Anna Creech is a university librarian with two cats, glasses, comfortable shoes, and a fear of turning into a stereotype.
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Presenters: Jonathan Nabe, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
As resources have dwindled over the years, libraries want to make sure every dollar spent is going to things patrons will use. Patron-driven acquisition (PDA) means you’re only buying things that your users want.
With the Coutts MyiLibrary, they have access to over [...]
Presenters: Dani Roach, University of St. Thomas and Linda Hulbert, University of St. Thomas
As with most libraries, they are faced with needing to downsize their purchases in order to fit within reduced budgets, so good tools must be employed to determine which stuff to remove or acquire.
The statistics for impact factor means little [...]
Presenters: David Fritsch, JSTOR and Rachel Lee, University of California Press
JSTOR has started working with several university press and other small scholarly publishers to develop sustainable options.
UC Press is one of the largest university press in the US (36 journals in the humanities, biological & social sciences), publishing both UC titles and society [...]
Presenter: Eric Miller, Zepheira, LCC
Nowadays, we understand what the web is and the impact it has had on information sharing, but before it was developed, it was in a “vague but exciting” stage and few understood it. When we got started with the web, we really didn’t know what we were doing, but more [...]
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