Demand-Driven Success: Designing Your PDA Experiment

Initiating demand-driving acquisition is daunting. Implications for developing a sustainable budget model, choosing a vendor, controlling metadata, monitoring purchases and developing invoice workflows are significant areas of concern that require determinative planning. From mid-February through August 2011, Loyola Marymount University conducted a pilot using demand-driven acquisition; the result of this successful experiment was the library’s decision to fully integrate this purchasing model into its operations. In this session, we will share our process and qualifying decision criteria for configuring the experiment, monitoring its progress and assessing the results. Using an already established vendor, we assessed the purchase trigger model, controlled the number of titles in disciplines profiled, created a process for identifying and suppressing bibliographic records, developed a workflow for payment, and created a reporting format to monitor expenditures and content purchased. We will demonstrate how careful planning allowed us to safeguard against over expenditure and confidently expand or curtail use of the budget in a highly responsive fashion. The presentation will also examine other factors that influenced the experiment, such as the research environment and support from administration, and explain our marketing perspective and desirable outcomes for collection building

Rebuilding the Plane While Flying: Library/Vendor Strategies for Approval Plan Revision (in a DDA World)

Library approval plans remain a major means of both codifying a library’s collection development program and providing an operational and procedural tool for acquisitions of library materials. This paper summarizes the arduous but ultimately worthwhile and satisfying project that Loyola Marymount University and YBP Library Services undertook in a yearlong approval profile review project. It describes how the library and the approval plan vendor strategized and collaborated to involve over 20 subject liaisons with varying levels of collection development experience and the support infrastructure needed to get liaisons up to speed on their roles in the project. It also explains the communications and collaboration tools we used to document a process with myriad details to track. Both the library and vendor perspectives on how to effectively structure and implement approval plan revisions for print and electronic books are included. Underlying this whole project was the belief that the approval plan (and intentional collection building) still has an important place in libraries

Functional Architecture Optimisation in a Model-Based Approach

The high modularity and complexity of avionics systems make it difficult to use document-based methods to deal correctly and effectively with the systems design and validation. Yet model-based approaches are nowadays widely deployed to improve systems architecture design quality. While vast design space is encountered in the early stage of system design, it helps that the optimisation process is integrated in the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to aid with trade-off analysis and automation of system architecture design. The objective is to improve system performance and reliability while respecting constraints such as weight, cost and energy consumption. European Component Oriented Architecture (ECOA) attracts architects’ attention for its top-down and bottom-up characteristic which allows both functional analysis and the reuse of existing modules. Indeed, ECOA is component-based and enables the modularity of the system. Nowadays, a wide system is hardly ever developed by a single contractor, the principle of modularity of ECOA eases then the modeling of such a system with several stakeholders

Thesaurus linguae Latinae

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is the first comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin; • it is compiled on the basis of all Latin texts surviving from antiquity (until AD 600), both literary and non-literary • for less common words it cites every attestation, for the rest (those marked with an asterisk) an instructive and representative sample • it records all meanings (including technical usages) and all constructions • it documents peculiarities of inflection, spelling, and prosody • it supplies information about the etymology of the Latin words and their survival in the Romance languages, contributed by recognised authorities in the fields of Indo-European and Romance studies • it collects the comments of ancient sources on the word in question The Thesaurus therefore offers for every Latin word a comprehensive, richly documented picture of its possibilities and history – not only for Latin scholars, but also for scholars of the various branches of ancient studies and for related disciplines