Summary

The last few years have sharpened our ability to see inequities both in access and in the decades of collection-building that academic libraries now own – inequities that now impact our ability to support research, instruction, and clinical care for our campuses. This panel will discuss approaches taken at two academic libraries to address system problems in library collections. The University of Minnesota has partnered with GOBI Library Solutions to balance the efficiencies of an approval plan program with a desire to increase materials from diverse voices and perspectives.

Panelists

Sunshine Carter is the director for Collection Strategy & eResource Management at the University of Minnesota Libraries on the Twin Cities campus. She has been an Electronic Resources Librarian since 2005 in various capacities at both the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and Duluth campuses. She received her MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles. Sunshine is interested in collection development strategy, open access, and the ecosystem of e-resources from licensing to cancellation. She often presents on the topics of troubleshooting, licensing, post-cancellation access, and managing e-resources.

Amy Lana is the Sales Profile Manager at GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. She joined GOBI in January 2014 as a Collection Development Manager and was previously a Library Information Specialist in the Collection Services Department at the University of Missouri. Amy holds a M.A. in Library Science from the University of Missouri, M.A. in Classical Studies from Loyola University in Chicago, and B.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Evansville. She’s served on several ALA division committees as well as a NISO committee.

Malaika Grant is the Arts, Humanities and Area Studies Librarian for the University of Minnesota Libraries on the Twin Cities Campus.