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Library systems are becoming increasingly open, providing API’s that can deliver data in real-time. ETSU Library staff wanted a way to collect metrics from various systems and present it in one centralized dashboard. This presentation will cover our experiences with the project, including successes, challenges, and future goals.

Frustrated by having to maintain an A-Z databases list separately on our library website and in Alma/Primo, East Tennessee State University embarked on a goal to eliminate redundancy by using Alma as our primary source of metadata for eResources. This presentation will cover our entire workflow and the issues we encountered along the way. I'll first go over our process in Alma including MARC record creation, electronic collection setup, and the top level collection module. Next, I'll cover our workflow in Primo including normalization rules, scoping, and PNX display. The last section will cover the Alma API's and how they were used to sync our LibGuides A-Z list.

Objectives: The US healthcare system will have to exist on reduced funding in the future, creating a need for new funding sources for health science libraries to survive. The purpose of this study is to investigate funraising in academic allopathic medical libraries. Methods: A cross-sectional methodology was implemented. An electronic survey was utilized to ask fifteen fundraising questions to participants. The questions consisted of: current status of library fundraising, perceptions of the central development office, utilizing fundraising positions inside the library, types of fundraising activities used, most successul fundraising positions inside the library, five year fundraising income, fundraising advertising, utilization of funds, challenges and motivations to fundraising, and donor recognition. These questions were loaded onto checkbox survey software for distribution. The survey was distributed to five members of a blinded focus group for testing. Potential academic medical library groups were identifitied that have academic medical libraries with diverse sizes and budgets. The decision to use CONBLS consortium was decided based on these factors. Results: An email letter containing a survey link and cover letter was sent to all 21 CONBLS members. Usable responses wree received from 15 institutions, or 71.4% of the libraries. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the responses to specific questions. Conclusions: Academic medical libraries in the Southeast region are highly interested in fundraising, but less than half of the libraries consider themselves active fundraisers. Many challenges associated with establishing an active fundraising program exist. Similar fundraising challenges exist in general academic libraries and medical library professionals should reference this literature. In order to improve these statistics, educating directors on fundraising at group levels as CONBLS, SCMLA, and ALADN would help encourage discussion and promote larger fundraising efforts. Establishing key relationships on campus is important for academic medical libraries to establish a continuous cycle of fundraising.

In 2008, Sherrod Library purchased Springshare’s LibGuides to create research guides for the library’s homepage. We also created LibGuides for individual classes when we taught library instruction sessions. Several of our professors worked closely with librarians to create the LibGuides for their classes, and those guides are heavily used. Inspired by this success, we looked for other ways to use LibGuides to connect with our faculty, students, and community. Our most creative use of LibGuides happened in 2013 when several librarians approached carefully-chosen faculty with an invitation to participate in a pilot project. We chose among the professors who routinely requested library instruction sessions; seemed to be open to trying new ways to engage their students; and whose classes were small and not writing intensive. These three professors were invited to a meeting where we offered them the opportunity to replace their traditional written paper with a LibGuide assignment. We explained that students will still have to do quality research to produce a good LibGuide and suggested that there are a number of benefits from replacing a written paper with a LibGuide assignment, including: • the replacement of an assignment that students don’t look forward to writing and professors don’t look forward to grading with a more engaging assignment; • the ability to engage students by assigning a robust research project using a flexible tool that is easy to use; • the creation of an electronic resource that students can easily include in an electronic portfolio. This presentation describes the pilot project.

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Funding a scholarship is a great opportunity to involve your Friends, board of trustees, or other cooperative partners in furthering the professional development degree goals of your organization. Many of us have highly motivated workers who are seeking a degree. Awarding student scholarships can help allay their loan burdens while raising the library’s profile as an active agent in supporting education. At East Tennessee State University, Sherrod Library rewards our best undergraduate workers with a Student Worker scholarship. In Fall 2016, we created an additional scholarship for our graduate assistants as well as a scholarship for excellence in library research for graduate students. We will discuss the timeline, criteria, rubrics, and selection process for these awards, our experience working with our advancement office, and ideas for soliciting potential community donors to underwrite scholarships. Marketing and promotion strategies will also be discussed.

Despite increasing expectations of transparency, academic fraud does exist. We will examine some of the most blatant examples as well as some of the most effective measures to combat it.

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