Discovery or Displacement?
This panel reported on a large longitudinal study of the effect of discovery systems on online journal usage. Many libraries have implemented discovery systems, placing a single search box on the...
View ArticleScholarly Societies, Scholarly Publishing, and the New Information Ecology
Scholarly Societies Panel: (L-R) Robert Keift, Occidental College (Moderator); Steven Wheatley, American Council of Learned Societies; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Modern Language Association; Brandon...
View ArticleDoing More With Less
Jeffrey and Patrick addressed a common problem in academic libraries: staff sizes are decreasing, but the workload is not. One solution is batch processing and outsourcing. Staff positions are...
View ArticleThe Most Unique Conference Attendee
Seen on the ceiling of the Calhoun Room at the 3:15 PM session…. Nothing like a little interest and excitement! Don Hawkins Charleston Conference Blogger and Editor, Personal Archiving: Preserving Our...
View ArticleMOOCs Discovered
Meredith Schwartz said that MOOCs are a Massive Opportunity for Libraries and have started to enter the public consciousness. One role for librarians in MOOCs is a material matchmaker, primarily in...
View ArticleMeasuring the Research Impact on the Web
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Beth Barnhardt The Internet is changing how we measure research impacts. Iain Hrynaszkiewicz from the Faculty of 1000 said that the Impact Factor (IF) has long been used as a...
View ArticleConference Reception
The conference reception was held at the South Carolina Aquarium, and it was a most interesting and enjoyable evening. While viewing the exhibits, attendees enjoyed a meal of local dishes such as...
View ArticleCollections Are For Collisions: Let’s Design It Into the Experience: Friday...
Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian at Temple University, delivered the Friday keynote address. From reading Against The Grain, he discovered that people at the Charleston Conference like to...
View ArticleWhat Provosts Want Librarians to Know
Elizabeth Paul spoke about the University Library as an institutional change agent and said that we should consider ourselves not as librarians but as leaders of higher education. Higher education...
View ArticleContent, Services, and Space: The Future of the Library As Lines Blur: A...
This year, some of the plenaries were run as concurrent sessions and were dubbed “Neapolitan” sessions (and yes, ice cream has been promised for the refreshment break this afternoon). The first of...
View ArticleManaging Journals by Committee
Collection development for serials used to be a simple addition and cutting process. Now it is complex, involving ILL restrictions, discovery layers, formats, etc. In 2010, the serials librarian...
View ArticleCopyright in the Digital Era: The Georgia State University (GSU) and Hathi...
Jack Bernard, Associate Counsel, University of Michigan, discussed these two large and complicated copyright cases. The plaintiffs filed their cases against the university libraries. The defendants...
View ArticlePublarians and Lublishers: Role Bending in the New Scholarly Communications...
Libraries and publishers are moving into each other’s territory with enthusiasm, and may well merge in the future. In a question and answer format, this panel examined some of the relevant trends and...
View ArticleRevisiting Plato’s Cave
Bruce Heterick, Vice President, JSTOR, explained that JSTOR is a fairly unique content provider. Most of its content consists of back files of about 2,000 journals. JSTOR has an in-house analytics...
View ArticleCharleston Conference Premiers
The following 15 producers of new and innovative products gave brief presentations of their product: ACSESS (Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies) Digital Library Bowker...
View ArticleThe Long Arm of the Law
(Bruce Strauch read the presentation of Bill Hannay, Schiff Hardin, LLC, who could not attend. Bill’s presentation was on some recent notable court cases affecting libraries.) In the Apple lawsuit,...
View ArticleHead In the Clouds: 100% PDA and No Approval Plan
Bucknell University, a private liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania, was an early adopter of OCLC WorldShare. WorldCat is their catalog and discovery interface. The library has eliminated...
View ArticleE-Textbooks: Better? Cheaper? Obsolete(r)?
Two years ago, Charles knew only that textbooks were too expensive for students, and the library did not purchase them. Then the Provost established an “innovation fund”, and the library submitted a...
View ArticleHyde Park Corner Debate
The debate topic was Resolved: The current system of scholarly publishing, whereby publishers receive content for free and then sell it back to libraries at a high price, must fundamentally change....
View ArticleY’all Come Back!
Another Charleston Conference has ended, and it was highly successful. There were about 300 more attendees than last year, and the sessions (at least the ones I attended) were well attended. The 2014...
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