Category Archives: library

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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when a database is not a database is it still a database?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

when our patrons go to our library’s research databases webpage they’ll see databases listed there, as one might expect. they’ll also bump into single newspapers, e-journal collections, and encyclopedias. this amalgam didn’t occur overnight, and it certainly wasn’t intentional. as … Continue reading →

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evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

i’m curating a collection of web snippets that show evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources over at scoop.it. add it to your feed reader to stay up on how libraries are connecting with their patrons related … Continue reading →

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How many databases?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

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designing a task management system for a new e-resource program

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

we came up with a list of major tasks that needed to be completed so that my library’s electronic resource program is thorough, with a focus on responding to patron needs; the task list is 113 items long. something that … Continue reading →

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celebrating one year of our ERM

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

One year ago on this date we began the implementation process for our electronic resource management system, Innovative’s ERM. In the past year we have entered 352 resource records, which describe our databases, e-journal collections, and e-book collections. Through the … Continue reading →

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