Using EBLIP for Collection Assessment

This chapter describes a large scale deselection project that took place at Belmont University. The library was renovated and rearranged, which results in the loss of some shelf space. In order to ensure that the best, most relevant parts of the collection remained available in open stacks, a deselection process was undertaken. Using the Koufogiannakis & Brettle EBLIP framework, we collected evidence via literature review, local evidence (circulation stats; WorldCat library holdings), and professional expertise (submitted lists for faculty review). After assessing this evidence, we agreed on a way forward and began. We started by moving a large number of books to closed stacks and then continued the deselection process and removed more than 19,000 books from the collection. As we moved books around, we went through several cycles of assembling and assessing evidence, then adapting our process based on the updated evidence. Our team has learned from this process and hopes to adapt the implementation to create a more regular maintenance schedule for deselection and refreshing the entire collection

Preparing academic libraries to negotiate a sustainable future

Learn about a multi-institutional project developing curriculum and open educational resources (OER) to equip academic library workers with negotiation skills within the context of academic libraries work with third party vendors. The project team is intentionally working to center the experiences of BIPOC library workers through each stage of the project including curriculum design, OER creation, and pilot testing. This presentation will walk through the key learnings around negotiations and the curriculum, before opening the session for discussion and feedback. A core ethos of the project is that something created to serve the community cannot be made without the community. Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to articulate why negotiation skills are a necessary skill set for work and life. Participants will understand key issues facing academic library workers when negotiating with third-party vendors so that they may begin to proactively plan how to address at their own institutions. Participants will gain resources to get started in developing negotiation skills so that they may be more prepared for their next negotiation at work.IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Progra

S'more skills for everyone: Addressing scale and access in negotiation education by developing an OER

Learn about a multi-institutional project developing open educational resources (OER) to equip academic library workers with negotiation skills within the context of academic libraries work with third party vendors. Presenters will share project learnings thus far providing insights regarding e-resource negotiations and resources to aid participants in their own negotiations.IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Progra

Open Access and What It Means for Faculty Scholarship

Open Access and What It Means for Faculty Scholarshi

Launching a negotiation curriculum: Discovering and addressing challenges faced during resource negotiations

This presentation summarizes an interview study that was conducted to understand common issues and challenges that academic librarians face when negotiating with vendors. The results were used to inform content creation of a new OER launching in the first half of 2024 to teach negotiation skills and strategy.Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Progra

The ONEAL Project

The Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries (ONEAL) project is working to develop curricula and open educational resources to support negotiation education for academic libraries and MLS/MLIS students. With support from IMLS and an initial training cohort underway, ONEAL seeks to increase librarians’ skills in vendor negotiations and effectiveness in better aligning contract terms with libraries’ interests and values. On November 14th at 12pm ET / 9am PT, the next OpenCon Library Community Call will feature leaders from the ONEAL project who will share an overview of the project and its next steps and facilitate a conversation about what kinds of support are most helpful for librarians working to improve in negotiations.IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Progra

Foundations Quizzes: Questions & Answers

This is a supplementary document for the lesson plans that provides a Question & Answer bank that MLS/MLIS instructors can use to create quizzes when using the Foundations curriculum of the ONEAL Project (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) in courses that teach negotiation skills to library students.Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Progra

ONEAL Glossary

Glossary for the curriculum created by the ONEAL Project (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries).Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Awar

The ONEAL Project: Foundations Lesson Plans

This document provides the lesson plans developed for the ONEAL curriculum so that MLS/MLIS instructors who wish to include lessons from the curriculum can easily copy and paste the lessons into a learning management system (LMS) such as Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard. These lesson plans were designed to be completed individually, so the “Time to Complete” note is the minimum amount of time the ONEAL team thinks it should take for a learner to complete the lesson based on the average time it took curriculum pilot testers to complete the curriculum asynchronously. The individual instructor can best determine which parts of the lesson will work best in class or as homework and how much time each should be given. If instructors choose to include group discussion and activities during a class session, the lesson may take more time. Additionally, if case studies are negotiated during class time or if instructors have an in-class debrief discussion of the negotiation experience that will also likely increase time.Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Progra