“Get It Where You Can: the Changing World of Collections and Acquisitions”
WNY/O ACRL Spring Conference 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Sheraton Four Points
St. Catharines, Ontario
Limited funds, patron urgency, and new technologies are a few of the factors that drive innovations in resource sharing. Academic libraries have demonstrated ingenuity in addressing these challenges and as a result more efficient models are developed. Ultimately, we strive to improve patron satisfaction, and often, the outcomes are impressive. Buy-on-demand, direct consortial borrowing, and streamlined ILL are some models that are proving to be very effective.
As always, challenges remain. Please join us on May 8, 2009 at the FourPoints Sheridan in St. Catherines Ontario for a conversation on resource sharing and the implications on collection development and library services.
The registration form can be found at: http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/upconf.html
Library students who register are automatically entered into a draw for the equivalent of their registration fee. The draw is held at the conference.
Registration fees are:
$75 for ACRL WNY/O Chapter members or library support staff
$90 for non-members who join now**(Join now and save!)
$100 for non-members
$40 for full-time library school students
$50 for attendees presenting a poster session
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Presentations:
“Reconsidering access and resource sharing: service opportunities and strategies for 2010″ by Cyril Oberlander
Cyril Oberlander is the Associate Director of Milne Library at the SUNY College at Geneseo. Prior to that he oversaw Interlibrary Loan processes at University of Virginia Library 2005-2008; and Portland State University from 1996-2005.
Cyril’s presentation will focus on how information trends enable exciting opportunities and transformational strategies for individual libraries and library groups. These opportunities will allow libraries to meet the pressure of growing expectations, despite a long history of declining budgets. Using concepts like cooperative and community collections, and strategies for reworking the fragmented library environment, Cyril shares a number of tools and projects that help libraries remake services like Access Services, Acquisitions, Collection Development, Reference, and Resource Sharing.
“Connect NY and Rapid ILL: Shared collections and speedy delivery for a satisfied patron” by George Emery, Associate Director of the Library for Access Services, Canisius College
Connect NY is a pioneering consortium of libraries in NYS in which individual catalogs have been merged so that patrons can directly borrow books from participating libraries. As a result over 6 million items are available for rapid delivery.
George Emery, the Associate Director of the Library for Access Services at Canisius College, will detail the logistical and technological challenges in implementing this project. He will share recent advancements in the concept, including the use of Rapid ILL for article deliveries among participating libraries, and deliberate coordinated collection development. The consortium has also joined the Center for Research Libraries to further increase the resources available.
The details and benefits of this groundbreaking arrangement are fascinating, and are sure to have repercussions in how libraries will be thinking about resource sharing.
“Purchase-on-Demand and the Perfect Storm”
Cynthia A. Bertuca, Associate Director of Access Services for Document Delivery, University at Buffalo
I’m sure most of us have experienced the following scenario. While performing collection development, we meticulously examine the reviews, assess how the items will fit with our programs, and relate these issues to budgetary concerns. Then, we contemplate whether the item will ever be used. Fortunately many forward-thinking libraries are implementing purchase-on-demand models and with that, we can be assured that the purchased items will be used.
Cynthia Bertuca, the Associate Director of Access Services for Document Delivery at the University at Buffalo will put the concept of purchase-on-demand into context by exploring trends in publishing, available acquisition dollars, consumer expectations and plans for the library of the future. She will review current purchase-on-demand projects across the country, and present the model being used at the University at Buffalo in detail.
“Getting it Right: reshaping and redesigning Acquisitions and ILL workflow in an academic library”
by Kate Pitcher, Collection Development Librarian, SUNY Geneseo and
Tim Bowersox, Information Delivery Services Librarian, SUNY Geneseo
In 2004, SUNY Geneseo joined eleven other SUNY libraries in a new resource sharing endeavor, the IDS Project, created to explore and develop new strategies for innovative resource sharing and eventually, mutual collection building. Since then, the project has grown to over 35 libraries, including private and public colleges, and now includes the New York Public Library and the New York State Library. The evolution of the IDS project provides us with efficient delivery, benchmarking and performance standards, as well as a unique and necessary opportunity for assessing and redesigning ILL, acquisitions and the collecting of materials as one library in a larger pool of shared resources.
Under these conditions, at SUNY Geneseo the Information Delivery Services Librarian and Collection Development Librarian are collaborating to reshape, redesign and improve the access, delivery and acquisition of materials. Purchase-on-Demand is one such means of addressing cost-effective means of resource sharing, but what about reassessing and redesigning the entire materials acquisition process? Who should be selecting for our collection? What is the best and most efficient means of workflow in the ILL and acquisitions departments? What are the implications for collection development and traditional technical services work? Come listen to two librarians discuss the thorny issues involved in redesigning library workflow and shaking up traditional library functions.
Poster presentations:
“Getting Graphic at McGrath Library: Starting a Graphic Novel Collection at an Academic Library”
By Liz Curry, Technical Services Coordinator at Hilbert College McGrath Library
In today’s changing world, it is extremely important for academic libraries and librarians to find new ways to reach out and connect to their patrons. Over the past few years, the popularity of graphic novels, especially among students, has drastically increased. Graphic novels are a great way to get reluctant readers interested in reading. It can also be a way for students to learn about controversial topics or historical events. Many movies, television shows, and video games are based on graphic novels. The most recent example is the movie Watchmen which was just released in movie theaters this month.
McGrath Library recognized this popularity, and decided to start a graphic novel section through collection development. In order to gain more knowledge about graphic novels, and to decide what would be best to purchase for our library, McGrath Library utilized Interlibrary Loan to request many different types of graphic novels from many different libraries. A few librarians took on the task of reading and evaluating these graphic novels. After doing so, the librarians decided on a set number of graphic novels to purchase, and started the collection!
Liz’s poster presentation will explain the process McGrath library went through in creating their graphic novel collection, advice for other libraries, how they promoted their graphic novel collection and where McGrath Library will go from here.
“Get it Where You Can: Students get Reference Assistance Where they Want It!”
By Anita Whitehead, Reference Services Librarian at Genesee Community College
This poster session traces the development of the Roving Librarian at Genesee Community College from initial casual forays to the cafeteria to a full fledged service. It will outline the search for funding, the basic components of a roving station, service schedules, statistics, and evaluation of services provided. Now in its third year, the Roving Librarian has shown its value as a marketing tool and outreach service.
With her strong background in reference and distinctly nomadic lifestyle, it was inevitable that Anita would become a Roving Librarian! –
Jocelyn Phillips
Liaison Librarian (College of Biological Sciences)
University of Guelph
Room 273
McLaughlin Library
Guelph, Ontario
N1G 2W1
Phone: (519)824-4120, ext. 52329
Email: jophilli@uoguelph.ca