louis lagniappe vol 1, issue 4

Volume 1, Issue 4 April 6, 2015

by Mike Waugh, LSU, and Cathy Sicard, LOUIS

SIMTF? What the heck does that mean? Let us explain.

One of the objectives of the LALINC/LOUIS Strategic Plan is for the LOUIS team to employ bestpractices for infrastructure, architecture and security. This includes an annual review of the currentIntegrated Library System (ILS) initiative, project future growth, costs, impact on constituents, andability to integrate with other software to produce a Library Services Platform (LSP). This involvesa constant state of exploration in the ever moving technology landscape. Considering newertechnologies being developed by SirsiDynix, recent interest in migrating to Oracle for Unicode,and the aging Symphony hardware in place today, LOUIS recommended that the LALINCExecutive Board establish the Symphony Infrastructure Migration Task Force (SIMTF). It wasestablished in January to evaluate the current Symphony infrastructure and makerecommendations that best meet the needs of consortia members.

So far, it has been established that the LOUIS hosted Symphony instances will be migrated tonew hardware running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rather than IBM’s AIX, our present operatingsystem. Also, the Symphony databases will be migrated from Informix ISAM to embedded Oracle.The immediate advantage will allow LOUIS sites to use Unicode, if they desire.

The next consideration is whether LOUIS will continue to host the Symphony software locally ormove to the SirsiDynix SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. Over the past two months, we havebeen evaluating the SaaS environment. Up to this point, we have been investigating it from theperspective of an outsider looking in. We have been reviewing the documentation. We have beenpeppering SirsiDynix staff with questions. We've logged into a version of SaaS Symphony. Wehave polled, talked to and visited current SaaS customers. The general feedback so far has beenoverwhelmingly positive. SirsiDynix has what appears to be an industry-leading hosting service forthe Symphony ILS. It also appears to us that we are able to enjoy the advantages of the cloudhosted system while still maintaining our degree of control and many of our currentcustomizations.

We've taken a look around and kicked the tires, so to speak, so now we are ready for the testdrive. Beginning at the end of March, we will have two test instances of Symphony running in theSaaS environment, using data from two LOUIS sites. We will have two months to test it out. Wewill run our regular processes, particularly with an eye on the network speed and responsiveness.We will want to involve staff from as many different institutions as possible. At the end of this test

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period, the task force will make its final recommendation to LALINC on whether to move ourLOUIS instances into SirsiDynix's SaaS environment. The final recommendation will be madebefore the end of May.

If you want more information, or have question, you can contact one of the SIMTF members: https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/louis/task_forces/.

by Elizabeth Kelly, Loyola UniversityNew Orleans

Special Collections & Archives at theMonroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans, is currently displaying selections from some ofour newer social justice collections. Through protest documentation and photographs, grassrootsactivist literature and zine culture, the collections exhibited here exemplify Loyola’s mission ofworking for a more just world.

The collections on display include The Rosemary Drown Archdiocese of New Orleans and SchoolIntegration Collection, The New Orleans Social Justice and Activism Collection, and The K.(Kenneth) Brad Ott Papers. Read full article

by Aasif Mandvi, via LinkedIn Pulse

Read this inspiring article on success, happiness, and overcoming the "voices of treason" that sayyou cannot be successful at something.

Excerpt:

"Recently I was asked to be the keynote speaker at the dinner for the Congressional Radio andTV correspondents in Washington, D.C. When I got the offer, my impulse was to decline. Itseemed daunting. Mostly because in spite of my work on “The Daily Show,” I have never reallyseen myself as a comedian."


