Welcome to the NASIG 2024 Conference. This conference will take place at the Spokane Davenport Grand, Spokane, WA June 3 - June 7, 2024. Please visit the NASIG website for conference details.
Please note: edits and other changes are still being made the schedule, content will remain as listed.
The NASIG Evaluation & Assessment Committee wants your feedback on the 2024 NASIG Annual Conference in Spokane, WA. Link to survey forthcoming.
As in previous years, you will be asked to rate the sessions and workshops you attended. You will be asked to rate presenters, as well as provide an overall rating for the sessions. You will also have the opportunity to rate other conference events, facilities, and arrangements and to provide input for next year’s conference.
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.