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