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"'I am not a standup comic,' I told myself. 'I’m not smart enough, not funny enough, etc…' Youknow, the usual suspects of voices emerged from my subconscious. Truth is, I was scared. I alsoknew well enough to know that everything I have done in my career, I have done while also beingsimultaneously terrified and feeling completely undeserving." Read full article on LinkedIn

by Christy Jordan Wrenn, Centenary College

Christy Wrenn is the Director of Library Services at MagaleLibrary. She has been a professional librarian for almost 40years working with Louisiana Interlibrary Loan Systems, theShreveport Times Newspaper Library, creating churchlibraries in the area, and currently she is your academic

librarian. Christy states, “The one ‘DREAM’ of a librarian is to write a book.” She just didn’t haveany idea that her first authorship, with illustrations would be that of a children’s book entitled Rylanand Bur. Three years ago, Christy felt like she needed to stimulate her right creative brain, so shebegan to teach herself to draw using Drawing for Dummies and Drawing on the Right Side of theBrain. As she became better and better, she began to think about how she could move frompencil drawing to maybe painting. Watercolor became her first medium of expression. Emelia,her daughter and her little family lived on Elmendorf, AFB in Anchorage Alaska. Eme was alwaystelling stories of bears in the park and moose in the front yard. There was an adventure aroundevery corner. So, Christy began to put together ideas about her middle grandchild, Rylan—jumping on his trampoline, seeing a mother bear and cubs in the park, playing with his favoritecars, and other boy things they do; thus, Rylan and Burt was born. The book is written and drawnas if Rylan himself created the story. His two sisters will not play with him, so he jumps on histrampoline. Rylan longs for a friend. One day, Burt the bear wanders into the backyard and theybecome friends. The illustrations are done in crayon. The story depicts a child’s life in Alaska. Inearly 2015, a sequel will be published by Page Publishers, Rylan and Henry.

by Mark Witteman, LOUIS


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The LOUIS team recently realized that they could give the gift of time! They re-jiggered theschedule of overnight Symphony reports that they monitor for all sites. That shortened the nightlywindow of time in which they ask sites to not scheduled overnight reports to just two hours: 11:30PM to 1:30 AM. Previously, that time ran from 11:30 PM to 3:00 AM.

LOUIS Knowledge Base solution number 4778 has been updated accordingly.

by Michael Arseneau and William Charron, Nicholls State University

Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University decided in September 2011 to reclassify itscollection from Dewey to Library of Congress. At first, this process was performed entirely byhand resulting in a forward progression of approximately 600 titles per month out of a collectionestimated to be over 200,000 titles in size. Under this rate of progression, the reclassificationwould take more than twenty years to complete. It was decided in July of 2014 that this was fartoo slow, and the decision was made to come up with an automated process for this project....

by Mark Witteman, LOUIS

Adam Viator had an eager look in his eyes when he, Marcy Stevens, and ZeeZee Zamin returnedfrom their July 30, 2014 site visit at Nicholls State University. Among the many topics, William andothers at Allen J. Ellender Memorial Library described the long and slow classification conversionthey had initiated. They also conveyed to their LOUIS visitors the specifications that a customreport would need to meet to provide them the help they needed. Adam was keen to get startedon that custom report!...

Read the full article!

Conferences are a wonderful professional development tool, providing opportunities fornetworking and collaboration, discussing key issues with leaders in the industry, and gleaninginformation and ideas from colleagues to bring back to your library. They can also be a strain onbudgets and staff time. So we're bringing some of them to you! Members have written up asummary of their experiences for your enjoyment.

• Academic Library Planning and Revitalization Institute


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• LCTCS Annual Conference

by Zehra Zamin, LOUIS

LOUIS continuously works on the behalf of its members to negotiate discounts for electronicresources in order to minimize costs and maximize access. Information about products and trialsis shared on the LER-L discussion list. To view current subscriptions, visit the ElectronicResources webpage. Click here to view recent activity.

EBSCO discontinued this product, from the package of databases LOUIS gets from EBSCO, onFebruary 28, 2015 because the publisher stopped it. However, EBSCO replaced it withReferencia Latina, “the premier resource for Spanish language users”: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/referencia-latina. If you had listed Economia Y Negocios on your library webpage, youneed to replace it with Referencia Latina. The url for Referencia Latina is:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=zah.

Two webinars just for LOUIS members were held on March 5 and March 10, 2015. focus on theplatform and talk about new enhancements coming in April. The recording can be found at https://cengage.webex.com/cengage/ldr.php?RCID=74136220ac2b77bc1d839fdc13462c75.

