Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum

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The Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum is an annual event in June featuring lightning talks, presentations, and poster sessions by UMD Libraries’ librarians and staff.

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    Implementing Project Management Tools and Strategies
    (2018-06-06) Pike, Robin; Gammnos, Rachel Wilder; Corlett-Rivera, Kelsey; Thompson, Hilary
    Many people are stretched thin at work because it's difficult to balance many competing priorities. In this panel, learn from four of your colleagues how they have implemented project management tools to stay organized, track projects and milestones, balance priorities, update stakeholders, delegate tasks, and more.
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    Untangling Knots: Determining E-book Suitability for Course Reserves
    (2016-06-08) DePope, Leigh Ann; Leffler, Scott; Thompson, Hilary
    E-books on their own are complex; they become even more so in the context of course reserves. In FY2016 the Resource Sharing & Reserves and Acquisitions units developed a new workflow for vetting requested e-books to ensure that they were suitable for course reserves (i.e. they permit unlimited simultaneous users) before posting links to them within the university’s online learning management system. In the Spring 2016 semester 46 e-books were vetted through this process, resulting in 18 purchases. Preliminary data analysis sheds light on the suitability of the Libraries’ current e-book collections for course reserves as well as faculty preferences, with potential implications for the Libraries’ ordering process. We hope this lightening talk will generate discussion about these issues among selectors, collection managers, and reserves staff alike.
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    Find It Fail: What ILL can tell us about Challenges related to Known Item Discovery
    (2015-06-04) Thompson, Hilary
    When discovery of known items fail, library users often turn to interlibrary loan for assistance obtaining these materials. ILL staff members then “fill” the requests by directing the user to subscription e-resources or items that are freely available on the web. The resulting transactions (approximately 2,500 per year) provide insight into the difficulties encountered by library users in finding and accessing known items online. Using data gathered from ILLiad, I hope to shed light on which user groups have trouble finding material readily available online, which types of resources pose particular difficulty, and generate discussion about how the Libraries can help users learn to locate these materials themselves.