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Beyond the Library Collections: Proceedings of the 2022 Erasmus Staff Training Week at ULiège Library
Full text linkeditorial reviewedNo library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. At a certain point, librarians need to pool their resources and collaborate to provide access to what they don't have: Collaboration and partnership, centralized and shared collection storage, digitization projects, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, purchase on demand, PDA and EBA are notably key to success. The 2022 edition of the Erasmus Mobility Staff Training week organized at the University of Liège Library focused on services, projects and policies that libraries can deploy and promote to increase and ease access to materials that do not belong to their print or electronic holdings. More than 20 librarians, managers, and researchers in library science share their experiences and visions in this book
Four years of ILL service at the Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy (Ghent University) : findings and challenges
No full textThis paper aims to give an insight into the working of ILL services at the Faculty Library of Arts and Philosophy of the Ghent University. Additionally, we take a closer look at two challenges in the field of ILL: e-book lending and controlled digital lending (CDL). Putting these challenges into practice can give a new incentive to ILL. At this moment, however, it's still work in progress
Patron-Driven Acquisition et Evidence-Based Acquisition: Comment implémenter ces modèles afin d’étendre l’offre documentaire dans une bibliothèque ?
No full textNowadays, usage-based acquisition models for e-books, as PDA and EBA, are quite spread and allow libraries to offer wider collections, without acquiring them. A PDA with Ebook Central was implemented in 2019 and a first EBA with Wiley in 2021. The EPFL Library ran several analyses in order to evaluate their accuracy after one or more years, with respect to users’ needs. The advantages and limitations of the use of usage statistics in collection development were also highlighted in this study. These two models have proven to be a good complement to the acquisition models based on liaison librarians’ e-book selections. Both also greatly alleviate this selection work, while increasing the management and analysis tasks for the librarians in charge of electronic resources. The PDA model has required adjustments over the years, to ensure that accessible collections contents better match to EPFL domains. The usage of the titles acquired through this model is generally higher than that of those acquired otherwise, nevertheless the PDA presents an increased risk of acquiring titles with an ephemeral popularity, despite the implementation of a loan system before the final purchase. The EBA program showed an interest among patrons in titles related topics and publication years that were not necessarily expected. This acquisition model requires a large investment for statistical analysis by the librarians responsible of electronic resources, but the results of these analysis allowed to go beyond the sole need to select titles at the end of the EBA program. These two models led us questioning more broadly the evolution of the role of selection made by librarians, and the part of human intervention in models where usage statistics are the starting point for the selection.VPA-SIS
Consolidation du Prêt Interbibliothèques à l'ULiège : vers une seule Resource Sharing Library
No full textDerived Limits in Quasi-Abelian Categories
Full text linkpeer reviewedWe study the derived functors of projective limit functors in quasi-abelian categories
Derived Categories for Functional Analysis
Full text linkpeer reviewedWe study the homological algebra of the category of locally convex topological vector spaces from the point of view of derived categories
Derived Projective Limits of Topological Abelian Groups
No full textpeer reviewedWe prove that the category of topological Abelian groups is quasi-Abelian. Using results about derived projective limits in quasi-Abelian categories, we study exactness properties of the projective limit functor in the category of topological Abelian groups
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Beyond the Library Collections: Proceedings of the 2022 Erasmus Staff Training Week at ULiège Library
Full text linkNo library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. At a certain point, librarians need to pool their resources and collaborate to provide access to what they don’t have: Collaboration and partnership, centralized and shared collection storage, digitization projects, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, purchase on demand, PDA and EBA are notably key to success.The 2022 edition of the Erasmus Mobility Staff Training week organized at the University of Liège Library focused on services, projects and policies that libraries can deploy and promote to increase and ease access to materials that do not belong to their print or electronic holdings. More than 20 librarians, managers, and researchers in library science share their experiences and visions in this book
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