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Mar 5, 2025 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

Future Walk-Thru: Preview ITHAKA’s Upcoming AI-Enabled Special Collections Processing Service

Based on many recent conversations with global library and special collections leaders, it is clear that significant challenges continue to exist farther upstream in the archival process, well before discovery and access. Early stages like metadata creation are highly manual, time-consuming, and difficult to scale, and have led to decades-long backlogs in processing these collections. […]

Feb 10, 2025 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

Building Print and Electronic Collections

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 […]

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Jan 24, 2025 - 10:00 am ET/9:00 am CT

Vendor Spotlight: AM [Adam Matthew]

Join us to hear about AM’s exciting group offer for ASERL. AM has submitted an offer for discount on purchases and unlocked backfile content with a collective spend of $7.3 million. Unlocked content would be available only to those participating at a minimum spending level of $50,000. Buy any title(s) using exclusive ASERL discounts: • […]

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Nov 22, 2024 - 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT

What’s up with Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) after the Hachette decision?

Join ASERL and the Library Copyright Institute for a discussion on the recent Hachette v. Internet Archive decision and its impacts on Controlled Digital Lending and libraries. Speakers: Brandon Butler, Re:Create Coalition / Jaszi Butler PLLC Chris Freeland, Internet Archive Charlie Barlow, Boston Library Consortium REGISTER:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3067584007608706135

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Aug 6, 2024 - 11:00 am ET/10:00 am CT

Evaluating Transformative Agreements

With the growth of transformative agreements, how are libraries effectively evaluating them? Join us for a panel discussion as we delve into the intricacies of evaluating transformative agreements, exploring their impact on library budgets, and alignment with open access strategies. PANELISTS: Erin Gallagher, Chair of Acquisitions & Collections Services, University of Florida Julie Glascock, Director […]

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May 8, 2024 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

ASERL Community Call: Shared Print Priorities

We need your input! We welcome all interested ASERL members to join a community call discussion on May 8, 2024 regarding the state and future of shared print retention programming within ASERL as a consortium. As libraries increasingly turn staff and funding resources toward electronic licenses, data services, and less collections-oriented uses of library space, […]

Mar 27, 2024 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

Defending Diversity: The Challenges and Opportunities for DEIA Positions in Libraries (Part 2)

FOR PRIVACY, THESE SESSIONS WILL NOT BE RECORDED Summary How are libraries still doing the work of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) across their systems with or without dedicated staff? This three-part series brings professionals from all levels and types of libraries together to discuss how the work of DEIA is going and ongoing […]

Oct 30, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

Update for ASERL Members: Skilltype for Expertise Sharing

    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 […]

Aug 28, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

Colonial Archives in the Classroom: Student and Instructor Perspectives

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 […]

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Aug 10, 2023 - 9:00 am ET/8:00 am CT

Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections

Emory University -- Woodruff & Rose Libraries 540 Asbury Circle, 3rd floor, Atlanta, GA, United States

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 […]

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Jun 12, 2023 - 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT

ASERL Community Convo: Read & Publish and Transformative Agreements at Your Institution — What’s working and what’s not?

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 […]

Mar 31, 2023 - 11:00 am ET/10:00 am CT

Open Access Monograph Support at ASERL Institutions

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, […]

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