The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries in conjunction with CSU Morgan Library is holding a workshop on the Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) Model for print monographs. The workshop will focus on the approach used by CSU Libraries since 2012. Additional information will include an overview of the print DDA model at the University of Denver and YBP will do a presentation on how they are assisting in the print DDA arena.
Register
Agenda
| 9:30-10:00 | Registration and coffee **The program will run 10am-3pm with morning sessions, lunch, then afternoon break-out sessions. |
| 10:00-10:15 | Welcome-George Machovec, Executive Director of CO Alliance |
| 10:15-10:40 | Overview of CSU print DDA-Allison Level and Nancy Chaffin Hunter |
| 10:40-11:00 | YBP profiles & preparing for move to DDA-Kim Anderson |
| 11:00-11:20 | Acquisitions/tech services overview of DDA-Nancy Chaffin Hunter and Margaret Medina |
| 11:20-11:40 | DU and print DDA-Erin Elzi and Merisa Bissinger |
| 11:45-12:00 | Q&A |
| 12:00-12:45 | Lunch Buffet |
| 12:45-1:15 | DDA Technology-Greg Vogl (real-time prospector search, et al) |
| 1:15-1:25 | Break to move rooms |
| 1:25-2:10 | Break-out sessions, more information about: (pick one)
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| 2:15-2:45 | Wrap up and final questions |
9:30am-3:30pm November 18,2016
Denver University-Anderson Commons
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
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| 9:30-10:00am | Introductions (coffee & tea) |
| 10:00-10:05am | Welcome from George Machovec, Executive Director-CO Alliance |
| 10:05-11:20am | Keynote: Megan Oakleaf-Delivered remotely through webinar |
| 11:20-11:30am | Break |
| 11:30-12:30pm | Library Assessment Tools & Technology panel-panelists will discuss a variety of technology tools-programmatic, instructional fee based and free.
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| 12:30-1:15pm | Lunch included (variety of sandwiches, salads and chips) |
| 1:15-2:15pm | Library Assessment Experience Panel-challenges with assessment, lessons learned and more.
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| 2:15-2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30-3:30pm | Lightning Talks- mini presentations (5-7 min) about innovative ideas and projects with a focus on library assessment.Q&A to follow.
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We are pleased to annouce our keynote speaker, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Associate Librarian at the University of South Carolina-Lancaster Medford Library and 2019 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year.
**Workshop sessions are non-commercial educational learning experiences meant to discuss issues of interest to all. They are not an opportunity for marketing/selling products or services.
**The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries and the Colorado Academic Library Association are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, physical appearance, ethnicity, religion or other group identity.
Keynote Speaker
“Welcome!”: Offering a Sense of Place & Purpose Through Collection Development
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Associate Librarian at the University of South Carolina-Lancaster Medford Library and 2019 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year.
Morning Presentations
Queer Inclusivity in Your Collections: A Workshop
Amy Hezel & Melissa DeWitt-Regis University
Description: Faculty at Regis University participated in a semester-long, queer inclusivity learning community to discuss ways to support LGBTQIA students on campus. Presenters will begin the workshop by sharing key concepts and insights from the learning community and how it relates to academic libraries and collection development. Using guided questions, participants will work in small groups to develop ideas to implement queer inclusivity in their library collections. The workshop will end with opportunities for participants to share ideas with the larger group. Facilitators will conclude with resources for self-reflection, next steps, and additional resources.
Collection Diversification at the University of Denver Libraries
Shannon Tharp, Jennifer Bowers, Jack Maness, Katherine Crowe, and Peggy Keeran-University of Denver
Description: The Collection Diversification Task Force at the University of Denver (DU) Libraries seeks to identify gaps in its collections related to works by and about Native America. In particular, the Task Force seeks to identify literature by and about Cheyenne and Arapaho people; DU has recently taken steps to honor that it resides on lands held in stewardship by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, and recognize that DU’s founder, John Evans, was culpable for the Sand Creek Massacre. We feel an ethical obligation as a library to redress these historical wrongs. As such, the Task Force has made use of a five-step strategy to analyze and improve DU Libraries’ collections relative to this project.
