Serials Spoken Here

This column reports on fourteen sessions from the Electronic Resources and Libraries 2023 conference and covers four broad subject areas including: artificial intelligence and data mining; open access and scholarly publishing; skills for new electronic resources librarians, and general e-resources management topics. For artificial intelligence, a theoretical examination regarding artificial intelligence robots and what it means to be human is chronicled. A report discusses data mining course catalogs for a recently designated research 1 institution to gain insights on trends in course offerings. In the open access and scholarly publishing topics reports impart information about the importance and reasoning for transformative agreements, perspectives from the humanities on open access, and challenges and successes of the open access model, subscribe to open. Questions to ask, tools, and strategies about the first six months for new e-resources management professionals are also covered. In the general e-resources management area: a database cancellation process totaling $300,000 of resources at University of Northern Iowa is revealed; using a 'library value playbook' to align library values with e-resources licenses is described; analyzing master COUNTER reports with Celus to find additional usage statistic insights is shared; a development of an open educational resource to share negotiation skills through the Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries (ONEAL) project is announced; and creating a training plan for implementation of FOLIO is communicated.