2019 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference

A successful data visualization can tell a powerful story with numbers. In recent years many libraries have started to use the data visualization software Tableau to help analyze the library usage data we collect and to communicate library impact and values to the community: How many visitors we have per year? How much money we spend for an electronic journal and what is the usage? What is the circulation per capita for this branch library?

The workshop will begin with an introduction to library usage data that all libraries work with: gate counts, circulation statistics and COUNTER reports, etc.. The participants will learn about the characteristics of the data and methods that are most suitable for visualizing them. The participants will learn how to use Tableau Public, a free version of the Tableau software, to create interactive data visualization including basic chart types, thematic maps and data dashboards. Good data visualization comes from “clean” data. As such this workshop will have brief introductions to tools and procedures that can be apply to clean and prepare library usage data for visualization. The workshop will also introduce the participants to design principles for data visualization and different types of data visualization tools (free or commercial).

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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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Libraries have long been valued for the unique expertise their librarians bring to knowledge management. They translate information into knowledge and provide context that no other information service that competes for users’ time and attention like Google or Amazon can do. Unfortunately, the context the librarian brings cannot extend at scale. It’s a personal one-to-one interaction that’s designed for the physical library user, but leaves the virtual user left in the dark. This session will look at Innovative’s new Context Engine, a data platform that ingests and natively transforms metadata from a variety of sources, such as library catalog, authorities, ONIX, content providers, etc., to expose unseen connections between persons, concepts and resources to finally put knowledge in context at scale.

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Several librarians recently partnered with Elsevier to study the need for a Research Data
Management (RDM) Librarian Academy to offer online training. The team includes Harvard
Medical School, Tufts Health Sciences, MCPHS University, Boston University School of Medicine
and Simmons College. This session reports on a needs assessment and inventory.

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Gavin Phillips, the Acquisitions Services Manager at Imperial College London, will talk about why the library chose to provide textbooks to students, how they have funded their project, and why they chose Bibliotech, a new ebook platform seeking to disrupt the market.

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The way we shop is changing fast, but you won’t hear anything about new concepts in shopping centers at this session.  What you will learn about are the factors driving constant change for academic libraries, publishers, and booksellers, who today inhabit a market complex enough to rival retail shopping as an activity barely recognizable from even the recent past.  How is success defined today?  Does success look the same to everyone, or are there competing approaches in redefining what it means to build an academic library book collection today?

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We rely on essential insights gleaned from our library customers into the needs, challenges and priorities of their institutions and users. Feedback has directly informed our approach to everything from platform design to business models and product development. Supporting that dialogue will continue to be invaluable as we move through a time of unprecedented change for academia and scholarly publishing.

This session will focus on how Cambridge gathers and incorporates feedback to improve our products and platforms, and present an opportunity for you to join us as we continue to invest in gathering meaningful customer feedback. We are inviting librarians from across the globe to register their interest in joining a new virtual Librarian Panel, allowing members to take part in feedback activities such as surveys, user testing, and discussion groups. We welcome librarians in all job functions, from acquisitions, technical services, and cataloguing to subject liaisons and scholarly communication. Join our session to learn more!