In this presentation, panelists from DU’s Collection Diversification Task Force will:
- Discuss the aforementioned strategy and initial results of this long-term project
- Describe the exploration of early representations of Native cultures and Indigenous counter narratives through teaching with captivity narratives and contemporary Indigenous graphic novels
- Share the ways in which this project has begun to inform collection development processes at DU Libraries
Morning Lightning Rounds
Creating a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mini Collection
Lisa Blake-Arapahoe Community College
Description: The ACC Library was approached by faculty members and members of the college’s Inclusive Excellence Council to add diverse titles to our collection on topics of pedagogy and support of underrepresented groups. From this request, an audit of our current collection, and a partnership with the Ethnic Literature class we developed the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Collection. This Lightening Presentation will discuss our process and future plans to create a more inclusive and diverse collection.
Diversity and Representation in Library Collections
Carolyn Carpan-Univ. of Alberta Libraries
Description: The Collection Strategies Unit at the University of Alberta Libraries is finding ways to assess library collections for diversity and representation. Our focus was initially ensuring collections are representative of Indigenous authors and publishers. We are working to expand the focus to historically underrepresented groups. Our assessment methods have included reviewing titles requested for purchase and interlibrary loan to identify gaps in authors, publishers, and titles; reviewing approval plans to ensure monograph purchases are including broad representation; and working with electronic resource vendors to learn what topics our users are searching in databases.
108 Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude
Karen Neville-Red Rocks Community College
Description: Red Rocks Community College English Faculty, Leah Rogin-Roper, wrote an article entitled: "Five Things People Said To Me about Not Reading White Dudes This Year… plus two confessions and one tangent" which was published in Literary Citizen in January, 2019. Along with another Red Rocks English Faculty, Tameca Coleman, and two other Denver area writers (Steven Dunn and Carolyn Zaikowski) Leah published a companion piece: "108 Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude." Red Rocks Community College aquired nearly all of the 108 Books (and then some) and put together a display highlighting these works. This lightning round presentation will cover marketing, reactions, and future plans for the collection.
On the Journey: Assessing, Training & Promoting Diversity in DPL’s Collections
Erin Sladen & Becker Parkhurst-Strout-Denver Public Library
Description: Denver Public Library collection development and public service staff have become more aware of the need to lift up marginalized voices over the past several years. From making purchasing decisions in collection development to developing a staff training on diversity in our collection to consciously looking at diversity when creating core collections lists, we are taking a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that our collection reflects both our community and the world at large. Join us for a discussion on how we find and promote diverse titles, communicate with staff, and how we are conducting a diversity audit on our 42,000+ title fiction collection.
Afternoon Lightning Rounds
How Does Your Library Compare? Gold Rush Analytics for Diversity & Inclusivity
Rose Nelson-CO Alliance
Description: Gold Rush is a library analytics tool developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to assist libraries in shared print programs and general library collection analytics. This program will provide an overview of Gold Rush followed by a more detailed look at its use as a tool to understand how libraries can compare their collections to others with a focus on diversity, inclusivity, and social justice.
Diversifying Popular Reading at an Academic Library
Arthur Aguilera-CU Boulder
Description: Popular Reading, or Leisurely Reading, collections in academic libraries is nothing new. However, for a first-year academic librarian who often doesn’t have the time to read for fun, taking over a popular reading collection can be daunting. In this session, I will go over the steps I took to get acquainted with this small 600-book collection and how I used a database-management software and BISAC subject headings to assess how diverse our collection really was, and the steps I took to bring in more diverse voices. I will explain the history of popular reading in academic libraries, the role it plays in student learning, as well as how to set up a database that can be used to assess diversity. We will explore the management, weeding, selection, and promotion of popular reading books in a large academic library.