As you continue to develop your knowledge, here are some resources that will be of use:

• http://www.gale.cengage.com/training – all of our search tips, recorded webinars, guidedtutorials, and training documentation can be found here.

• http://solutions.cengage.com/enhancements2015/ - this site outlines the enhancements that willrelease to Gale Virtual Reference Library, In Context, and InfoTrac on April 2. As was mentionedin today’s webinar, you can also use the link in the upper-left corner of each of the affectedresources that invites you to try the new interface to explore the changes.

• http://support.gale.com – our technical support documentation can be found here. You can alsogenerate direct database URLs, create widgets, find our apps, and more!

• http://www.gale.cengage.com/webinar/ - our “at-large” webinar training calendar

• http://solutions.cengage.com/galepromo/ - request FREE bookmarks, posters, & tent cards foryour Gale resources.


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LearningExpress has provided improved MARC records that point directly to the resource, not afeatured list. LOUIS is currently in contact with the vendor regarding an available LOUIS packagevia the EBSCO A-to-Z MARC record service.

Content changes are coming to MEDLINE Complete. An initial notice was sent out on LER-L. Watch your email, or contact the LOUIS team or the EBSCO sale representative, for furtherupdates.

You now have the opportunity to join NYT on a monthly basis. The launch date is the first Mondayof each month. Information required to join is needed by the middle of the preceding month.

Oxford is working to resolve the data migration issue that occurred when migrating statistical datato the new interface. Currently, April-October 2014 is unavailable. They except a resolution thisspring.

Beginning on April 17, 2015, placeholder records will be suppressed for guest access users. Notethis change has no effect on the result list display for authenticated users of EDS.

by Lucas P. Huntington, Our Lady of the Lake College

On the morning of Monday, February 23rd, we were pleased to host several of the LOUIS staff fora site visit at Our Lady of the Lake College Library in Baton Rouge. Cathy, ZeeZee, and Jaime allcame along and spent most of the morning with Fatima, Maggie and me, touring the facilities,meeting our crew, and discussing various new projects of interest. Since our last site visit fromLOUIS, OLOL College has acquired a new President, Dr. Tina Holland, and continued to expandits graduate level nursing programs with a new DNP offering.

Our conversations ranged from everything including the upcoming LLA conference, to ILLiad, toMobileCirc, but at least two particular topics emerged as items to pursue in the immediate future – EBSCO Discovery Service’s OneSearch box, and Curriculum Builder. These are simple ways tohelp our patrons use our resources with greater ease and efficiency, with basic implementationprocesses. Other smaller libraries with EDS may be interested in looking into them as well!

We are grateful that the perpetually busy LOUIS staff so thoughtfully took time out of theirschedules to personally come and visit us at OLOL, and that they have continued to follow up on


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our discussions. We are truly blessed to have them supporting us in LALINC, and look forward toseeing them again soon!

This segment reports custom work recently undertaken by LOUIS to help sites. If you areinterested in learning how LOUIS can assist you, send a request via FootPrints.

• Applied fix for the WorkFlows online helps.

• Helped OLHCC reprogram their barcode scanners to account for the variability in their barcodeformats.

• Worked with several sites (LSU-E, NSULA, Delgado, etc.) to clean-up A-to-Z and govdocselectronic records in Symphony.

• Worked out a method for creating custom html announcements that can be sent to users.

• Worked with LCTCS to automate the transfer of patron files to Symphony.

• Symphony server monitoring has migrated from Big Brother to Xymon.

• Custom report created to convert a Dewey collection to LC (see article for more details).

• Testing existing custom reports and processes to ensure functionality in new operating system ifinfrastructure is migrated (see SIMTF update for more details).

Strategic planning identified several objectives that require membership participation in order tomeet current and evolving needs, services, and expectations. Membership participation is largelyundertaken through task forces and interest groups. To learn more about them, visit each group'sweb page by clicking on the group title below.

Task Forces

Task forces were implemented in order to establish working groups tasked with investigatingspecific issues or reaching specific goals as they are identified within in the consortium.

