**Call Extended**
Just back from ER&L or on your way to ACRL national? Think about bringing back some of the excitement back home. We are looking for presentation ideas of different formats, lengths, and levels of formality.
Let us know what you want to talk about – submit your presentation idea by March 17th -
https://tufts.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b9NDcp7EeLIYAxT.
Call for Presentations for TERMS of Engagement: Managing Collections and Electronic Resources Lifecycles
What is it?
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A free, one-day program: TERMS of Engagement: Managing Collections and Electronic Resources Lifecycles hosted by ACRL New England Chapter’s Collection Development Interest Group (CDIG) and Electronic Resources Management Interest
Group (ERMIG)
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 10am-1pm, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA; free breakfast and registration 9:30-10am; optional dine-around lunch and networking 1-3pm
The 6 Techniques for Electronic Resource Management (TERMS) (https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/terms/) give us a common language to share, explore,
and evolve our work of acquiring and managing academic libraries’ e-resource collections. Using TERMS as a program framework, ACRL NEC CDIG and ERMIG seek presentation topics of varying lengths around one or more of the 6 TERMS. Possible presentation ideas
include:
1. Investigate Content for Purchase
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Developing best practices for assessing the accessibility/usability of products
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Tools for comparing similar products – overlap analyses, deciding between e-book platforms
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Innovative ways to involve students and faculty in trials
2. Acquiring New Content
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Successes using SERU or the CRL model license
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Getting OA or text-mining provisions into your license
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Negotiation tips
3. Implementation
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New tricks to deal with access issues
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Marketing ideas – spreading the word to different audiences
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Getting the most out of trainers
4. Ongoing Evaluation and Access
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Impact factor projects
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Tips for getting more out of COUNTER
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Talking about downtime – how much, where, to who?
5. Annual Review
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Helping out the “at-risk” publications
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Data visualization for usage stats and e-resource value
6. Cancellation & Replacement Review
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Breaking the news about a break-up to patrons, to vendors
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Local hosting solutions to ensure post-cancellation access
We want your ideas about managing collections and electronic resources lifecycles. We are looking for a wide range of presentations in length, format, and content. You could propose a formal presentation of a
project or workflow, or share preliminary sketches of a crazy idea you want feedback on. Our goal is for this program to be a place for idea-sharing, for stories from the trenches, and for the fostering of future collaborations.
Important Dates
The DEADLINE for submitting a proposal is Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Please use the following form to submit your proposal:
https://tufts.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b9NDcp7EeLIYAxT.
Late March: Registration opens
4/27: Presentation materials due
4/29: Program day!
About ERMIG and CDIG
Focusing on Electronic Resources Management and Collection Development, ERMIG and CDIG are special interest groups of the ACRL New England Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (http://www.acrlnec.org/).
For past program information, visit:
http://cdig.acrlnec.org/content/programs and
http://serig.acrlnec.org/content/programs.
CDIG and ERMIG co-chairs coordinating this event are:
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Martha Kelehan, Tufts University (CDIG),
martha.kelehan@tufts.edu
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Susan Raidy-Klein, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (CDIG),
sraidyklein@umassd.edu
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Kim Maxwell, MIT (ERMIG),
kmaxwell@mit.edu
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Galadriel Chilton, University of Connecticut (ERMIG),
galadriel.chilton@lib.uconn.edu