Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses

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volume 31, number 4 september 2019

ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” Assessment in Libraries by Shannon L. Farrell (Natural Resources Librarian, University of Minnesota) and Kristen L. Mastel (Outreach and Instruction Librarian, University of Minnesota)

his issue of Against the Grain focuses Over the past year, we worked with our Toolkit.3 In this Toolkit, there is helpful doc- on the various kinds of assessment colleagues Stephanie Graves and Sarah umentation to match outreach programming Tthat occur in libraries. Assessment LeMire from Texas A&M on the Associa- to institutional goals, assessment techniques, is incorporated across all aspects of library tion of Research Libraries (ARL) Spec and institutional reporting. Example programming and services, from instruction Kit 361.1 Through surveying a range “Because” statements highlight unique to outreach to space planning to collections to of ARL institutions, we gathered services and resources that libraries user experience. When we started soliciting information on the current landscape provide and can aid libraries in their articles, we did it with the intent of covering a of outreach staffing, responsibilities, promotional activities by providing wide variety of types of assessment in libraries. funding, and methods of assessment. simple, eye-catching designs for Our experience and expertise with as- One of the core findings was that ready distribution. The Toolkit is sessment has focused on our activities and there is no agreed upon definition of recruiting for additional content programs around outreach. Over the past few outreach; as a result, we suggest that and case studies, so please submit years, we have undertaken numerous projects each institution needs to define what out- relevant institutional examples that on the topic of outreach assessment. We reach encompasses for their community. you may have. became interested in this work as outreach This study also reinforced what we found As noted, libraries are conducting activities have traditionally not been formally in the literature,2 that outreach is often not all kinds of assessment around different assessed, or if they were, they focused on planned programmatically or incorporated programs and services. Many assess- into institutional assessment efforts. simple quantitative measures like head counts. continued on page 8 In our work, we hope to persuade librarians to A resource that we have recently worked learn more about various assessment measures on to assist in developing institutional outreach and to establish goals that are tied to assessment and engagement assessment for academic for every outreach activity that they engage in. libraries is the ACRL Libraries Transform What To Look For In This Issue: Epistemology — Power, Control, and If Rumors Were Horses the Quest for Open Infrastructure....36 Marketing Touchpoints — Putting Marketing Planning in its Place...... 60 ave you met Courtney McAllister? braries, archives, and Courtney is Electronic Resources Li- museums, we need a Headwaters — The Subversion of brarian at Yale University, Associate flexible toolkit that Referees...... 66 H ATG Food + Beverage Roundup...... 70 Editor of The Serials Librarian, a columnist will help informa- for Against the Grain and a Director of the tion professionals Interviews Charleston Conference. I first metCourtney become change lead- when she was Electronic Resources Librarian ers, navigating the equally complex variables Karen Phillips & Kiren Shoman...... 38 at the Citadel’s Daniel Library. Well, the associated with system specs and human ex- Henry Owino...... 41 incredible Courtney has just finishedChange perience or perception. Change Management Jason Dewland & Yvonne Mery...... 44 Management for Library Technologists: A LITA incorporates these concerns into a comprehen- Guide. It has been selected as the ATG Book sive framework.” Theodore Pappas...... 46 of the Week! We all know that “technology Hot off the Press! Beth the incredible Ber- Profiles Encouraged has transformed how libraries, archives, and nhardt who loves us all but especially beer! People, Library and Company museums store and display their collections, Has accepted a job at Oxford University Press engage with their users, and serve their com- Profiles...... 83 as of September 16! Her title is Consortia Plus more...... See inside munities. The pressure to implement new tech- Account Manager and her new email is . truly useful to users, staff, and stakeholders can represent a huge investment of time and And did you know that Lynda Kellam has money that yields little reward. In order to left UNC-Greensboro for a new position at make meaningful technology changes in our li- continued on page 6 1043-2094(201909)31:4;1-2 and what this means for the future is the focus From Your (biting my nails) Editor: of Julie Rashid’s contribution. Sunshine Carter and Yumiko Toyota-Kindler share their experience with post-cancellation access ll right. We moved to the beach and Assessment in Libraries. This special issue determination (PCAD). Emma Molls assesses we knew there might be hurricanes! of Against the Grain aims to examine some the success of a library published journals pro- But every other week or so in the fall? of the major issues and also provide incisive A gram. Steven Bell, Marta Brunner, Jennifer Talk about false advertising or I guess I should commentary from a range of contributors. We Ferguson, Elliot Felix, Emily Kessler, Kelly say false stupidity. We are hunkered in — sur- have papers by Craig E. Smith on enhancing Sanford, and David Woodbury explore the rounded by bottles of water, batteries, cans of the rigor of assessment, John Jackson on essential competencies needed for the Lib- food, sandbags, closed shutters, you name combining multiple data points to achieve GOAL Toolkit. it! Here’s hoping all will remain well. a single indicator of success, Alison Scott Plutchak’s Epistemology — Power, As always we have a great print J. Head, Alaina C. Bull and Margy Control, and the Quest for Open Infrastruc- issue of ATG to read when the Internet MacMillan introduce four levels of ture is our OpEd. Jim O’Donnell’s Back Talk is down or we have no connectivity information literacy assessment — has suggestions about bathrooms, and with this in the air. Guest Editors Shannon L. micro, meso, macro, and mega. The issue we introduce a new column Headwaters Farrell and Kristen L. Mastel explore highlights of current print acquisitions by Kent Anderson who talks about The Sub- version of Referees. Our interviews are with Karen Phillips and Kiren Shoman of Sage Publishing, Jason Letters to the Editor Dewland and Yvonne Mery from the Univer- sity of Arizona, Theodore Pappas (Executive Send letters to , phone 843-509-2848, or snail mail: Against Editor and Chief Development Officer at En- the Grain, Post Office Box 799, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482. You can also send a cyclopaedia Britannica), and Henry Owino letter to the editor from the ATG Homepage at http://www.against-the-grain.com. (previously at Qatar National Library) now in a new position at University of New England. Corey Seeman has masterfully merged re- Dear Editor: views of online and print products in Reader’s Roundup, Ann Doherty is collecting contem- It was nice to see the ATG with my interview in it in my mailbox. Am I correct that it’s not porary German-language novels, Donna Ja- online yet? In any case, could you provide me with a PDF of the final version (or point me to cobs liked Liquidation, Anthony Paganelli is someone who can)? studying open educational resources, Ramune Many thanks, Maria Kubilius reports about the 2018 Charleston Conference, Myer Kutz revisits Robert Max- Maria Bonn (Program Director, MS Library and well and Pergamon Press, Don Hawkins and Information Science, Associate Professor, School of Leah Hinds visit ACRL, Mark Herring says Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana- reading is a muscle, Marketing Touchpoints Champaign) by Jill Heinze is all about marketing and build- ing bridges, Antje Mays wants to showcase Dear Maria, new teaching tools, Jean Blackburn and Lisa Petrachenko talk about print archiving, and We’re glad that you were pleased by the interview. You are correct. The interview should Michelle Flinchbaugh provides part two of a be available online in a few weeks so in the interim, I am copying Toni Nix our printer who can three part Biz of Digital series on repositories. provide you with a PDF of the file. They are asking us to evacuate! Time to Again, thank you for agreeing to do the interview. We enjoyed doing it too. — Yr. Ed. leave! Meanwhile, happy fall and see you online! Hugs, Yr. Ed. AGAINST THE GRAIN DEADLINES VOLUME 31 & 32 — 2019-2020 Rumors 2019 Events Issue Ad Reservation Camera-Ready from page 1 Charleston Conference November 2019 08/15/19 09/05/19 Cornell in July? Lynda has routinely written ALA Midwinter Dec. 2019-Jan. 2020 11/07/19 11/25/19 many meeting reports for ATG. Linda is on Council this year. It is her last on the NCLA 2020 Events Issue Ad Reservation Camera-Ready Chapter. Here is her new email address Annual Report, PLA February 2020 01/02/20 01/16/20 . MLA, SLA, Book Expo April 2020 02/20/20 03/12/20 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Com- ALA Annual June 2020 04/02/20 04/23/20 munications, Donald J. Waters, will retire on Reference Publishing September 2020 06/11/20 07/09/20 August 31, 2019 after 20 years of exceptional service at the Foundation. “Over the past two Charleston Conference November 2020 08/13/20 09/03/20 decades, Don has developed a magnificent ALA Midwinter Dec. 2020-Jan. 2021 11/05/20 11/23/20 vision for scholarly communications across the humanities landscape, and exerted the intellec- FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT tual leadership to implement it, always working Toni Nix ; Phone: 843-835-8604; Fax: 843-835-5892; with trusted partners in the field,” remarked USPS Address: P.O. Box 412, Cottageville, SC 29435; FedEx/UPS ship to: 398 Crab Mariët Westermann, executive vice president Apple Lane, Ridgeville, SC 29472. for programs and research. “He has been ahead continued on page 26

6 Against the Grain / September 2019 Assessing Print Acquisitions ... Endnotes from page 25 1. Rebecca L. Mugridge, “Technical Services Assessment: A Survey of Pennsylvania Academic Libraries” Library Resources and Technical Services, 58, no.2 (2014): 100-110. Accessed December maintenance on ceased and defunct 2, 2018 at http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=- serial titles 8f05afaa-d777-4ac1-9615-ab494bca7e7b%40pdc-v-sessmgr03. • participating in cross-training proj- 2. Rebecca L. Mugridge and Nancy M. Poehlmann, “Internal Customer Service Assessment of Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Library System” OCLC Systems & Services: International digital ects in interlibrary loan, copyright library perspectives, 31, no.4 (2015:Nov. 9):219-248. Accessed December 10, 18 at www.emeral- permissions, and (in the near future) dinsight.com/1065-075X.htm. e-resources management 3. Kaylyn Groves, “University of Minnesota Libraries Wins 2017 National Medal for Museum As a relatively new manager at UMN and Library Service” Association of Research Libraries News, (May 15, 2017). Accessed January Libraries (I joined in July 2015), learning 10, 2019 at https://www.arl.org/news/community-updates/4285-university-of-minnesota-librar- about the assessment efforts that have taken ies-wins-2017-national-medal-for-museum-and-library-service#.XHc3DIhKiUk. place over the years has been crucial in my 4. UMN Libraries, Selection to Access (S2A) Implementation Report (October 27, 2006). Internal growth and understanding of how current UMN Libraries document. procedures and organizational structures have 5. UMN Libraries, S2A2 Serials and E-Resources Implementation Final Report (December 4, been formed and how they affect everyday 2008). Internal UMN Libraries document. activities in the acquisitions department. As- 6. UMN Libraries, Organization Design Group: Repositioning Technical Services and Enterprise Technology - Final Report (April 4, 2012). Internal UMN Libraries document. sessing the outcomes of changes implemented over time provides current managers with rich 7. UMN Libraries, Technical Services/’IADS Benchmarking Throughput Study (2010). Internal UMN Libraries document. institutional knowledge and arms them with 8. UMN Libraries, ARM Timeliness Standards for Basic Functions (April 22, 2011). Internal assessment techniques and tools that can be UMN Libraries document. used to further improve processes and services 9. UMN Libraries, ARC Time Study (February 2017). Internal UMN Libraries document. offered.

was coming. Caldera Publishing Solutions and for building initiatives based on those Rumors was launched in 2016 with the mission of convenings. For the last five years, Griffey from page 6 providing scholarly and scientific publishers has run Evenly Distributed, a consulting firm — as well as other information purveyors — that works with libraries — both nationally and of many in his understanding of the enormous with future-focused consulting services. We internationally — on education and strategic opportunities, challenges, and risks attendant emphasize editorial development, product planning related to cutting-edge technologies. on the digital transformation of the cultural development, market assessment, customer He is widely recognized as an expert in the record, its preservation, and its dissemination. insights, and strategic synthesis. We have some areas of artificial intelligence, blockchain, The humanities field is forever in his debt.” unique approaches that help develop strategies privacy, and other library-related technology With the rise and promise of the digital age, that recognize complexity and size-up viability issues. Griffey has written and presented ex- the Mellon Foundation established a standing from the start.” tensively on technology and libraries, including program in support of the burgeoning field https://www.caldera-publishing.com multiple books and a series of full-periodical of scholarly communications in 1999. With issues on technology topics, most recently AI Waters at the helm, the Scholarly Communi- PS — I will put in a plug for The Geyser & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library cations program supported research libraries, which is always an enlightening read! Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, cultural and academic archives, museums, uni- [email protected] Metrics, and Iterative Design both published versities, presses, and arts organizations as they Plus Kent is offering a discounted sub- in 2018. Griffey spent three years as a Fellow embraced the potential of digital technologies and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for in furthering the collective understanding of scription to ATG subscribers and Charleston Conference attendees! Watch for it! Internet and Society at Harvard University societies and cultures around the world. Schol- before spending one year working with the arly Communications grants have given rise to Moving right along — Kent and Rick metaLAB at Harvard. He has served both scores of nonprofit enterprises, includingItha - Anderson have another entry in the world of as Director-at-Large and as Parliamentarian ka, Artstor, Portico, LOCKSS, Hypothes.is, newsletter publishing — Mad About Music. on the Board of the Library Information and the Digital Public Library of America; I had no idea that both Kent and Rick had Technology Association, a division of the dozens of new types of professions, such as bands back when they were younger or maybe American Library Association. Griffey is a scholarly communications librarians, digital even now! I just learned about a Maine folk graduate of Morehead State University and repository managers, digitization specialists, musician, Gordon Bok who is quite good! holds an MLS from the University of North data curators; and a large variety of standards “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Carolina at Chapel Hill. NISO fosters the and digital tools for knowledge-making. Friedrich Nietzsche. development and maintenance of standards that https://mellon.org/about/staff/donald-j-waters/ [email protected] facilitate the creation, persistent management, For Waters full biography: https://mellon.org/ and effective interchange of information so The National Information Standards Or- that it can be trusted for use in research and resources/news/articles/senior-program-offi- ganization (NISO) announces the appointment cer-donald-j-waters-retire/ learning. NISO is a not-for-profit association of Jason Griffey as the Director of Strategic accredited by the American National Stan- The resourceful Kent Anderson announc- Initiatives on the NISO staff. Griffey brings to dards Institute (ANSI). es: Caldera Is Active Again. After guiding NISO over 15 years of experience in libraries http://www.niso.org a startup to acquisition, it’s time to return and community leadership, as well as a broad to consulting. “With the announcement of understanding of emerging technologies. This Awesome! Award of the Laurea ma- RedLink’s acquisition by Wiley/Atypon, new position was created to support the merger gistrale ad honorem in Library and Infor- I’m pleased to also announce that Caldera between NISO and the National Federation mation Science has been given to Michele Publishing Solutions is active again, after 3+ of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Casalini by the University of Florence. It is years of dormancy. Of course, the launch of that was announced earlier this spring. Griffey with both enormous pride and great pleasure this newsletter — “The Geyser” — in October will be responsible for organizing an annual that we announce that the CEO of Casalini 2018 was the first rumbling that something conference and thought leadership meetings, continued on page 29

26 Against the Grain / September 2019 bear the burden of proving their PCA years provide Knowledge Bases And Related Tools Assessing e-journal ... to the receiving publisher, especially if the (KBART) files in administrator accounts, but from page 28 need to claim PCA rights does not surface for they only show activated access years based several years. on current year subscriptions and lack PCA recorded in the sheet, including the existence Another issue to be wary of is the tendency information. Even when the access entitlement or lack of PCA for the entire print holdings for publishers to represent the historical range files are available from publishers, the way and any anomalies found (missing chronology of a title with only one title identifier, espe- they display the PCA data varies. A standard data of print item records, missing online is- cially in commercial central knowledge base should be established to promote uniformity of sues, etc.). In the end, 92% of the 1,082 titles collections, such as Ex Libris’ SFX and Alma access entitlement files among publishers and reviewed by ERM staff were determined to be Community Zone and ProQuest’s 360. This include perpetual rights information because print surrogates and could be withdrawn based means a title that has changed names many PCA years are the true electronic holdings of on the established criteria. times can be listed only as the most current libraries. Additionally, library management Road Blocks title. Some print titles on the shelf did not systems should include specific fields for recording post-cancellation access at the title Along the way, the PCAD project un- match with electronic holdings because their title and/or identifiers did not align for overlap level, with the option to export the information covered various challenges unique to serial through analytics. publications, such as how to assess PCA for analysis to occur. print supplements, providing proof of payment Recommendations after many years had passed, tracking PCA for Regardless of publisher, determining PCA transferred titles, and addressing title changes has been a time consuming and difficult task in the overlap analysis process. Endnotes because in most cases titles need manual 1. Jim Stemper and Susan Barribeau, One issue encountered was print supple- checking. From this project, we have a few “Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals,” ments. The biomedical journals, in particular, recommendations on immediate steps for miti- Library Resources & Technical Services 50 include many supplements containing confer- gating a PCA investigation, issues to watch for (April 2006): 91–109. ence proceedings or additional articles. These during a PCA project, and next steps to ease the 2. “LIBLICENSE: Licensing Digital Con- supplements are often not available electron- burden for libraries (and perhaps publishers). tent: A Resource for Librarians,” http:// liblicense.crl.edu (accessed June 9, 2019). ically or scarcely held by other libraries. The Planning for a future invocation of PCA is only way to check whether online versions 3. Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Initia- important in reducing the amount of work and tives, “Standardized Agreement Language,” of print supplements exist is verifying their uncertainty that a PCAD project creates. Order representation in the online version, which is May 2019, https://www.btaa.org/library/ information (along with detailed notes) may be licensing/standardized-agreement-language time-consuming. Titles with supplements, due necessary to prove payment, so order records (accessed June 9, 2019). to their extra complications, were set aside to should be maintained (or at least accessible in a 4. California Digital Library, “Standard Li- be assessed later. flat file) even after system migrations. Record cense Agreement,” 2016, https://www.cdlib. Access entitlement reports (from the pub- and store (if possible) PCA information in your org/gateways/vendors/docs/CDL_Mod- lisher), obtained by request or through the Min- library management system. When negotiating el_License_2016_for_vendors.rtf (accessed nesota Libraries’ administrative interfaces, PCA rights, ask for a standard PCA start date to June 9, 2019). helped in the PCAD of subscribed titles. In ease record keeping for both parties. 5. Sarah Glasser, “Providing Perpetual Access,” Library Resources & Technical some instances, the entitlement information It is a good idea to obtain detailed enti- provided to us did not show the correct PCA Services 58 (July 2014): 144–152. tlement reports and to create a process for 6. Chris Bulock, “Techniques for Tracking years for which the Libraries held paid sub- handling anomalies. Request from publishers scriptions. Payment history for the years in Perpetual Access,” The Serials Librarian 68 entitlement reports that include access date (May 2015): 290–298. question was provided to the publisher and the ranges and perpetual date ranges. Use this publisher updated PCA entitlements. Payment 7. Portico, https://www.portico.org/ information for the review, but beware of why-portico/ (accessed June 9, 2019). proof ranged from past payment history and discrepancies. During the process have a pro- 8. Big Ten Academic Alliance, “Shared order format provided by the current serial cedure for handling supplements, title transfers Print Repository,” http://www.btaa.org/ subscription agent, or screenshots of payment and title changes. library/shared-print-repository/introduction history from the Minnesota Libraries’ unified (accessed June 9, 2019). library services platform. To ease the tracking of PCA information, each provider should make access entitle- 9. National Information Standards Orga- Transfer titles (titles transferred from one nization, RP-24-2015 Transfer Code of ment files easily downloadable. The files Practice Version 3.0, https://www.niso.org/ publisher to another) made up the bulk of prob- should explicitly show the PCA years and lematic journals, particularly for one publisher. publications/rp-24-2015-transfer, 2015 complimentary back file access dates while (accessed June 9, 2019). ERM staff pointed out to the current publisher subscriptions are active. Some publishers that the former publishers of transferred titles had included a PCA clause. The current pub- lisher subsequently granted PCA rights when sufficient proof of payment was provided. Previously recorded order notes were helpful for gathering past payment history to request rini praised Michele’s capacity to promote rightful PCA to the front files; some notes Rumors innovation in his business and in general pertained to what year the journals transferred from page 26 among the most advanced library community: to the receiving publisher, and others related “With Casalini Libri, he has understood that to the order format change from Print+Online Libri, Michele Casalini, has accepted an the new factor in the digital world is not the to Online Only. The National Information honorary degree celebrating his dedication technology itself, but close and unconstrained Standards Organization’s (NISO) Transfer and contribution to the field of Library and collaboration with other partners. Michele Code of Practice section 3.2 (Perpetual Access) Information Science from the University of has contributed, and continues to contribute, states, “The transferring publisher must ensure Florence. The ceremony on 21st May 2019 to the advancement of librarianship in the continued access to its subscribers where it marked the very first bestowal of the honour digital age, achieving excellent results that has granted perpetual access rights, even if for merit in modern librarianship by an Italian are appreciated and recognized internationally. the transferring publisher will cease to host the university; only the second time that a similar Michele Casalini is a bridge builder thanks online version of the journal after the effective distinction has been conferred in Library and to the diffusion of culture, knowledge and re- transfer date.”9 In reality, however, subscribers Information Science in Italy. Delivering the search.” The honour pays tribute to Michele’s (libraries), not the transferring publisher, often Laudatio of the award, Prof. Mauro Guer- continued on page 32

Against the Grain / September 2019 29 especially with mature titles, often result in While we are still figuring out how to best Assessing the Success of Library ... adding additional yearly goals to the journal. share our story in a quantifiable way, we know from page 30 Adding additional goals gives rotating editori- what our story is: we succeed when our journals al team members a way to leave their “mark” succeed. Focusing on journal measures of It became apparent after working with on a journal and often seek to strengthen the success has implications across an entire pub- both brand new journals and journals with a journal’s competitiveness in its respective lishing program — from proposal application longer publication history, that journals would field. As long as these goals can be tied to the to publication build — and helps shift the focus need to have a different measure of success journal’s original business objectives and can of publishing back on scholars. for the short term (one year), the midterm be described as a measure of success, there is (three years) and the long term (beyond five no problem in expanding the answers to the years). While it may seem redundant to have Goal Development Questionnaire. separate measures of success for years three The New Publication Goal Development and five, this breakdown is specifically linked Endnotes Questionnaire is a great tool for publishers. 1. Library Publishing Coalition Directory to indexing and discoverability, which many Outside of the initial publication build, the journals identify as a measure of success. Committee. (2018). Library Publishing 4 5 questionnaire is used to help scope additional Directory 2018. 2016D11D14]. http://www. PubMed Central and Scopus require at developments. For example, if one of our librarypublishing.org/resources/directory/ least two years of regular publication to be publications has listed “inclusion in PubMed lpd2017 included in the indexes; however, it may Central” as a measure of success for year five, 2. COUNTER is a standards organization take a journal an additional two years to get we know that workflows for XML production that develops and maintains the standard through index review. For brand new titles, must be in place prior to inclusion. for counting the use of electronic resourc- goals of year one are typically heavily tied es. The COUNTER Project. https://www. to author and reviewer recruitment and basic Their Success, Our Story projectcounter.org/about/ editor on-boarding and journal management. UMN Libraries Publishing was launched 3. Open Rivers. http://editions.lib.umn. edu/openrivers/ It is important to acknowledge that these goals in order to meet campus needs and serve cam- are not abandoned after years three and five, 4. National Library of Medicine. (2019). pus — and part of our service-oriented program Journal Selection for MEDLINE Index- but should be embedded into the everyday is to ensure that each publication is successful work of the journal editors. ing at NLM. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ by a measure that fits its context. We believe lstrc/j_sel_faq.html Given the separate measures of success for as an open access publisher, embedded within 5. Elsevier. (2019). Content Policy and different years, we are moving toward regular a public university, we are in a unique position Selection. https://www.elsevier.com/solu- check-in meetings with each editorial team to create a publishing environment that puts tions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content/ in order to revisit the New Publication Goal academy-led journal priorities first, rather than content-policy-and-selection Development Questionnaire. These meetings, publisher revenue.

(entomologists); research micro-organisms, tions from Ithaka S+R’s Oya Rieger entitled Rumors such as bacteria and viruses (biotechnologists); “What’s a Collection Anyway?” According from page 29 examine cells and tissues under a microscope to the introduction the essay characterizes “the to identify diseases (plant pathologists); work evolving nature of collections and … highlights work and commitment to continuing, together to conserve and manage wild animals and their some of the factors behind these changes and with his sister Barbara, the legacy of their habitats (wildlife biologists); carry out animal their impact on the notion of collections. It father, Mario, founder in 1958 of Casalini health programs (veterinarians); provide is a reflection on how collections are defined Libri an internationally respected publisher education on the humane care and treatment and what it means to build a collection or in the field of the academic information chain. of animals (veterinarians and animal care develop a collection policy given the current Such prestigious recognition of Michele’s inspectors); and manage the business aspects information ecology and trends in research and expertise, professionalism, and foresight in his of protecting plants and animals (agribusiness). pedagogy…” field reflects the outstanding work carried out There are several participating universities, but www.against-the-grain.com/ by Casalini Libri and is an immense source Maddie applied and was accepted to attend the http://sr.ithaka.org/publications/whats-a-col- of pride and satisfaction for the entire compa- session at NC State University June 17 - 28. lection-anyway/ ny. The full proceedings including Michele’s How wonderful! Hooray for Maddie! Lectio doctoralis, The centrality of libraries Hoo ha! Cris Ferguson has been elected for progress and democracy, are published Was poking around the Internet ordering as NASIG treasurer… And interesting that by Firenze University Press and are avail- some books from AbeBooks when I discovered according to the NASIG newsletter, NASIG able in open access on Torrossa Open at the that there are a lot of podcasts on the Abe- may move towards formalizing a rotation permalink https://oa.torrossa.com/resources/ books website. The one I noticed was of the between four conference cities: Pittsburgh, an/4485970. A collection of photos from the Kennel Club Library and there is much more. Spokane, Madison, and Atlanta. Lots about food! AbeBooks Podcast - Behind event is available at http://www.casalini.it/ https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcon- docs/lmh_mc_photos.pdf. the Bookshelves: https://www.abebooks.com/ podcast/index.shtml. tent.cgi?article=2005&context=nasig More great news! Leah Hinds’ daughter, Plus, AbeBooks has introduced an innova- Did you see — Against the Grain, all Maddie, was selected and has finished aUSDA tive podcast player that offers a daily round-up you need to know about Digital Textbooks AgDiscovery Interneship! AgDiscovery is of book-related podcasts. Shelfsound streams from a range of commentators across the a summer outreach program designed to help the best literary podcasts from around the world industry. This special issue (ATG, v.31#3, teenagers explore careers in plant and animal into the player and makes them easily available June 2019) expertly guest edited by Dominic science, wildlife management, agribusiness, to AbeBooks’ visitors. Broadhurst looks at perspectives from aca- and much more! The program allows students demic libraries directly providing textbooks to live on a college campus and learn about ag- http://www.abebooks.com/books/shelf- to their students, a view from a publisher, the riculture from university professors, scientists, sound-podcast.shtml potential opportunities for open textbooks, and administrative professionals who work Do you follow Tom Gilson’s News & the value offered from digital textbooks and for the U.S. Government in a variety of fields. Announcements in the ATG NewsChannel? of course never forgetting the all-important They study the life cycles and habits of insects There is a new issue brief on library collec- continued on page 49

32 Against the Grain / September 2019 literature and film; new East ; lists are ever-evolving and seldom compre- Collecting to the Core after the postmodern; and politically-engaged hensive. Author lists, whether compiled by a from page 48 women writers. In addition to these broad department, a book vendor, or RCL, should be themes from the Gegenwartsliteratur volumes, used as a basis for evaluating what is relevant to For this cohort of post-1945 authors, one a review of literary genres like pop literature, support the local institutional needs. An author group of writers organized as “Gruppe 47” pop feminism, graphic novels, and national or list that is reviewed every year will help inform stands out. This group networked through intercultural identity (German, Austrian, Swiss, and shape the local collection. meetings and literary accolades, influencing the Afro-German, Turkish-German, Russian-Ger- trajectory of post-war literature. The group was man, Russian-Jewish-German, Eastern Eu- active from 1947-1967, though many members ropean, refugee, etc.) yields further authors Endnotes are productive even today. Some of the most to consider. With an author name in hand, 1. Arnold, Heinz Ludwig. Kindlers Liter- prominent authors associated with Gruppe 47 by browsing the BDSL index under Inhalt › atur Lexikon. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2009. whether as a core member or invited guest at an Klassifikation › 1990 bis zur Gegenwart › Zu 2. Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek annual meeting, like (1920-1970), einzelnen Autoren, librarians can quickly judge am Main. Bibliographie Der are: Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016); Ingeborg an emerging author by the critical reception. Deutschen Sprach- Und Literaturwissen- Bachmann; Heinrich Böll (1917-1985, Nobel A library trying to diversify or update their schaft. Frankfurt am Main, 2004-. Prize in 1972); author list might consider adding some of the 3. Korte, Hermann, and Heinze Lud- (b. 1929); Günter Grass (1927-2015, Nobel following emerging writers to their profile: wig Arnold. Kritisches Lexikon Zur Prize in 1999); (b. 1942); Julia Franck (b. 1970); Judith Hermann (b. Deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. München: Edition Text + Kritik, 1978-. (1934-1984); Siegfried Lenz 1970); Julya Rabinowich (b. 1970); Terézia (1926-2014); (b. 1927); Peter Mora (b. 1971); Kathrin Röggla (b. 1971); 4. Vetruba, Brian, Leon Wiese, and Paul Weiss; Gabriele Wohmann (1932-2015). Michael Lützeler. “Thirty-First Annual Lukas Bärfuss (b. 1971); Emma Braslavsky Bibliography 2017 (Contemporary German The generation of writers born in the (b. 1971); Selim Özdoğan (b. 1971); Nico Literature Collection).” University Librar- 1930s and 40s includes writers that came to Bleutge (b. 1972); Thomas Glavinic (b. ies Publications. 24. Accessed April 21, prominence in East . East German 1972); Jan Böttcher (b. 1973); Que Du Luu 2019. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/ writers are usually studied as a phenomenon, (b. 1973); (b. 1974); Jan Brandt lib_papers/24 not as canonical literature, with the exception (b. 1974); Daniel Kehlmann (b. 1975); Ben- 5. Universität Trier FB II - Germanistik. of writers who kept a critical distance and were jamin von Stuckrad-Barre (b. 1975); Jens “Trierer Leseliste. Neuere Deutsche Litera- disassociated with the DDR. Those authors Steiner (b. 1975); Clemens Meyer (b. 1977); turwissenschaft.” Accessed April 21, 2019. are included below, together with other au- https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb2/prof/ Xaver Bayer (b. 1977); Alina Bronsky (b. GER/NDL/NDL/Ndl_leseliste.pdf thors from this generation: Günter de Bruyn 1978); Arno Camenisch (b. 1978); Matthias (b.1926); (1929-2011); Thomas 6. Höfer, Max A. “Ranking. Die 500 Nawrat (b. 1979); Judith Schalansky (b. Wichtigsten Deutschsprachigen Intellektuel- Bernhard (1931-1989); Gabriele Wohmann; 1980); Marjana Gaponenko (b. 1981); Lena len.” Cicero: Magazin Für Politische Kultur Peter Härtling (1933-2017); Uwe Timm Gorelik (b. 1981); Nora Bossong (b. 1982); 3 (2019): 17-29. (b. 1940); Barbara Frischmuth (b. 1941); Ann Cotten (b. 1982); Benjamin Lebert (b. 7. Harrassowitz. Accessed April 21, 2019. Wilhelm Genazino (1943-2018); Bernhard 1982); Nino Haratischwili (b. 1983); Olga https://www.harrassowitz.de Schlink (b. 1944); W. G. Sebald (1944-2001); Grjasnowa (b. 1984); Susanne Heinrich (b. 8. Resources for College Libraries. Ac- (b. 1944); 1985); Sabrina Janesch (b.1985). cessed April 21, 2019. http://rclweb.net/ (b. 1946, Nobel Prize in 2004); Rafik Schami A typical contemporary German-language 9. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. “Deutsch- (b. 1946); Bodo Kirchhoff (b. 1948); Pat- literature collection contains canonical authors, es Exilarchiv 1933-1945.” Accessed April rick Süskind (b.1949); Zsuzsanna Gahse emerging writers, diverse themes and author 21, 2019. https://www.dnb.de/EN/DEA/ dea_node.html (b. 1946); Emine Sevgi Özdamar (b. 1946); backgrounds, as well as the associated literary (b. 1949). criticism, all bound by a fixed budget. An author 10. Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein German- Writers born in the 1950s and ’60s are still istisches Jahrbuch = a German Studies list can be an effective collection management Yearbook. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2002-. emerging as important contemporary authors, aid. Libraries may use one of the many exist- true to the adage that it takes 30 years of work * Editor’s note: Due to space, not all of ing author lists as a starting point, including the titles listed in the essay appear in the to become an overnight sensation. These au- the sample list above that identifies under 100 endnotes, though many are in the Resources thors include: Herta Müller (b. 1953, Nobel contemporary authors. It is important to under- for College Libraries database. The dates Prize in 2009); (b. 1953); Rob- stand that because of the volume of output in listed in parentheticals within the essay note ert Menasse (b. 1954); Rainald Maria Goetz contemporary literature and the shifting nature the work’s German publication date. (b. 1954); (b. 1954); of appreciation towards authors or works, author Maxim Biller (b. 1960); Yōko Tawada (b. 1960); Zafer Şenocak (b. 1961); Feridun Zaimoǧlu (b. 1964); (b. 1964); Ferdinand von Schirach (b. 1964); Thomas Brussig (b. 1964); Christian Kracht (b. 1966); Navid Kermani (b.1967); Arno with Ivy Anderson and Gwen Evans. Here’s Geiger (b. 1968); Uwe Tellkamp (b. 1968); Rumors the URL to the video of the session https:// Melinda Nadj Abonji (b. 1968). from page 32 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR4nf7zjEi0&- The generation of writers born in the feature=youtu.be. student perspective. Many of the articles will 1970s, ’80s, and beyond have not yet made So what has happened to Delta Think? it into the canon and translation is lagging, be open access on the ATG NewsChannel. www.against-the-grain.com/ And please use Lauren Kane has joined as CEO and Ann which means a further delay in appreciation Michael becomes Chair of the Board as part abroad. Researching authors around themes the hashtag#ATGDIGITALTEXTBOOKS to promote and access to the article! of Delta Think’s expansion. Delta Think in their fiction, or grouping authors around is a consulting and advisory firm focused on identities and experiences proves to be a fruit- Congratulate the grand Ann Michael for innovation and growth in scholarly commu- ful approach for authors born after 1970. An starting a new position as Chief Digital Officer nications. In this role, Ms. Kane will lead invaluable tool in this endeavor is the journal (CDO) at Public Library of Science (PLOS). Delta Think’s expansion as the organization Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Ann was a big hit during the 2018 Charleston increases its footprint as an expert advisor in Jahrbuch.10 It offers the following emerging Conference when as CEO of Delta Think scholarly communications and a trusted voice themes, together with author recommenda- she moderated a panel on “Data Expeditions: in the evolving dialogue on Open Access and tions: multicultural; Jewish-German; Berlin; Mining Data for Effective Decision-Making” Open Science. https://deltathink.com

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