Past Programs
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)
IP filtering is obsolete. Where do we go from here?
11:00am - 12:00pm
The link to the publicly available recording of this webinar can be found here: https://youtu.be/e0_Feufr6es.
COUNTER Release 5 for Better Usage Reporting
We are pleased to announce ERMIG's first webinar! Counter Release 5 for Better Usage Reporting is our topic. Our presenter is Lorraine Estelle, the COUNTER Project Director. Date/time is November 17, 2017, from 11am to 12pm EST. Registration is free and open to anyone interested in COUNTER Release 5 and better usage reporting. To register, please complete this form. You should receive a link to the webinar within minutes of registering. Be sure to login early on the day of the webinar to download the Zoom plugin and test your equipment. The webinar will be recorded and distributed to registrants after the live event.
COUNTER Release 5 for Better Usage Reporting
Did you know that a new COUNTER Code of Practice was released earlier this year? The new Release 5 is a significant change from Release 4. Attend this webinar to learn about these changes and how they will affect your library's usage reporting.
This webinar will help you:
• Understand the master reports which are at the core of Release 5
• Learn about the new metric types and additional attributes
• Find out about where to get support and guidance
Launched in 2002, COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international initiative serving librarians, publishers and intermediaries by setting standards that facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way.
Our presenter is Lorraine Estelle, the COUNTER Project Director. She is experienced in the information industry with a background in libraries, consortia, shared services, vendors and publishers. She has managed and conducted a wide range of projects, with an interest in new business models for electronic information resources and the financial impact of gold open access. She directed the development of several national shared services in the UK including Jisc Collections and the Journals Usage Statistics Portal. She looks forward to your questions.
Eresources Management Toolkit
A free, one-day, thought-provoking program, with opportunities to network and share with colleagues
Thursday November 17, 2016 from 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Lesley University
Sherrill Library, 89 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
9:30-10:00 | Checkin and Continental Breakfast Sign Up for Lunch |
10:00-10:10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
10:10-10:40 | Find the Gaps in Next-Generation Library Systems: Survey Results
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10:40-11:10 | Beyond COUNTER-compliant: the Importance of Assessing E-resources Reporting Tools (Quality Testing Template)
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11:10-11:25 | Break |
11:25-11:55 | Using Tableau to Assess Electronic Resources in Context
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11:55-12:45 | Lightning Talks (10 minutes each)
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12:55-1:00 | Closing Remarks |
1:00-3:00 | Optional dine-arounds for lunch (aka informal networking opportunities) in Harvard Square; sign-up sheets will be at the registration table. |
For questions or more information, contact one of the event coordinators:
- Galadriel Chilton, Ivy Plus Libraries, galadriel.chilton@yale.edu
- Kim Maxwell, MIT, kmaxwell@mit.edu
- Michael Rodriguez, University of Connecticut, michael.a.rodriguez@uconn.edu
TERMS of Engagement: Managing Collections and Electronic Resources Lifecycles
Wednesday November 18, 2015 from 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Lesley University
Sherrill Library, 89 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-sponsored with the ACRL NEC Collection Development Interest Group (CDIG)
9:30-10:00 | Checkin and Continental Breakfast Sign Up for Lunch |
10:00-10:10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
10:10-10:55 | Text Mining Support: Are We There Yet?
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10:55-11:20 | Using TERMS to Convert Print Standing Orders to Electronic Format
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11:20-11:40 | Break |
11:40-12:15 | Access Denied!
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12:15-12:55 | Lightning Talks
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12:55-1:00 | Closing Remarks |
1:00-3:00 | Optional dine-arounds for lunch (aka informal networking opportunities) in Harvard Square; sign-up sheets will be at the registration table. |
Measuring Value in Academic Library Collections
Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Griffin Building, 670 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Co-sponsored with the ACRL NEC Collection Development Interest Group (CDIG)
9:00 - 9:30 | Checkin and Continental Breakfast |
9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
9:45 - 10:30 | "Putting Your Patrons in the Driver's Seat: Assessing the Value of On-Demand Streaming Video"
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10:30 - 11:00 | “Informing Collection Decisions with Massive Analysis”
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11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
11:15 - 12:30 | “Using a DDA Dashboard to Inform Collection Development”
“Ebrary on the Radar: Some Unexpected Truths About Usage”
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12:30 - 1:00 | Discussion and Closing Remarks |
Cutting Edge Issues in Licensing: Text Mining, MOOCs, and More
Co-sponsored with the ACRL NEC Collection Development Interest Group (CDIG)
Thursday, April 25, 2013, 9:30am-1pm, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The Blind Men and the Elephant: How Different Constituencies Perceive E-books
Co-sponsored with the ACRL NEC Collection Development Interest Group (CDIG)
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 9:30am-1pm, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Griffin Building, Boston, MA
Current Trends in E-Journals
Thursday, August 18, 2011, 9:30am-1:00pm, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Griffin Building, Boston, MA
Older Programs (not necessarily a complete list)
- Many Pieces: One Puzzle: Providing Access to Electronic Journals (Spring 2007)
- Here Today; Here Tomorrow?: Journal Archiving in the Electronic Environment (Spring 2005), Co-sponsored with SLIG and ITIG
- Program Standards of Seriality (Spring 2003)
- The Road That May Be Taken: Identifying Trends in Technical Processing (Fall 2000)
- Bringing Order Into Chaos: Issues and Applications in Cataloging Electronic Journals (Fall 1999)
- Creative Collection Development in an Electronic Journal Age: Librarian and Publisher Perspectives (Spring 1998)