The Library (Organizational Change)
Many organizations have seen an "organizational shift," a change in work flows and management, to properly staff and manage e-resource in their libraries while other institutions have incorporated electronic resources work throughout the library just as work with print in distributed. How have workflows and personnel decisions changed? What type of leadership has helped create change? Where do we still need to open communications?
* Managing e-resources throughout the library
* Workflow redesign for electronic resources and serials.
* Leadership and collaboration
* Communications: intra-departmental communication, collegial and managerial communication issues.
* Workflow and personnel preparations for more change
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The Resources (Managing and assessing e-resources in libraries)
Managing electronic resources is still a daunting task for many from licensing to purchasing to cataloging to collecting data to making it accessible to users. Can managing electronic resources be handled with the current commercial or homegrown systems? How will standards help our processes and decisions? Can collecting data be easier? How can we analyze best what we collect? How do we show value to our larger organizations? Are our processes the most efficient for managing our electronic collections?
* Managing both print and electronic
* E-Books
* Licensing issues
* Extracting and Analyzing Electronic Resource Data ? best practices
* ERMS Issues
* Assessing user needs
* Creating value for the customer
* Showing value to funding bodies
* How do we safeguard our investments for the future?
* Preservation and archiving electronic information
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The Environment (Relationships outside the library)
In the digital world, libraries don?t stand alone. They work closely with consortia, vendors, other libraries, and their users. Our resources and abilities to meet users transcends the walls of each individual library. Are all these relationships working? Are we getting the most out of our relationships with other organizations or groups?
* Vendor relations: how to create collaborative relationships, even when it doesn?t look possible, beginning with understanding our mutual worldviews, world experiences
* Relationships/Issues between librarians, vendors, subscription agents, publishers: what do we want from each other?
* Working with faculty and groups on campus on use of Institutional Repositories
* Educating on Open Access
* Consortia Relationships
* Collaborative relationships in ER delivery
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The Changing World (Meeting user's Needs)
In a world where the majority of our users are not coming in our building, how do we build strategies to meet the users where they are and get them to good resources? Where are users on the web and how can we get to them?
* Marketing/promoting e-resources to your users
* Ways to improve access to requested material
* Information literacy/instruction with e-resources
* New technologies to get to users in the digital environment.
* Collaborative relationships in e-resources delivery to users
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The Future (Current state and future of digital resources in libraries)
Change is constant in this digital environment, so looking at where libraries may be in the near future is essential. Will e-books be the next e-journals? Is it safe to let go of print? What?s on the horizon that we need to consider?
* Where do we see ourselves headed?
* The Roles of e-journals, e-books, and open access publishing in our libraries
* How do we manage born-digital, ?non-traditional? resources coming to us?
* Latest technologies and ideas for use in libraries
* Use of Open Source software in libraries
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