2009 Charleston Conference Evaluations

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Please rate the Conference as a learning experience:
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Preconferences and Main Conference Sessions

Did you attend the all day Preconference session “eBooks: Not Just Anther Binding?”
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If yes, how would you rate the Preconference overall?
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Did you attend a Preconference session on Wednesday morning?
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If yes, which session did you attend?
—Ebrarians: Meeting the Challenges of E-resources Head on!Negotiating With Vendors: Dos and Don’tsAcquisitions 101: Keeping Current in Today’s Changing EnvironmentMaster of License Negotiations: Your Three Hour Degree to Learn Practical Strategies and TipsCRL- Access to Academic Theses and Dissertations: Navigating a Changing Landscape

If yes, how would you rate the Preconference overall?
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Did you attend a Preconference on Wednesday afternoon?
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If yes, which session did you attend?
—CRL – News: Paper, Film and DigitalSerials Resource ManagementThe Changing Face of Library Workflow ManagementWeeding, Offsite Storage & Sustainable Collections

If yes, how would you rate the Preconference overall?
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Please rate Thursday morning’s plenary sessions overall:

New Librarianship (David Lankes)
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Pricing Digital Journals (Adam Chesler, Christopher McKenzie, Tony O’Rourke, David Stern)
 1 – Unacceptable 2 – Poor 3 – Fair 4 – Good 5 – Excellent Did Not Attend

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“Raising Spirits in This Tough Economy”: Results from CIBER’s Global Library Survey (David Nicholas, Christopher Warnock, Mark Kendall)
 1 – Unacceptable 2 – Poor 3 – Fair 4 – Good 5 – Excellent Did Not Attend

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I Hear the Train A’ Coming – LIVE (Greg Tananbaum, Douglas Armato, Kevin Guthrie)
 1 – Unacceptable 2 – Poor 3 – Fair 4 – Good 5 – Excellent Did Not Attend

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Which Lively Lunch session did you attend on Thursday 12:30 – 1:45 pm?
—Eany Meany Miney Mo Pick a Database To Let GoUsing iClickers in Library Instruction to Improve Student EngagementOpen Access eJournals: What’s Your Number?Making the Most of the Center for Research Libraries: A Members Round TableHow Green Is Your E-Book? Or Printed Book?Weeding with a Re-PurposeLearning to Love Gifts: How one library has increased efficiency…LibraryThing and Social CatalogingWill POD (print on demand) Spell DOA for OP?Academic Libraries without PrintCollection Development & the College Curriculum CommitteeHow ‘Necessity’ Has Changed the Way Acqusitions is Done at One Academic LibraryTightening the CoreNone of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Thursday from 2:00 – 2:50 pm?
—P-Card Power : How Procurement Cards Are Used in Academic LibrariesGlobal Publication Profiles: Books as an Expression of Cultural DiversityBeguiled by Bananas? A retrospective study …Moving to a Virtual Approval PlanReconfiguring Collection Development for the FutureCollegiality: On your mark, ready, change?Are They Being Indexed II? A follow-up to tracking the indexing and abstracting of oa journalsInformation Exchange and the Chinese MarketThe Chicago CollaborativeUse is King: User-Centered AcquisitionsUse of the Worldcat Collection Analysis Tool to Assess the Statewide Serials Collection in IllinoisThe Semantic Web; What you need to know and why it is important for your user communityCollection Management 101: Developing and Implementing a Workshop SeriesLet the Data Speak: Use statistics and collection managementNone of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Thursday from 3:10 – 4:00 pm?
—Partner Your Way to Success: Advancing Consortia Opportunities in the Volunteer StateWorldCat Selection: Multiple Vendors, One ViewDiscover the Profession’s Best-Kept Secret– And protect your investment in collectionsLeveraging YOUR Assets: Shelf2Life program…Giving the People What They Want: User-driven Acquisition of Journal ArticlesImpact Factors, Post-Publication Peer Review and Other MetricsMicroforms in a Digital WorldWhat Counts: Assessing the Value of Non-Text ResourcesLet’s Go For It – Moving from print to electronic and feeling secure about it!Can Library Values be Outsourced?Invention is a NecessityBasic Accounting Concepts and Techniques for Acquisitions ProfessionalsbX: Benefiting from Collective WisdomPublishing Platforms as Metdata HubsDelivering the Goods: Understanding the Academic Library Supply ChainNone of the Above

