Managing e-Resources in Libraries
Managing electronic resources is still a daunting task for many from licensing to purchasing to cataloging to collecting data to making it accessible to users. Can managing electronic resources be handled with the current commercial or homegrown systems? How will standards help our processes and decisions? Are our processes the most efficient for managing our electronic collections?
* ERMS issues
* Cataloging
* Multiple formats (including digital audio/video)
* Big deals
* e-Books
* Licensing issues
* Multiple access platforms
* How do we safeguard our investments for the future?
* Preservation and archiving electronic information
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Selecting and Assessing e-Resources in Libraries
Can collecting data be easier? How can we analyze best what we collect? How do we show value to our larger organizations? Are our processes the most efficient for managing our electronic collections?
* Extracting and analyzing electronic resource data
* Creating value for the customer
* Showing value to funding bodies
* Local content
* Deselection
* Free resources
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Marketing & Meeting Users' Needs
In a world where the majority of our users are not coming in our building, how do we build strategies to meet the users where they are and get them to good resources? Where are users on the web and how can we get to them?
* Marketing/promoting e-resources to your users
* Ways to improve access to requested material
* Assessing user needs
* Information literacy/instruction with e-resources
* Usability tests
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Peer Reviewed |
Issues in Digital Rights
How do we deal with new models of scholarship that are emerging? How do we accommodate new forms of content? Can the library play a role in the creation and distribution of the products of scholarship?
* Copyright
* Locally digitized materials
* Scholarly communication
* Educating on open access
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Emerging and Future Technologies
So much of what we do in libraries today is driven by technology, and so many of the problems we face can be solved, at least in part, by employing or developing new technologies. How are current technologies being used? What emerging technologies are on the horizon? How we can we employ them effectively to meet the information needs of the library, internally and externally?
* New technologies to reach users in the digital environment
* Latest technologies and ideas for use in libraries
* Use of open-source software in libraries
* Use of mobile devices in libraries
* Social software
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Peer Reviewed |
Relationships Inside the Library
Many organizations have seen an "organizational shift," a change in work flows and management, to properly staff and manage e-resource in their libraries while other institutions have incorporated electronic resources work throughout the library just as work with print in distributed. How have workflows and personnel decisions changed? What type of leadership has helped create change? Where do we still need to open communications?
* Workflows
* Leadership and collaboration
* Collaborative relationships in e-resources delivery to users
* Communications: intra-departmental communication, collegial and managerial communication issues.
* Preparing personnel for change
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Peer Reviewed |
Relationships Outside the Library
In the digital world, libraries don't stand alone. They work closely with consortia, vendors, other libraries, and their users. Our resources and abilities to meet users transcends the walls of each individual library. Are all these relationships working? Are we getting the most out of our relationships with other organizations or groups?
* Vendor relations: how to create collaborative relationships
* Relationships/issues between librarians, vendors, subscription agents, publishers
* Working with faculty and groups on campus on use of institutional repositories
* Consortial relationships
* Collaborative relationships in e-resource delivery
| Open Submissions |
Peer Reviewed |