Print to Electronic: Managing Electronic Resources -- Is it Time the Library had an Extreme Makeover?

Extreme makeover for Hartford's print shop.

dreams of perfect programs : managing the acquisition of electronic resources

for more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? this paper takes a look at several in-house initiatives around the country, commenting on the successes and failures of the homegrown programs built to track. update and man...

Managing computing resources in intranets: an electronic commerce perspective

Intra-organizational networks (intranets) are increasingly being developed for information sharing and collaborative work in geographically dispersed organizations. In this paper we provide a framework to manage the resources in the intranets using the concepts of electronic commerce. Specifically, we propose the creation of an intranet Resource Management Application (iRMA) which manages the u...

Selecting and Managing Electronic Resources: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians (rev. ed.)

This book is a revised and expanded edition of a work previously published in 2000. It is aimed particularly at practitioners coming new to the electronic resources area, as well as at more experienced professionals interested in new approaches. Eight chapters of varying length cover collection development policies; selection criteria and the selection process; budgeting and acquisitions; organ...

Discipline, availability of electronic resources and the use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib

This study elaborated relations between digital library use by university faculty, users' discipline and the availability of key resources in the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib), Finnish national digital library, by using nationwide representative survey data. The results show that the perceived availability of key electronic resources by researchers in FinELib was a stronger pred...