http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/2007/03/22/a-department-for-e/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/2007/03/22/a-department-for-e/#comment-3 bonnietijerina Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:00:32 +0000 http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/?p=12#comment-3 These are great questions. Here at GA Tech we definitely haven't figured this all out, but we have 2 people with the same job title: E-resources Coordinator. Elizabeth Winter is on the tech services side and I on the pub services side. That has helped Tech identify the changing needs from many angles. I think between the two of us we really do "coordinate" with just about every library department to do our jobs. Those who created my public services position used the ERMI Report to identify all areas not covered in the job description of the Acq position and made those my duties. Even though we used the same report, this is a very different model than UCLA where they bring together the expertise of digital collection management, licensing, metadata, acquisitions and even their e-scholarship librarian into one department. These are great questions. Here at GA Tech we definitely haven’t figured this all out, but we have 2 people with the same job title: E-resources Coordinator. Elizabeth Winter is on the tech services side and I on the pub services side. That has helped Tech identify the changing needs from many angles. I think between the two of us we really do “coordinate” with just about every library department to do our jobs.
Those who created my public services position used the ERMI Report to identify all areas not covered in the job description of the Acq position and made those my duties.
Even though we used the same report, this is a very different model than UCLA where they bring together the expertise of digital collection management, licensing, metadata, acquisitions and even their e-scholarship librarian into one department.

]]> http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/2007/03/22/a-department-for-e/#comment-2 Michelle Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:43:53 +0000 http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/?p=12#comment-2 I would also like to suggest that the current models of staff training, if we have them at all, are poorly equipped to deal with the changing e activities of staff. Whose responsibility is it to train librarians on digital library tools? Do we have methods to educate staff on changing copyright issues especially as it pertains to ILL, digital collections, and repositories? I would also like to suggest that the current models of staff training, if we have them at all, are poorly equipped to deal with the changing e activities of staff. Whose responsibility is it to train librarians on digital library tools? Do we have methods to educate staff on changing copyright issues especially as it pertains to ILL, digital collections, and repositories?

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