A Starting Point: One Way to Assess your Collection for Diversity and Inclusion
Katherine Brown & Britany Hamilton-Auraria Library
Description: Assessing your collection for diversity and inclusion can be a very intimidating task — where do you even start? This presentation will discuss one way to begin assessing the diversity of your collection: identifying diverse resources and verifying if they are owned by your library. I will describe how to locate lists or bibliographies of diverse resources; how to use your ILS and discovery layer to assess the diversity of your collection; and how to visualize and present your results.
Afternoon Presentation
Inclusive Cataloging and Classification
Charissa Brammer & McKinley Sielaff-Colorado College, Janette Ruiz-University of Denver Libraries
Description: Collections are only useful if people are able to find what they need. This simple principle has guided the cataloging and classification of materials for decades. These systems, including the Library of Congress and Dewey classification systems, are not neutral. They embed the cultural biases of their creators and the people who have been tasked with maintaining them into the subject headings, call numbers, and the physical placement of the materials in the collection. How, then, can librarians be sensitive to the potential harm that comes from erroneous or offensive subjects and call number placement, while still maintaining the ability for patrons to find the information that they need?
In this presentation, we will outline the history of classification systems and the biases they contain. We will discuss partnering with your community to improve the cataloging and classification of sensitive items. We will consider some case studies where classifications have been improved in the following ways: replacing offensive and outdated headings, adding newer, community-informed headings to existing records, and by putting interpretive signage in the stacks at the point of access to help patrons to understand the systems that are currently in place. We will wrap up the session with a discussion of how to be respectful of people while cataloging and classifying items. The result will be a take away list of best practices and some ideas about how to apply these practices in your library.
Vendor Panel
Description: Facilitated Q&A session where vendors discuss how they have integrated diversity, inclusivity, accessibility into their products and services.
Adam Matthew Digital - Lenny Rogers
Gale-Cengage - Heather Wiegand
Taylor & Francis - Sage Milo / Danielle Adamowitz
Other Resources
Diversity & Inclusivity in Collection Building Workshop Program
8:00-8:50am: Check-in/Registration (includes coffee/tea/light pastry or fruit)
8:50-9:00am: Welcome from Rose Nelson, 2018-2019 President of CoALA and Assistant Director-CO Alliance of Research Libraries
9:00-10:00am: Keynote Speaker: Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Associate Librarian at the University of South Carolina-Lancaster Medford Library and 2019 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year.
10:00-10:45am
Queer Inclusivity in Your Collections: A Workshop
Amy Hezel & Melissa DeWitt-Regis University
Description:
Faculty at Regis University participated in a semester-long, queer inclusivity learning community to discuss ways to support LGBTQIA students on campus. Presenters will begin the workshop by sharing key concepts and insights from the learning community and how it relates to academic libraries and collection development. Using guided questions, participants will work in small groups to develop ideas to implement queer inclusivity in their library collections. The workshop will end with opportunities for participants to share ideas with the larger group. Facilitators will conclude with resources for self-reflection, next steps, and additional resources.
11:00-11:45am
Collection Diversification at the University of Denver Libraries
Shannon Tharp, Jennifer Bowers, Jack Maness, and Peggy Keeran-University of Denver
Description:
The Collection Diversification Task Force at the University of Denver (DU) Libraries seeks to identify gaps in its collections related to works by and about Native America. In particular, the Task Force seeks to identify literature by and about Cheyenne and Arapaho people; DU has recently taken steps to honor that it resides on lands held in stewardship by the Cheyenne and Arapaho, and recognize that DU’s founder, John Evans, was culpable for the Sand Creek Massacre. We feel an ethical obligation as a library to redress these historical wrongs. As such, the Task Force has made use of a five-step strategy to analyze and improve DU Libraries’ collections relative to this project.
