From: Michael Levine-Clark <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:25:07 +0000 The ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS) invites you to a attend the Emerging Research in Collection Development and Management Forum, to hear about two exciting research projects: · Burke, Jane and Jim Ulsh, “Curating Institutional Video Collections.” · Wical, Stephanie and R. Todd Vandenbark, “Building a Stronger Collection: The Art of Combining Citation Studies and Usage Statistics.” The Forum will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013, 4:30-5:30, McCormick Place MCP-N229 Curating Institutional Video Collections Institutional video content remains the least curated and discoverable of all content types. Symptoms include: • Growing volume and complexity of institutional multimedia, including lecture capture • Users expect ubiquitous access to all content, regardless of format • Video is often siloed • Video is under cataloged/indexed • Video is not easily accessible • Video, especially institutional video, is not available to discovery services • Rights management and use concerns • Libraries are missing out on an opportunity to showcase its relevance on today’s campus The hypothesis: Utilize automated transcription to create indexing data that would promote the discoverability and usability of institutionally created video. If successful, this could lead to an affordable service that would allow libraries to work with a service partner to curate large volumes of video content. In analyzing the problem and determining if an affordable service could be developed, multiple research methods were used: · Facilitated focus group of 12 experienced multi-media librarians · 5 research surveys by professional research firms · Pilot partner group that contributed 520 pieces of video and met in person four times over 1 year period · Creation of a test version of every step of the service, so that Pilot Partners could evaluate real examples – all 520 pieces taken through the process multiple times Building a Stronger Collection: The Art of Combining Citation Studies and Usage Statistics Usage statistics, while helpful in determining cost--per--use of resources, present an incomplete overview of resources used. Resources frequently downloaded do not necessarily end up in research publications. Citation studies, on the other hand, provide insight into what faculty find valuable inside and outside the library collection. But where do they overlap? Librarians at a small, liberal arts university are currently analyzing the intersection of these data sets looking for such trends. Combining these methods provides increased granularity in assessing where a library should allocate its limited funds. Librarians are collecting article citations from publications (journal articles, books and book chapters, etc.) written by teaching faculty in four departments: nursing, mathematics, chemistry and biology. In addition, usage statistics data will be culled from electronic journals and databases corresponding to each of these departments. Data across these groups will be combined and analyzed in order to answer questions such as: • Are faculty members publishing in the same journals they are getting information from? • Do items with high usage reflect the same levels of publication? • What should we have as part of our collection to adequately support research at our institution? Michael Levine-Clark Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services University of Denver Libraries