NASIG Autumn 2024: Full Schedule

Welcome to NASIG Autumn 2024! This conference will be held online October 15-17, 2024
Register here: https://www.nasig.org/event-5842514

Zoom details will be shared with registered attendees via email before the conference.
Virtual Live sessions will occur during their scheduled time.
Pre-recorded sessions are available to view on demand. To access videos, please log into Sched, click on a pre-recorded session, and use the Video Stream link. The video player will open in a new tab.
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Connect Four: Visualize Your Annual Database Renewals in Excel

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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While it may be a portion of the story, having readily available charts showing 1) database usage, 2) year-to-year cost, 3) percentage changes, and 4) cost per use to share with library stakeholders can make all the difference when decision-making for renewals or communicating trends. If you’re already spending lots of time with Excel, why not gather it together there? This session intends to show how to set up a master data table in Excel, create PivotTables and PivotCharts, and add a unifying slicer to help see with a one-click view the four data points over multiple years.

Speakers

Tracy Holtman

Associate Director of Resource Management & Discovery, Tarleton State University

Amy Castillo

Director of Access and Discovery, University of Texas at Arlington

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Deselection Criteria and Inventory Evolution After a Large Unexpected Print Withdrawal Project

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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In February 2023, the library was notified an IT server room would be relocated to the journal stacks floor, resulting in the loss of 28 rows of shelving of the print collection. We will describe how we analyzed and selected the titles that made up the over 33,000 print volumes we withdrew. We will also show how our record and inventory practices changed to not only address this project but also to establish new standards and reproducibility in the future.

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Rebecca Bealer

Head, Serials/Systems Librarian, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Library

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Evidence Based Assessment of Evidence Based Acquisitions

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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EBA programs combine features of subscription packages and firm order acquisitions. For libraries with separate subscription and firm order assessment routines, this may limit possibilities for ongoing evaluation of the success of EBA programs. This session describes a project to develop a holistic and routine assessment of EBA programs. The assessment informs renewal discussions by a deciding committee of teaching librarians and collections personnel and provides data to support communication about decisions to university stakeholders. Presenters will describe the process of selecting data points to analyze and share a template of their EBA assessment spreadsheet.

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Sidonie Devarenne

Collection Management and Assessment Librarian, Western Washington University

Mary Wegmann

Braith Birchhall

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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From APC funds to Open Investments: Coastal Carolina University's journey to support Open Access

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Is your library looking for alternatives to support open access publishing beyond directly underwriting APC charges for your faculty? Are you considering open investment opportunities for publishing e-books? CCU University Libraries recently identified several memberships and initiatives that changed our open access initiatives to not only support our own faculty's scholarly publishing, but to support broader open access for all scholars.
This presentation will discuss the various methods used at CCU to expand and support open access publishing, including an institutional APC fund, the move to open investments, targeting specific journal and e-book publishers that support our faculty's research, successes and challenges, and next steps.

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Todd Rix

Collection Strategies Librarian, Coastal Carolina University

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Hurry Up and Wait: The Pitfalls and Practicalities of Onboarding Two New Open Access Journals

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Staff from the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will share two case studies about onboarding journals. The first case involves a journal led by students with limited understanding of copyright and Creative Commons licensing. The second case concerns a faculty-led journal that resurfaced after a two-year lapse in communication. Both journals were eager to move forward, but our team’s efforts were often met with long periods of silence and expressions of frustration from editors. This presentation will detail how we resolved these issues and ensured the journals met standards required by our institution and indexers before going live.

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Angela Watters

Digital Publishing Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Improving oversight of unique archival collection processing at Montana State University Library

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Processing unique archival collections at the Montana State University Library was historically a complex and challenging experience, often requiring the collaboration of three departments. In 2021, a project to develop better workflows was undertaken. A Cross Functional Group (CFG) was created to facilitate communication between the departments and track progress to ensure success. The role of the CFG is to review project plans, determine capacity, assign personnel, and monitor progress in a project tracker. The presenter will share her perspective on how this process improvement project went and how the formation of CFG has increased the successful completion of projects.

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Amy Foster

Head of Collection Access and Technical Services, Montana State University Library

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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What’s In your Collections Toolbox?

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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"Emerging tools to support collection access, analysis, and open access are proliferating. This session identifies the utility, strengths, and weakness of some of the specialized tools evaluated or implemented by Collections librarians at McMaster University, including:
o Collection Assessment: Choreo, JUSP
o Access: LibKey, Lean
o OA Support: SciFree, OA Switchboard
o Bibliometrics: Overton, Dimensions, InCites, Lens, OpenAlex
o AI: scite, Dimensions ResearchGPT
Through brief overviews and discussion, this presentation will address solutions, gaps, and overlaps in services offered. It will also demonstrate how we select tools, and illustrate use cases to optimize collection analysis and access in academic libraries."

