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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    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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    E-Book Use and Opinions at UMD
    (2015-06-04) Carroll, Alexander; Corlett-Rivera, Kelsey; Hackman, Timothy
    Initial report on e-book survey conducted at University of Maryland, fall 2014