The ALCTS CRS E-Resources Interest
Group (ER IG) requests presentation proposals
for our Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on Saturday, June 26, 2010 from
10:30am-12:00pm.
The topic is: Down for the Count: Making the Case for
E-Resource Usage Statistics
We are looking for speakers to
help us kick off discussion about the collection and usage of e-resource
statistics, covering some of the following areas:
Innovative ways of collecting or
using e-resource statistics
Using e-resource statistics to
inform renewals and cancellations
Using e-resource statistics for
cost per use analysis
SUSHI (Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting Initiative) standard for e-resource statistics
Use of Scholarly Stats and other
services to gather e-resource statistics
Use of statistics from proxy
service or link resolver
What are the vendor services we
still need in this area?
Each presentation should be
approximately 10-15 minutes and the panel will be followed by questions and
answers, with ample discussion.
Please e-mail proposals by May 20,
2010 to Amira Aaron (a.aaron@neu.edu)
Include in your proposal:
- Title of presentation
- Brief summary of proposed presentation
- Name(s) and position(s) of presenter(s)
- E-mail address(es) of presenter(s)
Thank you for your participation!
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Amira Aaron
Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources
Northeastern University Libraries
360 Huntington Avenue
320 Snell Library
Boston MA 02115
617-373-4961 (work)
617-373-5409 (fax)