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This seminar is aimed at those responsible for collecting, analysing and making recommendations based on usage data, whether in a library setting or within a publishing organisation. Taking place online over two morning sessions on Tuesday 20th October & Wednesday 21st October.

When

October 20 2020 - 10:00
to
October 21 2020 - 12:30

Where

Online
United Kingdom

About the Event

 

Summary

Those with a responsibility for overseeing the management of library collections have more access than ever to statistical data to assist with evaluation and to justify return on investment, and enhancement of the user experience. Understanding the library's use of this data is also vital for publishers.   Advances in standardisation led by the COUNTER initiative have made statistics more accessible and reliable as a basis for decision making.

Increasingly, libraries are being asked to make extremely difficult decisions about the priorities for their spending within a strategic context.  Although this presents huge challenges, it can also be an impetus to change the ways in which services are provided. Publishers need to be aware of what statistics librarians are looking at and how they are being used to inform collection development.

This seminar provides illustrations by expert decision makers on how statistics are used to make strategic decisions.  It will also present the challenges, such as demonstrating value and presenting data to different audiences.  Future developments within the field will also be addressed, together with considerations of how these will impact on decision making in the future, for example new approaches to analytics.  There will be discussion on how the development of open access is impacting on usage behaviour and influencing considerations for collection development.

Delegates will have the opportunity to reflect on the role of statistics in the broader context of further and higher education, and the culture of assessment that is becoming increasingly prominent within the sector.  There will be the chance to share experiences, positive and negative, of using statistics for decision making and delegates will be encouraged to actively participate throughout the day.

Who should attend

This seminar is aimed at both those in libraries who need to analyse or interpret usage data to support decision making about resources and collections, within a strategic context.  It will be of interest to those with a responsibility for overseeing the management and evaluation of library collections in the further and higher education sector, and who need to demonstrate impact and value to senior leadership teams, rather than those involved in the operational role.  It may also be of interest to those working in other areas of the scholarly information industry.  It will also be of importance to publishers who need to understand the collection development decisions of their customers.

Please note: This seminar does not cover the practical aspects of collecting usage data, or of creating reports.  These topics are covered by the UKSG Practical Usage Statistics for Librarians seminar, a hands-on workshop on gathering and manipulating usage statistics.

Learning Objectives

Delegates will: 

  • learn about ways in which library resource usage statistics have been used by staff in university libraries to inform decision-making processes
  • develop an understanding of how usage statistics can be used to demonstrate value from a publisher perspective
  • gain knowledge of the impact of open access publishing on usage statistics and demonstrating value
  • gain a greater insight into the wider environment and context in which usage statistics decision making is carried out and new approaches to this
  • have an opportunity to discuss and share experiences of gathering and manipulating usage statistics to make financial, management and service decisions, as well as evidencing value.

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Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible.

Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this seminar/webinar, we welcome you to contact events@uksg.org

Programme

Time
Programme and Speakers
Programme
Speakers

10.00

Login & Housekeeping

10.05

Chairs Welcome and Introduction

Klara Finnimore
Royal College of Art

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA's online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. She also contributes to the work of a number of committees across the library sector.

Anja van Hoek
BRILL

Anja van Hoek is Program Manager Online Resources at Brill, where she is overseeing Brill’s online publishing program. A major part of her role is the coordination of the various aspects - relating to Brill’s online publishing program - between publishing, sales and marketing. Working closely with the Data and Platform Teams within Brill’s Operation department she plays an important role in monitoring usage data.

10.15

E-resources - evaluating return on investment"

Sarah Packard
Anglia Ruskin University

I have worked at Anglia Ruskin University for over 20 years in a variety of roles. Currently in my role as Content Delivery Librarian I am responsible for maintaining consistent and accurate metadata for all library resources ensuring that our holdings are accurately represented in our resource discovery layer and full access to our online resources is maintained. As part of my role I also collate and manipulate and present usage data to aid decision making with regard to renewal of our e-resources.

10.35

We all have Big Data. What now? A Library-Vendor Analytics partnership

Richard Burkitt
EBSCO

Richard Burkitt has worked in the information industry for around 20 years. Richard began in the web team of a globally renowned scientific publisher and moved into library automation via a variety of commercial and technical roles.

 

In his current role with EBSCO, Richard is Director of Innovation. His responsibilities include both library patron services, such as Discovery and linking, through to the library back of house technologies supporting digital data preservation and safeguarding, research workflows and analytics as well as FOLIO - the new Library Services Platform.

 

Richard’s motivations include the use of technology in education and in particular working with library patron and staff services to enhance resource use and link together single pieces of technology into meaningful workflows within the physical and virtual library.

