Abstract
Over the last few years the shift in emphasis from print to electronic collections has posed a new series of challenges for libraries. Issues regarding physical logistics are now being replaced by URL management and appropriate copy, licence agreements, linking problems and, first and foremost, the growing challenge of how to make users aware of the virtual cornucopia of e-books, journal articles, text and images. In addition, users expect this information in a onebox interface.With a reduction in many libraries’ staffing, this session asked: how do we cope?
Highlights
The provision of electronic resources uses an increasing amount of the resources in today’s academic library
Computing and Library Services (CLS) at the University of Huddersfield was an early adopter of e-resource systems to administer the growing number of electronic titles
CLS moved its e-journal collection to EBSCO’s A-Z in 2003. This links over 25,000 journals and provides MARC 21 records for the Horizon Library Management System
Summary
The provision of electronic resources uses an increasing amount of the resources in today’s academic library. Over the past ten years libraries have, to a varying degree, sought to manage and expose this invisible part of the physical library. Adopters of e-resource systems are looking for next-generation systems in order to increase value for money of their resources. Several usage surveys show that libraries often fail in making their resources discoverable and that users place a lower and lower value on the library as a gateway to finding research material. How can the libraries restore their importance and reclaim their position?
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