Speakers: Doug Way, Grand Valley State University Libraries, and Ruth Fischer, Sustainable Collections Services.

Speakers: Will Wheeler, Georgetown University; Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Gina McCue, Credo Reference, Scott Anderson, Millersville University.

Resource discovery is a top priority in libraries today, as evidenced by the ever-growing number of libraries that are making significant investments in Discovery Systems. With an equally high value placed on promoting Information Literacy, the questions now facing these libraries are: How will their students and faculty get the most out of the Discovery System, how will a variety of users learn to navigate through discovery layers and how can librarians and vendors collaborate to educate user searching without information overload? Users want the freedom to enter their own terms into search interfaces and yet still have accurate and relevant results returned. As information managers, librarians are investigating ways they can educate their users to understand and improve their results. In answering these and other questions the panel will explore the role of reference as a starting point in today’s Discovery Systems.

This panel will include members from three libraries that have implemented or are currently considering the implementation of a Discovery System in their library.

Speakers: Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Julie Garrison, Grand Valley State University; Rick Lugg, Sustainable Collection Services.

In 2013, Grand Valley State University will open a new library building. At that time materials in the library's existing off-site storage facility will be moved into the new library's automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), reintegrating them with the main collection. These materials had originally been moved into storage in 2003 because of their low use and since that time, only about 1% of the collection has circulated. Knowing how difficult it would be to review the collection once it is an ASRS and wanting to maintain the integrity of the current collection, GVSU decided to undertake a major weeding of its offsite storage facility.

Rather than the traditional title-by-title review of books, the GVSU Libraries worked with Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) to establish criteria for identifying books that could be withdrawn. The goal was to identify candidates for weeding based on objective and quantifiable criteria that could be refined by liaison librarians. This session will discuss the parameters and execution of this data-driven deselection project, including how lists were generated and revised, project workflows, disciplinary differences, the percentage of items actually removed, and the speed of removal. The audience will participate in a discussion about how we make choices for keeping or deselecting materials, the need to continue to house legacy collections, and how ebooks, print-on-demand, and PDA impact our decisions to keep large amounts of physical material that either never has or is no longer circulating.

Are you interested in getting into patron-driven acquisitions but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know how selectors fit into the PDA model? Would you like to see how other institutions have solved workflow issues? Would you like to hear how people have funded their PDA programs? What about assessment of PDA programs? Come learn about purchase-on-demand programs instituted through interlibrary loan. Public and academic libraries will talk about how they got started doing purchase-on-demand and what the patron response has been.

More libraries are utilizing patron driven acquisition (PDA) and vendors are offering creative business models to complement traditional purchasing approaches, posing new opportunities/challenges for acquisitions. This pre-conference, led by experienced professionals, will guide attendees through the different models, expose them to real life programs at libraries of varying sizes, offer strategies for the set-up and on-going management, as well as point out common technical services issues.

Program 4A will focus on the shifting roles of libraries and their staffs, specifically as it relates to broader involvement in scholarly communications activities. Speakers will discuss how libraries are conceiving of their work differently and how they are filling these needs. Case studies will highlight the time and energy scholarly communications activities are taking at their institutions and how the work is managed.

Scheduled Speakers

*Karen Williams, Associate University Librarian for Academic Programs, University of Minnesota Libraries

*Michael Furlough, Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications and Co-Director, Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, Penn State University

*Doug Way, Head of Collections, Grand Valley State University

Some libraries embrace all copies and formats, others tolerate them, and still others remove all formats/copies but one. In a digital age, how do we embrace removing items from our collections that have been replaced by other formats? How do we create buy in for these projects? Come listen to best practices about the ways in which libraries have and are addressing issues surrounding eliminating multiple formats and copies.

Speakers

* Roy Ziegler, Associate Director of Collections, Florida State University

* Robert Kieft, College Librarian, Occidental College

* Doug Way, Head of Collection Development, Grand Valley State University

This groundbreaking new technology exposes content riches in a way that “millenials” and other end-users expect and understand: from a single search box and an appealing, easy interface.Plus, it delivers unbiased, relevant results in sub-second response time, liberating researchers to move forward in their work.

Web-scale discovery is now in use by academic libraries and evidence shows it’s moving them forward, improving service and elevating their profile. Spend an hour hearing for yourself from adopters of the Summon™ service, the pioneer in web-scale discovery, about its impact: Michigan’s Grand Valley State University Library has tracked an immediate rise in its content usage and Arizona State University Library has heightened its presence among students and faculty. In addition, learn how web-scale discovery can help your library increase its return on content investments. Join us for lively discussion as librarians share the change this landmark technology has had on their academic communities and library brand.

The entire webinar can be found at: http://www.libraryjournal.com/webcasts