All Sessions

Open to anyone interested in collection development in public libraries.

If you have any interest in the administration of collection development or management please come and join us for a town hall-style meeting. We will discuss the future of this group and possible programming ideas for ALA Annual in Anaheim. This is your chance to help create something, so please do stop by.

The Map Collection Management Discussion Group will meet from 1:30-3:30PM; the GIS Discussion Group will meet from 4-5:30PM.

Join us for an opportunity to discuss issues of common concern for anyone involved in digitization projects. This discussion group is open to everyone from experienced project managers to those new to digitization initiatives. Each meeting includes guest speakers and opportunities for project updates from discussion group attendees. Final program details in Connect Community at: http://connect.ala.org/node/151439

Please join us for a discussion about transformative collections on Saturday, January 21, 2012, 4–5:30 p.m. in the Dallas Convention Center D173. The ALCTS Transforming Collections Task Force was formed to consider how ALCTS can best address ALA’s goal of “providing leadership in the transformation of libraries and library services in a dynamic and increasing global digital information environment.” Members of the task force will update us on their work to date, detailing some of their proposals for how ALCTS and ALA can promote transformative collections. Their report is online at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/ianda/transcol/0611report.cfm
The group will discuss collection development trends we feel are transformative, sharing our experiences and gaining new ideas we can implement in our own libraries.

Data, datasets, and data management are becoming an increasingly important parts of the library collection management portfolio. In this context, librarians seek new tools and approaches that support researchers in the full research life cycle. Researchers have a number of requirements: the data must be easy to find, it must give credit to the researchers, it must be citable, and, above all, any maintenance must be easy.

Good data management is the answer, and built with hardware and infrastructure but also metadata: metadata for citation, access and preservation. Making this *easy* is the business of new tools like EZID, a persistent identifier service from California Digital Library.

Joan Starr, is the EZID Service Manager and Manager of Strategic and Project Planning at CDL, and the Chair of DataCite's Metadata Working Group. She will provide an overview of some of the key issues in dataset metadata, and give special focus on ways that EZID can help you extend your collection-building activities to datasets, allowing you to preserve your institution’s research investments.

Meeting of the Collection Management Section committees and Executive Committee

This is a newly formed interest group open to anyone with an interest in collection development and electronic resources. We will discuss topics of interest to the group and pursue projects that we determine are needed in this area. Please join us for our inaugural meeting and bring your ideas and enthusiasm. Everyone is welcome!

Join us to learn how CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software helps you to share digital special collections on the web and gives you full control of digital items, as well as their descriptions, access and display. The website configuration tools let you easily customize the appearance and behavior of your digital collections. And the new commenting, tagging and rating features encourages users to engage with your online collections.

You are invited to participate in a discussion of tools and techniques utilized to evaluate library collections.
There will be two presentations and plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Chan Li will describe a new value-based strategy used by the California Digital Library for the UC Libraries which involves using objective metrics to compare the value of scholarly journals, establish price containment targets, and identify titles to consider for potential cancellation. A key aspect of this new methodology is the use of a Weighted Value Algorithm to assess multiple vectors of value for each journal title under review.
Ruth Fischer will use examples from libraries to describe how the services and tools developed by SCS can assist librarians to draw down large collections of under-used print monographs when faced with limited space.

Large aggregated packages of journals that publishers offer to libraries for hefty subscription fees, otherwise known as the Big Deal, have become commonplace in libraries. While they offer the advantage of purchasing large numbers of titles at a discount, librarians have become increasingly disenchanted with them because of their high cost and the inability to add or drop titles from the package. Pay per view subscription models offer an alternative that allows librarians to pay only for those articles that their users view. This program examines the pay per view model from the perspective of both the publisher and of librarians who have implemented it. The advantages and disadvantages of per view are discussed along with an exploration of where the pay per view model is headed and what its long term prospects might be.

Discussion regarding children's collection management.

Meeting of the RUSA CODES/ALCTS CMS Collection Management in Public Libraries Interest Group. Issues relating to Collection Management will be discussed, particularly e-media and current trends in Collection Management.