The BLC is pleased to announce our annual Networking Day membership meeting was held at Brandeis University in the Sherman Hall Function Room on Wednesday, May 22nd from 9:30AM-4:00PM.

The keynote speaker was DeEtta Jones, of DeEtta Jones & Associates, who spoke on Courageous Leadership. Focusing on what it means to be a leader of conscience, DeEtta shared guidance for both senior leaders and those early in their leadership journey.  DeEtta has been a leading voice in shaping contemporary thinking and practice around workplace culture, personal transformation, diversity and inclusion and was the primary architect of the BLC Leads leadership development program.

Following a panel of BLC Leads participants and lunch, Susan Stearns provided an update on the BLC.  At the conclusion of Networking Day, a number of the BLC Communiities of Interest held meetings.  

All available presentation slides are linked below as is a video of the introductions and Keynote (starting at minute 6:54).

Agenda

The location of this meeting is the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA. Further details TBA.

Please mark your calendars! The ninth annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium will be held Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

The theme for the symposium is Library Research Data Services:  Putting Ideas into Action. The morning keynote and breakout sessions will feature services that libraries are currently implementing to support research data management. Following post-lunch poster presentations, the afternoon panel presentations will focus on data science, what current library education is doing to support it, where the gaps are, and what competencies librarians engaging in data science need to have.  

As of this date, the following e-Science Symposium speakers have been confirmed:

· Kendall Roark (Keynote), Assistant Professor, Research Data Specialist, Purdue University Libraries, CLIR/DLF eResearch Faculty

· Margaret Henderson, Director of Research Data Services, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

· Hillary Miller, Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

· Lisa Johnston, Research Data Management/Curation Lead and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy,University of Minnesota 

· Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager, University of Michigan Libraries

· Suzie Allard, Associate Dean for Research, University of Tennesee at Knoxville and Co-investigator of DataONE

· Rong Tang, Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA

· Christopher Erdmann, Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

· Daina Bouquin, Assistant Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

· Myrna Morales,  Doctoral Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Registration for the symposium will open in early January and will be announced.

The location of this meeting is University of Connecticut. Further details TBA.

This meeting will be held at Boston College, O'Neill library (further info TBA).

The New England e-Science Program will be sponsoring this New England Research Data Management Roundtable Discussion, intended for librarians, to be held in the Faculty Conference Room at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.

Registration information TBA.

This meeting will be held at Tufts Health Science Library, Sackler 516- 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston.

This meeting will be held at the State Library of MA.

The BLC is pleased to sponsor a working on using the Tableau analytic and data visualization tool for assessment in academic and research libraries.  The event will be held at W.E.B. Du Bois Library on the campus on the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Wednesday, October 14th from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  The session will include an overview of how Tableau is used at the University of Connecticut, a review by a representative from Tableau on the product packaging and pricing, and a hand-on introduction to using Tableau with library data.  This will include creating visualizations for multiple chart types, building a dashboard with Tableau, using filters, and other features.  The session will end with an opportunity for the participants to explore visualizations on their own with assistance from librarians more experienced in using Tableau.

Rachel Lewellen and Jessica Adamick from UMass Amherst as well as Steve Batt from UConn will be presenting and assisting with the hands-on portion of the workshop. The workshop is being held in a computer classroom on the UMass Amherst campus which includes 32 workstations for participants.  

Space is limited, so please register here.

This workshop focusing on Open Educational Resources will feature keynote speaker David Ernst, Chief Information Officer of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. David is the Executive Director of the Open Textbook Network, a program that works to improve higher education access, affordability, and success for all students through the advancement of open textbooks. Through this initiative, David created and manages the Open Textbook Library (http://open.umn.edu) - a single source for faculty to find quality openly licensed textbooks.

The workshop will be held at Boston College, Theology and Ministry Library auditorium (room 113).

Register for the workshop here.

Meeti with Scott Bard of 1Science, an open access journal discovery platform: http://www.1science.com at Tufts University, Tisch Library, Austin Conference room.

"Our belief is that there should be an easier way to search for open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly literature that will save libraries time and money. Our technology is developed to respond to day-to-day searching needs for high-quality content. It is suited for librarians, researchers, faculty and students. We have worked very closely with faculty to build a solution that they want to use.  The benefits of our solution focus on the following:

-Save on costs (both subscription and ILL)
-Find all OA, high-quality peer reviewed journal articles on the internet
-Expand a library's collection with OA content
-Support students and researchers with high-quality literature by focusing on peer reviewed articles
-Provide patrons with a seamless, intuitive user experience

All our content is verified and curated thanks to the 14 years of experience in bibliometrics provided by our parent company Science-Metrix, a leader in the international research and statistics community.

