Category Archives: e-resource mgmt

a quick note on giving and receiving thanks

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

i recently asked the participants in our collaborative marketing project to e-mail me to let me know which e-resource they are planning to market. in many of the e-mails they included notes of thanks for creating the project. it happened … Continue reading →

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trust in e-resources

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

lately i’ve been thinking a lot about trust related to e-resources, and that whether an e-resource “just works” or “is broken” affects our patrons’ perceptions of the library. we know from e-commerce that if a buyer has a poor experience … Continue reading →

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book status: nearing completion

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

in june i started writing a book with cheryl laguardia, a how-to manual for marketing electronic resources in libraries. it’s not done yet, there’s still writing to do, but today is the first day i printed it out. i’ve worked … Continue reading →

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Alternate kinds of “use” of electronic journal articles

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

Libraries typically use the COUNTER standard to count the “use” of e-content, but we know there are other ways to describe a use. This comic shows three alternatives.

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ooh, batchgeo

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

if you have a spreadsheet with geographic data in it and you want to make a map, quick-like, check out batchgeo.com. you copy your spreadsheet and paste it into the browser, choose a few options, and then BAM, map. the … Continue reading →

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the collaborative marketing for e-resources project is a go!

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

100 institutions have signed on to be part of a research/training project on marketing electronic resources! the project is designed to test whether a collaborative model of benchmarking the marketing of e-resources is feasible. discover the answer with us by … Continue reading →

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