Link to Dec 2021

🔦 Highlights

• QUT Theses transfers to OSC this month. Thanks to Jill and Adam for their dedication and care of the service, along with Wing in past years. Adam’s labours are now a teenager – and he is a Success Champion!

• Three Service Visions updated for 2022: Information Resources, QUT Digital Collections, and QUT Readings (Service Visions landing page on SharePoint, here)
• Work From Home: the sequel  (spot the kitty!):

🔎 Issues (from last month and emerging)

• Service delivery with staff gaps continues from 2021 (1 less RL, and 2 less RAs)
• Slowness of Alma response time: ongoing issue across Australia, frequently reported to Ex Libris – many of our Resource Librarian’s regular tasks now taking significantly longer to perform (eg previously run overnight now taking up to 72 hours). UL escalated to Ex Libris
• A positive issue – Marina was awarded for being a December Success Champion – lots of last minute shopping to expend the LRS Section budget allocation. Thanks Marina!

⛷️ Major Future Activities

• 2022 LRA (Library Resource Allocation) splits – calculating, then adding to Alma once the LRA figure is confirmed
• QUT Readings rollovers and link checking, for semester 1
• Product owners to collect 2021 statistics for inclusion in annual IRC reports.

👐 Indigenous Perspectives

• UQ and JCU jointly take-over the Co-ordinator role for QULOC ISRG
• With the IA Team, Resource Librarian and Indigenous-supporting LLs, working on a Primo View in Library Search to make Indigenous materials more discoverable
• With the Resource Librarian and Indigenous-supporting LLs, investigating the reclassification of Indigenous materials from DDC 398 to DDC 299 following a heads-up from this SCiS article.

Owned Services

📈 Information Resources:

• Alma Rialto ‘marketplace’ implementation kickoff – implementation Feb-Mar. IRC Information Resources Leads are part of the team
• Textbook ordering for Semester 1 2022 underway (349 KG titles; 374 GP titles)
• Realigning (GOBI) monograph order codes with the refreshed faculty structure
• Completed and submitted two annual surveys for CAUL’s Content Procurement office.

📷 QUT Digital Collections:

• The new slide scanner purchased from the US has arrived in LRS and is asset labelled and installed with the new high end camera. Just testing how it all works: 95% there. This will significantly help in turnaround times for scanning of the 35 mm slides. As we haven’t been in the office in Jan this has yet to be done
• Awaiting QUT signatory to the Melbourne Office of Google Arts and Culture platform re: a partnership which will give QUT a great place to showcase our exhibitions/ stories and curated collections for world wide access
• JR will be applying for grants when we have a significant amount of content in Google Arts and Culture. JR successfully completely in Nov 2021 Grant Writing for Digital Collections in Libraries and Museums. We have limited grant options in Australia, but they will be explored – with outside, and US, more likely.
• Four LAs have been assisting over the summer with metadata research for QDC when they are able: Kate T, Jacque, Stephanie J. and David C from GP – many thanks!
• Helen McMahon (LA in Creative Industries KG) is continuing with her STEP program in QDC until mid Feb, one morning a week. Helen is learning about QDC and Google Arts and Culture story/ exhibition writing. This is going really well with a draft story underway for the Google Arts and Culture platform.

 Statistics:

QUT Digital Collections total items:  6,546

Jan 2022 Accesses: 14,714

Jan 2022: Specific Collection Use

JSTOR News/ Statistics: 

We will continue to partner with JSTOR community collections in 2022 with our items being  harvested (still in progress)  and hyperlinks to our individual items (done).

📖 QUT Readings:

• QUT Readings Rollover of Semester 1 and Full year (827) in progress, for completion by start of Sem 1 (14/2/22)
• Talis Insight – online conference – with a focus on Talis Elevate (collaborative annotation of readings) – no APAC sites have Elevate; Advanced MIS reporting; OER on reading lists
• DBS ‘QV3 Stabilisation project’ – CMD still lurks on QUT legacy systems, but will hopefully be fully farewelled as part of this project, by May this year.

💐 Bouquets