We are continuously improving our product to match the needs of the librarians, researchers and students. Since January 2015, we have met with more than 65 universities and consortia to obtain their feedback.  Additionally we focused on curating our data, and developing a premium platform for all their search and discovery needs. In the second half of 2016, we aim to provide analytics and insights that will help universities evaluate the state of OA by country, measure an institution’s OA performance and benchmark it against their peer institutions as well as other institutions.

Additionally, as universities are faced with static or declining budgets, it is more important than ever to make the right decisions regarding their holdings and ensure the proper acquisition mix.  Based on our discussions with Universities we have introduced an additional service, The Holdings Analysis Service.  We will perform a bibliographic analysis of the institution's electronic journals collection by determining, for each journal, what proportion of the holding's articles are available in Open Access. The resulting report will present the journal's usage by looking at the citations made by the institution's authors as well as which journals their authors are publishing in over time. Provided the institution can make this data available, downloadable statistics per journal can also be added. This is a powerful and useful tool for libraries in several ways, from helping to inform journal cancellation decisions to quantifying an institution’s research and publishing trends."

In the MORNING, tour a world-class computational center in Holyoke, MA. The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) serves the growing research computing needs of five of the most research-intensive universities in Massachusetts: BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeaster, and the University of Massachusetts. The computers in the MGHPCC run millions of virtual experiments per month, supporting thousands of researchers in Massachusetts and around the world.

In the AFTERNOON, attend the first Research Data Management Roundtable discussion at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is an informal gathering of librarians actively engaging in data services (e.g. planning data services, serving on library data service advisory group, consulting on dmps, data curation, teaching rdm, data curation.) and the first in a series of discussions focusing on practical details and learning from our colleagues about research data management. The discussion topics for this session are our organizational structures, both within the library and across campus.

Later Roundtable events will reach out to librarians just beginning to work in research data management.

Further information on these events is available at the libguide August 2015 eScience Events in MA - Tour & Roundtable, http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/nerdmtable

Registration for both events is here:  http://goo.gl/forms/3a1DJKocFF

Registration opens on July 1 and closes on August 7. Space is limited to 25 participants. The Roundtable event is sponsored by the New England Regional Medical Library’s eScience Advisory Board. For details, contact Donna Kafel at Donna.Kafel@umassmed.edu.

This meeting will be held at MBLWHOI.

This meeting will be held at Brandeis University in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall. Further information TBA.

This meeting will be held at Brandeis University, Farber Library. 

A conference phone is available for anyone who cannot make it in person:
800-791-2345  conference code: 59182.
 

This meeting will be held in the Napoli Trophy Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center at Brandeis University.

The Boston Library Consortium invites all members to the BLC's Annual Networking Day to meet new colleagues and catch up with old ones.  We are delighted to have Dan Cohen, Executive Director of Digital Public Library of America and Chris Bourg, Director of MIT Libraries as our featured speakers this year.
 

Program Details & Schedule

Location: Sherman Function Hall, Brandeis University

Directions to Brandeis
Campus Map

Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2015, 10:00 am (Registration and Continental Breakfast start at 9:30 am)

Schedule

9:30 am - 10:00           
Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15    
Welcome: John Unsworth, President of the BLC Board and Susan Stearns, BLC Executive Director
10:15 - 11:15           
Keynote: Dan Cohen
11:30 - 12:15 pm     
Keynote: Chris Bourg
12:15  - 12:30         
Update on the BLC
12:30 - 1:30            
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00            
Lightning Talks: What's New at BLC Libraries 

• Jeanne Antill, UMA: Providing services through the Makerbot Innovation Center
• Linda Plunket, BU: An update on the SHARE project
• Rachel Lewellen, UMA: Data visualization with Tableau
• Donna Mullen and Margaret Manion, UML: Using Jeopardy in library instruction
• Sarah Hutton and Jessica Adamick, UMA: Transforming the learning commons with microclimates
• Giordana Mecagni, Northeastern: The YMCA GrandMarc project
• Charlotte Roh, UMA: Open educational resources
• George Depres, Brandeis: University records management
• Alicia Morris and Alex May, Tufts: Creating metadata for images in the Trove institutional repository
• Diann Smothers, Northeastern: Using screencasting for online instruction
• Elliot Brandow, BC: The Digital History Initiative

3:00 - 3:30            
Break
3:30 - 4:30           
Breakout sessions for COIs and working groups 

Registration:

Please register for the Annual Networking Day HERE. Last day to register is Friday, May 15th by 5:00 pm.

