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In This Issue: Annual Employee Appreciation and Donors\u27 Reception Feeling Nostalgic? You Can Now Browse the Reflector 8,000 Items Donated by the Late Orion Harrison Ashley Lowery Is Awarded Staff Merit Award of Excellenc

Community-driven Repository Infrastructure Programs at LYRASIS—an Overview

Academic libraries, and institutional repositories in particular, play a key role in the ongoing quest for ways to gather metrics and connect the dots between researchers and research contributions in order to measure “institutional impact,” while also streamlining workflows to reduce administrative burden. Identifying accurate metrics and measurements for illustrating “impact” is a goal that many academic research institutions share, but these goals can only be met to the extent that all organizations across the research and scholarly communication landscape are using best practices and shared standards in research infrastructure. For example, persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) and DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) have emerged as crucial best practices for establishing connections between researchers and their contributions while also serving as a mechanism for interoperability in sharing data across systems. The more institutions using persistent identifiers (PIDs) in their workflows, the more connections can be made between entities, making research objects more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). Also, when measuring institutional repository usage, clean, comparable, COUNTER-conformant statistics are needed for accurate internal assessment, as well as for benchmarking with peer institutions. In this session, we will highlight three LYRASIS consortial programs: the ORCID US Community, the LYRASIS DataCite US Community (for DOIs), and the IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) US Community, and how these programs influence the research lifecycle. In particular, we will discuss the impact to the research, researchers, and management of institutional repositories

Books on Demand: A New(er) Look for Print Monographs Acquisitions

How do you respond to increasing library materials cost? Do you still provide enough, fewer, or more print books? How do you sustain access to library resources? In the past few years, Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University faced these questions and more. As many libraries have done, Henderson Library responded by decreasing monograph acquisitions to allocate additional funds for serial acquisition. However, these challenges provided opportunities for the library to be creative in purchasing monographs. One of the approaches the library chose to explore was establishing a print demand-driven acquisition (pDDA) or Books on Demand program with ProQuest. Through this program, the library has increased its access to print monographs despite experiencing budgetary challenges

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