(Note: Times are approximate.)
8:00-8:45
CHECK-IN, CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:45-9:00
WELCOME
Patrick Carr, Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Serials, Mississippi State University Libraries
9:00-10:00
"Our User Experience: Puzzle Pieces Falling in Place"
Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation at SirsiDynix
We're at a great tipping point in libraryland. There has been discussion this year about OPACs' weaknesses and open source initiatives. Are we asking the right questions about where the OPAC is going? Are we asking our questions with a focus on the new end user or are we mired in the library workers' needs as a priority? Where does the OPAC fit in the emerging information experience? Where does it fit in the new learning and R&D ecology? Stephen will help take the many puzzle pieces strewn around the floor and assemble them into a picture of what the user experience needs to be in coming years. How will libraries adapt to our changing users? How will we increase our own capacity for learning and change? How will we continue to be highly relevant in our communities, to learners, to scholars and those we interact with? Can we increase our own productivity while harvesting the wonders of e-content, web 2.0 opportunities, new formats and containers, and all the rest?As chief strategist of the SirsiDynix Institute, Stephen will share some SirsiDynix research and provide some structure to what he comments on in his popular blog, Stephen's Lighthouse, and international speeches.
10:00-10:15
BREAK
10:15-11:15
"Are Consortium "Big Deals" Cost-Effective? A Comparison and Analysis of E-Journal Access Mechanisms"
Tim Bucknall, Assistant Director for
Libraries and Head of Electronic Resources and Information Technologies, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro
Today's libraries offer a variety of ways to access online journal literature, including direct subscription, pay-per-view, large package deals, and more. In this presentation, we will discuss the relative cost-effectiveness and user-access issues of these various delivery mechanisms, and we will consider how to determine the best access mode for a given title. The conclusions of this presentation are based on years of access data for multiple schools, including a comparison of title access before and after joining consortium "big deals."
11:15-12:30
LUNCH
John Grisham Room, 3rd Floor
12:30-1:30
"ERM on a Shoestring: Betting on an Alternative Solution"
Dalene Hawthorne, Head of Systems and Technical Services/Assistant Professor, Emporia State University Libraries
Jennifer Watson, Head of Electronic and Collection Services/Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Library
Keeping track of licenses and invoices for electronic resources can be complex and time consuming. Commercial electronic resource management systems are available, but are expensive. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) uses Blackboard to track licenses and invoices for electronic resources, plus Filemaker and MySQL databases to manage individual e-journal titles. Emporia State University uses their ILS to create suppressed bibliographic records and attach scanned license agreements. They use the acquisitions module to record their invoices. This session will cover the benefits of each option and practical information about how you might set up your own system.
1:30-1:45
BREAK
1:45-2:45
"Library Standards and E-resource Management: A Survey of Current Initiatives and Standards Efforts"
Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist, EBSCO Information Services
The effect of library collections becoming predominantly electronic extends far beyond managing the new business models that online brings. Electronic collections can be very volatile. Titles that move from one publisher to another effect far more than the business transaction - titles may simply drop out of packages, their URLs may change (previous access becomes broken), and even have different business terms. In the print world, the library controlled the physical collection to a great extent and could manage how the collection was accessed and even measuring how it was used. In the electronic world, the library is reliant on their vendors not only for access but also for usage data. Several initiatives and standards focusing on e-resources are beginning to show promise in helping librarians tame this beast. This talk will provide a survey of the standards that matter, describe the problems they are intending to solve and put them in the context of the e-resource life-cycle.
2:45-3:00
CONCLUSION & EVALUATION