About the Featured Speakers:

Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, Dan was a Professor of History and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital Histroy: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past of the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Dan was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top "tech innovators" in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Dan received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton, his master’s degree from Harvard, and his PhD from Yale.
Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also has oversight of the MIT Press. Prior to assuming her role at MIT, Chris was Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Stanford University. Chris has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University, and spent 3 years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is keenly interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education; and in the role libraries play in advancing social justice and democracy.

This meeting will be held at Northeastern University.

This meeting will be held at Williams College, Sawyer Library, 4th floor conference room.

10:15-10:30-light refreshments

10:30-12:30 - meeting

12:30 1:30- lunch in meeting room, continued discussion over lunch

1:30-2:30 - tour of new building

Learn about US EPA collections, databases and services at the EPA Library in Boston. Sabrina Holley-Williams, Library Director, will host.

This meeting will be held at Boston College, O'Neill Library, room 406.

9:30 -10:15 - ProQuest update with Mike LoGreco
10:15 -10:45 - Internal discussion
10:45 - 11:15 - Taylor & Francis Q&A with Evelyn Elias (Tom O'Hare's boss)
11:15 - 12:00 - Discussion of T&F program
12:00 - 12:30 - Discussion of Wiley/JSTOR programs
12:30 - 1:00pm Determine next steps and next meeting. 

University of Massachusetts Medical School (Faculty Conference Room), Worcester, Mass.

Registration is now closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please contact Raquel Abad, Project Coordinator, at raquel.abad@umassmed.edu.

Symposium Agenda 

Confirmed speakers are:

• Philip Bourne, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health
• Jane Silverthorne, PhD, Deputy Assistant Director, Biological Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation
• Caroline Kuo, DPhil, MPhil, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University
• David Fearson, PhD, Data Management Consultant, JHU Data Management Services, The Sheridan Libraries,Johns Hopkins University
• Michael Witt, MLS, Head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), Purdue University

Directions, Parking, and Hotel Accommodations

The University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium encourages New England region libraries to collaborate and support e-science initiatives at their institutions. Featuring presentations by nationally recognized leaders in the e-Science arena, the symposium is an educational opportunity for librarians to learn about e-Science resources and current initiatives. The symposium also provides a forum where librarians can discuss new library roles for engaging research communities and supporting networked science.

Sponsors:

• Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) New England Region
• Boston Library Consortium

Where: Williams College

When:  Friday, April 3, 2015, 9:30-2:00

Agenda:          

9:30-10:15

• Coffee, tea, and mingling
• Tour of Library

10:15-12:30

• New staff introductions
• Report from Resource Sharing Working Group
• Best Practices/Must-Dos discussion
• UPS Shipping Pilot conclusions, how do we proceed?
• Interstate Delivery
• IDS Project, how it might work for BLC
• General Discussion

12:30-1:30

• Lunch- Continue Discussions

1:30-2:00

• Wrap-Up 

Driving and Parking Directions:

http://library.williams.edu/directions.php

Local Lodging:

Blackinton Manor B&B
5 Rooms available  $175-$215/evening
(413) 663-5795
http://www.blackinton-manor.com/
 
The Orchards Hotel

$129/evening
800.225.1517
http://www.orchardshotel.com/

Williams Inn
$109/evening
(413) 458-9371
http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/williamstown-1090-main-street.en-us.html?aid=311088;label=williamstown-1090-main-street-eFo4oNXxrwqNa_mnddAhCAS8

This webinar session will focus on the transition of FirstSearch to WorldCat Discovery Services for the BLC libraries.  

WebEx Link: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/j.php?MTID=m5c4b5924f05a61c7de58add5523b7edb

Meeting number: 718 498 828

Phone #: 1-877-668-4490 

Access code: 718 498 828

This meeting will be held at Brandeis.

The CRMM group will meet at Wellesley College on Friday, March 20th, from 12:00-2:00. Further details are forthcoming.

A BLC member libraries webinar on the new ACI Scholarly Blog Index will be held on Tuesday, March 17th at 2:00pm Eastern.  You can use this URL to access the webinar: join.me/acimeeting
A dial-in number to use for the presentation is: 1-877-811-6397  x2010

ACI Scholarly Blog Index is a editorially curated collection of scholarly blogs selected by domain experts for the academic market--students and researchers.  The blogs are written by professors, researchers, and industry experts and present their current views.  Full author credentials are included in a record along with the author's social connections, and links to their scholarly work-- journals and books. An altmetric community score is calculated for authors and blog posts. Please join the webinar for a closer look at this new scholarly resource.

ACI Scholarly Blog Index is published by the ACI Information Group. Founded in 2004, ACI Information Group is the world's leading aggregator of editorially selected and curated social media publicatons.
 