Interest Groups

Interest groups have replaced the original committee structure. Interest groups provides forgreater participation through discussion lists where members can discuss and share ideas, ask


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questions, and propose projects.

Interested in participating in one of these groups? Email the chair of the group you areinterested in working with!

Learning with LOUIS is a webinar series that began in March 2013. We are always seeking ideasand proposals for future webinars. If you are interested in learning more, or submitting a topic orproposal, visit the Learning with LOUIS webpage. The webinar schedule can be found on theLOUIS calendar. Each webinar is recorded, and you can access a list of titles and recordings onthe Learning with LOUIS webpage or in the public Knowledge Base.

Upcoming Webinars:

• April 13: New Features for EDS Curriculum Builder

• May 26: Fiscal Year Rollover in SirsiDynix Symphony WorkFlows

• June 15: Submission deadline for the next issue of LOUIS Lagniappe

• June 19: Submission deadline for proposals for LUC 2015

• August 13: LOUIS System Administrators' meeting in Baton Rouge, LA

• October 2: LALINC Fall Meeting

• October 8-9: LUC 2015, Baton Rouge, LA

As always, remember to check the LOUIS calendar for upcoming events and updates!


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Spotlight on Social Justice: Exhibitby Elizabeth Kelly, Loyola University New Orleans

Special Collections & Archives at the Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans, is currently displaying selections from some of

our newer social justice collections. Through protest documentation and photographs, grassroots activist literature and zine culture,

the collections exhibited here exemplify Loyola’s mission of working for a more just world.

The collections on display include The Rosemary Drown Archdiocese of New Orleans and School Integration Collection, The New

Orleans Social Justice and Activism Collection, and The K. (Kenneth) Brad Ott Papers.

The Rosemary Drown Archdiocese of New Orleans and School Integration Collection details the New Orleans Archdiocese’s intent

to end segregation in parochial schools, and the fierce response from local opposition groups.

The New Orleans Social Justice and Activism Collection consists of materials related to social justice issues in and around New

Orleans and Latin America from the mid 1980s to early 1991. Here, we showcase the papers of Richard McCarthy, a former editor and publisher at the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice at Loyola.

These papers document McCarthy’s coalitional organizing, activism, and research in opposition to Louisiana State Representative David Duke and his various political campaigns in the late 1980’s and

early 1990’s.

The K. Brad Ott Papers consist of materials chronicling the production and distribution of Ott’s self-published publications covering community activism and social justice activities in New Orleans and

Louisiana for over 20 years. For the exhibit, we offer a selection of publications centered on anti-nuclear and anti-war consciousness-raising in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.

The exhibit will be on display from February 2- May 29. Special Collections & Archives is open Monday – Thursday from 9am-4pm and Friday 9am-12pm.

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Dewey to LC Conversionby Michael Arseneau and William Charron, Nicholls State University

Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University decided in September 2011 to reclassify its collection from Dewey to Library of Congress. At first, this process was performed entirely by hand resulting

in a forward progression of approximately 600 titles per month out of a collection estimated to be over 200,000 titles in size. Under this rate of progression, the reclassification would take more than twenty

years to complete. It was decided in July of 2014 that this was far too slow, and the decision was made to come up with an automated process for this project.

With new library staff hired in recent months, LOUIS contacted Ellender Library in May of 2014, and a July site visit was arranged. One of the results of this site visit was that LOUIS would build a custom

report to automate the project. A decision was made at Nicholls to accept the LC numbers as they existed in the bibliographic record. However, some records were determined to necessitate manual

handling. Bibliographic records would be “kicked out” for manual handling if the records contain an 050 field with two subfields “a”, no 050 or 090 field, or two 090 fields.

After trial and error with the creation of the custom report and much testing in Training, we were ready to “go live” with the automated reclass in February of 2015. Coordinating with the Circulation staff, who

would pull predetermined ranges of books to ease in the process of shifting the stacks, the automated process began. Within the first two weeks of running the report, the library reclassed 1600

bibliographic records, a number that would have taken almost three months of manual processing to achieve.

