Taylor, Jaime

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Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator

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Taylor

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Jaime

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Library and Information Science
Political Science
Social Justice

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A Very Small Pond: Discovery Systems That Can Be Used with FOLIO in Academic Libraries
(2023-01-01) Taylor, Jaime; Neslin, Aaron
FOLIO, an open source library services platform, does not have a front end patron interface for searching and using library materials. Any library installing FOLIO will need at least one other software to perform those functions. This article evaluates which systems, in a limited marketplace, are available for academic libraries to use with FOLIO.
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Labor in Open Source Systems Implementations
(2022-01-01) Taylor, Jaime
Open source softwares are often chosen because of – perceived or real – cost savings. Cost savings calculations need to account for the different & increased labor necessary to open source software projects. This doesn’t always happen. If your library undertakes a large project, staff cannot work on that project while also performing their regular duties. Without reduced duties or additional staff, either regular or project work will be undone or done poorly; staff will be overworked & burnt out; the project will exceed projected timelines & resources.
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NENS
(2023-01-01) Taylor, Jaime
NENS (non-student non-employee) are a group of designations for people who are somehow connected to UMass, but who are neither students nor employees. A person’s NENS designation determines what they have access to at UMass, including at the Libraries.
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The purposes, politics, and practical impact of peer and shared governance in academic libraries.
(Institute for Critical Education Studies, 2025-08-05) Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose; Kaufman, Therese; Taylor, Jaime
This paper explores the implications of more or less peer and shared governance among academic librarians. Beginning with the conceptual framework that university administrators and educators have divergent aims, we posit that educators be evaluated by peers with shared aims rather than administrators. We consider the role of shared and peer governance in library collections, instruction, research, personnel decisions, and university decision-making. The paper outlines threats to shared and peer governance in libraries including administrative opposition, siloed university units, political influences, and affective barriers among librarians.
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A survey of AI tools in library tech: Accelerating into and unlocking streamlined enhanced convenient empowering game-changers
(2025) Taylor, Jaime; Dagan, Kelly; Youngberg, Margaret; Kaufman, Therese; Radding, Johanna
This article presents the current status of AI tools in library resources and systems, such as those licensed by Clarivate, Elsevier, and EBSCO. It also offers thoughts on the utility of the tools, how they work, their problems, and their context within the offerings of the companies that own them. With this information, library workers will be able to make better informed decisions about which, if any, AI tools to subscribe to, activate, or opt out of in their library resources and systems.
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Review of Can't Pay Won't Pay: the Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
(2021) Taylor, Jaime
While focus on the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic means that parts of this book will, we hope, soon feel dated, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay captures the economic zeitgeist of the early 21st century. A mere five chapters and just over 150 pages, the brevity of the book makes it an accessible introduction to the reasons so many individuals, communities, and even countries have found themselves deeply in debt. While fewer words are spent on remedies to the problem than describing it, the authors recommend the formation of debtors’ unions, modeled on labor unions. Through such unions, they suggest, collective power can force the abolition, or at least renegotiation, of debts. Can’t Pay Won’t Pay will help higher education librarians understand the conditions under which their students are laboring, as well as illuminating both the personal and systemic positions of librarians themselves.
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Consortial Projects : Centralized vs Decentralized Approaches
(2022) Taylor, Jaime
Consortia are an ever-growing reality in the modern library landscape. What began in the 1960s as a benefit realized through computers and automation, has evolved into a means of survival under budgets growing more austere with every passing decade. Despite their widespread presence, consortia are not making conscious decisions between organizational models when planning large technical services projects. This chapter will begin to fill that gap by examining why consortia choose centralized or decentralized approaches for such projects and will then discuss the differences between them, using the Center for Jewish History and the Five College Consortium as examples.
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Open Source Software Governance Brief for FOLIO Governance Councils
(2025-03) Taylor, Jaime
This report summarizes the governance of open source softwares (OSS), primarily in the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums); a couple non-GLAM softwares are also included. Just as FOLIO is a world-wide effort, the softwares and their communities discussed also span the globe, though they largely originated in the English-speaking world. The oldest of these softwares date to the late 1990s, while the newest are still emerging. Overall, OSS governance differs between softwares in the following ways: formality of structure; requirements for membership; relationship to for-profit vendors; and relationship to other organizations and individuals.
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Open Source Software Governance & Membership Model Brief for FOLIO Governance Councils
(2025-04) Taylor, Jaime
This report summarizes the governance of open source softwares (OSS), primarily in the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums); a couple non-GLAM softwares are also included. Just as FOLIO is a world-wide effort, the softwares and their communities discussed also span the globe, though they largely originated in the English-speaking world. The oldest of these softwares date to the late 1990s, while the newest are still emerging. Overall, OSS governance differs between softwares in the following ways: formality of structure; requirements for membership; relationship to for-profit vendors; and relationship to other organizations and individuals.