eclectic librarian

My boss asked us to track the time we spent on various tasks and projects to get an idea of areas where we could use student help or better coordination within the department. Here’s a visual representation of a (mostly) typical week:
A typical day is full of things involving the management of electronic resources that [...]

Speakers: Ross Singer & Andrew Nagy
Software as a service saves the institution time and money because the infrastructure is hosted and maintained by someone else. Computing has gone from centralized, mainframe processing to an even mix of personal computers on an networked enterprise to once again a very centralized environment with cloud applications and thin [...]

Speakers: Dani L. Roach & Carolyn DeLuca
How do you define an ebook? How is it different from a print book? From another online resource? Is it like pornography – you know it when you see it? “An electronic equivalent of a distinct print title.” What about regularly updated ebooks? For the purposes of this presentation, [...]

Speaker: Nisa Bakkalbasi
Journal packages offer capped price increases, access to non-subscribed content, and it’s easier to manage than title-by-title subscriptions. But, the economic downturn has resulted in even the price caps not being enough to sustain the packages.
Her library only seriously considers COUNTER reports, which is handy, since most package publishers provide them. They add [...]

Speakers: Jesse Koennecke & Bill Kara
We have the use reports, but it’s harder to pull in the acquisitions information because of the systems it lives in and the different subscription/purchase models. Cornell had a cut in staffing and an immediate need to assess their resources, so they began to triage statistics cost/use requests. They are [...]