The LOUIS Takeby Mark Witteman, LOUIS

Adam Viator had an eager look in his eyes when he, Marcy Stevens, and ZeeZee Zamin returned from their July 30, 2014 site visit at Nicholls State University. Among the many topics, William and others at

Allen J. Ellender Memorial Library described the long and slow classification conversion they had initiated. They also conveyed to their LOUIS visitors the specifications that a custom report would need to

meet to provide them the help they needed. Adam was keen to get started on that custom report!

I told Adam that this would not be a simple report, but we rolled up our sleeves and got started. Working occasionally, between and around other projects, we provided the folks at Nicholls with a version of

the report on Training shortly before Adam resigned from LOUIS. Nicholls was a great partner, testing carefully and providing examples when the report did not work as intended or the output was less than

clear to them. Only after rigorous testing did they agree to begin work on Production.

This Dewey to LC custom report project is a great example of the productivity gains libraries can enjoy when they partner with LOUIS to work smarter, not harder.


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Academic Library Planning and Revitalization InstitutePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania March 9-11, 2015As the University of Louisiana at Monroe slowly transitions to a significantly more digital format, and we attempt to determine how to effectively use the space that our aggressive deselection project is

freeing up, we look to other libraries and their efforts for guidance in our own. To that end, I was sent to the Academic Library Planning and Revitalization Institute conference in Philadelphia, PA, March 9-11,

2015. I personally found the whole experience to truly be revitalizing and inspiring, but I wanted to share some points that I felt would benefit libraries in the State of Louisiana as we continue to struggle with

budget issues and still provide high-quality, meaningful service. First: stick by your guns on being student-centered; this was reiterated again and again by all the great speakers at the conference. Two:

when considering spaces in your library, either for a new commons project or to use space currently not being used effectively, ask yourself: “What do we want to happen in this space?” It should not be a

“build it and they will come” scenario; don’t tell the students how they should use the space, but imagine how they could use it. Three: when trying new things, if you aren’t sure how they’ll be received and

you don’t want to waste funds, consider piloting/prototyping new things. Such efforts can also help combat or address resistance to change (a big challenge in any library project). Four: consider using

charrettes during planning; charrettes are “is an intense generative exercise that takes place over multiple days, and involves a multi-disciplinary group of participants. The purpose of a charrette is to

efficiently generate design solutions for a project while considering diverse viewpoints of the stakeholders involved” (Foraker Labs, 2015). Finally, be sure to ask two hard questions: “What is missing? What

aren’t we seeing?” This can help develop new ideas, gaps in services and resources, and ways to better serve our users!

References:

Foraker Labs. (2015). Charrettes. Usability First. Retrieved from http://www.usabilityfirst.com/usability-methods/charrettes/

My contact info is [email protected]!

Megan Lowe

University of Louisiana at Monroe


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Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) Annual ConferenceLibrary Peer Group Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana March 6, 2015The circulation of portable devices; library print management systems; the challenges of open source textbooks for libraries and what book format students prefer; collection development – who is driving

the content, accrediting agencies’ requirements, the aging of collections and how to weed eBooks, policies and procedures related to prison patrons; ILL; and EBSCO’s EDS Curriculum Builder. Mr. Mark

Witteman from LOUIS was the invited guest, and he provided an update on the LCTCS Systems Office/LOUIS/LCTCS libraries patron load transfers as well as answered questions related to LOUIS

services. There were lively discussions with at least twenty-two library members attending.

Margaret Keller

Northshore Technical Community College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana March 12-14, 2014On March 12-14th, 2014, LCTCS (The Louisiana Community & Technical College system) held its annual conference in Baton Rouge for thirteen community and technical colleges in the state of Louisiana.

On Thursday, March 13th, Joanie Chavis, Dean of the Baton Rouge Community College Library presided over a luncheon for the LCTCS Peer Directors’ Group. Since this was the first formal meeting for

this group, discussion focused on challenges unique to community college libraries in Louisiana. The group hopes to meet in the future to begin to address some of those issues.

