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The Premium Sandbox refresh occurs with the Release Update.
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The CARLI Archives Committee meets monthly.
This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.
Contact CARLI Support for attendance details.
Monthly meeting of the CARLI E-Resources Management Committee.
Committee roster
Committee minutes
Jacob Del Rio, Electronic Resources Librarian | Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, jdelrio@sieu.edu
This session is intended to equip academic library staff with the knowledge and skills to interpret and use COUNTER statistics effectively. COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) provides a consistent way to measure the use of electronic resources, such as e-journals, databases, and e-books. We will also provide an overview of COUNTER Release 5.1 and offer guidance to help library staff transition from COUNTER 5 to 5.1.
Libraries are increasingly employing usability testing to inform the design of their websites, discovery layers, and services, but designing and facilitating testing can be intimidating for libraries without UX expertise or designated staff. During this webinar, the presenter will share how she designed and facilitated an iterative seven-test usability testing program during one academic year and provide practical guidance for adapting and implementing a similar program at your institution.
The session will walk through considerations for designing sustainable usability testing, strategies for assessing the captured data and identifying action items, and lessons learned along the way.
Presenter:
Lindsey Skaggs is an Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Illinois State University and previously served as Discovery Services and User Experience Librarian. Prior to joining Illinois State, she worked in professional services for Serials Solutions, SirsiDynix, and ProQuest, providing consulting and training for a variety of software applications. Her research interests include user experience, open access, and scholarly publishing. She received her Master of Library Science from Indiana University.
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The open education movement emerged over 20 years ago, and has offered a low-cost, values-driven approach to teaching, learning, and research. Looking to the future, in order to ensure its momentum and sustainability, expanding this success will require much closer attention to faculty recognition. Creating, adopting, adapting Open Educational Resources, or designing and implementing assignments which support open pedagogy, takes time and effort, effort that is not always seen as worthwhile, often flies under the radar, and is not always formally recognized.
Through this interactive session, we will discuss our approach to identifying ways to center faculty work, followed by what this looks like in practice. Attendees will gain an understanding of the importance of faculty recognition in sustaining open education work, as well as recommendations for adopting similar methods in their own context.
Presenters:
David Tully is the Principal Librarian for Student Affordability at NC State University Libraries. His work centers on advancing student success by reducing the financial barriers to higher education. David leads initiatives in open education, manages student scholarship programs, and collaborates with faculty and donors to develop sustainable, student-centered solutions.
Katya E. Mueller is a Libraries Fellow (2024-2027) at North Carolina State University Libraries. Through the Open Knowledge Center, she takes part in supporting the Libraries’ open education initiatives. She also works within the Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service, where she is currently conducting a study on data management plan (DMP) review services in academic libraries.
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Join Jenny Taylor and other e-resources staff for an introduction to CARLI's E-Resources Brokering program. We'll cover all the basics and will leave plenty of time for questions and answers.
Topics:
Zoom information will be sent a few days before the event.
Users often encounter unnecessary barriers when trying to access full text through library systems like extra clicks, broken links, retracted or secondarily retracted articles, and problematic journals. As a result, many bypass the library entirely and turn to the open web, creating a challenge for libraries: how do you bring users back to trusted library resources?
Join Hayley Harris (Senior Sales Executive) and Kathryn Zielski (Director of Global Outreach) from Third Iron on February 11 at 10:00 a.m. Central for an overview and live demonstration of LibKey. You’ll see how LibKey helps more than 2,000 libraries worldwide—including a growing number of CARLI members—reduce access friction, improve discovery, and deliver a better user experience. The session will also cover recent LibKey updates and integrations with discovery services, databases, and resource sharing tools.
LibKey supports library goals by improving linking to open access content (including OA in hybrid journals whether you subscribe or not), integrating with third-party platforms and AI-powered research tools (such as Consensus, keenious, Scite.ai, Litmaps, and SciSpace), ensuring reliable full-text access across platforms and the open web, flagging retractions (including second order retractions) and expressions of concern at the point of discovery, streamlining resource sharing, and helping demonstrate stronger ROI for collections and budgets.
The OER Committee meets monthly.
This virtual meeting is held via Zoom / Conference Call.
Contact CARLI Support for attendance details.
Explore how reflective practices can help you manage impostor feelings. We will be discussing how journaling both personal and for teaching can cultivate confidence and self-assurance.
This session is Part 3 of the Embracing Failure: Accepting and Addressing Impostor Phenomenon for Growth series and is designed to help you build confidence, community, and resilience in your professional journey.
Presenters:
Paloma Barraza joined the University of Minnesota Libraries in 2023 as the History, Iberian, and Latin American Studies for the Arts, Humanities, & Area Studies Department for the University of Minnesota Libraries. Prior to her arrival, she worked at the University of Northern Colorado Libraries as their course reserve specialist. Paloma has experience working with archives, museums, and academic and public libraries. Paloma holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in Art History, with a focus on the Art of the Americas, from the University of New Mexico.
Maggie Carrillo Shawcross is a Teaching and Learning Librarian at the James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado–Greeley. She received her master’s in public health from the University of Northern Colorado and is a certified health education specialist (CHES) through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Before becoming a librarian, she worked in public health as a health educator in various capacities. Her professional library experience includes serving as a consumer health librarian at a hospital and an adult services librarian at a public library. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Denver.
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