DISPATCHES FROM ALA ANNUAL 2012: 5 PERSPECTIVES, 1 VENUE

Athena Jackson, Dan Roose, Cheryl Gowing, Lyn MacCorkle, & Matt Carruthers

August 31, 2012

ALA ANNUAL:RBMS SECTION SERVICE

Athena N. Jackson

August 31, 2012

ALA ANNUAL

1) Annual vs. Midwinter

2) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (

www.rbms.info)

3) Committee Work

SNIPPET FROM A BUSY SCHEDULE

RBMS @ ALA: 2 POINTS OF INTEREST

1) RBMS Programming at ALA:“The Current State of Bibliography and its Future as Practiced and Supported in Special Collections Libraries”

2) RBMS Task Force on Metrics and Assessment

BIBLIOGRAPHY IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS?

David R. Whitesell, Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

David Vander Meulen, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he teaches eighteenth-century English literature, bibliography, and textual criticism and scholarly editing

James P. Ascher, Assistant Professor of Rare Books and English at the University of Colorado Boulder

Moderator, Gerald Cloud, Clark Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

Co-sponsored by The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & the Center for 17-18th Century Studies, UCLA, and the Bibliographical Society of America

RBMS TASK FORCE ON METRICS AND ASSESSMENT

Charge: The RBMS Task Force on Metrics and Assessment is charged with examining current practices for gathering and reporting information to demonstrate the value and impact of special collections and archives. The Task Force will conduct a survey of the literature and establish relationships with groups working on similar issues such as ARL, SAA, etc.; consider both what activities warrant assessment and how to undertake the assessment of those activities; and identify needs for best practices and guidelines that will enable more meaningful assessment of the spectrum of what we provide to our various constituencies. The Task Force will provide a preliminary report by Midwinter 2013 and a final written report prior to Annual 2013.

ALA ANAHEIM 2012Dan Roose

August 31, 2012

OPPORTUNITIES

Committee Work ALA – ALCTS – CRS – USLAJ Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award Jury

Vendor Connections Exhibits Presentations/Demonstrations Meetings

Relevant Programs Learning from Patron-Driven E-Book Pilots

THE ASSOCIATION

Association – ALA (American Library Association)

Division – ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services)

Section – CRS (Continuing Resources Section)

Committee – Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award Jury

ULRICH'S SERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP AWARD JURY

Charge: To select the recipient of the award for distinguished contributions to serials librarianship

Put out a call for nominations Received and evaluated three nominations Named award recipient: Valerie Bross, Head of

Continuing Resources Cataloging Section at UCLA Development and testing of cataloging

standards Cooperative cataloging & cataloger training

Presented a citation and $1,500 award at a reception during ALA annual conference

VENDOR CONNECTIONS

Exhibits View new products and innovations Meet briefly with vendor reps during exhibits

Formal Presentations EBSCO academic lunch Kuali OLE update

Planned Meetings with Vendor Reps YBP EBSCO Elsevier

ELEPHANTS IN A THREE-RING CIRCUS: LEARNING FROM PATRON-DRIVEN E-BOOK PILOTS

Presented by Linda Di Biase, University of Washington

Three separate demand/patron-driven e-book pilots at University of Washington: Ebrary EBL / YBP EBL / YBP / OCA (Orbis Cascade Alliance)

DEMAND-DRIVEN E-BOOK ACQUISITIONS

Allocate a budget amount, and typically prepay to a vendor deposit account

Select a set of potential titles Load discovery records into the online

catalog Patron usage of a specific title triggers a

purchase Invoices are generated automatically Permanent records are added for purchased

titles

THREE PILOTS AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Ebrary

July 2010 – February 2011 $40,000 7,500 available titles in humanities/social sciences 10 activities trigger a purchase

EBL/YBP April 2011 – Present $37,000 9,500 available titles Short term loan model; 3 STLs triggers purchase

EBL/YBP/OCA July 2011 – Present $462,000 from 37 member academic consortium 16,000 available titles Short term loan model; 10 STLs triggers purchase of 5 copies

owned by all libraries

AT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Allocated $50,000 in 2011/2012 Use EBL as aggregator in partnership with YBP Load discovery records from our current YBP

slip plan into the catalog weekly for new EBL titles

Reading a title online for 5 minutes or downloading for offline reading triggers a purchase

13,893 records have been loaded First triggered purchase was April 24, 2012 385 purchases have been triggered to date $28,580 in expenditures

TAKEAWAYS

Short term loan options (borrow, not purchase) Access vs. collection building

Collect user information User status, campus, etc. Balance with the need to maintain user privacy

Usage analysis of patron selections vs. traditional firm order selections

Identification of high and low use subject areas

Consortial opportunities for cost savings

LET THE DATA TALKCommunicating Assessment Results to Stakeholders

LLAMA – MAES Library Leadership & Management Association - Measurement, Assessment & Evaluation Section

Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:30-3:30 pm

Cheryl Gowing

LET THE DATA TALK

Cory Lown, NCSU

Klara Maidenberg, Ontario Council of University Libraries

Jamie Hollier, Colorada State University

Este Pope, Coconino Community College

Robert Dugan, University of West Florida

Rachel Besara, Florida State University

CORY LOWN: LET THE DATA TALK

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LOWN: PREATTENTIVE ATTRIBUTES

FormOrientationLine lengthLine widthSizeShapeCurvatureMarksEnclosure

• Color– Hue– Intensity

• Spatial Position– 2D

LOWN: GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Look up individual values

Compare individual values

Precise values required

Large amount of data Lines to express

change over time Bars to show rank or

relationships

TABLES GRAPHS

WHICH IS CLEARER?

