TRIAL-PALOOZA! USING RESOURCE TRIALS TO COLLABORATE WITH AND EDUCATE FACULTY ON THE VALUE OF LIBRARIES Presented by Elizabeth Zeitz & Allen Reichert, Otterbein's Courtright Memorial Library
Today we're going to … 01 02 03 Learn how to set up Navigate both Explore best a successful trial vendor expectations practices and lessons and university needs learned regarding: • communication approaches • evaluation techniques
Benefits to Faculty Benefits to Vendor & Program Relations Relations Deepens relationships and Creates a partnership out encourages conversations and of what before was a transparency client relationship Why tri (al)? Provides opportunities to An opportunity to better explore new content and understand the content platforms Ability to make informed Encourages comparison of decisions on available content to existing resources resources
◦ What is the need? Expressing ◦ Single trial or a palooza? Interest ◦ Timing
What do you do if a faculty member wants to have a trial Audience just to access a few documents Scenario 1: with zero intention of subscribing?
◦ Single vendor = streamlined process and less complications ◦ Allows for deeper review of their content and license All the Single ◦ Budgetary impact easier to manage Vendors... ◦ One resource to engage with and provide feedback for ◦ Managing one timeline and one set of expectation s ◦ Be transparent!
Setting up the 'Palooza Run simultaneously Facetime not Email Shareable & Accessible Comparisons are fun!
If we've built ◦ How do we get faculty to share feedback? it, will they ◦ Sample Feedback Form come?
The license has terms that Audience are problematic. How do you express those concerns Scenario 2: to your faculty?
◦ Managing the business relationship ◦ It's all in the (technical) details The behind- ◦ Know your own workflows & the-scenes institutional processes business stuff... ◦ Existing versus new ◦ Budget for the long-term
What do you do if a Audience faculty member wants to trial a resource which the Scenario 3: library clearly can't afford?
Recommendation Phase Sample The Resource Pulling it all together recommendation Wishlist email
Trial for Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online ◦ "I like the colonial America link you provided, as well as the various Readex early American imprints and newspapers. But ECCO probably has the most overlap between English and History, and is probably more accessible for students, so that’s Faculty probably the one to go with, even if I use EEBO in Response my own work." - History faculty ◦ "This would be life changing for me!!!!! For both research and teaching. Very excited!" - English faculty
We've got it, let's flaunt it ADDING IT MARKETING TRAINING FOLLOW UP TO OUR A-Z
Final Thoughts Partners, Consider a Keep a not clients! 'palooza! wishlist!
Questions? Elizabeth Zeitz – ezeitz@otterbein.edu Allen Reichert – preichert@otterbein.edu
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