ER&L 2018

Many e-resources librarians deal with a chicken-and-egg problem: Libraries need to be able to track important universal information about e-resources while cultivating site-specific metadata that is not common to all libraries. However, CORAL, an open source ERM, provides opportunities for integration with global knowledgebases that can seamlessly leverage universal data.

Join us for our 8th annual gathering for both prospective and active users of the CORAL electronic resources management system. Highlights will include announcements for changes to the software and documentation along with demonstrations. The session will include time for attendees to share feedback and ask questions.

Change management resides at the heart of electronic resources librarianship and is crucial when overseeing the licensing review and preservation process. Project management principles can help ERLs frame evolving workloads and faciliate long-term records preservation. This session provides a case study for simplifying license management in an academic research library.

The “bento box” results display has been adopted by many trend-setting libraries. But is it more effective and more liked by users? This presentation will discuss the results of a study designed to answer those questions and include insights from one of the pioneers of the bento box display.

I'll present how using innovative product development processes taken out of the startup world helped create an end user focused new product that offers library services in the workflow of off campus users, thus generating a new touchpoint with patrons - one that they highly appreciate.

We have folders, emails, memories, and LibGuides, but the University of Central Florida never had an electronic resource management system. In July, our consortia migrates to Sierra and its ERM. How to gather and track our data in a useful, sustainable way? Hear our plan and share your experiences.

One of the chief promises of linked data for libraries is search engine visibility. Few studies, however, have attempted a quantitative analysis of linked data's impact on search engine rankings. In this session, we will review a linked data project from a search engine optimization perspective.

To achieve its twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, the World Bank President announced a set of reorganization plans at its Annual Meeting in October 2013. To address expenditure review and strategic staffing, World Bank Library had to navigate the access/cost conundrum for effective e-resources management.

This session will discuss the IRUS-USA pilot project, a joint effort between JISC and DLF, which enables Institutional Repositories to share and compare usage data based on the COUNTER standard. The presentation will highlight the outcome of work to date and the opportunities for international coordination and cooperation.

A successful data visualization can tell a powerful story with numbers. In recent years many libraries have started to use the data visualization software Tableau to help analyze the library data we collect and to communicate library impact and values to the community: How many visitors we have per year? How much money we spend for an electronic journal and what is the usage? What is the circulation per capita for this branch library?

The workshop will begin with an introduction to the various types of data that all libraries work with: bibliographic records, statistics, survey data, etc.. The participants will learn about the characteristics of library data and methods that are most suitable for visualizing the library data. The participants will learn how to use Tableau Public, a free version of the Tableau software, to create interactive data visualization including basic chart types, thematic maps and data dashboards. Good data visualization comes from “clean” data. As such this workshop will have brief introductions to tools and procedures that can be apply to clean library data for visualization. The workshop will also introduce the participants to design principles for data visualization and different types of data visualization tools (free or commercial).


This workshops will be available to in-person attendees only and requires an additional ticket. It will not be available via the Online Conference.