Trends in Academic Business Libraries 2021-2022: Highlights from Annual Reports of the Academic Business Library Directors Group

Michigan State launched Gast Library’s Research Badge, a microcredentialing program for business students (ABLD, 2022, p.76). The University of British Columbia switched to Open Athens for authentication, but had problems with some business database vendors not supporting it (ABLD, 2022, pp.12, 14)....

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Published in:Ticker 2022-12, Vol.7 (2)
Main Authors: Faulkner, Ash, Fleming, Greg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic libraries
Annual reports
Budgets
Business schools
Chief librarians
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Institutional repositories
Integrated library systems-ILS
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Pandemics
Scholarly publishing
Students
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Summary:Michigan State launched Gast Library’s Research Badge, a microcredentialing program for business students (ABLD, 2022, p.76). The University of British Columbia switched to Open Athens for authentication, but had problems with some business database vendors not supporting it (ABLD, 2022, pp.12, 14). The University of Michigan was the only exception to this general rule, indicating that they had made favorable multi-year goals with a number of vendors and they “even had a few vendors scale back pricing to reflect the current economic climate,” though the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also noted in their report that several vendors agreed to minimal or no increases in price this year (ABLD, 2022, pp. 72, 81). Michigan State has begun adding clauses to contracts in order to reserve the right to cancel and request refunds if
ISSN:2369-9779
2369-9779
DOI:10.3998/ticker.3462