In this presentation, panelists from DU’s Collection Diversification Task Force will:
- Discuss the aforementioned strategy and initial results of this long-term project
- Describe the exploration of early representations of Native cultures and Indigenous counter narratives through teaching with captivity narratives and contemporary Indigenous graphic novels
- Share the ways in which this project has begun to inform collection development processes at DU Libraries
11:45am-12:30pm
Lightning Rounds
Creating a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mini Collection
Lisa Blake-Arapahoe Community College
Description
The ACC Library was approached by faculty members and members of the college’s Inclusive Excellence Council to add diverse titles to our collection on topics of pedagogy and support of underrepresented groups. From this request, an audit of our current collection, and a partnership with the Ethnic Literature class we developed the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Collection. This Lightening Presentation will discuss our process and future plans to create a more inclusive and diverse collection.
Diversity and Representation in Library Collections
Carolyn Carpan-Univ. of Alberta Libraries
Description:
The Collection Strategies Unit at the University of Alberta Libraries is finding ways to assess library collections for diversity and representation. Our focus was initially ensuring collections are representative of Indigenous authors and publishers. We are working to expand the focus to historically underrepresented groups. Our assessment methods have included reviewing titles requested for purchase and interlibrary loan to identify gaps in authors, publishers, and titles; reviewing approval plans to ensure monograph purchases are including broad representation; and working with electronic resource vendors to learn what topics our users are searching in databases
108 Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude
Karen Neville-Red Rocks Community College
Description:
Red Rocks Community College English Faculty, Leah Rogin-Roper, wrote an article entitled: "Five Things People Said To Me about Not Reading White Dudes This Year… plus two confessions and one tangent" which was published in Literary Citizen in January, 2019. Along with another Red Rocks English Faculty, Tameca Coleman, and two other Denver area writers (Steven Dunn and Carolyn Zaikowski) Leah published a companion piece: "108 Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude." Red Rocks Community College aquired nearly all of the 108 Books (and then some) and put together a display highlighting these works. This lightning round presentation will cover marketing, reactions, and future plans for the collection.
On the Journey: Assessing, Training & Promoting Diversity in DPL’s Collections
Erin Sladen & Becker Parkhurst-Strout-Denver Public Library
Description:
Denver Public Library collection development and public service staff have become more aware of the need to lift up marginalized voices over the past several years. From making purchasing decisions in collection development to developing a staff training on diversity in our collection to consciously looking at diversity when creating core collections lists, we are taking a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that our collection reflects both our community and the world at large. Join us for a discussion on how we find and promote diverse titles, communicate with staff, and how we are conducting a diversity audit on our 42,000+ title fiction collection.
12:30-1:15pm Lunch (Provided)
1:15-2:00pm Afternoon Lightning Rounds
How Does Your Library Compare? Gold Rush Analytics for Diversity & Inclusivity
Rose Nelson-CO Alliance of Research Libraries
Description:
Gold Rush is a library analytics tool developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to assist libraries in shared print programs and general library collection analytics. This program will provide an overview of Gold Rush followed by a more detailed look at its use as a tool to understand how libraries can compare their collections to others with a focus on diversity, inclusivity, and social justice.
Diversifying Popular Reading at an Academic Library
Arthur Aguilera-CU Boulder
Description
Popular Reading, or Leisurely Reading, collections in academic libraries is nothing new. However, for a first-year academic librarian who often doesn’t have the time to read for fun, taking over a popular reading collection can be daunting. In this session, I will go over the steps I took to get acquainted with this small 600-book collection and how I used a database-management software and BISAC subject headings to assess how diverse our collection really was, and the steps I took to bring in more diverse voices. I will explain the history of popular reading in academic libraries, the role it plays in student learning, as well as how to set up a database that can be used to assess diversity. We will explore the management, weeding, selection, and promotion of popular reading books in a large academic library.
By the People for the People
Jessi Barrientos-Westminster Public Library
Description:
Westminster Public Library has taken a hyper-local focus and created innovative strategies to satisfy the needs of all patrons in our service area. Explore how to create a data-driven community profile and how to use profiles to advocate for inclusive collections that represent the needs of a diverse community. Take away the tools and resources to create your own profiles.
