Electronic Resource Management. Practical Perspectives in a New Technical Services Model

215 Pages·2012·0.865 MB·English

by  Anne Elguindi and Kari Schmidt (Auth.)

Electronic Resource Management
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Electronic Resource
Management
Practical perspectives in a new
technical services model
A C. E
NNE LGUINDI
AND
K S
ARI CHMIDT
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First published in 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84334-668-5 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-78063-320-6 (online)
© A. C. Elguindi and K. Schmidt, 2012
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For my husband, Nader.
Thank you for all your love and support. – Anne
For my son, Robert, and husband, Chuck.
Thank you to my sister, Beth Schmidt, and mother, Linda
Schmidt, for all their support. – Kari
List of abbreviations
API application programming interface
ARL Association of Research Libraries
AU American University
CARLI Consortium of Academic and Research
Libraries in Illinois
CAUL-CBUA Council of Atlantic University Libraries/
Le Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires
de l’Atlantique
CCLA College Center for Library Automation
(United States)
CDER Collection Development and Electronic
Resources
CEP checklist for electronic products
CORE Cost of Resource Exchange
DLF Digital Library Federation
DOI digital object identifier
DRM digital rights management
ER Electronic Resource
ERM electronic resource management
ERMI ERM Initiative
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Electronic Resource Management
ERMS electronic resource management system(s)
ESM E-Resources and Serials Management
FCLA Florida Center for Library Automation
GOKb Global Open Knowledgebase
ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia
ICUF Independent Colleges and Universities of
Florida
III Innovative Interfaces
ILS integrated library system(s)
ISU Indiana State University
JUSTICE Japan Alliance of University Library
Consortia for E-Resources
KBART Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
LCoNZ Library Consortium of New Zealand
MARC Machine-Readable Cataloging
NERL Northeast Research Library
NII National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
OCUL Ontario Council of University Libraries
OLE Open Library Environment
ONIX-PL ONIX for Publications Licenses
OPAC online public access catalog
PALNI Private Academic Library Network of
Indiana
PDA patron-driven acquisition
PTAG PALNI Technology Advisory Group
SaaS software-as-a-service
SUS Florida State University System
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List of abbreviations
TRLN Triangle Research Libraries Network
UF University of Florida
UNC University of North Carolina
VIVA Virtual Library of Virginia
WRLC Washington Research Library Consortium
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the staff of American University
Library for their work with us in our daily responsibilities as
well as the conversations we have had about where we think
libraries are heading. It is a pleasure to work with such
enthusiastic and dynamic colleagues. Special thanks go to
our university librarian, William A. Mayer, for his support
of this project; Adam Zaby, Andrea Paredes-Herrera and
Andrew Bertaina of Interlibrary Loan for all the resources
they obtained for us; Nobue Matsuoka-Motley, our music
and performing arts librarian, for her help as a translator in
our interview with Kyushu University; and Sean Casey of
Media Services for his help in preparing equipment for our
interviews.
We would also like to thank those who helped us in the
preparation of this book. A big thank you to Laura Wrubel,
electronic resources content manager at George Washington
University, for her excellent comments about the content of
an initial draft, and to Charlotte Osterman (Anne’s mother)
and Chuck Rainville (Kari’s husband) for their wonderful
checks of grammar and style.
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Preface
Electronic resources are changing the face of libraries for
their users, but they are also changing the nature of what it
means to do the work of a librarian. In most libraries,
responsibilities for electronic resources were first added to
the work of existing personnel. More recently, new units
dedicated entirely to electronic resources have emerged, but
the shift to electronic purchases has been so rapid that the
proportion of staff supporting the electronic collection
remains disproportionately small relative to that supporting
the physical collection. The future of libraries, however, is
more electronic resources, not less, and the skills, systems
and approaches of electronic resources librarians will likely
become standard components of all librarian jobs rather
than specialized additions.
Although there is a great deal of value to be found in
exploring the theoretical side of electronic resources, such as
the evolving nature of how users conceptualize information,
and in the how-to aspects of performing the tasks of
electronic resource management, such as licensing, access
activation and implementing an ERMS (electronic resource
management system), this book takes neither of these
approaches. Instead, it is designed to speak to practical
planning issues for academic libraries. How have academic
libraries and librarians changed to respond to electronic
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