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Cycling Through: Paths Libraries Take to Marketing Electronic Resources

The slides from my presentation at the Library Assessment Conference, Baltimore MD, 27 October 2010. Direct link: http://www.slideshare.net/orgmonkey/cycling-through-paths-libraries-take-to-marketing-electronic-resources

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a place to put your (perpetual access) stuff

i can’t write this blog post without a nod to george carlin, whose famous bit about “stuff” comes to mind as i’m thinking about a place to put our library’s “stuff.”  “stuff,” in this case, is our perpetual access holdings … Continue reading

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taking an inventory of perpetual access holdings

that title made you flinch, didn’t it?  it should.  if you manage electronic resources for your library, go make a list of titles and holdings of all the e-journals to which you have perpetual access RIGHT NOW.  i’m not kidding.  … Continue reading

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draw your own conclusions

the poll is open until october 16 at 9 AM.  http://polldaddy.com/poll/3929441/ here’s a screen shot of the results so far.

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the use of our non-current print journal collection is waning: proof provided

Retrieval requests of non-current journal articles from storage Over the last six fiscal years requests for non-current journal articles retrieved from storage has dropped significantly.  The decline is most dramatic in the number of requests LMU patrons made: from 470 … Continue reading

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