More Than Things - Speaker Deck

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More Than Things A. Scarlet Galvan | Electronic Resources Manager Brown University Libraries North Carolina Serials Conference | April 1, 2019

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debts Andromeda Yelton Bethany Nowviskie Dorothea Salo Galadriel Chilton Jessica Olin Kirsten Davis Margaret Smith Jenifer Holman Galen Charlton Marie Kennedy Donna Lanclos Bohyun Kim Amy Tureen Abigail Goben Jennifer Vinopal Stephanie Brown Christina Pikas Martha Hardy

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I keep working on this talk and…

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we measure what has value

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Evidence-Based Fictions: ARL Statistics “ARL Statistics is a series of annual surveys that describe the collections, expenditures, staffing, and service activities for ARL member libraries. Statistics have been collected and published annually for research libraries since 1907-08. Statistics data shape major policy decisions and institutional strategies.”

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:( "Until recently, UW-Madison had been the only institution among the 114 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that provided data showing more is spent on salaries and wages than on library materials (2014- 2015)...Recent efforts to increase the total spend on library materials and to reduce the total spend on salaries and wages have enabled us to transfer dollars to the Library materials budget." --UW-Madison, “Rethinking Libraries Through Consolidation” 2016

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all of us, are more than things.

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Licensing crash course! • Non-disclosure agreements • Indemnification • Arbitration (but ask legal) • No, you can’t audit our computers and labs • License modification • Breach notices and communications This is useless without adequate staffing

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We should do this despite their riskiness, the fact that they’re rough around the edges, and the ways in which they break our existing disciplinary and service molds— and even (or maybe especially) when their political pointedness scares us. --Bethany Nowviskie

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Thank you! @panoptigoth galvan.as@gmail.com