NASIG 2024

User driven acquisitions programs, including demand driven acquisitions (DDAs) and evidence based acquisitions (EBAs), have evolved from experiments to central methods of building collections at many academic libraries. Although user driven collections decenter librarians, there are still many questions about how much control librarians can or should have in shaping collections, which librarians should be doing this work, and how these decisions impact collections in the short and long term. The presenter will give a background on various forms of user driven collections and share experiences and examples from the EBAs and DDAs at his institution. A majority of the workshop will be spent in small group activities that focus on the practical aspects of administering and evaluating user driven programs and discussions about how to align collections to institution goals and values. While the primary focus of the session will be on eBooks, user driven acquisitions of streaming videos, journal articles, and print books will also be discussed.

Having a laptop computer will be helpful for some activities but is not required.

Program Description:
As an experienced CONSER serials cataloger who works extensively with Special Collections materials, I’ve often been asked to catalogue materials replete with content many would deem offensive. These materials include magazines featuring sexually explicit text and images as well as propaganda published by hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi organizations.
In the process, I’ve had to establish practices for handling these materials that minimize my colleagues’ exposure to them and that protect my own emotional health. In support of the latter, I’ve developed emotional coping mechanisms which center around practicing radical empathy towards the targets of the hate group material, in large part by creating bibliographic and NACO records that clearly identify its creators while exposing the nature/intent of their work and their connections to creators of affiliated/associated work.
It’s my intention with this presentation to share the methods/coping mechanisms I’ve developed as best practices to aid others faced with the challenge of cataloging similar materials.
Learning Outcomes:
It’s my intention with this presentation to share the methods/coping mechanisms I’ve developed as best practices to aid others faced with the challenge of cataloging similar materials.

 

Program Description:
Are your users having online resource access issues? Is access intuitive and reliable? Are you concerned that your user community’s online privacy isn’t sufficiently protected? Did you ever wish there was a toolkit to help you audit these and other issues? We can help!
To help navigate the complex issues that occur as a result of changing technology, regulations, and user expectations, SeamlessAccess is producing a toolkit that gives librarians a framework for auditing their resource access. Structured into four key areas - Usability, Privacy, Reliability, and Security- the toolkit enables libraries to identify the risks and opportunities that inform decision making and advocate for future investment.
This presentation explores the first two areas (Usability & Privacy) and includes a discussion about the toolkit along with the issues it addresses. It also features information from a library that has utilized this toolkit to identify and address access-related issues, assess potential ethical or legal exposure, and identify best practices and recommended next steps for moving forward. We will also demonstrate how this toolkit can serve as a communications tool to enable librarians to improve knowledge and awareness within their teams as well as with key stakeholders outside the library.  
Learning Outcomes:
​​​​Following this session, participants will be able to begin understanding the complex issues that affect resource access that occur as a result of changing technology and regulations, and will be able to perform an access audit to explore and identify potential issues affecting usability and user privacy.