Electronic Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide

For academic libraries, this highly readable book provides the practical information needed to get started managing electronic resources throughout their life cycle. This book covers the five points of the e-resources lifecycle in a readable and accessible manner, providing valuable information that is applicable to real-world situations. Each of the working chapters covers one of the five lifecycle points (Acquisitions, Access, Administration, Support, and Evaluation), and supplies suggested readings and thought-provoking questions. Additionally, there are two chapters that guide readers from learning about the work to actually doing it. Electronic Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide is full of practical assignments that teachers of e-resources management will appreciate. This guide will also be immensely beneficial to library and information science school students and independent learners who need immediate, practical knowledge from the field to get them started in a position which requires them to manage electronic resources.

Table of Contents:
Preface Notes for Library School Instructors 1. Defining Electronic Resources, or, What Is This Book About, Anyway? 2. Acquiring Electronic Resources 3. Providing Access to Electronic Resources 4. Administering Electronic Resources 5. Troubleshooting Electronic Resources 6. Evaluating Electronic Resources 7. Capstone Project 8. A Day in the Life of an Electronic Resources Librarian 9. Tips for Job Seekers Appendix A: Sample Collection Development Document Appendix B: License Template Appendix C: ARL Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources Appendix D: Sample Problem Scenarios Appendix E: Sample Evaluation Appendix F: Related Readings Appendix G: Sample Problem Scenarios: Strategies and Outcomes Appendix H: Sample Estimated Expenses Spreadsheet Appendix I: Sample Statistics Spreadsheet Appendix J: Sample Cost-Per-Use Spreadsheet Appendix K: Sample Syllabus Index

About the Author :
Karin Wikoff is electronic and technical services librarian at Ithaca College Library, Ithaca, NY, where she has managed electronic resources since 2004.

Review :
If your library science school did not include a course on e-resource management, you may find this book to be a very useful overview of the new position you just started. . . . Wikoff's book does fulfill its stated purpose.