The eBooks group will meet on Friday, Feb. 20th, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, at Boston College, O'Neill Library, Room 406.

This meeting will be held at Brandeis.

This meeting will be held at Northeastern University, Snell Library, room 421. 

The Boston Library Consortium and Digital Science invite you to attend a workshop focused on the management, dissemination, and collaboration around research data in the university.  Today’s research ecosystem is increasingly complex and includes players from many different departments and groups within the academy: research and sponsored program staff, the CIO and IT staff, library deans/directors and their scholarly communications and research data management librarians, university marketing and communications staff and, of course, the researchers themselves. 

Meeting the diverse requirements of these varied groups in efficient and cost-effective ways requires that quality data are able to flow in and out of university information systems, often populating such diverse technologies as grants management systems, researcher profiles, institutional repositories, and enterprise data warehouses.  Non-traditional measures of research impact such as Altmetrics and the increasingly prevalent funder mandates create new challenges for universities as they look to ensure a robust research information management environment.

On Friday, November 21st, the workshop will be held at Tufts University (Medford campus). Lunch is included.

9:30AM: Introduction and Welcome, Susan Stearns, Boston Library Consortium, Susan Pastore, Digital Science

9:45AM: Research Information Management: Making Sense of it All - The creation of an authoritative institutional data source requires a thorough understanding of the subject area, the adoption of effective processes, strong stakeholder communication and a comprehensive appreciation of available sources of supporting data. 

Faced with growing competition for future funding and increased calls to both disseminate and demonstrate the impact resulting from research activity carried out by their researchers, many research intensive institutions are now implementing Research Information Management Systems (RIMs) to help collate the often fragmented sets of data maintained across an institution and to blend these with external data sources in a bid to reduce the administrative burden historically associated with capturing and managing data about an institution’s research activity.

In this session, the presenter will reflect on the emergence of research information management systems, their key functions, the types of data they can capture; the intersection of RIMs with other institutional systems (e.g. Institutional Repositories and Profile Systems) and the resulting benefit afforded to institutions that deploy institution-wide RIM systems.

Based on both his own experience of implementing a RIM at Imperial College London and having worked with many other leading research institutions whilst at Symplectic, the presenter will also discuss how research libraries and librarians are often uniquely placed to promote and support the adoption of RIMs by Faculty and how they also often go on to play a more central role in the planning of future institutional research information data collection. 

11:00AM: One University’s Transition to the Research Information Age- The University of New Hampshire is in the final stages of implementing two types of research information systems. As a relatively small land-, sea- and space-grant institution, with by far the lowest per capita state support among its peers, moving initiatives like this forward faces particular challenges. This talk will focus on telling the UNH story, which is still very much in its early stages but also has a lot of lessons that have been learned. Important parts of the story include the development and socialization of the imperative for undertaking this effort, securing funding, and working with a myriad of organizations including central IT, Research Computing, the central administration, Project Management Office and even the library! This talk will provide details about the strategy used to develop and move this initiative forward, including details of the arguments used to “sell” the need for this type of intelligence. The strategy for this necessarily hit on many different levels: the need and benefit to individual faculty researchers, integration with strategic initiatives in the library, and benefits to upper administration, center and institute directors, and the larger positioning of the university in a competitive landscape. This presentation will also highlight some of the challenges that have been encountered – in particular, those many challenges that were completely unexpected during the planning phases!

12:15: Lunch

1:15: The Evolving World of Research Data Management: Options and Opportunties- Technology for data management is always evolving. Much of the newest functionality for researchers is led by innovation in other spaces. Management, dissemination and collaboration around research data is key to both the development of scholarly communication and quickly becoming a requirement as more and more funders see the benefits of open research.  

With new funder mandates, researchers as well as institutions are faced with a research data management problem. Management, dissemination and collaboration around research data is key to both the development of scholarly communication and quickly becoming a requirement as more and more funders mandate open data. Technology is helping researchers to be able to communicate both positive and negative research results more openly, share data that has previously been locked away on desktops, and develop research objects as a publishing output in its own right.  figshare is at the forefront of both cloud based research management and collaboration and the drive towards open data as well as being one of a myriad of new technology companies operating in the research area.  

This session will look at the research data management landscape and the different approaches that are being taken to adjust to the various funder mandates.

Our Speakers:

Dr. Mark Hahnel

Dr. Kevin Gardner

Jonathan Breeze

To Register: Email Susan Stearns, Executive Director, Boston Library Consortium – sstearns@blc.org  - and include any dietary requirements for the lunch.

