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 CountMaking 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

a.aaron@neu.edu

617-373-4961 (work)

617-373-5409 (fax)