Just in Time! Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Offers a Suite of Services for the Entire Campus

This presentation will describe marketing efforts for Georgia Southern’s institutional repository platform and how the library handled demand for repository services such as conference and journal hosting, revised electronic journal and thesis procedures, highlights of faculty research, hosting university procedures and many more services

Cataloging Integrating Resources

Reviews the rules for cataloging a new bibliographic format called integrating resources

The Ever Changing Role of the Cataloger and How Catalogers Manage Change

This presentation was given during the American Library Association Annual Conference

E-Team Workflow: A Case Study in Improving Electronic Access Troubleshooting

This presentation will discuss a case study of revised workflows to improve Electronic Access Troubleshooting using a team approach in the Collection & Resources Department at Georgia Southern University. The e-Team was established first using an internal eTeam e-mail for communications among library staff and the eTeam, and evolved into a sophisticated system using a LibAnswers queue and FAQs for handling ERA issues. The revised workflow offers an organized and efficient process for electronic access issue reporting as well as rapid feedback to library staff and library users. The eTeam workflow has provided insight into the nature of electronic access problems through the capture of statistics and includes a process for the rollout of new resources to the library and the university from trial to announcement of availability. The benefits of the new and improved eTeam are many, including a quicker response for problems and resolution; development of a tracking method for problems that take extended time for resolution or involve outside parties; and the improvement of morale in the department and communications within the library between technical and information services

Growing GKR: Increasing the Undergraduate Research Component

The Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR), an initiative of GALILEO, is a central repository that contains academic and intellectual works produced by Georgia colleges and universities. Established in 2013 and comprised of over 100,000 item records, GKR increases the importance of open access scholarly communication and joins a growing number of academic digital repositories. Colleges and universities are developing research seminars, open access journals, and other scholarly initiatives on campus. Libraries who manage their institutional repository are collaborating with campus departments to preserve the scholarly works of these initiatives. A panel will discuss how librarians and faculty are increasing their repositories by supporting undergraduate scholarship. Attendees will see a variety of projects that libraries are undertaking and panelists will give an overview of effective methods to follow when starting new undergraduate research initiatives. Panelists will also discuss internal challenges and benefits faced when establishing and promoting these initiatives

Reflections on Workflow Balance: Walking a Tightrope in the Transition to Electronic Resources

As more and more of library resources transition to electronic formats, technical services workflow must be adjusted. This presentation addresses how to keep the workflow aligned with the change in formats as some tasks decline, new tasks develop, and more advanced demands are made of library staff members