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Latest News
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2024 WRLC Annual Meeting Presentations and Registration
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The WRLC Annual Meeting will take place on May 21-23rd, 2024 via Zoom.
This three-day virtual event is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and celebrate our achievements, share our experiences, and plan for the future.
We have planned a packed agenda filled with engaging discussions and opportunities for networking. Whether you are a new member or a long-time supporter, you won't want to miss this chance to connect with your colleagues and peers.
This year’s keynote will be “Innovation and Impact: Imagining the Future of Academic Library Careers,” presented by Christine Quirion, COO of Skilltype and Erika R. Hosselkus, Ph.D., Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Resources and Services, University of Notre Dame. See the featured article below for more information.
Agenda
Tuesday, May 21st
Keynote and Presentations
Wednesday, May 22nd
Presentations
Thursday, May 23rd
Presentations
Be sure to visit the 2024 WRLC Annual Meeting webpage on the Intranet at https://www.libraries.wrlc.org/2024-wrlc-annual-meeting for the latest updates, presentation descriptions, and more!
Use the Registration link below to receive the Zoom link for all events.
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2024 Annual Meeting Keynote
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“Innovation and Impact: Imagining the Future of Academic Library Careers,”
presented by Christine Quirion, COO of Skilltype and Erika R. Hosselkus, Ph.D., Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Resources and Services, University of Notre Dame.
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Today’s complex information environment invites a radical rethinking of academic library careers and competencies. What aspects of librarianship will be essential in an age of ubiquitous data, rapidly evolving faculty and student needs, and ongoing social, political, and technological change? While the term librarian has been tightly linked to collections and buildings in the past, librarians possess broad, deep, multifaceted expertise. Information professionals are in a great position to collectively redefine their careers, curate their unique collection of skills, and demonstrate value to the knowledge enterprise.
This presentation will highlight critical competencies for academic libraries from the Skilltype platform and the recent Librarian Futures III Report as well as strategies for librarians to adapt and thrive in their careers. Insights and examples will be shared from the University of Notre Dame that illustrate dynamic and diverse roles advancing digital scholarship, special collections and more in the Hesburgh Libraries.
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Christine Quirion is the Chief Operating Officer at Skilltype. Christine has over twenty years of experience leading library departments, teams, and projects at MIT and Boston University. Christine’s specialties include talent management in academic libraries, product and project management, digital libraries, and data-driven service improvement. At Skilltype, Christine works with the library community to develop Skilltype's talent platform to build the next generation of information expertise. Christine earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons University in Boston, MA.
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As chief of the Scholarly Resources and Services division, Erika Hosselkus leads the Hesburgh Libraries’ largest division of faculty and staff. Her portfolio includes research collections, special collections and archives, public and user services, and preservation. She develops and expands innovative partnerships and services in support of Notre Dame’s commitment to providing an elite undergraduate education, its growing emphasis on rigorous graduate education and democratizing access to research and special collections.
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MORE Good Trouble: Open@WRLC Faculty Course Transformation Program
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In January 2024, the WRLC launched the second year of a two-year pilot Open Educational Resource (OER) Faculty Course Transformation program. Across the WRLC, 16 faculty members will receive a $2,000 Open@WRLC Faculty Course Transformation award to provide support as they work to adopt OER courseware into their curriculum and provide low to no-cost courses to their campus community. Learn more at Open@WRLC.org.
For the second pilot year, the combined proposals are projected to yield a total estimated textbook cost savings of $294,703.00 for the 2024- 2025 Academic Year alone. This is approximately three times the textbooks savings from the first pilot year and part of the credit goes to at least two institutions that will be using OER to update all sections within a single course. Other exciting updates include entire OER courseware websites that have been created by faculty to replace traditionally published commercial textbooks and AI enhanced functionality.
Keep an eye out for a special announcement email next week with more details and an introduction to this year’s participating faculty.
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Join the Instruction Interest Group
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Do you currently provide library instruction or have an interest in library instruction? Consider joining the WRLC Instruction Interest Group. If you are like us, you’ve probably had a fair share of successes and challenges teaching students and interacting with faculty members. We’d love to discuss them. The goal of the Instruction Interest Group is to share teaching techniques and strategies between WRLC librarians. Members will be able to submit topics for discussion prior to the meeting. At this point we are planning to meet every two months via Zoom. If you are interested, please fill out the interest form by May 20th.
you may also contact either Charles Gallagher (Gallaghercha@cua.edu) or Ben Cushing (cushingb@cua.edu) by email.
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APAC's Idea of the Month:
Title search - index the 245 field on its own
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The Alma/Primo Advisory Committee's (APAC) May Idea of the Month seeks to improve title indexing and analytics.
Many libraries catalog new material according to the international cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA). One requirement of RDA is that each work is given a unique access point. When cataloging a new work, catalogers must search a database to determine if their 245 field value (subfields a, n, p) is unique. This is impossible for them to do with the out-of-the-box search fields in Alma when their title is only one or two words long because the Title field searches 38 MARC fields and over 100 subfields. In our database, a basic title search of the word "proceedings" returns thousands of records. An advanced "title equals" search of "proceedings" still returns hundreds of titles, and many of those records do not have a 245 field with a $a value of Proceedings. It would be nice if this capability existed in Alma for all users.
Determining title uniqueness isn't easily solved using Analytics. The Title (Normalized) field includes the 245 $b which isn't used in determining title uniqueness. The National Library of Medicine created an advanced formula that normalized all text, gets rid of non-filing text, and packs spaces in the 245 field, but it takes about 5 minutes to return results. This problem would be solved if the 245 field was indexed by itself in Alma.
If you don't have an Idea Exchange account, just find the "New here? Create an account" link on the idea page. Then enter your email address to start the account creation process.
APAC welcomes nominations for future Ideas of the Month. Anyone can highlight an idea on the WRLC Idea Exchange Basecamp or you can submit ideas to your APAC representative.
- Aaron Krebeck (WRLC)
On behalf of the Alma/Primo Advisory Committee
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Upcoming Events? Let us Know!
Are you presenting? Hosting a webinar? We'd like to know and share in upcoming newsletters! Please use the link below to share your upcoming presentations, webinars, or other events!
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Highlight a WRLC Colleague
Do you have a colleague that goes above and beyond? Do they contribute to the WRLC in a special way that deserves to be highlighted? Share their story (or yours) in the questionnaire below to be featured in a future newsletter!
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