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Purpose: Provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among those persons working with or interested in electronic resources; promotes the acquisition and access of electronic resources collections; strengthens communication and cooperation among persons working with electronic resources collections; addresses issues related to collection management and development of electronic resources, their funding, and selection; and contributes to the improvement of education and training of electronic resource archivists and librarians.

This interest group is part of Core's Metadata and Collections Section.

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  • 1.  Follow up from IG meeting at ALA

    Posted 2 hours ago

    Hi all, there was a great discussion at the IG meeting at ALA 2024 in San Diego.  One of the topics we discussed was training for e-resources librarians.  One person suggested a crowd sourcing effort to compile resources.

     

    As it happens, I gave a presentation at the 2022 NASIG conference talking about just that idea for the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians entitled "Creating a Curriculum for the ERL Core Competencies."  I created a Google sheet to try to capture a set of resources to aid librarians and library staff in mastering the competencies.

     

     

    Please feel free to add your thoughts to the sheet.

     

    I mentioned the Carterette webinars during the discussion. Here's a link for more information. https://gla.georgialibraries.org/carterette-series-webinars/ In particular, this webinar might be of great interest.

     

    2022

    Self-Learning in an Electronic Resources Librarian Role

    Presented by Chris Vidas & Eve Stano,
    Wednesday, December 7, 2022
    Session Materials: Slides

     

    Susan

     

    Susan Davis (she/her/hers)

    Acquisitions Librarian for Continuing Resources and Licensing Specialist

    University at Buffalo (SUNY)

    134 Lockwood Library

    Buffalo, NY 14260-2210

    716-645-2784

    716-645-5955 fax

    unlsdb@buffalo.edu

    https://library.buffalo.edu/staff/sdavis-bartl

     



  • 2.  RE: Follow up from IG meeting at ALA

    Posted an hour ago
    I'm glad to know that this session happened at ALA. Thanks for sharing that, Susan! I've been trying to figure out how to expand support for our e-resources librarian. The idea has been to train several library staff and catalogers who have only worked with physical items to help with the kind of e-resource maintenance that can prevent troubleshooting even becoming necessary. It has been a struggle to find information to get such training started. 

    I'm looking for something that gives basic context and how-to for e-r maintenance. When I say maintenance, I'm talking about the constant corrections of metadata errors in the knowledge bases that we all rely upon, handling provider-driven changes (like with the E-resources task list in Alma), etc. -- things that might fall under either Administer or Provide Support in Oliver Pesch's 2009 Lifecycle or under Ongoing Evaluation and Access with TERMS.

    The best thing I've found so far is Chapter 16 Knowledgebase Maintenance and Its Impact on Electronic Access Tools by Peter McCracken (a definite authority in this!) in the book _E-Journals Access and Management_ edited by Wayne Jones. I've looked specifically at the section titled Quality of Data. That resource dates to 2009, so if anyone has come up with something more recent, I'd be quite interested!

    (I'd add the book to Susan's Google sheet, but it is set to view only.)

    Lauren
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    Lauren Corbett  (she/her)
    Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
    Wake Forest University
    336-758-6136               ISNI: 0000 0003 5170 369X



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  • 3.  RE: Follow up from IG meeting at ALA

    Posted an hour ago

    Hi Lauren, thanks for the feedback.  I changed the setting on the Google sheet so that anyone can edit it.  Please try again and let me know if you still cannot edit.

     

    I have to admit that we do not spend much time on editing CZ bib records for electronic resources.  Our focus has been on improving the discovery in Primo (CDI stuff over my head) and linking to the PDF, using tools like LibKey and Unpaywall.

     

    Susan

     




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  • 4.  RE: Follow up from IG meeting at ALA

    Posted 58 minutes ago
    Sorry, I should clarify that I'm not talking about correcting errors in bibs in the CZ -- rather things that directly impact patrons, like coverage dates, or missing titles from collections.
    Lauren
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    Lauren Corbett  (she/her)
    Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
    Wake Forest University
    336-758-6136               ISNI: 0000 0003 5170 369X



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