On Friday, March 14th, Margaret Keller, NTCC (Northshore Technical Community College) GATOR Library, Shanna Clevenger, Delgado Community College Library, Telisa Sylvest, NTCC, Dr. Alma Dawson,

LSU, and LSU Library and Information Science students, Victoria Elmwood and Brittany Hart, presented the session: Connecting with Students through Faculty/Library Libguide Webpages. The program’s

purpose was two-fold: 1) to give an overall view of how Libguides, a Springshare company cloud-based web publishing platform for libraries can be used to reach students online with useful information and

resources, and 2) to summarize a recent partnership between NTCC GATOR Library and LSU’s School of Library and Information Science. The partnership involved Dr. Dawson and members of one of her

LIS classes, Mrs. Keller, and NTCC faculty. All worked together to create Libguides in various disciplines, such as Adult Education, College Success and English Composition. These Libguides are now

available on the GATOR Library website for access by faculty and students.

Margaret Keller

Northshore Technical Community College


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Electronic ResourcesLOUIS continuously works on the behalf of its members to negotiate discounts for electronic resources in order to minimize costs and maximize access. Information about products and trials is shared on

the LER-L discussion list. To view current subscriptions, visit the Electronic Resources webpage.

July 6, 2015Products investigated and closed:

Geopolitical Monitor – Intelligence Publications

Alexander Street Press 13 collections

Products currently being investigated:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collections

Artstor Digital Library

New minis created as a result of product investigation / trials:

Harvard University Press Digital Loeb Classical Library – The Loeb Digital Library presents over 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts in digital form allowing readers to browse, search,

bookmark, annotate, and share content. An interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature, The Digital Loeb includes accurate English translations of

epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory and other documents of Greek and Latin Classical importance.

Historical New York Times with Index (ProQuest) – Cited in 30,000 dissertations and theses around the world since 2000, The New York Times provides findings on topics as diverse as music,

management, anthropology, computer science, military history, and additional subjects. The New York Times with Index is the definitive record of the day, plus the contextual material of photos,

advertisements, announcements, cartoons, reviews, editorials, and letters that lead to fresh insights.

April 6, 2015Products investigated and closed:

SPORTDiscus with Full Text

MEDCOM Nursing Videos

MEDCOM Nursing Videos

NAXOS Online Library of music

Content Café Ebsco


Harvard University Press Digital Loeb Classical Library

Project Muse

January 12, 2015Products investigated and closed:

World Scientific Publishing ebooks

LearningExpress – Job/Career Accelerator

WestLaw Campus

Sage Stats (State and Local) and US Political Stats

Sage- Nursing Collection

EBSCO – Nursing Reference Center Plus

ANA – American Nursing Association e-resources

UpToDate

Cambridge Journals Online


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Elsevier – SCOPUS

Gale – additional titles for GVRL

Resources for Community Colleges and their core programs: A survey was conducted to identify programs deemed important by the Deans and Directors of Community Colleges, and the results are

being used as a starting point by EBSCO, Gale, Credo and ProQuest to create packages of e-resources specifically for community colleges.

New minis created as a result of product investigation / trials:

Associates Programs Source Plus: “A Comprehensive Full-Text Resource for Two-Year Colleges / Community Colleges – provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant Associates Program

level content. It contains a wide range of applicable content from more than 2,000 full-text journals and over 350 full-text books. A LOUIS mini-consortium was created in Dec 2014.

Science Online – a product of AAAS/Science (American Association for Advancement of Science): Provides access to “scientific research, news, and commentary, of peer-reviewed general-science

journals. The online publications of AAAS provide access to award-winning news content plus high-impact peer-reviewed research literature from every corner of the world with 40 percent of our

published authors based outside of the United States. Many of our authors are Nobel Laureates in various scientific fields such as Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics.”

Stat!Ref – a nursing e-resources product provided by Teton Data Systems: This product has 32 resources that include “LWW resources, overlapping resources between DNP and your other programs,

and Doody Core Title/popular resources.”

FOD – Films on Demand Master Academic Collection – a product of Infobase Learning: It is “a streaming video platform which allows for unlimited viewing of over 20,000 educational films. All of our

content comes with public performance rights and come to us from producers such as PBS, A&E, The Open University, NBC, BBC, Bill Moyers, History Channel, Discovery Education, National

Geographic and more.”

