142 · Representative Documents: Responsibilities, Competencies, Goals
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UIC Library Liaison Program: Activities, Competencies, and Indicators
3 |UIC Library Liaison Activities, Competencies, and Indicators, July 2015
Collections Development
o Develop the collections and make informed subject collection decisions based on
faculty and student needs conduct use assessments of electronic and print
resources for retention/cancellation decisions.
o Know the content of each resource in your area and understand the overlap with
other resources. The content will affect the types of usage statistics received and
what they mean.
o Know what are the core resource(s) and journals for your subject areas, the ones
that are critical to support the program.
o Understand the resource acquisition process.
o Be able to explain the difference between a journal in a full-text EBSCO
database and a journal subscription from EBSCO, and what the long-term
archival rights are for each.
o Understand what a journal embargo is and how it affects patrons, and what
are the options in case of an embargo.
o Understand and be able to “read” the Voyager Budget Reports and the
Detailed Fund Report (DFR)
o Be aware of what journals relevant to your subject areas are in the current Big
Deals.
o Be able to look up basic e-resource data in Serials Solutions
o Be able to login and utilize the CARLI selection system, EBSCOnet, and
GOBI.
o Know how to collect or obtain use statistics for your resources in order to evaluate
use.
o Understand what use statistics definitions mean, and the difference between
COUNTER-compliant and non-compliant statistics, and the differences
between vendor and Serials Solutions statistics.
o Understand why some journals may have use statistics from multiple sources and
what the differences are.
Data Management
o Provide basic guidance in data management strategies
o Librarians can assist patrons in locating existing data repositories and data
sets
o Librarians can assist researchers in identifying storage options for data --
either subject repositories or a campus repository appropriately know when
to refer to INDIGO/local repository vs other repositories
o Librarians are aware of special requirements for data in specific domains /
disciplines (e.g. Medical--HIPAA personally identifiable data in social science
research, etc.)
o Librarians can assist researchers in identifying federal, grant, or journal
mandates for data access and restrictions
o Librarians are knowledgeable of the data lifecycle process for research and
can provide direction for each stage to research faculty
o Librarians are aware of services provided by and the experts within the library
and make an appropriate referral
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