Collaborative Electronic Resource Management: From Acquisitions to Assessment

Electronic resource management is becoming a primary responsibility of library managers. This book approaches electronic resource management as a system affecting all library work, linking it to concepts of collaborative management and the assessment cycle. The author demonstrates how collection development, acquisitions, licensing, budgeting, and cataloging techniques; technological infrastructure; and user services for electronic resources fit into the new collaborative management that relies on learning more than control to respond to change. The techniques presented for managing electronic resources improves the library's service value through relationships between library professionals and with library customers. Engaging the librarian in a cycle of constant learning and assessment, the approach ultimately makes work lighter, relationships with colleagues and customers more productive, and library services more relevant to community needs.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Management The Assessment Cycle Budgeting and Planning Collection Development and Acquisitions Licensing Cataloging and Access Technology Infrastructure Customer Services Glossary Index

About the Author :
JOAN E. CONGERreceived her BA from Smith College and her MLIS from the University of Texas, Austin. As a librarian she has coordinated electronic resource management, web development, reference, research instruction, cataloging, systems, acquisitions, assessment, and training in libraries large and small, academic and corporate. Through all of these learning experiences she become dedicated to the idea that every current library employee has the power, through collaborative effort, to successfully turn upheaval and uncertainty into extraordinary service. Preparing for this book, Joan began to find research supporting why many of her change efforts succeeded in spite of the kind pessimism of others. Through this research she discovered the field of Organization Development and is now a full-time PhD student in Organizational Development at the Fielding Institute. She hopes to give back to the library profession what she learns there.

Review :
?Collaborative Electronic Resource Management is structured to deliver analysis for the spectrum of library professionals engaged in successful organizational decision-making; management of decision-making processes through assessments; and planning and financial administration of library capital to better acquire electronic resources for customers....In facing turbulent changes, Conger calls for library professionals to integrate the metamorphosis of electronic resources into a seamless experience for library users to be able to get on with the business of learning and creating knowledge. An answer to this call would save the profession of librarianship from irrelevance.?-Collection Management ?Well-researched and clearly written chapters, which discuss all aspects of electronic resources...This book will aid anyone scrutinizing a license agreement to understand the economics of electronic publishing. Suitable as a textbook or for librarians or vendors working in an increasingly technical environment.?-Booklist/Professional Reading "Collaborative Electronic Resource Management is structured to deliver analysis for the spectrum of library professionals engaged in successful organizational decision-making; management of decision-making processes through assessments; and planning and financial administration of library capital to better acquire electronic resources for customers....In facing turbulent changes, Conger calls for library professionals to integrate the metamorphosis of electronic resources into a seamless experience for library users to be able to get on with the business of learning and creating knowledge. An answer to this call would save the profession of librarianship from irrelevance."-Collection Management "Well-researched and clearly written chapters, which discuss all aspects of electronic resources...This book will aid anyone scrutinizing a license agreement to understand the economics of electronic publishing. Suitable as a textbook or for librarians or vendors working in an increasingly technical environment."-Booklist/Professional Reading