A Starting Point: One Way to Assess your Collection for Diversity and Inclusion
Katherine Brown & Britany Hamilton-Auraria Library
Description:
Assessing your collection for diversity and inclusion can be a very intimidating task — where do you even start? This presentation will discuss one way to begin assessing the diversity of your collection: identifying diverse resources and verifying if they are owned by your library. I will describe how to locate lists or bibliographies of diverse resources; how to use your ILS and discovery layer to assess the diversity of your collection; and how to visualize and present your results.
2:00-2:45pm
Inclusive Cataloging and Classification
Charissa Brammer & McKinley Sielaff-Colorado College, Janette Ruiz-University of Denver Libraries
Description:
Collections are only useful if people are able to find what they need. This simple principle has guided the cataloging and classification of materials for decades. These systems, including the Library of Congress and Dewey classification systems, are not neutral. They embed the cultural biases of their creators and the people who have been tasked with maintaining them into the subject headings, call numbers, and the physical placement of the materials in the collection. How, then, can librarians be sensitive to the potential harm that comes from erroneous or offensive subjects and call number placement, while still maintaining the ability for patrons to find the information that they need?
In this presentation, we will outline the history of classification systems and the biases they contain. We will discuss partnering with your community to improve the cataloging and classification of sensitive items. We will consider some case studies where classifications have been improved in the following ways: replacing offensive and outdated headings, adding newer, community-informed headings to existing records, and by putting interpretive signage in the stacks at the point of access to help patrons to understand the systems that are currently in place. We will wrap up the session with a discussion of how to be respectful of people while cataloging and classifying items. The result will be a take away list of best practices and some ideas about how to apply these practices in your library.
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:15pm Vendor Panel
Facilitated Q&A session where vendors discuss how they have integrated diversity, inclusivity, accessibility into their products and services.
Vendors:
- Adam Matthew Digital - Lenny Rogers
- Gale-Cengage - Heather Wiegand
- GOBI - Jenny Hudson
- ProQuest - Cara Huwieler
- Taylor & Francis - Sage Milo / Danielle Adamowitz
4:15-4:30pm
Closing and Prize Drawings
Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR):
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. What is SILLVR?
Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR), spearheaded by Auraria Library, is a collaborative pilot project among selected Alliance member libraries, the CO Alliance office and streaming video providers, currently Swank Digital Campus and Alexander Street. The pilot, which began in 2020 and has been extended each year since then, allows Alliance member libraries to share streaming videos through Prospector. All library patrons can request Alexander Street videos. The Swank license agreement limits requesting to academic patrons in Prospector and MOBIUS only.
2. What do I do if I receive a SILLVR request for one of my patrons?
The lending library will check the item out to the borrowing library and back in so the transaction is counted in the system. The borrowing library will receive an email from the lending library that contains the requesting patron’s name and the link to access the video. The staff member from the borrowing library, will send an email to the patron which includes a link to the video. This completes the process for the borrowing library. After 21 days (or contract specified length of access) the video will expire. If the patron needs additional time with the video they can re-request it through Prospector as renewals are not allowed.
3. What will a typical SILLVR request look like?
Here is text for a typical email:
Dear X Library Patron
One of your patrons has requested an item through the Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) program now available through Prospector. Here is the information you will need to fulfill this request to your patron:
Title: Little Women
Requesting Institution: Jeffco Public
Patron name: XXXXX
URL: URL of the streaming video
Expiration Date/Time: 1/27/2020 (After this date, the video is no longer available to view)
Please note: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) is a new pilot program made available through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Prospector service. If you have any difficulties, questions, or just would like more information about this program please contact me using the information below
Will include Lending library's contact information.
Feel free to add any other custom language to the email you forward onto your patron.
5. How can I find a list of SILLVR items in Prospector?
Simply enter "SILLVR" in the Prospector search box. Here is a short video clip (MP4) showing the steps.