Nursing eResources Task Force (NeRTF) – one-month trials:

The Task Force was charged with “reviewing the current content in LOUIS-purchased nursing e-resources and reporting…on their recommendation”. They conducted a survey, evaluated the results,

identified several items of interest, and decided to have a one-month trial for each of the resources. The trials ended in December 2014:

Sept: STAT!Ref – mini-consortium created.

Oct: Wiley’s ebooks related to Nursing – dropped because they don’t provide trials on specific online book titles or disciplines. EBSCO’s Nursing Reference Center Plus: October 2014 – no interest.

Nov: ANA-American Nursing Association- ebooks –Scope & Standards of Practice – cost too high

Dec: UpToDate – No discounts provided and cost too high.

October 6, 2014Products investigated and closed:

Ebsco – Cochrane Collection PLUS

Mometrix

Lynda.com

Mango Languages

World Scientific Publishing

LearningExpress – Job/Career Accelerator

Salem Press


Cambridge Univ Press – Cambridge Journals Online

New minis created as a result of product investigation or trials:

Oxford – Grove Art and Grove Music created with a mixed bag of some sites opting unlimited access while others chose a specific number of users

New York Times

Ebsco – Medline Complete

ProQuest – Statistical Abstracts of the World (we already have a mini in place for: Statistical Abstracts of the US).

Nursing eResources Task Force – one-month trials:


identified several items of interest, and decided to have a one-month trial for each of these resources:

Completed … Apr: Cochrane Collection Plus (Ebsco)

Completed … May: Medline Complete (EBSCO)

Completed … Jun: HaPI (EBSCO)

Completed … Jul: Nursing Reference Center (EBSCO)

Completed … Aug: Dynamed (EBSCO)


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Completed … Sept: STAT!Ref

Cancelled … Oct: ebooks (Wiley)

Nov: ebooks –Scope & Standards of Practice (ANA-American Nursing Association)

Dec: UpToDate

July 7, 2014

This was an extremely busy year for LOUIS electronic resources. The Collection & eResources Interest Group and the Nursing eResources Task Force were actively involved in identifying and investigating

resources. Eighteen products from twelve different vendors were investigated or trialed. The information about products and trials was shared on the LER-L discussion list and the interest group and task

force tallied the results to decide whether a mini-consortium should be created or further investigation should be closed.

Products investigated as potential minis:

Cochrane Library – Feb: closed!

AIP Journals (Am Institute of Physics) – Feb: closed!

PsycTESTS (EBSCO) – Feb: closed!

Films on Demand (FOD) – Feb: closed!

Nursing & Allied Health eBks (ProQuest) – Feb: closed

Statista (Lyrasis) – Mar: closed!

Info Literacy Course module (Credo) – Mar: closed!

Salem Press – 7 packages (Salem Press) – Mar: closed!

PolicyMap (PM) – Mar: ongoing …

Psychotherapy Training Videos(PTV) – Apr: closed!

New York Times online (NY Times) – May: ongoing …

Art/Music/Grove online (Oxford) – May: ongoing …

Nursing eResources Task Force – one-month trials:


identified several items of interest, and decided to have a one-month trial for each of these resources:

Apr: Cochrane Collection Plus (Ebsco) – CLOSED June 9, ‘14

May: Medline Complete (EBSCO)

Jun: HaPI (EBSCO)

Jul: Nursing Reference Center (EBSCO)

Aug: Dynamed (EBSCO)

Sept: STAT!Ref

Oct: ebooks (Wiley)

Nov: ebooks –Scope & Standards of Practice (ANA-American Nursing Association)

Dec: UpToDate

New minis created as a result of product investigation or trials:

EBSCO– ebooks. The EBSCO– Religion set (4,100 titles) was merged into the existing eBook mini.

ProQuest – Statistical Abstracts – May 22, 2014.

ProQuest – Sanborn Maps of La. – this was a mini-consortium, but now has been activated for all LOUIS sites.


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