CDL: call for articles: Against the Grain special issue on collection usage.

You may be familiar with the scholarly magazine Against the Grain
(http://www.against-the-grain.com). In September, ATG will publish a special
issue on usage. I, Rossi Morris, Media Relations Coordinator at EBSCO, will be a
guest editor, along with Elizabeth Lorbeer, Associate Director for Content
Management at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University
of Alabama Birmingham. Our directive from ATG Editor Katina Strauch, Assistant
Dean for Technical Services and Collection Development at Addlestone Library,
College of Charleston, is to use a vendor-neutral approach.

This special issue will feature articles by librarians and other industry
experts on a wide range of usage-related topics, including how implementing
usage metrics in collection development decisions has shaped a library’s
collection, budget, policy, and staff; how impact factor drives usage; and
librarians’ analyses of vendor usage gathering/reporting tools — just to name a
few. 

We are looking for librarians to write about their library’s experience with
implementing usage analysis in collection development decisions. Particularly,
we want to feature the stories behind the challenges and the successes. Details
we want to share with ATG readers are what the library is measuring and why, in
addition to the library’s collection goals; the challenges encountered; and the
tools, methods, or systems employed to track usage and gather data. Ultimately,
it would be interesting to note what is done with this data after it is
collected — and the benefit it provides to the library and its users. Also, if a
librarian has been using a third-party usage gathering/loading tool, an article
on that experience would be really great. 

Interested librarians should contact Rossi directly at rmorris_at_ebsco.com. 

Would you be willing to share this request on your list?

 

Thanks,

Rossi

 

Rossi Morris
Media Relations Coordinator
EBSCO Corporate Communications
P: 205-980-3885
F: 205-995-1636
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