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Understanding Transformative Agreements: Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Headed?

A virtual panel discussion presented by SCIG and ERMIG exploring the current and future state of transformative agreements and their impact on the scholarly publishing landscape

Friday, April 28, 2023

Panelists:

• Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Michael Rodriguez (Lyrasis)
• Maridath Wilson (Boston College)

Moderator: Shawn Martin (SCIG)

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Moving Forward Together After Pandemic-Related Change

A collaborative online event presented by ASIG, ERMIG, and ITIG

Friday, April 29, 2022

• "Creativity, Necessity, and Pandemic-Related Change"
  René Tanner, Science Librarian/Head of Research Services, Rollins College

• Roundtable/Discussion: New Models of Reference & Public Service
  Teresa Maceira, University of Massachusetts Boston & ITIG Co-Chair, and Eric Cruze, Bridgewater State University & ERMIG Vice-Chair

• Interlibrary Lending of Whole Ebooks
  Michael Rodriguez, University of Connecticut and Stanley Huzarewicz, University of Connecticut & ASIG Chair

• Roundtable/Discussion: Collaborating with Groups Outside the Library
  Becca Brody, Westfield State University, John Holm, Norwich University & ERMIG Co-Chair, Cindy Li, Bridgewater State University & ITIG Co-Chair

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Transitions (2021 Virtual Conference)

Showrunner AMA: How to Make a Better Offer. By Elena O’Malley and Cheryl McGrath

Hiring falls somewhere between an exciting opportunity to rethink a position and a challenge to justify business needs, changing duties, and balancing workloads across existing staff. Two hiring managers with vastly different turnover experiences will discuss how to re-envision the workforce through the process of revising (sometimes heavily) the job descriptions of open positions. Whether the turnover is due to retirement or a younger, career-advancing employee population, or a pandemic-driven organizational restructuring, there are common themes when revising jobs. This revision process benefits the hiring manager, who has new challenges to address, and the new employee, who benefits from correctly-set expectations and accurate descriptions of responsibilities. Existing employees can also benefit, as they realize the new opportunities that come with the new challenges.
We will discuss who to talk to you at your institution to get an idea of where there might be gaps or opportunities when crafting a new job description and hiring.

FOLIO Panel. By Andrew Clark, Jay Campbell, Gus Consing, Brian Arrigo, Eliana Lima, and Walter Stine

FOLIO (folio.org) is an open source library services platform being developed by an international community of libraries, library consortia, and vendors. Unlike a traditional ILS, FOLIO is app-based and designed to be adaptable and extensible to meet libraries' ever-changing needs. In this panel, librarians from Simmons University will share their experiences collaborating with the Fenway Library Organization (FLO), a Massachusetts-based consortium, and Index Data, a company that develops software for libraries, participating in the development process, evaluating the product for their needs, implementing, using, and adapting (and adapting to) the software.

Lightning Talks

KBART Phase III Update. By Andrée Rathemacher

KBART is one of the most successful NISO recommendations today. Formally supported by over 80 organizations across all stakeholder groups, it enables a standardized transfer of data between content providers and knowledge bases. Recently KBART added an automated process to transfer institution-specific holdings data to knowledge bases.
Now, the KBART Standing Committee is beginning work on Phase III of the KBART Recommended Practice, which has not been updated since 2014.
While KBART was originally designed to deliver journal and book holdings information in support of OpenURL link resolvers, KBART files are now used in multiple systems and by various stakeholders throughout the e-resource supply chain. In addition, content providers have moved beyond journals and books to deliver multimedia and non-book/non-journal content from around the globe.
In this lightning talk, in my role as Co-Chair of the KBART Standing Committee, I will provide a brief overview of our plans around KBART Phase III (i.e. clarifying current recommendations, revising the KBART endorsement process, adding support for additional content types, improving the usefulness of KBART for non-English/European language content, and ensuring that the KBART mission accurately reflects modern usage of KBART along with the needs of KBART Automation).

6 Weeks to a Strategic Plan. By Cheryl McGrath

Strategic Planning can feel overwhelming and endless.  This is a practical walk-thru of a 6 week strategic planning program, at the end of which a team can have developed a strategic plan. We will discuss the activities for each week, how to use a multi-modal approach to ensure all team members are engaged, and what to do with the end product.

