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Item The 2.5% Commitment(2017-09-11) Lewis, David W.This article argues that academic libraries should commit 2.5% of their total budgets to organizations and projects that contribute to the common digital infrastructure need to support the open scholarly commons. This level of contribution is necessary if the needed infrastructure is to be put in place. Establishing this level of contribution as the expected norm will help to create the incentives necessary for individual libraries to make contributions at this level.Item 'Academic Library Support Staff Competencies: What Should Support Staff Know and be Able to Do?(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009) Applegate, RachelThis research reports on data from a recent widely-disseminated survey of academic and public librarians and library support staff. The paper describes what professional competencies respondents considered most (and least) important for support staff. It shows what are the most-highly-rated items overall, and examines areas where opinions differed the most, comparing academic and public libraries, and support staff, MLS, and director respondents. Connected to the ALA Library Support Staff Certification Project.Item Adding apps to our collections: A pilot project(American Library Association, 2017) Miller, Willie; Lee, Yoo Young; Pike, CaitlinItem Age Demographics and the Organizational Dilemma Facing Academic Libraries(2016-01) Lewis, David W.Academic libraries are, because of the age demographics of the librarian workforce, facing an organizational dilemma. Stated most simply the dilemma is: Academic libraries need to exploit new technologies using new service strategies to be effective. They will need to do so with a librarian labor force that consists of a large number of baby boomers many of whom will remain in the workforce for at least another decade. At the same time millennium librarians, who will replace the baby boomers, need to be attracted and provided an environment that will allow them to develop and grow, and that will productively use their skills and expertise. It will be important that both groups be productive and make contributions, but creating an organization with a structure and culture to do both will be difficult because in many cases aspirations and needs of the two groups will differ and be at cross purposes. These two imperatives, keeping baby boomer librarians productive and providing millennium librarians opportunities to grow and develop can be accomplished simultaneously, but not without creatively thinking about the libraries organizational structure and attention to its culture. This paper will layout the problem and suggest the issues that need to be considered.Item Analyzing a Journal Package Using Google Sheets(2024-02-25) Macy, Katharine V.This video walks learners through how to create an analysis using COUNTER, individual journal pricing, and ILL cost data to ascertain the value of a package and determine options including BATNA during negotiation preparation for a journal package that explores moving to an a la carte purchasing model. It takes learners step by step through the instructions using Google Sheets for an exercise in the Negotiation Planning Part 2 lesson of the Foundations module of the ONEAL Project Curriculum (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) and provides commentary on the analysis.Item Analyzing a Journal Package Using Microsoft Excel(2024-02-25) Macy, Katharine V.This video walks learners through how to create an analysis using COUNTER, individual journal pricing, and ILL cost data to ascertain the value of a package and determine options including BATNA during negotiation preparation for a journal package that explores moving to an a la carte purchasing model. It takes learners step by step through the instructions using Microsoft Excel for an exercise in the Negotiation Planning Part 2 lesson of the Foundations module of the ONEAL Project Curriculum (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) and provides commentary on the analysis.Item Analyzing Non-Profit Vendor Financial Data Part 1: The Annual Report(2024-02-25) Macy, Katharine V.This video walks learners through how to read and find key information within the annual report for a non-profit publisher, The American Chemical Society. It takes learners step by step through the instructions for an exercise in the Negotiation Planning Part 3 lesson of the Foundations module of the ONEAL Project Curriculum (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) and provides commentary on the analysis.Item Analyzing Non-Profit Vendor Financial Data Part 2: The Form 990(2024-02-26) Macy, Katharine V.This video walks learners through how to read and find key information within the 990 for a non-profit publisher, The American Chemical Society. It takes learners step by step through the instructions for an exercise in the Negotiation Planning Part 3 lesson of the Foundations module of the ONEAL Project Curriculum (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) and provides commentary on the analysis.Item A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure(Educopia Institute, 2020-05) Lewis, David W.This bibliography scan covers a lot of ground. In it, I have attempted to capture relevant recent literature across the whole of the digital scholarly communications infrastructure. I have used that literature to identify significant projects and then document them with descriptions and basic information. Structurally, this review has three parts. In the first, I begin with a diagram showing the way the projects reviewed fit into the research workflow; then I cover a number of topics and functional areas related to digital scholarly communication. I make no attempt to be comprehensive, especially regarding the technical literature; rather, I have tried to identify major articles and reports, particularly those addressing the library community. The second part of this review is a list of projects or programs arranged by broad functional categories. The third part lists individual projects and the organizations—both commercial and nonprofit—that support them. I have identified 206 projects. Of these, 139 are nonprofit and 67 are commercial. There are 17 organizations that support multiple projects, and six of these—Artefactual Systems, Atypon/Wiley, Clarivate Analytics, Digital Science, Elsevier, and MDPI—are commercial. The remaining 11—Center for Open Science, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), LYRASIS/DuraSpace, Educopia Institute, Internet Archive, JISC, OCLC, OpenAIRE, Open Access Button, Our Research (formerly Impactstory), and the Public Knowledge Project—are nonprofit.Item The Boolean is Dead, Long Live the Boolean! Natural Language versus Boolean Searching in Introductory Undergraduate Instruction(2017) Lowe, M. Sara; Maxson, Bronwen K.; Stone, Sean M.; Miller, Willie; Snajdr, Eric; Hanna, Kathleen A.