- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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thinking beyond the technicalities: what happens next in e-resource management?
in the last 3 years of my work experience i’ve brought an e-resources management system to fruition, started a perpetual access inventory project, am in the middle of a thorough review of license agreements, tried a new usage statistics reporting … Continue reading
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How did we get here so fast and why did it take so long?
I’ve been waiting for this moment to happen for 3 years, since i first began working at this library. We’ve finally e-tipped. E-tipping is when a library has enough electronic resources in its collection that the distinction between print or … Continue reading
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disaster planning for e-resources
When a major content provider goes down, social networks light up with alerts from people noticing the problem, cries of alarm from students trying to finish last-minute projects, and reports from librarians of calls with database sales representatives with the … Continue reading
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annual statistical reporting
inspired by http://ff.im/SKQm4.
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JSTOR content and “ownership”
Libraries have been in the process of weeding print journal titles in favor of the e-format for years now. Some libraries are using their JSTOR backfile collections as their guides for which print to discard; if the title is in … Continue reading
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transferred right into nonexistence
i talked to a publisher rep yesterday about the situation with transferred titles and i’m afraid it is more stomach-churning than i anticipated. we recently discovered that an e-journal title to which we should have perpetual (i.e., forever) access had … Continue reading
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