Category Archives: e-resource mgmt

A new e-resources usage statistics dashboard

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Marie Kennedy

New usage statistics dashboard alert! Check it out at https://whheresourceusage.shinyapps.io/dash/. Drop me a line here or on twitter and let me know how much you love it. *** For the last several years I have been annually publishing the usage … Continue reading →

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COUNTER 5 SUSHI harvester

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Marie Kennedy

Annually I compile COUNTER usage statistics of our licensed e-resources to contribute to our library’s national reports and to update our local e-resources statistics dashboard. Until last year this was a manual process requiring a significant amount of time. I … Continue reading →

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Usage statistics season

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Marie Kennedy

Our university’s fiscal year just ended on May 31 so it is time to complete all of our end-of-season tasks. A big task that I’m responsible for is gathering usage statistics for our electronic resources, to contribute to some annual … Continue reading →

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Technical CATs

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Marie Kennedy

We have an initiative at the library to help our students spend less money on texts used in classes, called the Course Adopted Texts (CATs) E-Book Initiative. Our Librarian for Collection Development and Evaluation works with the campus bookstore to … Continue reading →

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silent fist pump

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Marie Kennedy

I think a lot about the accessibility of our library’s licensed e-resources. Sure, if there’s not already a clause in a license agreement about compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, we request that it be added. But what does … Continue reading →

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If platform upgrade email alerts were truthful

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Marie Kennedy

*E-resources librarians around the world nod in agreement* This one’s for you, folks! http://stripgenerator.com/strip/1090289/if-platform-upgrade-emails-were-truthful/ More monkey comics at http://orgmonkey.stripgenerator.com.

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