Hope you can join us tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21 from noon - 1:00 CST in Zoom, https://go.unl.edu/esmig, for a panel discussion about how evidence synthesis is impacting library collections, licensing decisions, workflows, and vendor technologies.
Panelists:
Cynthia Elliott, Collection Management Librarian and Unit Lead, Collection Services, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.
Cynthia's research interests are practice-based and applicable, focusing on her work in acquisitions, collection management, collection development and assessment. Her research agenda includes acquisitions models; vendor/publisher relations with academic libraries, journal pricing, data acquisitions and licensing, and AI utilization in technical services.
Teresa Hazen, Department Head, Collection Services, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.
Teresa has been a department head at UAL for over 12 years, focusing on collections, digital preservation and production, web-scale discovery, electronic resources, and metadata. Before coming to UAL, she worked for many years in community college libraries as well as shorter stints in public and school libraries. Her research interests focus on AI applications in technical services (particularly working with metadata), demand driven acquisitions models, and web-scale discovery.
Diana Doetzel, Regional Sales Manager at EBSCO, based in Phoenix, AZ.
Diana has been part of the library industry since 1997, beginning with CD-ROM information sales prior to the rise of online databases. Over the years, she has worked with K–12, public, and academic libraries nationwide, providing solutions in library automation, research databases, workforce development, analytics, and authentication.
Heather White, Senior Product Manager at EBSCO Information Services.
Heather brings over two decades of experience in the library and information science field, including 17 years as an academic librarian and the past 4 years in SaaS product management. At EBSCO, she leads efforts to ensure that the needs of librarians are reflected in the design and development of the New UI, working closely with architects, UX designers, developers, and fellow product managers. Heather is currently focused on improving support for systematic reviews and evidence synthesis and has been conducting a global listening tour to gather insights from librarians around the world.
Discussion topics will include:
- Collections & resource access - impacts on licensing, acquisitions, and interlibrary loan
- Organizational workflows & capacity issues
- Balancing innovations in AI and proprietary algorithms with methodological requirements of reproducibility and transparency
- Opportunities for collaboration between collections, ES providers, and vendors
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Erica DeFrain
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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