Category Archives: management

two-team approach to selecting and implementing an ERMS

In November 2009 I put together a team to evaluate our existing electronic resource management system (ERMS) to determine if it was satisfactory or if we needed to pursue another commercial option.  The first part of the process was completed … Continue reading

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Mingus quote

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple” — Charles Mingus this is my guiding quote of the week.

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the race to september 1

in the serials world the date september 1 is celebrated annually.  it’s the day serials librarians around the u.s. return their journal renewal documents to their subscription vendors.  returning the documents on that date mostly assures that subscriptions will be … Continue reading

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A day in the work life of this serials & e-resources librarian

today our brand new library officially opens!  what a treat to walk into the main doors of the library without swiping my card or having to maneuver around construction fences.  when i walked in this morning, our very first patron … Continue reading

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workflows and cheese

we’re nearing completion of the move to our brand new library. what better time to reconsider a daily task workflow than when the way one used to do something is now rearranged by a new space! i like change, i … Continue reading

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periodicals in a box

over the last few months the serials team has been laboriously boxing up the loose issues of journals from our suprisingly large backlog.  instead of binding old issues of journals the lmu library boxes them for storage. all of the … Continue reading

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