! Keep focus on librarians and working issues, not vendor proposals (I really like most of my vendor reps, but their focus is seldom something I need to hear at a conference--I can get that anytime.)
4. What about the location of a conference affects your decision to attend? (Check all that apply)
Other attractions (sightseeing, shopping, events, etc.): 17
Cost of hotel/dining: 79
Distance in terms of travel costs to attend: 92
Distance in terms of time away from home/work: 44
Text responses:
Public transportation options
Ease of travel. Don't want to drive.
Just plain cost across the board
cost--I'm on a limited travel budget
weather could be a factor for some
Timing (prefer midweek)
whether can take car or train
conflict with other conferences
location attractiveness
weather - avoid cold cities in winter
would like to attend via the internet
airfare
heat , e.g. not New Orleans in July
a nice place with reasonable weather
Time-keep it short and tight
Total: (100%)
5. What time(s) of the year are best for a conference (Check all that apply)
Winter (January-March): 54
Spring (April-June): 54
Summer (July-September): 59
Fall (October-December): 58
Total: (100%)
6. Which days of the week are the best to have a conference?
Friday-Sunday: 26 (21%)
Thursday-Saturday: 39 (31%)
Saturday-Monday: 3 (2%)
Monday-Wednesday: 23 (18%)
Wednesday-Friday: 31 (25%)
Total: 122 (100%)
7. What do you feel is too expensive for a three-day conference?
$100: 1 (0%)
$200: 7 (5%)
$300: 38 (29%)
None of these are too expensive for a 3-day conference if it's good: 81 (63%)
Total: 127 (100%)
8. How important and/or useful are the following to you at a conference?
| Not Useful | Somewhat Useful | Useful | Very Useful | Extremely Useful | Total | |
| ImptPanel_Sessions | 2 (1%) | 12 (9%) | 50 (38%) | 45 (34%) | 22 (16%) | 131 (100%) |
| ImptPoster_Sessions | 23 (17%) | 55 (42%) | 36 (27%) | 11 (8%) | 5 (3%) | 130 (100%) |
| ImptFull_or_half_day_workshops | 2 (1%) | 11 (8%) | 33 (24%) | 60 (45%) | 27 (20%) | 133 (100%) |
| ImptKeynote_speakers | 8 (6%) | 51 (38%) | 53 (39%) | 14 (10%) | 7 (5%) | 133 (100%) |
| ImptSocial/networking_events | 6 (4%) | 46 (34%) | 43 (32%) | 27 (20%) | 10 (7%) | 132 (100%) |
| ImptRoundtables | 5 (3%) | 34 (25%) | 55 (41%) | 26 (19%) | 13 (9%) | 133 (100%) |
| ImptVendor_exhibits | 9 (6%) | 41 (31%) | 47 (36%) | 25 (19%) | 8 (6%) | 130 (100%) |
no
Might be helpful to have some grouping by library type: academic, public, etc.
looks like you've done a great job of covering the issues
I'd like to see a conference that brings together a variety of staff -- not just catalogers and Collection Development staff -- but those who are front line staff supporting clients.
Presenters/panelists with theories need facts to back them up.
Keynote speakers can be useful - depending on who is speaking and the topic.
Can;'t think of any at the moment
Such as NASIG did in the beginning, this conference could be held on a university campus.
I am very interested in public library aspects of e-resources. We do not subscribe to as many as academic libraries seem to, and we probably don't subscribe to e-journals as much. However, any forum that lets me really discuss specific features and vendor relations will be helpful.
Accessibility by air. As an example, air travel to Charleston is very expensive compared to many other cities and there are not many choices in choosing an airline.
Differences in legal systems from country to country and how that affects negotiations (don't assume that everyone is from US and interested in/affected by the US legislation/requirements). Variations in types of libraries & users (e.g. special, public, academic, etc)
In #8 you offer "social/networking events" but I would say focused and structured time to talk about specific defined issues with other attendees is what's needed. I think this is what you mean by roundtables so I marked that "extremely useful."
I do enjoy conferences that are in interesting locations that are a change of scenery for me (I'm in Mid-Missouri). I also like conferences that are highly focussed (like LOEX for bib instruction) and this would be great to do one with such a narrow focus on E-Resources.
Expertise, expertise, expertise. I have wasted too much time and money attending disappointing conferences where the speakers' only motivations and qualifications were the publish or perish imperative.
I work in a special library so when I attend a conference I want practical information that I can apply to my job either today or in the near term future. I'm not interested in high level overviews or predictions of where the field will be 20 years from now.
As mentioned above, I would very much appreciate an opportunity to attend via electronic means. It is doubtful my institution would fund a 2d three conference attendance, and I do like to attend NASIG.
Ease of submitting workshop proposals, preferrably online
I can't think of anything!
