Wimba Classroom: GWLA Presentation on Ellis Fire

Wimba Classroom link: http://umclive.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=_umc_s__4672_1_615018

Optional Dial-in number : Phone : (201) 549-7623      

PIN code : 15017069

Here is the recording to view if you were unable to attend; the Seeking Synchronicity report can be found online here.  Also attached are the slides used in the presentation.

Seeking Synchronicity was the first event in the Virtual Reference Series--announcements about future events will be coming soon.

http://stream.scl.utah.edu/index.php?c=details&id=8283

Please feel free to pass this message on to interested colleagues.

Meanwhile,the next 'post mortem' disaster webinar will be about the fire at UMC's main library in September 2011.  Be on the lookout for scheduling info about it--we're shooting for late January/early February after ALA.

December 9, 2011 at 1pm-2:30 pm (Central); Noon-1:30 pm (Mountain); 11 am-12:30 pm (Pacific); 9-10:30 am (Hawaii) 

Does anyone have the ability to buy whatever their patrons need?  Do you have enough information to make effective decisions on when to purchase, license, and borrow?  When should you buy? When do you license? When should you borrow?  The purpose of our December webinar is to share information from three projects that can aid your institution with these decisions. 

Each project presenter(s) will speak for approximately 20 minutes.  After the presentations, there should be ample time to ask questions via the chat feature of our webinar program.  We are encouraging and anticipating a highly energetic discussion! 

Presentations:

Nancy Kress, UNLV; and Lars Leon, University of Kansas will share some results from their recent cost study that examines the true costs to provide resource sharing. This information will help members’ operations understand what to examine and provide attendees useful information when deciding between purchasing versus borrowing.

Nancy Kress is the Library Supply Chain Manager for University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries. Her research includes applying supply chain management and Lean and Six Sigma concepts to library operations. Lars Leon is the Head of Resource Sharing at the University of Kansas Libraries. He is also involved with their assessment, staff development and organizational development.  His current research emphasis is on looking into costs and then using that information to help understand the value that their patrons place on their services.

Wayne Pedersen, Iowa State University will update that data he presented at the Joint Meeting, May 2011, Park City Utah.  He will discuss the factors used to evaluate Iowa State's big package collection of e-journals published by Springer, focusing on average ILL costs as they relate to the cost per use of individual Springer titles. If time permits, a short discussion of ILL costs as they relate to the cost of acquiring individual monograph titles may be included.  Wayne Pedersen is the Head of the Acquisitions Department at Iowa State University.  He currently serves double duty as the Head of the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery unit.  Wayne has been at Iowa State since 1991 and is a tenured Associate Professor.

Dave Fowler, University of Oregon will discuss the process used by the UO in getting rid of one Big Deal and downsizing another.  Included in the presentation, Dave will discuss criteria used for ranking and evaluating journals that were being considered for cancellation. Dave Fowler is head of licensing, grants administration and collection analysis at the University of Oregon. He has previously worked at Iowa State University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.

Webinar URL: https://desktopconnect.ku.edu/gwlacost/

University of Kansas has graciously offered their Adobe Connect Pro software.  A link to the webinar will be sent out to the CD & ILL listservs no later than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the webinar.   
 
Audio Conference Call Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3200; Participant Access Code: 433660#

The webinar & conference calling services only allow for 90 participants--If 3 or more people  from your  institution wish to sit in on the discussion and/Q&A time etc.; please consider  watching together and utilizing a speakerphone to make sure everyone who wishes to attend can get a connection.

Hope to “see” you virtually for a presentation that is relevant, informative, and perhaps a tad bit controversial!

Join GWLA and OCLC via a webinar to learn about and discuss the findings of the Seeking Synchronicity report on Tuesday,  January 31.

In this webinar, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, PhD., Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, and Marie L. Radford, PhD., Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, will discuss the key findings of their multi-year study that were recently published in the report, Seeking Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference. 

Their findings show that today’s patrons, scholars and citizens are not just looking to libraries alone for answers to specific questions; they want to also engage partners and guides in their lifelong information-seeking journey. Virtual Reference is an opportunity to meet those needs.  

