Academic Library Section

This program will focus resources for providing high quality services including how to take control of information overload, using subject expertise at a generalist service desk, and serving students with specific needs.

Presenters:

Using Subject Expertise at a Generalist Service Desk

Kate Holvoet, University of Utah

Darby Fanning, University of Utah

Taking Control of Information Overload in a Digital Age

Steve Irving, Southern Utah University                             

Serving Student Veterans

Sarah LeMire, University of Utah

The merging of university demographic data and library data led to an easy-to-access, easy-to-use data repository known as a “data universe.”  The tighter collaboration between the library assessment unit and the university Office of Information Technology (OIT) has made data acquisition and analysis a much smoother and more efficient process. This innovation, a collaborative project between OIT and the library, has helped to simplify the assessment process and led to new opportunities to show how the library contributes to the achievement of identified student learning outcomes.  In this session we will engage the audience with clicker polls, showing the data universe and creating an ad hoc report(s) in response to audience request.

Presenters:

C. Jeffrey Belliston, Brigham Young University

Brian Rennick, Brigham Young University

Allyson Washburn, Brigham Young University

Digitize it and they will come…  Or not.  Digitizing primary source material is much more than simply scanning  documents.   Let’s discuss some methods for getting donor and community supplied metadata that allows your community to “tell its story” and keeps you from having the vague “Two men on a road” type of metadata in your digital library.  And who knows?  You might just end up promoting your digital library and  garnering a little bit of community enthusiasm along the way.

Presenters:

Alison Regan, Associate Librarian and Head of Scholarship and Education Services at the University of Utah

Amy Brunvald, University of Utah

Polly Stewart

Jennifer Bott

Liz Woolcott, Utah State University

Andrea Payant, Utah State University

Paul Daybell, Utah State University

Becky Skeen, Utah State University

An Institutional Open Access Policy: how we did it, and how you can do it too

In early 2012 the Merrill-Cazier Library began working with the USU Faculty Senate to draft an open access policy. It was designed to assist employees in protecting their copyrights as well as to ensure broader access to and distribution of research happening at USU. The policy went into effect in May 2012 and was introduced to the USU community at-large through a series of departmental presentations in the early weeks of the fall semester. In this presentation, we will discuss the process of designing and implementing such a policy as well as highlight the many new and varied resources related to open access that are now available.

Presenters:

Becky Thoms, Utah State University

Andrew Wesolek, Utah State University

Open Access Legislation and Policies