11.00

Building a value story: communicating content and publisher value to administrators

Sonja Lendi
Elsevier

After completing her master’s degree in Biology, Sonja started working for Elsevier, where she was responsible for several journals in her field, guiding the accepted manuscripts to the final issue. After a couple of years, she moved to the market research department and got involved in the usage reports for the newly launched ScienceDirect. COUNTER and customer reports became a big part of her tasks. She was a member of the COUNTER executive committee from 2011 to 2016, and was actively involved in the creation of the latest Code of Practice.

 

Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova
Elsevier

11.45

Break

11.55

Breakout Sessions

12.40

Summary of the day and preparation for day 2

Klara Finnimore
Royal College of Art

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA's online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. She also contributes to the work of a number of committees across the library sector.

Anja van Hoek
BRILL

Anja van Hoek is Program Manager Online Resources at Brill, where she is overseeing Brill’s online publishing program. A major part of her role is the coordination of the various aspects - relating to Brill’s online publishing program - between publishing, sales and marketing. Working closely with the Data and Platform Teams within Brill’s Operation department she plays an important role in monitoring usage data.

Time
Programme and Speakers
Programme
Speakers

10.00

Login & Housekeeping

10.05

Chairs Welcome and Introduction

Birgit Fraser
Anglia Ruskin University

Birgit has worked in the Higher Education sector for 17 years. For the past year, she has worked as Assistant Director: Academic and Content Services at Anglia Ruskin University. Birgit leads teams in delivering high quality academic liaison and research support, acquiring and managing print and online collections, delivering content to users and providing a comprehensive range of information and digital skills training to support our staff and students.

Nathan Newey
University of Greenwich

Having worked in academic libraries for almost 30 years, I have had a change in direction and now work for Browns Books who are a leading supplier of monographs and e-books to all types of educational establishments in the UK and beyond. My role as Regional Area Manager for London still enables me to interact with libraries ensuring that Browns gives the best possible service to its customers.

10.15

Homework task feedback

10.40

The readMETRICS project at Consortium Luxembourg

Patrick Peiffer
Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg

- Head of Consortium dept. at National Library of Luxembourg, providing licence lifecycle and and access services for national, academic and public libraries, research centers and governmental organisations (a-z.lu, ebooks.lu, bibgov.lu). More at www.consortium.lu/about
- Current focus: Transforming consortial services, infrastructure and analytics towards "Read & Publish" model to support Open Access.
- Background in digital commons and copyright: International rights statements working group www.rightsstatements.org; past projects: licensing framework for Europeana.eu; public domain calculator www.outofcopyright.eu and orphan works crowdsourcing www.diligentsearch.eu.

Related private interest: Future of the Commons, beyond digital commons. Trying to figure out real estate commons, based on syndikat.org model.

11.25

Break

11.35

Building a value story: communicating content and publisher value to senior managers.

Sarah Thompson
Head of Content and Open Research University of York*

Sarah Thompson is Head of Content and Open Research and a member of the Library, Archives and Learning Services Leadership Team at the University of York. She takes an active role in the RLUK Collection Strategy Network and in the White Rose Libraries Partnership, and is a member of the White Rose University Press Management Board. She also participates in a number of different national and international consortia groups and publisher and supplier advisory boards.

 

12.20

Summary and Finish

Birgit Fraser
Anglia Ruskin University

Birgit has worked in the Higher Education sector for 17 years. For the past year, she has worked as Assistant Director: Academic and Content Services at Anglia Ruskin University. Birgit leads teams in delivering high quality academic liaison and research support, acquiring and managing print and online collections, delivering content to users and providing a comprehensive range of information and digital skills training to support our staff and students.

Nathan Newey
Regional Area Manager for London Browns Books for Students

Having worked in academic libraries for almost 30 years, I have had a change in direction and now work for Browns Books who are a leading supplier of monographs and e-books to all types of educational establishments in the UK and beyond. My role as Regional Area Manager for London still enables me to interact with libraries ensuring that Browns gives the best possible service to its customers.

Registration

September 01 2020 - 00:00 - October 18 2020 - 00:00

£ 60.00 + £ 12.00 VAT

UKSG Members

£ 72.00 + £ 14.40 VAT

UKSG Non-Members

NB:  UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund monies.

Contact

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Cancellations

The closing date for cancellations is Tuesday 29 September, after which date cancellations will not be eligible for a refund.  Cancellation should be sent into writing to events@uksg.org.  All registrants will be sent a link to a recording after the event.

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NB: UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund monies.

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