CDL-Emerging Research in Collection Development and Management Forum, ALA, Chicago

From:
Michael Levine-Clark <michael.levine-clark_at_du.edu>

The ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS) invites you to a attend 
the Emerging Research in Collection Development and Management Forum, to 
hear about two exciting research projects:

·Burke, Jane and Jim Ulsh, "Curating Institutional Video Collections."

·Wical, Stephanie and R. Todd Vandenbark, "Building a Stronger 
Collection: The Art of Combining Citation Studies and Usage Statistics."

The Forum will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013, 4:30-5:30, McCormick 
Place MCP-N229

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*Curating Institutional Video Collections*

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Institutional video content remains the least curated and discoverable 
of all content types.Symptoms include:

.Growing volume and complexity of institutional multimedia, including 
lecture capture

.Users expect ubiquitous access to all content, regardless of format

.Video is often siloed

.Video is under cataloged/indexed

.Video is not easily accessible

.Video, especially institutional video, is not available to discovery 
services

.Rights management and use concerns

.Libraries are missing out on an opportunity to showcase its relevance 
on today's campus

The hypothesis:Utilize automated transcription to create indexing data 
that would promote the discoverability and usability of institutionally 
created video.If successful, this could lead to an affordable service 
that would allow libraries to work with a service partner to curate 
large volumes of video content.

**In analyzing the problem and determining if an affordable service 
could be developed, multiple research methods were used:

·Facilitated focus group of 12 experienced multi-media librarians

·5 research surveys by professional research firms

·Pilot partner group that contributed 520 pieces of video and met in 
person four times over 1 year period

·Creation of a test version of every step of the service, so that Pilot 
Partners could evaluate real examples -- all 520 pieces taken through 
the process multiple times

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*Building a Stronger Collection: The Art of Combining Citation Studies 
and Usage Statistics*

Usage statistics, while helpful in determining cost-­-per-­-use of 
resources, present an incomplete overview of resources used. Resources 
frequently downloaded do not necessarily end up in research 
publications. Citation studies, on the other hand, provide insight into 
what faculty find valuable inside and outside the library collection. 
But where do they overlap? Librarians at a small, liberal arts 
university are currently analyzing the intersection of these data sets 
looking for such trends. Combining these methods provides increased 
granularity in assessing where a library should allocate its limited funds.

Librarians are collecting article citations from publications (journal 
articles, books and book chapters, etc.) written by teaching faculty in 
four departments: nursing, mathematics, chemistry and biology. In 
addition, usage statistics data will be culled from electronic journals 
and databases corresponding to each of these departments. Data across 
these groups will be combined and analyzed in order to answer questions 
such as:

.Are faculty members publishing in the same journals they are getting 
information from?

.Do items with high usage reflect the same levels of publication?

.What should we have as part of our collection to adequately support 
research at our institution? *//**//*

    Michael Levine-Clark
    Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and 
Collections Services
    University of Denver Libraries
    303.871.3413