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192 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-55570-767-5
Year Published: 2012
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Electronic resource management encompasses much more than turning on and off resources and tracking usage. This guide provides advice on the tools and best practices to help you tackle heavy workloads while saving time, effort, and money. Chapters include: - Coping with Economic Issues
- Acquiring Electronic Resources
- Negotiating Resource Licensing
- Reconciling with Payment Systems
- Making Electronic Resources Accessible
- Gathering, Evaluating and Communicating Statistical Usage Information
- Changing Staff to Facilitate the Shift to Electronic
- Looking Ahead from Now to 2020
Within these chapters, you’ll find a host of innovative ideas to help you, your employees or co-workers, get the job done with ease. You’ll learn how to track and assign staff tasks electronically, accumulate and assimilate information from departmental and interdepartmental meetings, manage email and written correspondence, track renewals, evaluate and negotiate license agreements.
You’ll also discover how to manage all this information with free applications and software, or with programs already on your office computer. This includes using Excel to keep electronic stats, tracking vendor contact information in Access, and create a database detailing ILL permissions and restrictions. You’ll also find out how to use Google Docs, Forms, and Calendar to track information about renewals, statistics, and problem reporting.
Informative, useful, current, Managing Electronic Resources: A LITA Guide shows how to successfully manage time, resources, and relationships with vendors and staff to ensure personal, professional, and institutional success.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface
1 Learning the Basics of Electronic Resource Management Ryan O. Weir
2 Coping with Economic Issues and a Paradigm Shift in Collections Regina Koury
3 Acquiring Electronic Resources Denise Pan
4 Licensing Electronic Resources and Contract Negotiation Ryan O. Weir
5 Making Electronic Resources Accessible George Stachokas
6 Gathering, Evaluating, and Communicating Statistical Usage Information for Electronic Resources Geoffrey Timms
7 Staffing Changes to Facilitate the Shift to Electronic Resources Denise Pan
8 Looking Ahead from Now to 2020 George Stachokas
Appendix A Historical and Current Copyright Law Excerpts
Appendix B COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works: Release 1
Register of Vendors Providing Usage Reports Compliant with Release 1 of the Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works
Appendix C COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases: Release 3
Register of Vendors Providing Usage Reports Compliant with Release 3 of the Code of Practice for Journals and Databases
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
About the Editor
Ryan O. Weir is Assistant Professor, Director of Technical Services and Electronic Resources, for Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He manages the technical services unit for University Libraries and also serves as electronic resources librarian for his institution. He is interested in finding ways to help the library community and the community of vendors and publishers to increase effective and fruitful communication about resources and services, believing that strengthening these relationships will be vital to the continued success of both organizations.
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of ALA, educates, serves and reaches out to its members, other ALA members and divisions, and the entire library and information community through its publications, programs and other activities designed to promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and information technology.
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