KLARA MAIDENBERG: VISUALIZING …..

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Chats per 1,000 FTEFall 2011

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Promotional campaign

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Toronto vs. YorkSept. 2011 - Apr. 2012

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Too much assistance

Too little assistance

Just the right amount of assistance

1%

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The librarian provided me with...

Yes; 96%

No; 4%Would you use this service

again?

Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Very poor

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The service provided by the librar-ian was…

A last resort for getting library help

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A satisfactory way of getting library help

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My preferred way of getting library help

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User Surveys

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ESTE POPE: PREZI TO THE RESCUE

POPE: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

RACHEL BESARA: MOBILE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Roambi

MicroStrategy

QlikView

BESARA: ROAMBI : INSTANT

BESARA: ROAMBI : VISUAL

BESARA: ROAMBI : INTERACTIVE

ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012LYN MACCORKLE

Linked Library Data Linked data and the next generation of

catalogsLinking data across libraries, archives and

museumsLC Bibliographic Framework Transition Update

Data (Digital) Curation as a Form of Collaborative Research

Preconference: Building Digital Collections using Islandora

LINKED DATA?

Linked data is about exposing, sharing, and reusing pieces of data distributed across the web. As a publishing technique it is focused on interoperability, statements NOT documents, and building relationships and meanings using a formal set of W3C semantic web standards and practices. The data is structured so computers can un-ambiguously read it.Things that must be present:

Openly licensed data The data must be structured as RDF (Resource

Description Framework) triples using URI (Uniformed Resource Identifiers) as addresses

(preferably those that can be ‘dereferenced’ .. e.g. URLs)

HTTP protocol

LIBRARY LINKED DATA PROJECTS OCLC projects include

WorldCat has linked data added!! Conference announcement VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

http://viaf.org/ Dewey Linked Data

http://dewey.info/ FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)

http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/ Working with Europeana (European Union) to improve quality of its

linked data http://www.europeana.eu/

Getty will provide all authorities & vocabularies in linked format

LC Bibliographic Framework in Transition project. MARC21 > to linked data model http://loc/gov/marc/transition

OCLC ADDS LINKED DATA TO WORLDCAT RECORDS

RESOURCES“Metadata, linked data, and the semantic web” In: Metadata for Digital Collections, by Steven J. Miller (Neal-Schuman: 2012), 303-324.

Link data for libraries. OCLC video released 20120809http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWfEYcnk8Z8

Take Away! Viewshare: Interfaces to our heritageViewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections. The results can be saved in linked data format.Site: http://viewshare.org/Example: A location map and timeline created in Viewshare is in the landing pages of the Florida Documents Collection: http://merrick.library.miami.edu/specialCollections/asm0567/

VIEWSHARE

VIEWSHARE EXAMPLE

DATA CURATION AS A FORM OF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

HUBZERO

RESOURCES Software resources for humanists

Bamboo DirtRegistry organized by methodology / interest and a list of recommended packageshttp://dirt.projectbamboo.org

Take Away! Omeka CMS for collections and exhibits http://omeka.org/

BUILDING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS USING ISLANDORA (DRUPAL CMS + FEDORA DAM)

ISLANDORA DEVELOPED BY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND'S ROBERTSON LIBRARY

ROBERTSON LIBRARY DIGITAL MAP EXAMPLE: ZOOM & DRAG

EXAMPLES OF SERVICES USING ISLANDORA

ISLANDORA RESOURCES

Take Away! Islandora software site and sandboxhttp://help.islandora.ca/ala2012

Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repositoryhttp://library.sc.edu/mirc/

Digital Collection of Spanish Musichttp://digital.march.es/clamor/en

Editing Modernism in Canadahttp://editingmodernism.ca/Shared Canvas (http://www.sharedcanvas.org/)

Island Lives, University of Prince Edward Island Libraryhttp://www.islandlives.ca/

Esdora: Digital Object Repositoryhttp://esdora.ornl.gov/

TIPS FOR SURVIVING YOUR FIRST ALA ANNUAL

Matt Carruthers

August 31, 2012

TIPS FOR SURVIVING YOUR FIRST ALA ANNUAL

1) It’s OK to be overwhelmed (at first)

2) Plan early; plan completely

3) Be prepared to throw that plan out the

window

4) If you want to network, get out of the convention center

ONE FINAL NOTE

Slides and other relevant notes will be posted to the Libraries intranet