This webinar will give GWLA members the opportunity to ask in-depth questions of the authors about their findings as well as cover general topics of concern for Virtual Reference providers. Please join us on Tuesday, January 31 at 2pm Central / 1pm Mountain / Noon Pacific / 10am Hawaiian by registering for the webinar: Register today!

The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) joins the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in advocating for the reversal of several recent decisions regarding the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

GWLA members emphatically believe that the future of the FDLP lies in collaborative projects, including shared and multi-state regionals, as well as digitization and preservation models such as those launched by Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and HathiTrust. 

GWLA and its members firmly believe that all of these models are in compliance with Title 44 USC, and that FDLP libraries should be free to develop additional innovative models to manage and improve digital access to these critical collections.

The free and open public access to information that the FDLP provides is consistent with the research, outreach, and open access missions of GWLA member institutions.  Recent decisions by the Superintendent of Documents and GPO are incongruous with the future direction of libraries and the demands of the communities they serve and should be reversed immediately.

The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a consortium of 32 prominent research libraries located across 17 Midwestern & Western states with common interests in scholarly communication, interlibrary loan, shared electronic resources, cooperative collection development, digital libraries, staff development and continuing education.

Ten GWLA member institutions hold Regional status within the FDLP program; an additional 21 are Selectives. Twenty-five GWLA libraries are also members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). 

Presentations

Jeremy York will provide an overview of the HathiTrust partnership, its repository, and services, and discuss the ways that partner institutions are positioning HathiTrust to have a major impact on strategies for storing and managing their print collections.

Rick Anderson will discuss new ways of thinking about the nature of research library collections in light of the radically new information environment in which students and scholars now work, and will suggest several strategies that may seem to undermine traditional library practice and philosophies but that promise to provide better and more comprehensive access to those we exist to serve. 

Ownership of information has long been a mantra of librarianship, especially in academic libraries. Digital information, however, creates an entirely different collection landscape for libraries. Steven Harris will speak about how the time may have come to give up our insistence on ownership (except in special cases) and embrace renting as viable approach.

Suzanne Schadl will address collaborative collection development with the Latin American Distributed Resources Project and the Latin American Microforms (now digitization) Project, both organized through the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and facilitated through collaborations with Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Decades of collaborative work have strengthened special Latin American studies collections while enhancing ties between US and Latin American institutions. These connections are evolving into collaborative cross-national projects which require a clever balance in partnership between publishers, vendors, libraries and professional organizations.

A Resolution of the Greater Western Library Alliance

Whereas the drafters of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities are committed to addressing the opportunities of the Internet as a medium for distributing knowledge, and to positively advance scholarly communication; and

Whereas the current system of scholarly communication–a system that has served us well for more than 200 years–is based upon the economics and constraints of print-based communication, while today’s researchers and libraries increasingly adopt digital technologies for research dissemination and exploration with colleagues; and

Whereas there is a critical need for scholars to reclaim their scholarship, to maintain their rights as authors and creators, and to reassert the mission of scholarly communication for the advancement, promotion, and dissemination of scholarship and not as a for-profit exercise of commerce for commercial publishers; and

Whereas the membership of the Greater Western Library Alliance is comprised of the libraries of thirty-two leading research, scientific, and cultural institutions in the United States which embrace their institutional missions to disseminate scientific, scholarly, and cultural knowledge widely throughout society; and

Whereas the members of the Greater Western Library Alliance encourage their institutions’ faculty, researchers, and students to make their work available in institutional repositories and publish their work in a manner consistent with Open Access principles; and

Whereas the Greater Western Library Alliance has demonstrated its commitment to change in scholarly communication as a co-founder of BioOne which serves as a successful model in which for-profit, not-for-profit, and Open Access publishers work together harmoniously for the benefit of scholars everywhere.

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the members of Greater Western Library Alliance, on behalf of the communities of scholars and students they serve, expresses its strong and vigorous support for Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be communicated to the Max Planck Society, to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and to the research library community at large.

This resolution was approved by a unanimous vote of the Alliance membership on September 27, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that at the recent membership meeting at the University of New Mexico, the member deans of the Greater Western Library Alliance unanimously voted to extend an invitation for membership to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).  Mary Case, Dean of Libraries at UIC, warmly accepted the invitation.