Kelly Smith is currently the Coordinator of Collection Services for Eastern Kentucky University Libraries. She leads a talented division of library employees who work behind the scenes to ensure that databases, journals, books and other materials in all formats are easily accessible by EKU faculty, staff, and students. She served on the planning group for the Electronic Resources & Libraries conference since 2005, serving as Chair of the Web Content Committee from 2006 to 2012. In addition to eResource management, her current professional interests include collection development, workflow and process management, organizational learning, and webscale solutions.
Presentations
CCC’s Get It Now Service as a Collection Development Strategy (with Pat New), KLA/KSMA Joint Conference (2012)
Copyright Clearance Center's "Get it Now" service gives libraries the ability to provide immediate fulfillment...
User-Focused Acquisitions Strategies: Developing Collections for the 21st Century, OVGTSL (2012)
With flat or declining budgets and rising prices, most libraries need to find new ways...
What to Expect When You're Expecting a Platform Change, NISO Webinar (2012)
Librarians spend a great deal of time working with electronic resource platforms and helping our...
Get it Now User Experience Panel Discussion, ILLiad International Conference (2012)
A panel discussion including a brief overview of Get It Now followed by a Q&A-based...
Managing eResources Workflow Using Drupal (with Laura Edwards), Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference (2011)
Presented as part of a panel presentation entitled "Innovative eResource Workflow Strategies." Commercial ERM software...
Articles
Navigating a Course for Serials Staffing into the New Millennium (with Lynda Fuller Clendenning and Lori Duggan), Serials Librarian (2010)
In this session, Lynda Fuller Clendenning and Lori Duggan presented information about a recent reorganization...
Serials Spoken Here: 2010 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference (with Laura Edwards), Serials Review (2010)
Conference report on the 2010 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference.
Retrospective Titles: Verification and Online Access (with Charles Hillen and Ann Roll), Against the Grain (2009)
Report on the 2008 Charleston Conference session: “Retrospective Titles: Verification and Online Access,” presented by...
Alternatives to Licensing of E-Resources (with Selden Lamoreux and Rolnic Zachary), Serials Librarian (2008)
As libraries continue to increase the amount of content purchased in electronic format, the convention...
ER&L: The Big Picture, Library Hi Tech News (2007)
Report on the 2007 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference.