ALCTS CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group Program for ALA Annual
The ALCTS CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group Program for ALA
Annual will be held on Sunday June 26, 2011 from 10:30 am - 12:00 noon in the JW
Marriott room Rosalie.
Beth Bernhardt (Chair), Patrick Carr, (Vice-Chair)@ALA -
We will have three presentations.
1. "Creating a Virtuous Circle of Access: Integrating Local Web-Scale Discovery
Services in JSTOR" presented by Bruce Heterick, VP, Outreach and Participation
Services.
Discovery has exploded as a theme for libraries in the past several years, as
the online catalog and other traditional library-provided discovery points have
faced stiff competition from consumer web search engines and their academic
offerings. Recently, ‘web-scale discovery services’ have gained increasing
prominence as a possible solution for libraries in their efforts to remain
relevant as a starting point for research. There is broad consensus, however,
that only a small percentage of users are initiating their research at
library-designated starting places, and that the library needs to pursue a more
comprehensive set of solutions, which includes integrating local discovery
implementations with other important research gateways. At JSTOR, a pilot
program has recently been initiated in an effort to help libraries leverage the
not-insignificant investments they are making in discovery services by exposing
these local web-scale discovery systems to their end-users from within the JSTOR
interface. We will discuss the data that led us to initiate the project, how
the pilot program works and will share initial results of the pilot
2. "How to Do SERU" presented by Selden Durgom Lamoureux, Electronic Resources
Librarian, NCSU Libraries
SERU has been an alternative to licensing since it became a NISO Best Practice
in 2008. This is a quick and informative "How To" for those who would like to
use SERU, but aren't quite certain just how to get started.
3. "Waking up from the Dream: Can Resource in Common Work" presented by Wyoma
vanDuinkerken, Coordinator of Cataloging Record Support and Crystal Vinal,
Administrative Coordinator, Texas A&M.
Texas A&M University Libraries – College Station (TAMU) and the University of
Texas – Austin Libraries (UT) decided to build a joint print collaborative
storage facility which would operate as a jointly owned collection. This storage
unit would be different than a repository storage unit since ownership would
rest with both institutions instead of having the ownership of the item transfer
to a repository storage unit. Driven by the current economic condition, the
rational for this joint project rested on the foundation that both universities
needed a long term cost effective solution to their space constraints rather
than a short term quick fix that would address the current higher education
budget reductions but still have these two institutions facing the same problem
a few years down the road. Both institutions wanted to save money by avoiding
future campus construction costs and knew if they took the cooperative storage
collection one step further and adopted the concept of “Resources in Common”
(RIC) they would be able to achieve their goal. Unlike most other cooperative
storage units, TAMU and UT decided they would de-dup their print collection and
achieve this cost saving goal by housing only one print copy “owned” between the
two institutions. Despite extensive planning efforts, a number of problems were
encountered during the actual implementation. This presentation discusses these
unexpected challenges that can undermine a Resource in Common model so that
other institutions can anticipate and address them earlier in the process.
Hope to see you there!
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Beth R. Bernhardt
Electronic Resources Librarian
Jackson Library
University of North Carolina Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402
336-256-1210
Received on Sat May 28 2011 - 07:00:17 EDT