6. What are the borrowing policies on SILLVR items?
All Colorado and Wyoming card holders may request Alexander Street SILLVR items. Only academic library patrons can request Swank items due to license restrictions.
7. What are the checkout parameters on SILLVR items?
SILLVR items can be checked out for 21 days with no renewals. The link will expire after 21 days No need to return these items since they will just vanish from the account.
8. Which libraries are lenders in the SILLVR pilot project?
Auraria and University of Wyoming, CU Boulder, and Colorado Mesa University. However, other libraries may be added over time.
9. Are there public performance rights for SILLVR items
Swank videos do not include public performance rights. For example, a patron couldn't check out a Swank video and have a public showing of it. Alexander Street videos do provide public performance rights.
10. How many titles are included in the SILLVR pilot project?
Alexander Street has about 5,000 titles. Most content is educational or documentary.
Swank has approximately 800 titles. These tend to be more popular blockbuster titles.
11. Are there limitations on file size for these streaming videos?
No. The email that is passed onto the patron only contains a link to the video.
12. Which type of devices support streaming videos?
Streaming videos are viewable on all modern technological devices including IOS, Android, E-readers, tablets and computers.
13: Can I watch a streaming video on my smart tv?
If viewers want to access the videos on their TVs, they would have to use their TV’s built in web browser and navigate to the URL. In most cases this should work. However this is not a "supported" way to view the videos and the vendor can't provide technical assistance for this. Viewers can also access the video through a smart phone and screen-cast it to the TV (using Airplay for Apple or Chromecast for Android) and these technologies usually work fine.
Prospector Resource Sharing:
Document Delivery Committee Minutes
- Meeting Recording 1-29-25 (MP4 Video)
- Meeting Recording 9-18-24 (MP4 Video)
- Annual Director's meeting 2023
- Meeting Recording 11-8-23 (MP4 Video)
- Meeting Recording 5-10-23 (MP4 Video)
- Old Minutes
Gold Rush® Linker FAQ
What is Gold Rush® Linker?
Gold Rush Linker is a reference linking tool that is compliant with NISO versions 1.0 and 0.1. It will receive and respond to OpenURL 1.0 and 0.1 compliant queries, providing links to Gold Rush resources held by your library. In addition, if it has recieved enough information from the query, Gold Rush Linker can send a query to CrossRef, providing your patrons with a DOI compliant link to the full text provided by the publisher.
Is Gold Rush® Linker OpenURL compliant?
Yes, Gold Rush Linker is compliant with NISO versions 1.0 and 0.1 of the OpenURL standard.
Does Gold Rush® Linker work with CrossRef?
Yes, Gold Rush Linker does work with CrossRef, provided your site has a valid Crossref username and password, and provided your copy of Gold Rush Linker is configured to use CrossRef. If both of these conditions are met, and if Gold Rush Linker does not recieve a DOI in a request, Gold Rush Linker will then call CrossRef in an attempt to find a DOI for the current citation. If a DOI is received from CrossRef and if your library subscribes to that particuclar journal (through proper configuration of your holdings in Gold Rush), then the Gold Rush Linker results screen will provide a link back to the publisher-based full-text of an article.
Why does Gold Rush® Linker sometimes fail to display any information at the top of the screen where the citation normally displays?
Gold Rush Linker builds it's display based on the information it receives from an incoming OpenURL HTTP request. Gold Rush Linker can only display as much information as it recieves in the request. So, if the system you're coming from does not provide a particular piece of information, Gold Rush Linker won't have that information either. For example, if the originating system does not include an author's name, Gold Rush Linker won't be able to display an author in the citation.
Why doesn't Gold Rush® Linker provide a link to service X?
Gold Rush Linker can provide links to a number of different resources. We have configured about a dozen targets, ahead of time, for your convenience. However, you must select these targets and enable them to make them active for your site.
