ALA Annual: ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest
Group Meeting
From:
Elif <elif.gurses_at_gmail.com>
On Jun 11, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Gabrielle Wiersma
<gabrielle.wiersma_at_Colorado.EDU <mailto:gabrielle.wiersma_at_Colorado.EDU>>
wrote:
Hello,
Please join the ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest
Group for a great program at ALA Annual:
*Sunday, June 28, 2015*
*1:00-2:30pm*
*Moscone Convention Center <http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28558>, room 133
(N)*
*Session URL: **http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29200***
*Presentations*
1:05-1:25 *Gauging User Interest in Non-Traditional Library Resources*
**Tami Sandberg, Manager, NREL Library
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is a government funded
research laboratory based in Golden, Colorado. In addition to
collecting traditional library resources such as journals, conference
proceedings, and print and electronic books, the library also spends a
significant portion of its collection development funds on resources not
often found in many libraries: technical industry standards (e.g., ISO,
IEC, ASTM, IEEE) and energy-related market reports. Assessing user needs
for these resources is difficult for a number of reasons, particularly
because standardized usage statistics are lacking or non-existent.
Standards and market reports are generally costly and include fairly
restrictive license agreements, which increase the importance of making
informed collection development decisions. This presentation will
discuss the NREL Librarys current collection assessment and development
practices as they relate to these unique resources.**
1:25-1:45 *Inflated Journal Value Rankings: Pitfalls You Should Know
About HTML and PDF Usage Based on Publisher Website Design*
**Chan Li, Sr. Data Analyst, California Digital Library and Jacqueline
Wilson, Senior Associate for Collection Development, California Digital
Library**
The California Digital Library (CDL) developed a value-based strategy to
assess journals which is now used as a major part of the University of
California's systemwide e-journal collection planning process. The
strategy involves using objective metrics to calculate the value of
scholarly journals and identify titles that make a greater or lesser
contribution to the University's mission of teaching, research, and
public service. A key aspect of this strategy is the use of the CDL
Weighted Journal Value Algorithm to assess multiple vectors of value for
each journal title under review: utility, quality and cost effectiveness.
Among all the metrics used for the Algorithm, usage data is still the
key metric. However, the usage data is not as reliable and comparable as
might be expected. One of the reasons is that the design of a
publisher's electronic interface can have a measurable effect on
electronic journal usage statistics. Last year, CDL conducted a
research project to study the impact on usage data of publisher website
design. The presenters will discuss how vendor interfaces and other
factors impact usage data.
1:45-2:05 *Leveraging WorldCat Web Services for Collection Analysis*
Richard Entlich, Collection Analyst Librarian, Cornell University **
OCLC offers an array of web service APIs (Application Programming
Interfaces) at no cost to contributing members of WorldCat. Though
traditionally used to extract relevant bibliographic and holdings data
from WorldCat in response to real-time requests, many of the APIs can be
used in batch mode in support of a wide variety of collection analysis
needs, both within and across institutions. As the name implies, APIs
are meant for machine-to-machine communication, but high level
programming skills are not required to make productive use of them for
collection analysis. This session will provide a general introduction to
the WorldCat web service APIs, including eligibility requirements,
registration procedures, documentation, support, use limitations, and a
quick survey of some of the available APIs. It will also discuss use of
the WorldCat Search API, the xID services, and the WorldCat Registry API
for collection analysis purposes, illustrated by projects carried out at
Cornell with their use.
*2:05-2:15 Q&A*
**
*Lightning Talks*
2:15-2:22 *Academic E-Books: Do DRM Restrictions Effect Usage?*
Tara Tobin Cataldo, Science Collections Coordinator, University of
Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and Trey Shelton, E-Resources
Librarian, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries**
Does strict Digital Right Management (DRM) result in lower use and
therefore a lower return-on-investment? Or, does DRM seem to have little
effect on usage and therefore need not be a driving concern for
collection managers? The University of Florida Libraries have their
e-book collections hosted on dozens of various platforms, ranging from
general aggregators to specialty publishers. DRM restrictions are a
regular nuisance for patrons and librarians alike, resulting in
frustratingly convoluted limitations on printing and/or downloading that
often seem arbitrary. For the purposes of an internal assessment of the
platforms, a grading system was devised based on the level of DRM in
place on each platform. Platforms with little or no DRM have been given
an A grade and platforms with high levels of DRM (i.e. a user can only
print 10 pages) earn a D grade with variations in-between. This
presentation will compare the usage on platforms with few DRM
restrictions to those with severe DRM to determine if a correlation
exists between DRM levels and usage levels of a given platform, and will
start a conversation about whether said correlation equates to causation.
2:23-2:30 *Taking altmetrics beyond the article to the book: An
introduction to the Bookmetrix project with Springer Books*
**Sara Rouhi, Product Specialist, Altmetric.com <http://Altmetric.com>**
The emergence of altmetrics as an important, complementary way of
evaluating the impact, reach, and engagement around research has thus
far focused largely on articles and tracking attention to them via
various media. As the research landscape continues to change, altmetrics
providers are increasingly asked: What about other types of outputs? For
example: What about books? Given the primacy of books as the currency of
communication in the arts and humanities, many altmetrics enthusiasts
and skeptics alike want to see how altmetrics can support this unique
research output.
This presentation will provide an overview of a recent Altmetric.com
<http://Altmetric.com> proof-of-concept project called Bookmetrix.
Developed for Springer Books as a platform provides insights into the
performance of a book by providing all available metrics at the book and
chapter level in one place, helping users to find the most popular books
in a specific discipline. *
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Hope to see you in San Francisco! Presentations will be posted on ALA
Connect after the meeting: http://connect.ala.org/node/240651.
Gabrielle Wiersma
Chair, ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group
Head of Collection Development
University Libraries
University of Colorado Boulder
184 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0184
303-492-4316
Received on Sat Jun 13 2015 - 03:08:47 EDT