In our information-rich world, students and faculty can easily find a wealth of content through a wide range of discovery tools, often bypassing the library entirely or only coming back to the library inadvertently as the result of a successful search. The 2015 Horizon Library report has continued to identify this "Competition from Alternative Avenues of Discovery" as a difficult challenge. Libraries can either cede their traditional role in facilitating discovery or can embrace the potential of these new tools. Building on a session at this year's ER&L Conference, this session will explore how libraries can broaden their approach to discovery by enhancing single-search discovery services to better compete with other tools while simultaneously embracing the potential of new tools and technology to allow users a range of discovery options. This program will explore ways in which library discovery services can be optimized to provide easy access to owned, subscribed, and curated content, whatever the source; how a publishers can study usage patterns to maximize discovery and access; and how libraries can take advantage of innovative new tools and approaches to discovery.
While Linked Data is growing in interest in the library and publishing communities, its evolution and adoption is widespread in many industries. Academic libraries and vendors alike have numerous data silos, incapable of communicating effectively with other repositories and/or the broader web. The library community is rife with outdated business models, in part due to data formats and limitations. New ecosystems and integrations will be borne out of transforming these data silos into the broader and more accessible web of data.
BIBFRAME is the planned replacement for MARC, and while the framework is being evolved in working groups such as LD4P and LC, organizations are already beginning to experiment and deploy new business models around it. Casalini Libri will share their foray into delivering BIBFRAME resources in addition to MARC records for customers. The transformation has begun.
The Library.Link Network brings together libraries and their providers to inform the Web of their detailed, vetted and authoritative data about art, music, books/ebooks, special collections and more. MARC records are transformed into BIBFRAME resources, assets linked, and then published in a variety of vocabularies to the web for search engines and other applications to consume. Users finding library resources on the web or other applications can be driven to the institution’s discovery layer for authentication and fulfillment.
Due to the highly structured data in the library and publisher worlds, these organizations are well positioned to leverage existing data into the BIBFRAME and/or Linked Data realm.
Today’s global collaborative scientific research developments offer libraries the opportunity to create a scientific authoring and publishing platform that reflects the nature and needs of the campus community. To effectively support authorship best practices and facilitate knowledge sharing, this presentation aims to inspire collaboration and offer insight regarding the challenges and opportunities encountered by libraries as they work to roll out new technologies and solutions that support, accelerate and improve the quality of research publications while minimizing the management footprint.
The Caltech Library has responded to such challenges and opportunities with an ‘Author Carpentry’ initiative that provides customized, centralized access to authoring tools and services, high quality training and user support for their researchers, students, faculty and staff. Overleaf has collaborated with The Caltech Library to develop a customized LaTeX scientific authoring portal that supports the entire campus community and is an essential component of the Caltech Author Carpentry program. This presentation will highlight the main components of an effective roll-out and current use of the innovative Overleaf-Caltech scientific authoring portal, including: easy sign-up, teaching tools, enhanced thesis templates with Caltech-approved information, featured journal templates and real-time administrative dashboard for the library to monitor data and analytics.
By March 2017, the Mellon funded “Principles for Permanent Acquisition of eBooks for Academic Libraries” will produce recommendations for the licensing and acquisition of eBooks. The goal is to support the ability of academic libraries to build eBook collections for the long term.
At the heart of the project are three core principles proposed for eBook licenses:
The UNC Charlotte based Project Team and Working Group of librarians, consortia, and non-profit publishers collaborates to guide the project. Please join us for brief updates on research in progress (course use, user experience, licensing terms, ILL, platforms and preservation models, and publisher practices. Come with your questions and discuss how you can help the project succeed.
Creating a good user experience for our end users (students, researchers, etc.) is important to librarians, publishers, and other vendors in academic publishing; we want the content and products we provide to be used and useful. Site redesigns are a great opportunity to better address user needs because of all the information we have about how people are actually using a site, what people find confusing, and what goals aren't being accomplished.
This session will discuss user research in site redesigns and include case studies of using user research to better meet user needs. These will include the Indiana University Libraries' homepage redesign and the SAGE Research Methods redesign. Speakers will share:
Attendees will leave the session with several examples of user research and ways to make their next redesign project more user-centered. Presenters will also share key outcomes from their research that are applicable across different sites and products.