Abstract
A summary of Year in Review reports of members of the Academic Business Library Directors group (ABLD). Themes include new and ongoing initiatives in libraries, library collections, organizational change in libraries and member business schools and changes in library spaces.
Highlights
The Academic Business Library Directors (ABLD) group meets annually in the spring
Carnegie Mellon implemented a controlled digital lending service for course reserves. This was similar to the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) model, and they provided access to scanned versions of books while the print copy was kept inaccessible to users (ABLD, 2021, p. 30)
Carnegie Mellon and Yale joined a PLoS ONE initiative that allows campus authors to publish in the open access journal without paying article process charges (ABLD, 2021, pp. 31, 135)
Summary
The Academic Business Library Directors (ABLD) group meets annually in the spring This is normally a face-to-face meeting, but the meeting for 2021 was held online during April and May due to the COVID19 pandemic. Many members activated HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) This allowed libraries to turn on access to materials in HathiTrust that are still in copyright, with the requirement that the physical book cannot be loaned. Carnegie Mellon implemented a controlled digital lending service for course reserves This was similar to the ETAS model, and they provided access to scanned versions of books while the print copy was kept inaccessible to users Most libraries moved course reserves completely online, but Babson, Cornell and Penn State reported doing some print reserves Planning for Fall 2021 was still vague for most members, but many reported that their schools were planning to hold in-person classes and for most staff to be back on campus
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