What Angelina Weld Grimké taught me about Black authors in Special Collections. By Kaitlin Buerge

This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of Middlebury College’s Reparative Cataloging Project and will explore how an encounter with a copy of Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimké in February 2020 led to the systematic updating of MARC records for works by authors from historically marginalized populations, with a particular emphasis on Black and Indigenous authors. The Reparative Cataloging Project is part of the Middlebury Libraries’ commitment to update racist cataloging and to amplify underrepresented voices.

Mergers, Electronic Resources, and You. By Chelsea Hanrahan and Russ Rattray

In July of 2018, New England College and the NH Institute of Art announced their intention to merge as one institution operating on two campuses. The implications of this required each institution’s respective libraries to combine resources and operations to best support two very different curriculums. This lightning talk will be a quick overview of how the administration of the H. Raymond Danforth Library handled the merging of electronic resources-and the unexpected implications of how their management affected other aspects of combining operations.

Visualizing Data for Libraries (January 2020 Webinar)

How data visualization supports academic library assessment: examples from the Boston College Libraries and the Syracuse University Libraries. By Allison Xu

Data visualization plays an increasingly important role in supporting academic library assessment; it not only can help libraries gain better insights into library services but also helps libraries make more data-driven decisions. This presentation will introduce some library data visualization projects that have been done by using data visualization techniques like Tableau and PowerBI.

A Basic Data Dashboard from UMass Boston. By Mary T. Moser

The phrase “data dashboard” can mean a lot of different things. UMass Boston’s basic data dashboard accomplishes several goals: a.) it systematizes the collection of data across library departments, b.) it streamlines and simplifies the process of collecting and analyzing data for IPEDS, ACRL, and the library’s annual report, and c.) it lays the foundational groundwork for future, more robust, data dashboard iterations. If your library does not have a data dashboard of any kind, this presentation may give you some ideas for starting with the basics.

Finding Gaps: Identifying and Meeting the Data Viz Needs of Patron Groups Often Forgotten. By Sally Gore

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Data visualization is often tied in our thoughts with big data sets and/or complicated programming. While this is certainly one aspect, there are many individuals who can benefit from learning and utilizing best practices for data viz, even with small or easily manageable data sets. This talk will address who some of these groups are and how libraries can create and implement data visualization services to meet their needs.

What Are We Paying For? (ERMIG's 2019/2020 Annual Program

Evaluating Big Deal Cancellation Impact

The UMass Amherst Libraries canceled our subscription to the Royal Society of Chemistry journal bundle in 2016, after years of unsustainable price increases. This presentation will cover both the decision making process and our ongoing collaborative project to evaluate the impact of cancellation on faculty research, interlibrary loan use, and library-wide costs. This story is specific to UMass Amherst, but our methods for gathering patron feedback, comparing COUNTER usage statistics with Interlibrary Loan numbers, and setting copyright and fees from other libraries alongside subscription costs can be adjusted for any library. (Kate Zdepski, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Electronic Resources at Rhode Island School of Design’s Fleet Library: Assessing and Balancing Community Needs

While every library examines and assesses the resources that it provides to its community of users, the assessment of electronic resources at an independent college of art and design (AICAD), especially one that often looks outside of AICAD for its benchmarks, offers a unique experience for its team of librarians to provide online collections that best support existing and an increasing number of curricular programs. Housed in a renovated banking hall from 1917 on the National Register of Historic Places, the Fleet Library at RISD offers faculty and students a tremendous sense of place in a richly inviting environment surrounded by physical holdings. It can come as a surprise, then, to learn of the electronic resources that the RISD library also provides: e-books, for example, outnumber analog books and digital images provided via subscription stretch into the millions. This presentation will speak to these challenges through a description of how RISD evaluates its electronic resources, the decision-making process and the persons involved, optimal and prohibitive pricing models, and provide some examples of deeper user engagement. (Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design)

Implementing a Demand-Driven Acquisitions Program at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.

This presentation will discuss how Emmanuel decided to go beyond our consortium’s shared e-book program and implement our own JSTOR DDA program.  It will discuss how we create access to the titles both purchased and non-purchased, how purchases are triggered and details of the workflow.

It will touch on how this product fits into our collection decisions and mention feedback and promotion of the product to our users at Emmanuel College.  My hope is to help other libraries understand more about this particular product and how they might incorporate something like this into their own workflow. (Catherine Tuohy, Emmanuel College)