Anna Creech is a university librarian with two cats, glasses, comfortable shoes, and a fear of turning into a stereotype.
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Speaker: Michael Porter
Libraries are content combined with community. Electronic content access is making it more challenging for libraries to accomplish their missions.
It’s easy to complain but hard to do. Sadly, we tend to complain more than doing. If we get a reputation for being negative, that will be detrimental. That doesn’t mean we [...]
Speakers: Lisa Shen, Glenda Griffin, Erin Cassidy, and Tyler Manolovitz
They did a 16 week pilot program, and in that time, users selected about 640 titles, selecting them steadily throughout the program. The most expensive titles tended to be reference works and STM titles. The least expensive were humanities driven or public domain. STM and [...]
What are the kinds of problems with collecting COUNTER and other reports? What do you do with them when you have them?
What is a good cost per use? Compare it to the alternative like ILL. For databases, trends are important.
Non-COUNTER stats can be useful to see trends, so don’t discount them.
Do you [...]
Organizers: Robb Waltner, Teresa Abaid, Rita Cauce, & Alice Eng
Usability of ERMS Is a unified product better than several that do aspects well? Maybe we are trying to do too much with our data? Theoretically the same vendor products should talk to each other, but they don’t.
Ex Libris is folding in the ERMS [...]
Speaker: Jamene Brooks-Kieffer
Spreadsheets are not usable information to most everyone else. It is not a communication tool. A textual summary or data story or info graphic conveys the information found in spreadsheets in ways they are easier to understand.
Every audience has diverse needs. Consider the scope appropriate for the story you need to [...]
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