Category Archives: e-resource mgmt

hosting fees

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

oh man, we spend so much money on hosting fees! i need to start thinking about how we’re going to nip this problem in the bud. we are charged a hosting fee when we purchase an electronic resource; the provider … Continue reading →

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#LibrarianValentine

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

Librarians are mushy-hearted and nerdy, as witnessed on twitter today, with the tweets using the hashtag #LibrarianValentine. There’s a log of some of the good tweets at http://storify.com/JennySarahJones/librarianvalentine. My favorite so far: @theREALwikiman: Roses are red, violets are blue; I … Continue reading →

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update: a place to put your (perpetual access) stuff

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

In 2010 we were wrestling with how to manage the inventory of our perpetual access holdings to e-journals, specifically, where to put that stuff into our ILS (http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1115). We decided on a process and are working on putting it into … Continue reading →

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usage statistics, now with more monkey

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

You guys know how I’m always going on about reliable methods for counting the use of library e-content? Project COUNTER is pretty much where it’s at, the standard libraries use to measure use. I’ve been following their work (http://www.projectcounter.org/index.html) since … Continue reading →

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#ooh

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

now available for pre-sale in the ala store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4224.

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Upcoming Lunch & Learn, at ALA MW

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

Ooh, lookit! I just got this alert in my e-mail and I’m excited to share with you that I’m presenting a Springer Lunch & Learn session at the upcoming ALA Midwinter conference, in Seattle, WA. I’ll be talking about the … Continue reading →

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