Jill Emery

Ghosts in the Machine: The Promise of Electronic Resource Management Tools

ABSTRACT Electronic management tools promise to provide librarians with all of the centralized processing and convenience of workflow of print materials. However, do these products really provide what is needed in the hybrid library and are these promises really helping provide a service to our end-users? This paper will explore the importance of tying a librarys choice of electronic resource management (ERM) system to the overall organizational structure, the need for licensing metadata, and considerations for making a choice about the products available.

Beginning to see the light : Developing a discourse for electronic resource management

SUMMARY As the proliferation of electronic content continues, the need to get a better handle on how we communicate about the management of these resources has grown. In many instances, these processes and workflows have a basis in print resource workflow management. However, the discourse used to describe print resource management is not fully transferable to the management of electronic resources. With the rapid development of open-source software, ubiquitous acceptance of sophisticated integrated library systems, and emerging digital standards, new models for workflow and processing of electronic resources are emerging. Drawn from the discourse used in other disciplines, this paper explores ways to create a discourse of electronic resource management to better enable the development of a more universal management scheme for electronic resources.

Mining for Gold: Identifying the Librarians' Toolkit for Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based on a Paper Presented at the 36th UKSG Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013

In 2012, the author and colleagues surveyed eight publishers that had been involved with the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project to learn about the state of hybrid journal publishing. At the same time, one of the key questions asked to a panel of librarians at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers May 2012 Meeting was what role librarians would play if scholarly publishing shortly went open access (OA) across the board? From the survey of the market, and the rapid OA developments in the UK and EU that include hybrid OA, a picture has begun to emerge of what roles librarians can play with regard to supporting hybrid OA publishing at their institutions. This article focuses on developing new partnerships within a given institution, looks at new budgetary models and the tracking of local scholarship creation. Current pertinent standards are highlighted.

The Demand Driven Acquisitions Pilot Project by the Orbis Cascade Alliance: An Interview with Members of the Demand Driven Acquisitions Implementation Team

Abstract Portland State University collection development librarian Jill Emery talks with members of the Orbis Cascade Alliance demand driven acquisitions implementation team, EBL, and YBP Library Services about their participation in a pilot project to acquire e-books that are accessible to and jointly owned by the thirty-seven member libraries of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

Introduction to OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians

This editorial provides an introduction to OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians. The intention for this crowdsourcing project is outlined along with the major topics of discussion. In conclusion, the editorial outlines next steps and future plans of the authors for the OAWAL project.

Something So Right

In August 2010, Wired magazine declared, “The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” (1) Citing the rise of IPad & Smartphone sales and the rapid explosion of application-based software to run various programs on multiple computing devices—but especially mobile computing devices—people spend more hours than ever connected to or “on” the Internet but less and less time performing search functions on the Web. In light of this declaration, let’s take a quick environmental survey of what this could mean for librarians and publishers of the content purchased for libraries.

All We Do Is Chat Chat: Social Networking for the Electronic Resources Librarian

Social networking tools have been getting quite a bit of press in libraryland for the past couple of years. It is considered to be one of the key aspects of a library joining into what is coming referred to as the Library 2.0 movement. However, in this context, social networking is seen as a library service or library outreach mechanism that utilizes popular social networking sites to place the library within that context. The Library 2.0 movement does have some good suggestions for advancing a library’s presence in the distributed networked world, and I support this transformation of the brick library into the virtual realms where many of their users interact. However, that is not the focus of this column. Instead, this column will explore social networking for the librarian or information science professional. There are many benefits that can be derived by the social networking electronic resources librarian or information specialist. Contrary to the general opinion in management, social networking can help any professional further the goals and objectives of their organization as well as help further their career.

Scenario Building: Creating Your Library's Future

Summary This session consisted of an introduction to scenario planning, the process of projecting a hypothetical future, and planning for it. The meetings facilitators provided historical and contextual information, and then facilitated a series of small group projects in which participants projected a future and planned for it.

Rocking in the Tree Tops.

The latest grid craze is Twitter, a free, micro-blogging site wherein entries can be only 140 characters long. Http://www.twitter.com Entries, known as tweets, provide status updates, immediate thoughts of authors, and/or reviews of lectures, movies, songs, and the like. Tweeters can also post links and photos along with their statements. It requires an amount of precision and succinctness not found in blog entries or other social networks. There is no game playing or some of the other social-networking distractions offered such as list making or survey taking. It is both a push and pull technology in that you can feed information into Twitter from other social networking applications and blogs or vice versa. It is the brevity of the posts and the relative ease with which tweets can be made from both hardware and mobile devices that make this the fastest-growing networking site on the grid. Numerous people are starting Twitter accounts just to see what all the media hype and fuss is about and, though many of these accounts are not maintained after an initial exploration and the ready uptake does not always occur, there are a growing number of regular users who are finding different applications of this tool daily. Twitter provides rapid information in a short form, and it is extremely easy to follow the updates of others because of myriad software applications with which it works on both mobile devices and traditional computing hardware. Currently, most academic librarians are using Twitter primarily as a tool at library conferences and seminars to capture short speaker snippets to share with colleagues both in attendance and not in attendance

Working In A Text Mine; Is Access About To Go Down?

The age of networked research and networked data analysis is upon us. Wired Magazine has told us so in their July 2008 issue whose has a cover that proclaims, “The End of Science. The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age.” Computing technology is sufficiently complex at this point to allow for broad-scope textual analysis of data across a large body of information. However, capability of these research techniques does not necessarily mean widespread availability of these processes or, in a given research institution, the permission to perform such techniques of data analysis carte blanche. In this column, let’s explore the common definitions of text mining, why these processes are becoming more of a necessity for today’s researcher, and what research institutions should begin to do in order to ensure their researchers have the capability to take advantage of these advances in computing technology. Let’s start with the basic definition of what text mining is and how it can be utilized. According to our friends at Wikipedia, text mining is generally defined as follows: