2025 EBSCO User Group: Full Schedule

EBSCO User Group 2025

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9:00am EDT

The E-Resources Lifecycle: The EBSCO Ecosystem

Thursday May 1, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am EDT

The TERMS framework, developed by Jill Emery, Graham Stone, and Peter McCracken, postulates that e-resource resource management follows a recurring lifecycle, from evaluation to licensing to acquisitions to activation and access to discovery to management back to analysis and evaluation. This presentation intends to showcase how EBSCO's suite of products represents and enables the TERMS cycle for libraries. Attendees will leave with a better high level understanding of how EBSCO's products from GOBI to FOLIO integrate together and create a cohesive e-resource ecosystem.

Speakers

Zorian Sasyk

Thursday May 1, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Ballroom D | Ocean 1 Sabin St, Providence, RI 02903, USA

Track 1 | Ocean, Collection Development

Audience All are welcome
Product EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), GOBI and E-book Collections, Panorama (Analytics), Databases (eHost/Research Databases), OpenAthens, FOLIO, Full Text Finder, Holdings and Link Management, LOCATE
Sub-Topic Collection Development, Reporting and Analytics, Optimizing Search, FOLIO Integrations, FOLIO Electronic Resource Management (ERM), EBSCOAdmin ERM

10:00am EDT

Coordinated and Collaborative: An Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Collection Development Project

Thursday May 1, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EDT

555 & 556 | Seahorse

In partnership with GOBI, the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) launched an ambitious collaborative collection development project in 2021. Informed by the findings of three prior projects, this pilot sought to explore practical ways in which the thirteen members of the Confederation could engage in prospective collection development in support of a vision to treat the sum of our local collections as one great collection. This presentation will explain how the project was scoped and managed and will provide a summary of the outcomes of a two-year pilot purchasing frontlist print Brill monographs through GOBI. Attendees will journey with IPLC through zones of ambiguity and discover differences between coordinated and collaborative approaches to collection development. The presenters will share IPLC’s concept of strategic duplication; metrics for identifying the number of copies needed for local use, preservation, and lending; our process for consensus building and decision-making; and governance models for collaborative collection projects and programs. We will also share our ideas on evolving the project to include ebooks by leveraging GOBI solutions and expertise.

Speakers

Sarah Forzetting

Galadriel Chilton

Director of Collections Initiatives, Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Galadriel is the Director of Collections Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries, a cooperative of 13 academic libraries. The Ivy Plus Libraries are Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and... Read More →

Thursday May 1, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
555 & 556 | Seahorse 1 Sabin St, Providence, RI 02903, USA

Track 2 | Seahorse, Collection Development

Audience Intermediate
Product GOBI and E-book Collections
Sub-Topic Collection Development, Resource Sharing

10:00am EDT

Charting a Course with GOBI Library Technical Services

Thursday May 1, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EDT

Ballroom B | Coral

With changes in staffing, increasing complexity in workflows, and more demands on staff time, GOBI can help you with the day-to-day of your Library Technical Services. Using GOBI to streamline your Ordering process can enable automated acquisitions and brief records from GOBI into your Library Management System. A range of Cataloging Services, from basic to advanced, can help your catalogers have time to work on the rare materials, special collections, and donated items. Whilst many libraries are moving towards electronic materials, print materials are still necessary in many libraries. Customize your needs with GOBI’s Book Processing services. This session will enumerate the many areas GOBI can assist you in saving time and creating efficiencies for your Technical Services team.

Speakers

Carol Seiler

Acct Serv Mgr, Lib Tech Serv, GOBI Library Solutions

Carol Seiler started her career in libraries as a cataloger and has worked in almost all areas of the library. She has primarily worked as an academic/medical librarian but has also served at a public library and as a technical services trainer with a consortium. At GOBI, Carol works... Read More →

Thursday May 1, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Ballroom B | Coral 1 Sabin St, Providence, RI 02903, USA

Track 3 | Coral, Collection Development

Audience All are welcome
Product GOBI and E-book Collections
Sub-Topic Collection Development