Join ASERL members and guests for an overview and refresher of the library talent management platform, Skilltype. Founder and CEO Tony Zanders will perform a live demonstration of the software that’s now in use by more than 150 libraries and several consortia today. Key use cases for research libraries and their consortia to […]
Where does research end and creative imagination begin? How might teaching archival literacies to students also involve understanding poetry and storytelling? And how might empowering students to produce original work from the archives allow historians, curators and publishers to re-imagine the voices present and absent in the archives – the primary evidence we have of […]
How do you manage the expectations of donors, administrators, and the public about collecting and facilitating access to materials with complex creators, content, or histories? Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections will convene important conversations among Special Collections librarians, archivists, and others who work with these challenges on […]
Co-Sponsored by ASERL's Collection Strategies Interest Group and Scholarly Communications Interest Groups ASERL's Collections Strategies and Scholarly Communications Interest Groups are sponsoring a discussion among ASERL members about transformative agreements at our respective institutions. We are looking to serve as a participatory forum to share experiences -- both positive and negative -- of these […]
A panel will discuss their support of and perspectives on open access monographs, and how these fit within greater collection policies and the overall scholarly communication ecosystem. Speakers: Haley Walton, Librarian for Open Scholarship and Education, Duke University Kathleen DeLauenti, Director, Arthur Friedheim Music Library, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University Chris Palazzolo, Head of Collections, […]
Sign up to hear about a recently launched archive documenting the black experience at the University of Pittsburgh through the years. Users contribute the content: photos, memories, and soon, audio and video. The project, “The Blue, Gold and Black Digital Archive”, is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Library System and the Office of […]
Please join us to review Gale’s end-of-year offer available ONLY for ASERL member institutions! During this session we will be discussing Gale Primary Sources, Digital Scholar Lab, Case Studies, and eBooks. We’ll be giving an overview on how to take advantage of some incredible discounts topping off at a potential 55% off, good thru June […]
Reveal Digital develops Open Access primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, using a unique publishing model where funding and source material are pooled together from libraries and archives. In this webinar, Reveal Digital staff will introduce the ASERL community to two significant digital resources in development, Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents […]
After much discussion, ASERL has merged two existing Interest Groups -- the Big Deal Community of Practice and the Collection Assessment Interest Group -- into a new, combined Interest Group focusing on Collection Strategy. Please join us for this Town Hall meeting on November 9 to share your thoughts on desired goals and activities for […]
Please register at https://emory.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcemorTspHtGsrXT7QtrIzI-ByRNASmPG
The structure by which we evaluate collections is inherently problematic, as collections deliver value to users in many ways that are not always easy to quantify. This presentation will show the development of a number of VIVA programs and initiatives to assess and grow the diversity of the consortium’s shared collections both with direct, large-scale […]
ASERL Community Call: National Perspectives on the State of Transformative / OA Agreements Presenters: Mat Wilmott (Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements, University of California System) and Allison Langham-Putrow (University of Minnesota / head of SPARC's Data Analysis Working Group in SPARC's Journal Negotiation Community of Practice)