The most useful information at conferences is people who do the work presenting about their work.
multiple track session that repeat at different times on different days (in case there are two sessions that are attractive and only one can be attended at a time)
No need to duplicate what is done at the Charleston Conference. It covers all the aspects of E- resource mgmt.
Be careful not to repeat what other conferences provide and to add an incentive for publishers/providers to attend such as a small exhibits area. Be sure to invite or encourage proposals that include end-users such as faculty, students, community members.
West Coast is most accessible
I am concerned about accessibility of e-resources. I would like to talk about obsolescence, network failure, and other technical issues that surround e-resources in libraries.
Another topic - doing more and innovative things with usage statistics.
What about the possibility of tacking this on to the beginning or end of an existing conference, like Charleston or ALA? (or NASIG - though the timing of that is never great for me!) This might help mitigate the cost (though not the time out of the office) for some folks.
Cost of attending the conference (as opposed to fees for the conference) are what keeps me from attending more conferences. Other than that, a conference very similar to NASIG's except focusing solely on e-resources would be great.
I recently attended SMUG (SFX-MetaLib UsersGroup) and what I liked about that was that there were many presentations by lots of librarians on their very-different experiences - very helpful in assessing our own library's progress, and at the same time this provided excellent networking opportunities. I much preferred hearing from librarians about their experiences rather than vendor reps presenting sales pitches.
Good luck on the organization and efforts.
Single or group speakers from libraries would be most interesting to me.
10. Name (optional):
11. Email (optional):
12. Please suggest possible speakers/presenters:
Jill Emery -- University of Houston
Emily McElroy -- New York University
Rick Anderson (licensing), Joan Conger (ERIL-L)
Carol Tenopir Tim Jewell Nancy Davenport (or other CLIR rep.) Ann Okerson Ted Fons George Machovec Norm Medeiros Angela Riggio
Lois Chan (Universit of Kentucky) - cataloging electronic resources
Although I've seen ERM demos from Ex Libris and Endeavor, I'd be interested in seeing updated demos of available ERM products. I'd also be interested in a panel presentation/discussion by those who are using ERMs currently--to hear about some of the pros and cons, changes in workflow that have resulted from ERM use, etc. I'd also be interested in a session for sharing strategies for collecting and presenting e-resource usage data in meaningful ways for use in collection analysis/development.
I'd be glad to talk for 20-30 minutes on how we do aggregators/publisher packages at Auburn, if someone wants to put together a panel discussion.
Tom Sanville at OhioLink Ann Okerson at Yale
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT, but I don't know that she does presentations.
Jill Emery (U of Houston), Gary Ives (Texas A&M)
Bonbie Tijerina
some of the people who used to give the ARL licensing workshops. Those were greaet. In fact, I took both and always thought it would have been worthwhile to take something beyond the advanced. I learned so much at those session but now I feel a little out of touch with how the rest of the world is dealing with licensing and manageing their e-resources.
Lesley Ellen Harris, Joan Conger
You can get some good ideas by looking at the preliminary or past programs for the Charleston Conference.
Can't think of anyone at the moment, but could probably suggest later related to topics.
I'd like to see some fresh faces--it seems like we hear from the same e-resources folks all the time! I heard a very good program by Andrew Waller [Serials Librarian at Univ. of Calgary] on making the shift from print to e-journals at NASIG.
Joan Conger
I am an experienced speaker. My topics include electronic resource management in general, and more specific ERM topics such as marketing, assessment, strategic planning and project management. I have a strong interest in the application of distributed leadership, collaboration (as opposed to hiearachy), and team-based implementation of technology, innovation and customer service.
Ivy Anderson, Adam Chandler, Trisha Davis, Sharon Farb, Tim Jewell
Joan Conger
Don't use the set group of standard speakers but bring in folks who are truly innovating things such as: Dan Chudnov, Carl Lagoze, Robert Wilensky if you're going to bring in keynote speakers. See these forum for different ideas: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/papers.html; Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame
Ivy Anderson (Harvard) Kim Parker (Yale)
13. Additional comments, ideas, or suggestions:
I hope this happens..
I am a law librarian, so to go to such a meeting I'd have to show that it would be pertinent to the issues of a specialized library, not just public or large academic.
Want to have it in Hawaii? :)
Bonnie, My plate is very full from now to December, so I would not be able to commit a lot of time to organizing. However, one never knows what will transpire, so please keep me in mind as the ideas for an organizing/brainstorming meeting coalesce. Chris Ryan
Hi Bonnie, Have we met? Are you the new Lisa Macklin over at Tech? I'm the Electronic Resources Coordinator at UGA in Athens. I know Nancy is glad to finally have someone on board to take care of the electronic resources. Hope we get a chance to talk soon. Dana Walker University of Georgia Libraries 706-542-0596
Please do this! It would be so, so, so helpful. I actually spent several hours yesterday looking for a conference that would address my concerns (I'm a new e-resources librarian) with no success.
