Collections Management

Collections Management

eBook Symposium - May 7, 2015

Location: I-Hotel
1900 S. First St.
Champaign, IL 61820

This program will provide background and information for those purchasing or wanting to purchase ebooks for their library's collection.

9:30-10:00        Registration
10:00-10:05      Welcome by Susan Singleton, CARLI Executive Director
10:05-11:00      Panel Discussion: Ebook Issues to Ponder

eBooks Collection Resources

During 2014-2015, the Collection Management Committee undertook several initiatives designed to increase awareness and knowledge of a wide range of topics about e-books, including collection development, acquisitions, instruction, and discovery techniques across the broad spectrum of CARLI libraries.

Ebook Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA)

From a Forum Sponsored by CARLI

These documents will provide background and information for those interested in setting up a local eBook PDA program and will also provide an opportunity for those that have a program to explore advanced topics associated with local eBook PDA projects.

eBook PDA: The Big Picture – Lynn Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Yearbook Digitization Project

In 2013, the CARLI Board of Directors approved funding for the digitization of the student yearbooks OR the student newspaper for all CARLI Governing members. The following information is for those institutions that have chosen to have yearbooks digitized. Institutions may choose to digitize yearbooks OR newspapers, but not both. The newspaper portion of the project is on hold pending the FY16 budget.

CARLI Research Subsidy Program

CARLI is seeking proposals for the FY2015 Research Subsidy Program. Funded by the CARLI Board of Directors, the research awards will support research projects from staff in CARLI Governing member libraries. Projects should have the potential to positively impact libraries and the library profession; have the potential to provide a useful addition to the existing literature; and results of the research should be of interest to or of use by other CARLI libraries. Total funding for FY2015 is $25,000. The maximum amount funded for any proposal will be $4,999.

Patron Driven Acquisitions Project: Print Materials

The Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) project provides timely access to needed materials in the humanities and social sciences that have not been purchased by any I-Share library. Launched in February 2012, this project builds on a successful pilot project with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010.  

CARLI worked with YBP to identify print titles that were not currently owned by I-Share libraries. In order to be included, materials had to meet the following selection criteria:

Five College Library Depository

All CARLI member libraries were affiliate members of the Five College Library Depository through an agreement completed in May 2011. Managed by the Five College consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Five College Library Depository provided member libraries who subscribed to the digitized collections, access to the physical volumes of the journals the of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Institute of Physics, as well as those journals included in JSTOR and Project Muse.