Reported by Dave Van Kleeck, ACRL Technical Services Interest Group Convener
The ACRL Technical Services Interest Group held its annual meeting virtually on Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time / 2:00 PM Central Time / 1:00 PM Mountain Time / 12:00 PM Pacific Time. The meeting consisted of four presentations as follows:
Library Projects - How Your Focus on Mission and Scope Contributes to Success / Laura Turner, Associate Dean and Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery, Copley Library, University of San Diego
This session will focus on five tips for communicating and maintaining mission and scope of library projects. The presenter will provide suggestions for reporting on project progress and scope changes. The session will also include examples to help understand the context of project mission, scope, and scope change/creep.
Launching a Document Delivery Service: Trials and Triumphs / Bill Schultz, Jr., Head of Cataloging Services & Kirstin Duffin, Research Support Librarian, Mary J. Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University
With journal pricing being a constant, universal issue that causes real problems for academic library collections, my colleague Kirstin Duffin (Research Support Librarian) and I (Head of Cataloging Services) began to look into alternatives to expensive electronic journal subscriptions. Our investigations and subsequent conversations with fellow library faculty via our Collection Development Committee led us to the decision to pilot Copyright Clearance Center's Get It Now document delivery service. For our presentation, we will discuss the process of running this as a pilot project, securing funding, selecting journal titles for the service, and the challenges we have encountered. Implementation occurred within months of migrating to Alma and Primo VE, adding another level of complexity. Particulars of what we will cover include article access impediments, customizing access for our institutional users, and strategies to publicize Get It Now availability to encourage its use. Overall, the launch of Get It Now has been a successful cross-departmental collaboration, and considering the apparent scarcity of resources that addressed our challenges, we hope that attendees of our presentation will be more informed as they pursue document delivery options.
Using Workflows to Demonstrate Value and Opportunity / Jeanette Norris, Manager, Monographic Cataloging Latin Script Unit, Yale University Library
Workflows can demonstrate how an organization uses and values different aspects of the work and their expertise. In Technical Services, one common decision-point is determining how to either create or acquire descriptive metadata for resources in their collection. Pulling from management and library science literature, this presentation examines those decisions and how we can approach them as value-based decisions that can help us to justify that specific decision and explain to others the value of in-house metadata expertise and work.
A Metadata Assessment Framework for Systematic Evaluations of Metadata Schemas / Catherine Smith, Coordinator of Metadata, University of Alabama & Darnelle O. Melvin, Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/VTZJK
The Core Metadata Standards Committee is presenting for public review the Metadata Standard Assessment Framework. This project grew out of a committee discussion to develop a framework that would help information professionals evaluate metadata schemas to determine its best fit for repositories, projects, or institutional needs. The committee decided that the framework would take the form of a rubric. In determining how to structure the rubric, the committee reviewed data models for metadata, most of which analyzed the appropriateness of the elements within a schema. This presentation will provide an introductory look at the proposed Framework and a review of the design and criteria.
There were 138 attendees in the meeting. We thank Laura, Bill, Jeanette, Catherine, and Darnelle for their engaging presentations, and to all participants for attending the meeting. The meeting concluded at 4:00 PM Eastern Time.
To access the meeting recording, follow this link: https://ufl.zoom.us/rec/share/7jDTj3KHxskWpBTOoNQFaCq4exS5fsO-FLKxaYQDpFR6TceyehHuitIwJiAS8SKw.wRsw3wnSQxDAgNBB
Please find attached the presentation slides.
Thank you, and please continue to support the ACRL Technical Services Interest Group.
Dave Van Kleeck, Convener & Laurie Palumbo, Incoming Convener
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David Van Kleeck
Authorities/Identities Librarian, Resource Description Services
University of Florida
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