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Please rate Thursday afternoon’s plenary session “It’s the Economy, Stupid! Dealing with High Acquisition Goals in Low Economic Times”
 1 – Unacceptable 2 – Poor 3 – Fair 4 – Good 5 – Excellent Did Not Attend

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Please rate Friday morning’s plenary sessions overall:

Discovery versus Disintermediation (Jane Burke)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Our Common Future (Ivy Anderson)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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The Google Settlement One Year Later (Anthony Watkinson, Allan Adler, Jan Constantine, Dan Clancy)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Which Lively Lunch session did you attend on Friday from 12:30 – 1:45 PM?
—Growing Your Own: Developing New Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians From WithinLaw Libraries: Our Persecptive on Necessity is the Mother of Invention;Book Dust Jackets in Academic LibrariesTransformational Change: The 9th Annual Health Science Lively LunchThe Changing Roles of Acquisitions Librarians and the eBook Acquisitions Landscape for Academic LibrariesDangerous Liaising: Moving from “Ownership” to “Access” in the Academic LibraryWhat Publishers Think Librarians Should Know About How to Do It: Publishers from SSP…Who’s in the Middle?Digital Curation and E-Publishing: Libraries Make the ConnectionChampagne Taste on a Pepsi Budget: Working with difficult economic timesTwittering in the Library WorldThe Future of the Book in Light of the Present Rise in E PublicationsCutting the Fat CAREFULLY – A Collection Development ModelNone of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Friday from 2:00- 2:50 PM?
—Start Worrying About the Theft of Shelf Books and MediaConflict Management, Megaphone Mastery, and Tea with the Queen: Running a big staff training program on a very small budgetA Necessity: Outsourcing the Issues of Print SerialsEthicShare.org: Beyond the Physical CollectionGood Enough: The New Face of ReferenceInteractive Online ReferenceA 5-Year Domestic Monograph Collection Assessment in Illinois Academic LibrariesKey Challenges Facing Researchers in the Global Research Environment: An Analysis of Researcher Behavior…Rethinking Monographic Acquisition: Developing a Demand-Driven Purchase ModelPublishers Discuss How Today’s Weak Economy Impacts Editorial ProgramsCollaboration, the Mother of Innovation: Are Librarians and Publishers collaborating to Utilize Technology…How to Write an Acquisitions Procedures ManualCommunication and Collection Accountability through Clusters: Case studies from two institutionsCooperative Collection Development: Sharing Funds, Resources, and Responsibilities Across LibrariesNever Let a Serials Crisis Go to Waste: Building support for library collections at VTNone of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Friday from 3:10- 4:00 PM?
—What’s in your Aggregator? : Content, Currency, and Stability of Full-Text DatabasesSharing the Load: Alternatives to Buying What Users NeedTwo for One: Linking Cooperative Collection Development with Demand-Driven Collection StrategiesGrappling with Changing RealitiesA Novel Approach to Relating Resource Expenditures to Academic UnitsUsing Access to Create a Serials Decision DatabaseUniqueness and Collection Overlap in Academic LibrariesTowards Resolving Chaos in the e-Book Supply ChainIs Good Enough, Really Good Enough?: Does algorithmic metadata search replace the need for discipline oriented databases?Early Adopters, Early Adapters: Vendors and Libraries Create the Print/e-Book Approval PlanThe Care and Feeding of Curricular Materials in an Academic Library: Issues in Collection DevelopmentWe Need All The Help We Can Get! — Standards That Assist in Electronic Resources ManagementHow Are We Doing? Implementing Acquisitions Metrics in Pursuit of Improved ServiceIt’s Time to Join Forces: New Approaches and Models that Support Sustainable Scholarship None of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Friday from 4:30- 5:15 PM?
—The Evolution of Business Sources: An Environmental Look at Information Providers and a Prediction for the Future…”It’s Raining Cats and Citation Analyses: New uses and audiences for the results of evidence-based collection evaluationStreamlining the Materials Ledger to Reflect the Realities of Campus Demographics…It Takes (at least) Two To Make A Thing Go Right: Maximizing Workflow Redesign ROI Through CollaborationStatistics: The Perks, Perils and PitfallsCost/Benefit Analysis of BioMedCentral Membership at large medical institutionLet Me See That E-book: Managing Cataloguing and Access through CollaborationWhere Has All the Money Gone? Long Time PassingCopyright on Campus: Coordinating the Confusione-Duke Books: What Have We Learned?The Digitization of the “Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections”NextGen Acquisitions: A Paradigm Shift for a New EraWhat We Learned From Users: Lessons learned from our student and librarian usersTen More Accounting Textbooks! Turning Those Unwanted Gift Books into Good Donor RelationsNone of the Above

