Tracks

Managing e-Resources in Libraries

Managing electronic resources is still a daunting task for many from licensing to purchasing to cataloging to collecting data to making it accessible to users. Can managing electronic resources be handled with the current commercial or homegrown systems? How will standards help our processes and decisions? Are our processes the most efficient for managing our electronic collections?

• Managing multiple formats (including digital audio/video)
• e-Books
• ERMS issues
• Management of new discrete content
• New acquisitions models
• Preservation and archiving electronic information

Collection Development and Assessment

Can collecting data be easier? How can we analyze best what we collect? How do we show value to our larger organizations? Are our processes the most efficient for managing our electronic collections?

• Extracting and analyzing electronic resource data
• Creating value for the customer
• ROI and showing value to funding bodies
• Local content
• Deselection
• Free resources

Workflow & Organizations

Many organizations have seen an “organizational shift,” a change in workflows and management, to properly staff and manage e-resource in their libraries while other institutions have incorporated electronic resources work throughout the library just as work with print in distributed. How have workflows and personnel decisions changed? What type of leadership has helped create change? Where do we still need to open communications?

• Workflows
• Staffing
• Leadership and collaboration
• Collaborative relationships in e-resources delivery to users
• Communications: intra-departmental communication, collegial and managerial communication issues.
• Preparing personnel for change

External & User Relationships

In the digital world, libraries don’t stand alone. They work closely with consortia, vendors, other libraries, and their users. Our resources and abilities to meet users transcends the walls of each individual library. Are all these relationships working? Are we getting the most out of our relationships with other organizations or groups?

• Relationships/issues between librarians, vendors, subscription agents, publishers
• Working with faculty and groups on campus
• Consortial relationships
• Collaborative relationships in e-resource delivery
• Marketing/promoting e-resources to your users
• User Experience

Emerging and Future Technologies

So much of what we do in libraries today is driven by technology, and so many of the problems we face can be solved, at least in part, by employing or developing new technologies. How are current technologies being used? What emerging technologies are on the horizon? How we can we employ them effectively to meet the information needs of the library, internally and externally?

• New technologies to reach users in the digital environment
• Latest tools and ideas for use in libraries
• Use of open-source software in libraries
• Use of mobile devices in libraries
• Evaluation and assessment of technologies

Scholarly Communication & Licensing

How do we deal with new models of scholarship that are emerging? How do we accommodate new forms of content?

• Copyright
• Licensing issues
• Locally digitized materials
• Rights metadata
• Scholarly communication
• Educating on open access

Library as Publisher

What role does the library play a role in the creation and distribution of the products of scholarship?

• Institutional and discipline repositories
• Data curation
• Digitization