Gold Rush also supports the ability to build your own targets to virtually any electronic resource. The Gold Rush Staff Toolbox provides a powerful toolkit of features to enable a subscribing library to build outbound links to most publishes, databases or services. In addition to being able to build your own targets to send queries into remote systems, a site can also send bibliographic metadata into Web-based forms to support interlibrary loan (e.g. OCLC Illiad, Clio, WebZap) or commercial document delivery services.
Does Gold Rush® Linker provide article-level links?
Yes, Gold Rush Linker can create article-level links into services which provide full text, interlibrary loan, and document delivery. Article level links are preconfigured for a variety of services. However, Gold Rush has a toolkit that will allow a libary to create outbound article links to virtually any target using OpenURL variables.
Please see Gold Rush documentation for the details.
When do article-level links show up in Gold Rush® Linker?
A number of conditions have to be met before Gold Rush Linker can produce article-level links. First, the resource in question must be included in your library's full-text holdings in the Gold Rush database. Second, the link you clicked on to access Gold Rush Linker must have included enough information to produce a useful article-level link. Which pieces of information are necessary depends on the service, but ISSN, Volume, Issue, and starting page number are often required. Some services also require the date or other information. Finally, your site has to be configured to display article-level links. Gold Rush Linker configuration allows your library to select the services you want linked on an individual basis.
Why do article level links sometimes fail?
Article level links provided by Gold Rush Linker will sometimes fail for a number of different reasons. Sometimes, the system that provided the link to Gold Rush Linker included incorrect or corrupt data. Since Gold Rush Linker uses the data it receives to build links, if that data is bad, the links may be bad as well.
Another reason that article level links can fail is incomplete or incorrect configuration. In order to make article level links work, your librarians have to do a lot of work configuring the services that provide links to Gold Rush Linker, configuring Gold Rush Linker itself, configuring the database service the article level link points to, and often, configuring the library's proxy server or authentication server. If this work has not been done, or has been done incorrectly, article level links may fail.
Finally, good article level links require at least three systems to be available and working.
the system which provides the link to Gold Rush Linker
Gold Rush Linker itself
the system that the article level link points to
a proxy server or authentication server (in some cases)
If any one of these systems is experiencing temporary outages or other problems, article level links may fail.
Does Gold Rush® Linker help me find items other than articles and journals, like books or conference proceedings?
Gold Rush Linker was primarily built to locate the full text of articles in serial publications. OpenURL genre types other than "article" or "journal" will produce links to resources appropriate for that genre. As such, Gold Rush can act as a bridge between a source and many different targets.
How do I configure Gold Rush® Linker for my library?
Gold Rush Linker configuration is handled in the Gold Rush Staff Toolbox. So, begin by pointing your browser to your Gold Rush Staff Toolbox, click on the "Settings" button, then click on the "Manage Gold Rush Linker" menu item.
For detailed instructions on managing your Gold Rush Linker configuration,please see the Gold Rush Linker documentation.
Can I configure my Gold Rush® Linker results screen?
Yes, Gold Rush offers libraries almost complete control over their Gold Rush Linker results screens. You can access the HTML and cascading stylesheets to control the look and feel of the output.
Gold Rush Decision Support
This feature option allows library staff to compare title lists from over 1,500 aggregators, publishers, and indexing/abstracting services that have been loaded into Gold Rush®. It allows comparison of the content within packages even if the library does not subscribe to them.
Gold Rush® A-Z Link Resolver
OpenURL link resolver with full compliance for NISO 1.0 and 0.1 standards. Control your own stylesheets and results page templates. The Public search interfaces offers not only A-Z browsing but full title, keyword and ISSN searching. Web 2.0 features with XML gateway to public interface.
Gold Rush® ERM
Subscriptions (ERM) is a system for monitoring contracts, pricing and the renewal process. Includes an incident tracker plus the ability to add your own fields.
Gold Rush® Complete
The Gold Rush® Complete level includes it all: Gold Rush® Decision Support, Subscriptions, plus a public interface (A-Z), staff interface and a link resolver.
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