Making the Impossible Possible: What your Electronic Resources Librarian can do to help you

Jeannie CastroElectronic Resources CoordinatorUniversity of Houston

How your ER librarian can help

•Collaboration is the key

•Work with Subject Librarian librarians in providing information

•Flexibility and acceptance of the licensing timetable

Subject Librarian Collaboration

•Certain Subject Librarians asked for assistance with completing their Serials Review

•Use Stats provided for ▫Aggregator titles▫Subscription titles

•Calculated a cost-per-use based on those stats

Subject Librarian Collaboration

•Columns added to Spreadsheet▫Print, Print + Online, or Online Only▫Platform▫2009 & 2010 COUNTER use statistics▫2009& 2010 Serials Solutions Click

Through Statistics▫Cost Per Use for 2010

Subject Librarian Collaboration

•For print only resources, checked to see if an online option was available

•For those titles, a note was made to Kelli to enquire about moving

Serials Librarian Collaboration

•Online option availability

▫If Kelli found a title that needed to be moved we used our ERM to send requests

Premlimary License Request Format change OK Subscription declined

Serials Librarian Collaboration

•Outlook Tasks▫Tasks can be assigned between people in

Outlook

▫Kelli creates the task alerting the ER department as to a problem and I respond

Serials Librarian Collaboration

•As a result of the Serials Review work, it was noticed that many of the titles that Ebsco switched from print to print + online were never set up.

•As a result, a new project was created to identify these titles and rectify the situation.

Win-Win Situation