Serials Spoken Here

Abstract

This column reports on sessions from the virtual Electronic Resources and Libraries 2022 conference. Four reports are about data in academic libraries including: text and data mining licensing and discovery, acquisition processes for datasets, EBSCO’s data visualization product, Panorama, and their development partners, and case studies using collections data science to demonstrate library value. Two reports cover working cross-departmental collaborations, one to better manage evidence-based acquisition and demand-driven acquisition ebook programs, and the other about overall library reorganization. The other reports summarize conference presentations on problematic language in subject headings and discovery tools, tracking perpetual access rights in license agreements, implementation of cyclical renewal assessments, and a pilot to test whole ebook interlibrary loan.

Keywords:

• Academic libraries
• text and data mining
• TDM
• data science
• datasets
• data visualization
• assessment
• analytics library value
• electronic-resources
• critical cataloging
• critical librarianship
• subject headings
• ebook management
• evidence-based acquisition
• license agreements
• library cooperation
• library reorganization
• change management
• workplace culture
• employee satisfaction

Notes

1 https://github.com/bldaigle/term_flags