NASIG 2014

In the rodeo of the electronic world, libraries and agents need to rope in the information to acquire electronic material.  In many cases, you just can't look up pricing on the internet or in a vendor's system.  Quotations from the publishers are sometimes required and for big deals, publisher sales managers get involved with license negotiations. Consortia are now a major presence in negotiating the big deals.  This workshop will discuss pricing options and issues encountered in this serials pricing roundup.  Come join the discussion led by an agent and a consortium negotiator.

It has been predicted that by 2016, 9 out of 10 college students will own a smartphone. In order to connect with students where they are most likely beginning their information searches, it increasingly important for libraries to make library collections discoverable via a mobile platform and to create an effective mobile search environment for library resources. This program would highlight some of the mobile applications available for and in use by libraries. Examples of library-oriented applications include Browzine and Boopsie, as well as commercially available apps from vendors such as ebrary.

This program could be presented in a couple of different ways. One option is to present various mobile applications in a more informational fashion: highlighting various mobile services, describing how they services are set up, detailing the services they provide, and providing examples of institutions that are currently using them.

Another option would be to make this more of a case study, focusing on my own institution's implementations of Browzine and Boopsie. (We set up Browzine this fall, and will be implementing Boopsie in the spring.) Such a presentation could address the institutional needs that lead us to the acquisition of these services, the ins and outs of the implementation, any challenges involved in the set up, marketing and user education, how the applications were received and used once they were set up, and whether or not we saw a change in use statistics after implementation.

Libraries have been evolving their methods and approaches to managing the increasing range and number of electronic collections; however, much of the technology that has been developed to support this evolution involves the use of closed, disparate systems that each supports a single aspect of electronic resource management. At this session, OCLC staff and experts from member libraries will look at specific challenges of the e-resource management life cycle and share their perspectives about the opportunities to simplify and streamline processes at each step of the workflowselect, acquire, describe, discover, access and renew.

Particular focus will be given to the potential for libraries (and providers) to share data, tools and processes within OCLC's suite of WorldShare applications. These include: working with publishers to provide comprehensive, timely, good quality, reusable metadata to drive the discovery and usage of electronic resources; providing APIs that foster the development of functional enhancements that benefit everyone; working with a range of partners to embed metadata about, and drive discovery of, library collections in the sites and tools where users start their search.

OCLC is a worldwide cooperative of more than 16,000 libraries, archives and museums, working with members to provide a range of cloud-based, cooperative services that manage the complete library management life cycleOCLC WorldShare. OCLC's unique community-led approach to cataloging has resulted in widespread acknowledgment of the richness and accuracy of libraries' metadata. We are now applying this approach to the description, management and discovery of electronic resources.

By offering applications that address acquisitions, link resolution, authentication, license management, discovery, metadata synchronization and analyticson an open, shared platformOCLC is working with libraries to share the work of managing and delivering licensed resources with services that streamline and automate critical functions at every step of the library's workflow.

Staff in libraries around the world locally track serials and e-resources in an effort to provide users with access to information. What is subscribed to; which titles are available through which publishers/aggregators; and dates local users have access to. Libraries invest considerable resources maintaining bibliographic, license and coverage information. Have you ever wondered if it is feasible to share bibliographic records and license records with other libraries? What if publishers and vendors updated title lists and coverage details?

In 2012, the University of Nebraska Omaha decided to implement a cloud-based discovery platform that manages collection materials in a global environmentWorldShare Management System (WMS) & WorldCat Local (WCL). There is no longer a catalog, only local access to global records. Attend this session to learn how UNO transitioned from a traditional ERMs to global e-resource management. Find out what it means to have real-time metadata updates, coverage data and title lists updated by publishers/vendors and how to reap the benefits of global license record templates. This session will also discuss the lessons learned and best practices for preparing library staff for this radical shift in e-resource management as we boldly go where few have gone before.

The Electronic Resources and Serials Services Department at Auburn University was searching for a way to take stock of skills held and missing and focus on key areas of training needed by the group. The unit has adopted the "Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians" as a way to systematically tame these and other issues. The presenters will describe how we use the Core Competencies to: conduct a self-assessment of skills by unit members; identify competencies where proficiency is lacking; prioritize training for department members; and to organize measures to protect the future from any potential loss of staff or institutional knowledge.

The University of North Texas Libraries are funded almost entirely by undergraduate student use fees. As the undergraduate enrollment has plateaued in recent years, the libraries' have not been able to keep up with rising costs, resulting in a series of cuts to the materials budget totaling nearly $4 million. While some of these cuts took the form of reductions in firm orders and dissolution of approval plans, for the past three years the bulk have come from cancellations of serials and electronic resources. With each year's cuts, the UNT Collection Development department has been forced to modify and refine their deselection process. This presentation will show the development of UNT's strategy for determining cancellations using a variety of methods (overlap analysis, usage statistics, faculty input) and tools (EBSCO Usage Consolidation, Serials Solutions 360).

This presentation will summarize the approach to bibliographic metadata developed at the University of Michigan Library for journal articles published and archived in HathiTrust using the mPach toolset, which allows journal editors to create born-digital open-access journals and create their own metadata as a byproduct of the publishing process.  Specifically, mPach allows a journal editor to convert edited manuscripts from common source formats such as Microsoft Word into JATS (Z39.96-2012) XML and embed structured metadata about the article and journal. Since HathiTrust currently uses MARC as its common-denominator metadata format, JATS metadata are automatically mapped to MARC fields, creating one analytic record per article but without normalizing to follow RDA rules for transcription from primary sources of information or creating entries according to name authorities. For each new journal, a serial record for the journal is created manually by a serials cataloger. This serial record and each analytic record for articles in that journal link to a "collection" for the journal built using the HathiTrust Collections feature.

At least seven years had passed since subject librarians at Santa Clara University Library (SCUL) had performed a comprehensive review of their information resources, including journal subscriptions. Institutional changes, including a new Cataloging and Metadata Librarian and University Librarian, as well as a new Strategic Plan, contributed to High Noon being declared. Roping together duty and determination, subject librarians, technical services staff, and EBSCO representatives worked together to tame the Wild West landscape and bring order to the new frontier.

As with many libraries, while collection analysis and development were stated priorities at SCUL, the ongoing process had been postponed year after year after year. The annual cattle drive of serial renewals had proceeded with little or no review, averting the perceived impact of a stampede of cancellations and/or format changes but not maximizing collection enhancement opportunities.

During a routine meeting with an EBSCO Account Service Manager, a discussion of various EBSCONet reports became the catalyst and foundation for SCUL's Journal Subscription Review Project.

Within 45 minutes, 15 minutes left for questions and answers, Jane Skoric, senior assistant librarian at Santa Clara University, and Carol Seiler, Account Serivces Manager with EBSCO Information Services, will offer an engaging presentation outlining a specific project which began late June 2013.

The presentation will include:
* A brief introduction to the SCU library and the relationship with EBSCO
* An overview of the project
* The goals of the project
* Project timeline
* The process of the project
* An evaluation of the project
* Next steps

Each section will include the library's perspective, as well as the vendor's perspective.