The Chemistry COI will meet at Boston College.

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This meeting will be held in room 413 of the O'Neill Library at Boston College. 

This meeting will be held at Northeastern.

Stacy Konkiel of Impactstory presents a guide to getting credit for practicing open science. See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

Metadata -data about data- is an increasingly important component of research management plans.  This session will increase your understanding of how metadata facilitates discovery in an online and linked environment.  The instructors will introduce you to the principles of metadata creation, along with the most common types of metadata schemas and standards currently used by researchers.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

From open access to open source, open content and open science, come get your fix of all things open at UMass Amherst. Representatives from Wikipedia, the UMass Knowledge Commons Workshop, Pioneer Valley Open Science, the UMass Amherst Libraries, and many others will be on hand to share openly accessible resources, and help you get involved in opening access for all.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week events is available here.

Boston University will be sponsoring a meeting for faculty and other interested parties to discuss the proposed open access opt-out policy, why BU is pursuing the policy, the changes it represents and plans for its implementation with a focus on promoting  faculty and student research. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 22nd in the GSU Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Second Floor. A reception will be held directly after in the Ziskind Lounge. Details are available here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

Join faculty members in a moderated discussion about planning for and using online education materials as alternatives to high-cost textbooks in a variety of disciplines. The moderators represent faculty who have received campus Open Education Initiative grants funded by the Provost’s Office and the University Libraries.

See details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

UMass Medical School will kick off Open Access Week with a live webcast: “Generation Open” on Monday, October 20th from 3:00 – 4:30 pm at the Lamar Soutter Library classroom. Details are available here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

See event details here.

A full list of BLC Open Access Week activities is available here.

The ArchivesSpace Training two-day event will be held at Boston College, O'Neill Library, Room 307. 

Schedule

First Day (October 16th)

9:00 am Introductions – Standards context – Learning objectives & what won’t be covered
9:30 am Application overview
9:45 am Public interface
10:00 am Repository records – EXERCISE 1
10:30 am User records - EXERCISE 2
10:45 am BREAK (15 minutes)
11:15 am Location records – EXERCISE 3
11:30 am Accession records – EXERCISE 4
12:30 pm LUNCH (1 ¼ hours)
1:45 pm Resource descriptions (Single level records) EXERCISE 5
3:00 pm BREAK (15 minutes)
3:15 pm Resource descriptions (Multilevel records, Instances, and the Rapid Data Entry Tool) – EXERCISE 6
4:45 pm First day wrap up

Second Day (October 17th)

9:00 am Questions from first day & Overview of second day
9:15 am Authorities basics
9:30 am Agent (corporate, personal, family name) records – EXERCISE 7
10:15 am BREAK (15 minutes)
10:30 am Subject and other controlled vocabulary records -- EXERCISE 8
11:00 am Linking description parts – EXERCISE 9
11:30 am Exports – EXERCISE 10
12:00 pm LUNCH (1 ¼ hours)
1: 15 pm Importing legacy data– EXERCISE 11
2:00 pm Data Cleanup-- EXERCISE 12
2:30 pm Customizations
3:00 pm Bringing it all together – EXERCISE 13 (WRAP-UP EXERCISE)
Breaks as wanted
4:30-5:00 pm Follow up questions and workshop evaluation

The Continuing Resources and Metadata Management fall meeting will be held at Wellesley College.

Lunch will be served.

The Rapid ILL Workshop will be held at Tufts University, Tisch Library, room 223. Registration is now closed.

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The RapidILL workshop for the Boston Library Consortium will focus on making best use of your Rapid membership.  Emphasis will be on workflow and process efficiencies, and we'll also take a look at the Rapid tools available, both new and old, to enhance your resource sharing.  Possible topics to be covered include:

•         Rapid and ILLiad interoperability
•         Using routing rules and custom queues to automate ILLiad workflow for Rapid
•         Rapid ILLiad Addon
•         Workflow for non-ILLiad libraries
•         Book chapter overview
•         Search holdings page
•         Effective use of holdings in Rapid
•         Collection Management tools
•         RapidX behind the scenes!
•         Statistics in-depth
•         Rapid and Open Access
•         Using document suppliers in Rapid

 New tools to be reviewed include:
•         RapidX4ALL
•         Lending call number and location lookup for non-Rapid requests in ILLiad
•         *Top secret new feature*

 We will also review and discuss RapidR (Returnables) in the context of the BLC and in the Rapid system in general.

Agenda

9:30 – 10:00am        Check in and light refreshments
10:00am – 12:30pm    Workshop
12:30 – 1:30pm        Lunch [provided]
1:30pm – 3:30pm    Workshop continued