Speakers

Wei Zhang

E-Resources & Collection Analysis Librarian, McMaster University

Janice Adlington

Collections & Information Resources Librarian, McMaster University

Janice Adlington heads the collections department - serials, acquisitions, and processing - at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and spends her time pondering the e-book marketplace, Big Deal developments, and education trends. Before returning north of the border, she spent... Read More →

Casey Hoeve

Associate University Librarian - Content, Access, and Open Licensing, McMaster University

Paige Roman

Cameron Wheaton

Tuesday October 15, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Brainstorm Mania: Learning how to use Taskade (AI Product)

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Discover how Taskade, an AI-powered productivity platform, revolutionizes team and individual workflows. This session will showcase Taskade’s seamless integration of task organization, project specifications, workflow automation, and team collaboration into a single, intuitive platform. Learn how to effortlessly set up workspaces, manage tasks, and enhance teamwork for daily to-do lists or complex library projects. Join me to explore how Taskade can streamline your productivity and transform your work processes, no matter the size of your team.

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Amy Dye-Reeves

Head of the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction (LADC), Auburn University

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Customize and Compromise: Migrating reports from a specialized database to a university's digital repository

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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This lightning talk will discuss a collaboration between a research group at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and its Health Sciences and Human Services library to ingest ~300 reports into the University's digital repository. The reports and their descriptive metadata originally lived in a database designed by the research group. This talk will review the migration of the reports and metadata into the digital repository. It will primarily focus on the challenges around meeting the specific discovery needs of a research group with the broader parameters of an established digital repository.

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Sarah Weirich

Head, Resource Development, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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From Canvas to Quartex: The Evolution of Art in the Age of AI and Digital Archives

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Explore Goldey-Beacom College's inaugural Common Reading Program, featuring Kristen Radtke’s graphic novel, Seek You. Discover how students created visual expressions of the novel’s themes, blending traditional and AI-generated art. Learn about the integration of these works into the library’s digital asset management system, Quartex, and the implications for future digital archiving practices. This session will highlight the innovative use of AI in student artwork and the library's role in preserving these creations.

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Russell Michalak

Library Director, Goldey-Beacom College

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Leveraging Generative AI to Support Electronic Resources Acquisition

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Among many electronic resources acquisition tasks, ensuring accurate titles for what libraries pay for involves comparing lists from publishers, previous years, and subscription agents. However, discrepancies within these lists pose a challenge, often requiring time-consuming manual comparison. To address this issue, the presenter envisioned developing a tool capable of efficiently comparing title lists and generating differential outputs. Crucially, they aimed to design the tool with user-friendliness in mind, making it accessible to colleagues with varying levels of technical expertise.
By harnessing the capabilities of ChatGPT/Copilot, they developed a user-friendly tool capable of automating reconciliation tasks. This tool simplifies the comparison process, enabling swift identification of differences between title lists. Its intuitive interface ensures ease of use for all users, regardless of their programming knowledge or experience.

Speakers

Xiaoyan Song

Electronic Resources Acquisitions and Licensing Librarian, Duke University

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Nothing New but Better -- Adapting Pre-coordinated Subject Headings for Digital Collections

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Since the 1990s, pre-coordinated subject headings—long text strings comprising individual terms connected by double dashes (--) in the order of [topic] -- [place] -- [chronology] -- [form]—have been created in MARC records. Although these headings have been well-retained in the MARC environment, they introduce multiple discovery challenges in digital collections, where records are aggregated from both MARC and non-MARC environments. This session outlines the issues identified in the Florida Digital Digital Collections, details the workflow used to address them with MarcEdit and OpenRefine (two free data tools), and advocates for cataloging practices that consider needs beyond the original environment.

Speakers

Xiaoli Ma

Metadata Librarian, University of Florida

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Unlocking Potential: How AI Enables Non-Coders to Innovate and Automate

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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This presentation explores how AI can empower individuals without coding knowledge to write code, unlocking new opportunities and enhancing their ability to support their institutions. By leveraging AI for coding assistance, individuals can automate daily tasks, enhance collections, and develop solutions to simplify and expedite repetitive cataloging. This allows more time for improving metadata quality. Discover how AI can revolutionize your workflows and increase your impact within your organization.

Speakers

Aaron Pahl

Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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