Expecting the Unexpected: Collection Development and Resource Sharing in a Time of Rapid Change

Session Schedule

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Session Descriptions

Getting to Open: Everything You Need to Know about Crafting Open Access Agreements

Open access publishing agreements are trending. You’ve decided to pursue one, maybe on your own or in collaboration with your main campus. Where should you start? How do you choose a publisher to approach? How do you assess the proposals and negotiate intelligently? With so many options, choices can be overwhelming.

This session offers a rare opportunity to learn from both the librarian and publisher sides how to effectively craft open access agreements. Our presenters, librarian, Susan Kendall, and publisher representative, Kathi Carlisle Fountain, are experienced negotiators of Read and Publish agreements. They will walk you through defining your institution’s priorities and needs, the kinds of agreements that are available, and concerns to anticipate from publishers.

You’ll leave the session with a checklist of points that you and a publisher representative can discuss and confidence that you can choose or collaboratively craft an agreement that makes sense for both parties.

Presenters

Kathi Carlise Fountain, MSLS, is Head of Business Development for Oxford University Press (OUP), in which capacity she pursues collaborations with librarians, negotiates Read & Publish agreements, and serves as the "voice of the customer" within OUP. OUP has a growing number of active customized R&P agreements with libraries in a range of institutions, from large research universities to liberal arts colleges.

Susan K. Kendall, PhD, MS(LIS), is the Head of Collections Strategies and Copyright Librarian at the Michigan State University Libraries where she allocates and manages collections expenditures, negotiates with publishers, and develops a cohesive strategy for funding and supporting traditional and open access collections. She serves on the editorial board of Collections Management and is the editor of Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty First Century.

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Collective Collecting and the Challenge of Preservation

[To be livestreamed]

Large scale collaborative collection development, management, and preservation is becoming a necessity as environmental, organizational, and informational challenges and opportunities transform libraries. These changes make it imperative that libraries and publishers engage in meaningful discussions about preservation and their complementary roles in maintaining access to print and electronic content and preserving it for the future. Collaborative collection development and preservation can be done at all sizes of institutions, and finding and nurturing partnerships and networks in your collection ecosystem is essential.

Speakers will explore models of collective collecting for print and digital materials; common challenges, including preserving data and open access resources, shared decision-making among partner institutions, and space considerations; and the inherent fragility of providing access to and preserving born-digital materials. This moderated expert panel will empower librarians to understand and identify the potential role of collective collections and preservation in their circumstances. By working together, we will maintain the scholarly record for our current and future users.

Moderator

Melissa De Santis, MLIS, AHIP, is the Director of the Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Melissa has worked as a librarian for over 25 years and gained her experience in health sciences library collective collecting and preservation as a member of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Executive Committee and through work with the Colorado Alliance’s Shared Print Trust and the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance.

Presenters

Vida Damijonaitis, is the Director of Worldwide Sales for the American Medical Association, where she is responsible for all content sales and sales development efforts, including licensing, aggregation, circulation, permissions and new products, for the JAMA Network journals.

Alison Wohlers is the Shared Print Program Manager at the California Digital Library, in which capacity she leads collaborative print management efforts in the University of California Libraries system and the Western Regional Storage Trust, a regional collaboration of over 50 academic and research libraries. Alison is also involved in the leadership of national shared print federations and initiatives.

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Getting Started with Collection Development: An Interactive Workshop on Selecting Resources for Your Library Community

Have you been tasked with purchasing materials for your library but don’t have formal training or are new to collection development? This interactive workshop will get you started with developing the skills and knowledge you need to determine which books, journals, and databases to purchase for your library community. Participants will connect in small groups with other librarians from similar settings to brainstorm practical steps to take during the decision-making process.

Presenters

Basia Delawska-Elliott, MLIS, AHIP, is a medical librarian with Providence in Portland, OR. In her current position, she acts in an advisory capacity on collection development, evaluating new resources and suggesting purchases. In addition to her hospital library experience, Basia has worked in academic library acquisitions as a manager of approval plans, as an engagement librarian, supporting research, educational, and clinical needs, and as a member of collection development committees. Since 2020 Basia has been a part of the Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services (NAHRS) working group updating the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resource List (NNERL), a tool for librarians supporting clinical and academic nursing.

Karen H. Gau, MLIS, is the Health Sciences Collections Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she evaluates resources for inclusion in VCU Libraries' health sciences collection. She created and maintains a list of collections-related DEIA projects and resources for MLA’s Collection Development Caucus and is co-editor of Health Sciences Collection Development: An Overview of Fundamental Knowledge and Practices (2nd ed.).

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AI, Machine Learning, and Collections: New Approaches and Tools for Description and Discovery

[To be livestreamed]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are set to revolutionize library catalogs and vendor platforms. Knowledge workers need to grasp the impacts, benefits, and challenges of integrating these technologies into their information ecosystems and workflows.

Our moderated panel will delve into the theory and practice of AI and machine learning, exploring how they influence the discovery and description of resources and library collections. Among the topics the session will address are: the roles of publishers, vendors, libraries, and human metadata creators in engaging with and leveraging these technologies; the potential of AI tools to broaden library services and expertise; and key questions those working in collection development and management will have, such as the impact on library collections' discovery processes and how licensing and copyright considerations may inform the training sets for AI tools.

Join us for an insightful exploration of AI and machine learning’s role in shaping the future of description and discovery.

Moderator

Michelle Kraft, MLS, AHIP, FMLA, is the Director of Library Services for the Cleveland Clinic Health System. Michelle is a member of a team of Cleveland Clinic librarians, cardiovascular researchers, and IBM staff who are experimenting with AI applications, particularly as they relate to the discovery of research. She also experiments with AI on her own to help users with their AI experiments and to find ways medical librarians can leverage AI for their needs. 

Presenters

Judson Dunham is Senior Director of Product Management, ScienceDirect, in which capacity he leads a team of product managers responsible for developing and maintaining ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s flagship full text search and discovery platform. He has been in product management at Elsevier for over 15 years, working in and around research discovery and workflow products including ScienceDirect, Scopus and Mendeley. 

Philip E. Schreur, PhD, MLIS, is the Deputy University Librarian at Stanford University, in which capacity he oversees daily operations and linked-data project development for the Stanford University Libraries (SUL). He has worked in a variety of areas involving linked data, including using linked data to manage identity across traditional and digital resources and integrating linked data from multiple sources. 

Itai Veltzman is the Director of Product Management for Ex Libris/Clarivate. With a focus on data and AI, he leads metadata and resources management for a Unified Library SAAS.  He has driven Linked Open Data, AI-based Metadata creation, and other major initiatives and has conducted AI pilots for title matching involving normalization of fields and model selection.

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