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Please rate Friday afternoon’s plenary session “Open Access: Readership and Citations” (Phil Davis)
 1 – Unacceptable 2 – Poor 3 – Fair 4 – Good 5 – Excellent Did Not Attend

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Please rate Saturday morning’s plenary sessions overall:

Hyperlinked Library Service: Trends, Tools, Transparency (Michael Stephens)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Lightning in a Bottle: Libraries, technology and the changing system of scholarly communications (Kevin Smith)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Saturday from 10:15 – 11:00 am?
—Strategies for Marketing Your Collection Using Free Online Tools: There is such a thing as a Freebie!Putting the Library Back in Digital Libraries: Indexing newspaper digitization projects on the webDisrupting Libraries: The Potential for New ServicesIt Takes a Village to Raise an e-Journal: Collaboration Out of NecessityTracking Electronic Resource Acquisitions: Using a helpdesk system to succeed where your ERMS failedThink ContinuumSynchronizing ERMS Data Using SFX/Serials SoluionsTying Information Literacy to a Library Materials BudgetFrom Pilot to Production: Video Streaming at Indiana UniversityNone of the Above

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Which concurrent session did you attend on Saturday from 11:15 am – 12:00 pm?
—Ebrarians: Meeting the Challenges of E-resources Head On! Continuing the DiscussionTools You Can Use: LibX as an Assistant for Collection DevelopmentGetting It System Toolkit: The GIST of making informed decisions and workflow of buying, borrowing, downloading or viewingSuccess Strategies for Thesis Students: Creating a Video ToolboxBlogs, Wikis, and Drives Oh-my! Achieving Knowledge Management for Acquisitions & Collection Development…Publishing Data Alongside Analysis, Books and Journals(R)Evolution in the Information Industry: What the Information Industry Can Learn from the Music IndustryThe Art of the Woo: How to Sell Ideas Without Selling OutArticle-Level Metrics at the Public Library of ScienceNone of the Above

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Please rate the following Saturday afternoon sessions overall:

Hyde Park Corner and Closing Remarks
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Rump Session
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Please rate the following Conference events overall:

Vendor Showcase (Wed 12:00 – 6:00 pm)
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Vendor Chats (Wed 1:00 – 5:00 pm)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Juried Product Development Forums (Wed and Thurs, 5:30 – 6:45 pm)
 1 = Unacceptable 2 = Poor 3 = Fair 4 = Good 5 = Excellent Did Not Attend

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Annual Reception at the Visitors Center (Thurs 7:00 – 9:00 pm)
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Dine Arounds (Fri 7:00 – 9:00 pm)
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Beastly Breakfast (Sat 7:30 – 8:30 am)
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Transportation / Shuttles
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