Going back through to miss a couple live sessions I missed and get started on tomorrow's live Q&A list!
Excellent closing keynote!
"It's time to be like Rapunzel and thrown down some hair." Let's get rid of the things that make academia the ivory tower that it has too long been. Let's help others in without having to figure out the secret phrase.
Keynote: In K-12, students are taken to the library weekly or so, so they are taught that if they need to go to the library, someone will let them know and take them. When they are out on their own, they assume that Google must be enough if no one is taking them to the library.Â
My additional thought: And we're seeing that faculty, too often, are not willing to bring the library (our librarians) to them either.
I swear that our speaker just loves to yell, "Go, Cocks!" 😂
Why do we wait for Pride Month to put up our signs and displays? Why isn't there intersectionality on display all year?
Users are looking around and not seeing themselves too much of the time.
"Literature serves as a mirror." -Michael Brown, ER&L Closing Keynote Speaker
Okay, that session kind of broke my brain while I'm now considering so many pieces that our campus libraries need to consider as/if we move forward with more transformative agreements...
@scissortail
I'm really starting to re-think some of the things we're doing already. We're fighting to get a Scholarly Publishing Librarian for our library. It keeps getting approved and approval is pulled back, and it's been a couple years of this now.
Scholarly publishing is HUGE for medical programs, so it's been a bit frustrating that we're not seeing that support. And Anjana made a great point about needing that org-wide support.
Does anyone have the cost savings from transformative agreements being funneled back to the library? I honestly hadn't even considered this point, but it's a good one to think about.
Things to think about when you're considering whether you should sign a transformative agreement
We just entered into our first transformative agreement (with CUP, just like FGCU) and are working on our second right now.
Where is everyone else in this process? Still keeping an eye on it? Already working with publishers?
Ready for JeoParody?? I am!
Going back to this slide, because I kept it up. I feel like no one really knows what we do, so the slide before it adds the "what we do" info is pretty accurate for many people. 😂
Shout out to Eve Stano's Carterette Series session and https://www.electronicresourceslibrarian.com/.
Anyone having anything fun for lunch today?
I use Airtable for so much ERM tracking and also my troubleshooting ticketing.
I say this almost every day: "Have you cleared your cache?"
Would other e-resources library workers be interested in a ERM @a.gup.pe group?
ERM@a.gup.pe