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Unveiling Treasures: Boosting Access and Discovery of your Special Collections with Lean Library June 27, 2024
Is your library struggling to make your unique and valuable collections discoverable for researchers and students? Are physical access limitations and complex finding aids hindering engagement with your hidden gems?

 

Watch back the recording of this webinar, where we explored innovative solutions to unlock the potential of your special collections. This webinar was the first in our new series that explores key challenges for librarians today and how Lean Library can solve these and amplify the value of your library.

 

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What the webinar covers:

  • Current challenges faced for special collections in academic libraries: Discover what keeps your users from unearthing the riches within your archives with a focus on discovery, access, and engagement.
  • Current discovery trends: Learn what our data says about student learning habits and discovery preferences.
  • Lean Library for special collections: Explore how Lean Library’s browser extension can bridge the gap between your collections and your audience.
  • Real-world examples from Cardiff University: See how Cardiff University is leveraging Lean Library to enhance access, visibility, and engagement of their special collections.
  • AM Digital Integration: Discover how to seamlessly integrate AM Digital content directly into user workflows.
  • Live Q&A

About Lean Library:

Lean Library puts the library in your patrons’ workflow, making content and resources available whenever and wherever your patrons need them via the Lean Library extension on their browser. Whether it’s Google Scholar, PubMed, or whatever your patrons’ preferred search tools are, Lean Library will bring your library’s discovery service to your patron at their point of need.

Adam Barry Development Manager

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Lindsay Roberts Librarian

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How libraries can promote Open Access eBooks to patrons June 27, 2024
The hot topic of Open Access is gaining further momentum within the librarian community this year, with mandates like UKRI’s Open Access Policy coming into effect. Around the world, academic libraries are seeking novel ways of promoting the plethora of Open Access resources to students to improve affordability of learning. However, finding trusted Open Access repositories and ensuring library patrons know where to find them is no simple feat. 

In this webinar, Lean Library and the OAPEN Foundation discuss:

  • How the OAPEN Foundation is building a quality-controlled collection of Open Access books.
  • The library’s role in increasing discoverability of Open Access resources and how it benefits students and researchers.
  • Lean Library’s new integration with the Directory of Open Access Books that surfaces Open Access alternatives in library patron’s online workflow.

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About Lean Library

Lean Library puts the library in your patrons’ workflow, making your content and resources available whenever and wherever patrons need them via an extension on their browser.

 

About the OAPEN Foundation:

OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. They work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

 

Speakers:

Becca Richards

Becca Richards Senior Product Manager, Lean Library

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Silke Davison

Silke Davison Community Manager, OAPEN Foundation

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Get to know the new Lean Library: Resource access & workflow services June 27, 2024

This free webinar presented the new Lean Library extension, which takes your library to your patrons faster and smoother than ever before.

Lean Library puts your library on your patrons’ shoulders via one easy-to-use extension on their browser. It simplifies online access to library content and open access alternatives, and embeds library collections and services into the patrons’ workflow – whether they start on Google Scholar, PubMed or beyond.

And it’s just undergone a complete redesign! This webinar presented the redesign, which aims to:

  • Improve user experience.
  • Address direct feedback from users including new, non-invasive pop-ups in the extension.
  • Improve performance so articles load quicker and users get to your library resources faster!
Lean Library live demo series – International June 21, 2024

What will the demo cover?

Over the coming weeks, our International sales team are hosting weekly live demo sessions to give an introductory overview of Lean Library. Join a session to learn more about how Lean Library puts your library on your patrons’ shoulders from an extension on their browser. The demos will cover key benefits of Lean Library, including:

  • Streamlining access to library content and resources, increasing patron usage
  • Unlocking access to open access content, saving both patrons and the library money
  • Seamlessly integrating with popular tools like Google Scholar and PubMed
  • Bringing the library discovery service to patrons’ preferred search tools
  • Putting library guidance and instruction on any academic resource or website online
  • And more…

Who should attend the demos

These live demo sessions are aimed at librarians or administrators at organisations and research institutes who are interested in access brokers or driving usage of library collections. It will be of particular interest to Library Directors, Access Librarians, eResources librarians, and Outreach Librarians.

Upcoming sessions

Date: Tuesday, 8th October 2024
Time: 12pm – 12:30pm (BST)
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Date: Tuesday, 15th October 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 22nd October 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 29th October 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 5th November 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 12th November 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 19th November 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 26th November 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 3rd December 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 10th December 2024
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Date: Tuesday, 17th December 2024
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