2019 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference

According to a recent Pew Research Center study usage of electronic resources have declined in the past five years. Although, very few library schools offer marketing courses, many E-Resources Librarians have had marketing and promotion of e-resources added to their job description. For solo and new E-Resources Librarians, this can appear very daunting. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of how to promote and market your e-resources to the patrons of your organization. This workshop will include assessing where you stand now and how to create and measure marketing goals. The workshop will cover recruiting the front line staff as co-marketers. Participants will learn about using online tools such as social media and blogging to promote their e-resources. The workshop will teach participants how to use narrative as a teaching tool for effective trainings, as well as a plan for building relationships and outreach within and outside of the organization. It does not matter what size or type of organization you work for or how long you have worked in e-resources, all participants will leave with a promotional plan adapted specifically for their role and their organization.
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This workshops will be available to in-person attendees only and requires and additional ticket. 
It will not be available via the Online Conference. 
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People who work with e-resources often feel overwhelmed and burnt out under the constant barrage of competing tasks and priorities. Offering a fresh perspective on time and task management, this workshop explores proven methods for combating e-resource burnout, synthesizing the literature to give participants real-world, practical skills and strategies in order to work more efficiently and productively.

Web archiving is an essential way to provide sustained, reliable access to web content, and an increasingly vital part of collection development and records retention. Led by a Web Archivist from the Internet Archive, this workshop will delve both into how to use, and create web archives, mixing discussion with hands on experience creating archived web content.  Participants will explore the programmatic and technical sides of web archiving, and leave with a deeper understanding of the its possibilities, resources, and challenges of web archiving. All skill levels are welcomed, and laptops are encouraged.

Open Access content is a growing part of the overall scholarly literature. In many places, this work has been separated out from technical services into digital scholarship teams. This session is designed to show how to incorporate open access management into the framework most research libraries use for subscription and one-time purchase electronic resource management. In particular, the focus will be mapping workflow for open access management alongside those aspects of electronic resource management most are familiar with: selection, acquisition, implementation, evaluation, troubleshooting, and preservation. Small groups will be convened to tackle a single aspect of the workflow chain and develop a preferred approach for the integration. This will then be discussed in the session at large for feedback and input. At the end of the hour and a half, participants should gain a sense of how the work of open access management can be combined with electronic resource management.

Is it possible that researchers at your institution are working or want to work with text data mining (TDM) content? Does TDM sound like a service that is in your library's distant future at best? This seminar will review the fundamental principles of TDM services and demonstrate the various methods of implementing and maintaining TDM services within your library (focusing on acquisitions, analysis, and assessment). No prior experience is necessary.