I'd be interested in helping to organize an e-resource conference (especially if it were to be hosted here in Atlanta!), as I think we are reaching a "critical mass" of need for opportunities targeted at e-resource librarians. Please let me know what I can do to help get this off the ground. Thanks, Elizabeth Elizabeth L. Winter Electronic Resources Librarian Georgia State University Library email: ewinter@gsu.edu phone: 404.651.1432 fax: 404.651.2148
I would like to hear more about integrating "digital" activities into the rest of the library, thus allowing the whole library to participate in digital library processes.
It would be nice if the vendors who have a working ERMS could actually have a working demonstration of their system. I've seen enough "webinars" to last a lifetime. Also, a panel/roundtable with vendors and librarians about licensing would be useful. Hearing the other side of the negotiation process would help make the process less adversarial to both.
I
Topics on aggregator vs individual e-journals, consortium discounts working for individual libraries, article linkers, federated searching
I can't volunteer this year, but maybe in the future. Good luck!
I do not think there should be sessions about cataloguing eresources as I believe there are already presentations about this in many conferences such as ACRL, ALA, CLA, SLA, NASIG and Charleston.
I am new to the e-resources arena as may have been obvious from my comments above. I would love to attend a conference focused on issues related to e-resources and am willing to volunteer if I'm needed.
I'm putting down that I'd like to help organize. I'm not really sure how much time I'll have as we have a new dean starting in Sept.
E-book cart drill teams
Give plenty of lead time in promoting the conference, we have to submit our conference requests before our fiscal year end (Mar 31) of any given year so if this is advertised after that for later in the year we wouldn't be able to get funding to attend.
I'm a new electronic resource librarian (8 months) and I've found there is very little information available to help with the management of all the electronic products we have. Library conferences I've attended offer some sessions on e-resources, but a whole conference would be more valuable as this is such a multi-faceted area. It would be nice to have a number of areas to choose from such as budgeting, collection development, evaluating products and licences, e-resource management, e-books, ejournals, promoting e-resources and de-selection.
It would be great to have online training opportunities for those individuals that cannot get to a conference. Or as continuing eduation online that go through some of these issues. It is difficult for library staff to keep up with all the technology and new ideas for managing electronic resources.
Fabulous idea. In way too many cases we are still an exotic animal in library land and I spend many days feeling that my work is terribly misunderstood. I believe the days of e-resources off in a corner are completely gone, but yet they are still not properly integrated into library practices and workflows. Don't even get me started on the library school aspect of this. :-0
I think this is a great idea! It was so useful at ALA to talk to some other e-resources librarians.
I'd be interested in discussing the conference concept w/ you via phone ...
I'd just caution that sometimes the vendors can overwhelm their customers by being too visual at a conference. Yes, we're interested in learning which vendors are listening to our suggestions/needs and making innovative improvements, but I, at least, do not want to be clobbered by overzealous, pushy vendors just because I want some information. (This continues into work -- it's not just restricted to the conference.) Also, I think there is a great need for a non-vendor to authoritatively evaluate e-resource collections in terms of product overlap (not just e-journal content) amongst and between vendors. On the licensing front, it'd be nice to have some sort of get-together for librarians to "dish" on the "nice" vendors and not-so-nice ones. If we are able to ascertain which provisions more vendors are accepting, it will make our jobs easier when negotiating. It could also provide a mechanism through which we librarians could band together to effect changes -- that is, demand desirable terms as a whole so that vendors begin to take note.
Great idea. I hope you can pull it off, and hold it in New England.
I'm volunteering to organize below, although I don't exactly know what that means. More information would be good before I commit.
A vague notion has floated around my head for some time about creating mutual learning opportunities. Let's see if I can write a cogent description here for the first time. What if an experienced facilitator created a learning experience during which the combined expertise of everyone in the room was shared with everyone else. We all carry within us the learning we have experienced on the job -- how could this be shared among a room full of similarly experienced professionals? For example, we could learn from each other "How do you get an intractable administration to support your forward-looking technology improvement efforts?" Or "How can we use new distributed communication technologies (blogs, RSS, wiki's, portable devices) to serve our customers on-time and on-demand?"
Planning is often the major step that is ignored in electronic resource development at any library. If you're not in contact with Joan Conger, then I suggest she be asked to participate in the development of this conference. She understands many of the larger picture problems that libraries fail to address when developing their electronic presence and digital library. http://www.joanconger.net
I'm a little loathe to volunteer as the next year or so are pretty busy for me but depending on the time frame and location (I'm in Boston) I might be able to help!
None right now.
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