ALCTS webinar: ISSN and You: Using ISSN SuperNumber in the Digital Environment
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
9:00-10:00 am
Ellis 4F51A
Learn about the work of the U.S. ISSN Center and ways the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) contributes to identification, access, and data linking in print and digital environments worldwide. ISSN is the premier international identifier for serials and other continuing resources in all formats. ISSN was ahead of its time in anticipating the crucial role of identifiers in the digital environment and has evolved well beyond its early role as a number displayed on print journals. Demand for ISSN continues to increase because of its ability to identify and facilitate linking to current, long-dead, or yet-to-be published continuing resources today and in the future semantic web.—Webinar description.
Speaker: Regina Romano Reynolds, ISSN Coordinator at the Library of Congress and director of the US ISSN Center.
ALCTS webinar: Datasets for Publication: Standards and Issues
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Ellis 4F51A
1:00-2:00 pm
Increasingly scholars and researchers are demanding access to the underlying data that supports the conclusions in published materials. In response, publishers and a variety of other organizations are publishing datasets either as stand alone products or attached to publications. There are many open questions about how the information community will deal with these resources. Traditional bibliographic, discovery, citation and preservation tools are not well equipped to address these new content types. This session covers issues around data citation, data attribution, and the linking of data to the publication process. In addition, the session shares information on OECD’s experience and highlights issues related to data citation and linking on the OECD iLibrary. Also includes a discussion of several industry initiatives related to data publication, including the NISO/NFAIS Supplementary Materials Recommended Practice project and the CODATA/ICSTI Task Force on Data Citation.—Webinar description
Presenters: Todd Carpenter is Managing Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Terri Mitton is the Data Products Project Manager at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
NISO Webinar: Assessment Metrics
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
noon-1:30 p.m.
Ellis 4F51A
With ever-shrinking library budgets it is more essential than ever to ensure that the library collection is targeted, relevant and well-used. Return on Investment (ROI) has become the mantra of library management and libraries need to show accountability for collection decisions. This webinar will focus on speakers who have successfully implemented assessment metrics (such as COUNTER 3, Eigenfactor and impact factors) as one determining factor of collection development decisions. Topics: Using Journal Metrics for Decision-Making, Journal Assessment Metrics, COUNTER and SUSHI: What’s new with release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice.
Presenters: Tim Jewell (University of Washington), Robin Kear (University of Pittsburgh), Oliver Pesch (EBSCO Information Services)
More information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/assessment/
OCLC Webinar: Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives
Thursday, December 15, 2011
10:00-11:05
Ellis 4F51A
Are you ready to say, “Yes, we scan!”? This webinar was all about sharing streamlined methods for scanning and delivering digital copies of special collections materials at the request of users.
Changes in technology and the increased visibility of special collections have resulted in a deluge of requests for digital copies of special collections materials. A steady stream of digitization requests for one item here, two pages there can be labor-intensive, and policies for user requests vary widely across institutions. To address these issues, OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership’s Working Group on Streamlining Photography and Scanning sought methods for reducing cumbersome digitization-on-demand workflows and policy obstacles. The result—a flexible, tiered approach to delivering digitized materials that acknowledges differences in user needs, collections, institutions, and resources—is detailed in the report, Scan and Deliver: Managing User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives. In this webinar, members of the working group shared their creative experiments aimed at scanning and delivering user-requested digital copies of special collections materials. San Diego State University offers self-serve scanning in their reading room. At the University of Chicago, special collections and interlibrary loan (ILL) colleagues are working together to use existing infrastructure and expertise. The Getty Research Institute developed a tiered approach to capture and post digital files created by fulfilling user requests. The presenters discussed workflows-in-progress, lessons learned, and how they learned to stop worrying and love digital copy requests.
Presenters: Anne Bahde (San Diego State University), Julia Gardner (University of Chicago), Anne Blecksmith (Getty Research Institute), Francine Snyder (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Shannon Supple (University of California at Berkeley), Jennifer Schaffner (OCLC Research)
OCLC Webinar: Rapid Capture in Special Collections and Archives
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
9:00-10:05 am
Ellis 4F51A
The report, Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections, focused on the actual moment of digitization of non-book materials and on innovative ways to speed things up. But speeding things up in one part of the process often uncovers bottlenecks in other parts. In this webinar, experts from special collections and archives offered up creative ways to speed up other parts of the process to provide greater access to special collections, including: Nimble workflows that allow multiple streams of manuscript content to be scanned and presented online quickly, Re-using archival description, or: our metadata is only as good as our descriptive practice, The quick and the good: outsourcing rapid capture of special collections, A planned destructive scanning process designed to create digitally reformatted copies that join their born-digital counterparts and are accessed and preserved as a single format, A system, paired with rapid capture, to provide access to entire folder content through the finding aid.
Presenters: Laura Clark Brown (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Ben Goldman (University of Wyoming), Mary Elings (University of California, Berkeley), Erik Moore (University of Minnesota), Brian Wilson (The Henry Ford), Ricky Erway (OCLC Research)