How can Open Access engagement turn into a cultural shift? This session will explore why we should care about and engage with Open Access, how to engage others with Open Access and drive change through conversation, actions and gamification! In this session you’ll also learn about DOAJ, how it’s funded and what we’re doing to engage with our community this year. 

Join Arthur Brady as he presents a half dozen examples of client successes where, using Altarama’s request management and stat capture solutions, libraries are accomplishing great things.  These will include marked improvements in efficiency in “normal” work challenges, launching of new services long-imagined and now achieved, and a couple of examples of “wow” thinking.  What libraries are achieving, given the right tools and support, continues to amaze!

We often hear a lot about what publishers are doing when it comes to open access (OA), or the latest OA business models on the market, yet another important part of the open science mission, infrastructures services, are often overlooked. In this session, we’ll take a look at what open infrastructures are (and the meaning of ‘community-led’), where they place in the research life cycle, why they need supporting, and how they are working to achieve a more equitable and open research environment, through the lense of OA books and infrastructures, as well as identifying some key examples of infrastructures at work in this landscape. 

This session overviews new cutting-edge library infrastructure technology paradigms and methodologies implemented by Mississippi State University Libraries when presented with significant budgetary challenges.  New open access solutions enabled by Cloudsource+ with innovative focused resource access methodologies by Article Galaxy Scholar open new possibilities for reconfiguring collections and budgets for better alignment of academic library materials with faculty research and teaching needs.  Data-driven quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques with Overlap analysis can also better assess e-resource subscription models for better data-informed decision making. Taken together, these methods and tools can change the game for opening budgets to better align with enabling focused faculty research and teaching needs.  This session will overview how data-driven analytics with new open access software possibilities can be utilized to create better budget model decisions. As the financial burden associated with e-resources escalates, academic libraries face mounting challenges of effectively navigating highly inflationary contracts and subscriptions to achieve cost savings while providing the academic community with focused scholarly resources for research and teaching. By utilizing new paradigm software possibilities with data driven analytics and open access models, libraries can better identify opportunities for large cost savings. These can then be deployed to strategically provide new requested resources empowering researchers, teachers and academic and research libraries to effectively navigate challenges and open resource possibilities for the new millennium.

Tim will show off Talpa, a new AI-based library search system. Talpa combines new technology with trusted and authoritative library data, expanding what’s possible in a library search. With Talpa patrons can find books and other library material using simple, natural language queries, like “story about an astronaut stranded on Mars” or “80s horror movies.” Talpa even knows the color and design of the cover!

Join us for a presentation from our newest partner Recollect, a leading provider of cloud-based Digital Asset Management and Collection Management software. In this presentation, CEO Gavin Mitchell will show how content can be connected via linked metadata to make your digital collections highly discoverable, ensuring all types of content in your collections are easily accessed by your patrons and team. You will see how the stories held in your collections can be told in compelling visual displays and how patrons can contribute to enhance your collections and collection metadata. See how Recollect can drive patron engagement!

Niche Academy is a turnkey learning solution with ready-to-use tutorials and a platform that lets libraries, deliver training and track progress anywhere. 

During this session you will learn how BCV provides you opportunity to build connects between your catalog items, your users, and your community.

BCV transforms your catalog into BibFrame resources and links relationships between your collection.  These resources and relations can now be used to create new views of your data, ready to publish on the web.

Learn how BCV brings your library borrow actions to partners like Google and Internet Libraries, Open Library, all linking straight back to your catalog.

You will also discover how your peers use BCV to create carousels for website, event pages, blog post and beyond.  

Join Syndetics Unbound expert Doug McMillian for this partnership session in which we’ll review new features available now to all Enriched Content/Syndetics Unbound subscribers.