Kelly Smith November 9th, 2009
Want to see what may be presented on at ER&L 2010? Want to have a say on what will be presented at the conference? Make your voice heard by voting for sessions you would like to see at the ER&L Conference. The responses will help the ER&L Program Planning group finalize our schedule.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Although efforts like Project COUNTER have made strides toward systematizing numeric measures of database access, does the data standardized by COUNTER really help libraries understand “how the information they buy… is being used”? This presentation will introduce a typology of library resource use that provides a framework for assessing use in a more meaningful way.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Beyond the issues of how e-books are viewed or used by patrons, challenges exist for the library staff managing them. From acquisition to delivery, this hybrid may behave more like an e-journal or a database than a book. E-books make us stretch existing management tools to accommodate them.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Preliminary report of research exploring competencies electronic resources (ER) librarians need to fulfill professional duties. Data include job advertisements, LIS program course syllabi, and continuing education course descriptions. The outcome of this research will be core competencies for ER librarians that are grounded in ALA’s Core Competencies for Librarianship.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
In an environment where journal subscriptions costs are rising, as library budgets are falling, how do we ensure that our journal subscriptions meet our users’ needs? The RAND Library presents a case study with lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Many universities post streaming video or audio of lectures and public events on the Internet. Research on OCLC record creation for one type of university resource, the public lecture, is presented, and the pros and cons of making this material accessible through library and union catalogs are discussed.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
While the collections of licensed electronic resources keep growing, libraries have to invest substantial time and effort to understand, negotiate and track those license terms. Future electronic resources require that license information be expressed in a structured machine-readable format like XML. In order for a license exchange protocol to be effective in such format, all the parties have to come to an agreement on what terms to be included and how they are to be represented in ERMS. Future ERMS also need to include free fields which will allow individual libraries to customize the fields necessary to their individual library. With the help of survey research and statistical analysis, this paper aims to provide an overview of the trends and standards of ERMS, its accompanying specifications and applications. Particular emphasis is put on how to integrate “license terms” in ERMS. This study will also identify the issues of ERMS current practices and promote appropriate standards to support data elements and data interchange.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
This presentation makes a reflective account of the steps taken for setting up an institutional repository. This project was aimed at making available academic Peruvian content in an open access environment, as a joint effort among Librarianship and Information Science Faculty and the Computing Department.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
A panel Presentation on E-Books at the University of Alabama Libraries. The Presentation will revolve around selection, acquisition, collaboration, promotion of e-books. Participants: o Mildred Jackson, Associate Dean o Beth Holley, Head, Acquisitions o Mangala Krishnamurthy, Reference Librarian, Rodgers Library for Science & Engineering
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
“Report Generation” in general brings added value to any Information Management System with no exception to Institutional Repositories. Taken from an academic perspective, one of the main advantages is to generate reports based on individual authors and contribution period (e.g. Esther, 01-01-2006 to 01-12-2008). In addition, if publications (Journal e.g. JASIST (Wiley), IPM (Elsevier) or Conference e.g. JCDL, ECDL) can be segregated based on ranking it would add much value from management perspective. A summarized report in this form from various academic disciplines in Institutes of higher learning would definitely drive strong interest from the stakeholders of Institutional Repositories. Our plan is to achieve this report generation based on data extracted from the Dspace IR and present this grouped by various custom filter options such as author, contribution period, publication ranking, and summarized report for each academic discipline etc. The motivation to this proposal is based on feedback received from the academic community during a presentation that was meant for encouraging contribution into repositories. We believe that such a feature would definitely drive academic contribution to repositories keeping in mind its long-term benefits.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
How do electronic resources librarians learn to perform the tasks necessary for their work? This presentation will discuss a recent survey of over 300 academic electronic resources librarians, findings of which may improve understanding of workflow issues and ways to improve LIS education for prospective entrants into this relatively new–but steadily growing–area of librarianship.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Based on the migration of electronic reserves system from an outside vendor to an in-house system, we will examine faculty training before, during, and after the transition, including the partnership between librarians and faculty; successful approaches for library integration into a course management system; and effective communication strategies with faculty.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
If you build it, they will come, but will a federated search help students find the information they need? In this presentation we will discuss federated searching after the implementation honeymoon is over, to see how graduate students use this tool and what conclusions we can draw from their experiences.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The present study determines the emerging need of e-resources by the users of PGIMER library. The persistent demand for e-resources has become inevitable due to transmission of information and its management. Initiatives, future plans and benefits of e-resources implemented in the institute library are presented in this paper.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Digital Science and research information environment is a open environment,it includes many kinds of electronic researchs ,such as information resrouces,scientific data,projects ,experts,intruments,conferences etc. Every electronic resource might use different metadata format to describe their “collection”, So library need build a integration collection-level e-resources metadata registry system, it will enable users to find material on a integration portal , and our collection-level descriptions may be re-used by other information service system without extra work, and to disclose our resources through other portals.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have committed to building a custom ERM system after several years of investigating vended solutions. This presentation will include the reasons for our decision, the approach we are taking to building a custom solution, and why we think this is the best option available.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Learn the process and evaluation methods of holding an event to raise awareness of Electronic Resources available through your library.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Libraries now get access to journal content from many different places: individual print and electronic subscriptions, aggregators, databases and from institutional repositories. BYU undertook a project to eliminate redundant access and thus reduce costs without reducing access to content. This project resulted in over $160,000 in annual savings.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Technical Services at UNC (University of Northern Colorado) is in the process of positioning itself to address several new initiatives: user driven collection development, order automation and proactive, ongoing url and holdings checking, to name a few. This paper will discuss how and why a task force created the new organizational structure and how we are implementing the requested changes.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
This presentation will provide an initial report on the model program of shared collection development for eBooks at the CTW Consortium (Connecticut College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University). Breaking with tradition, the program utilizes patron-driven selection of materials using bibliographic records loaded into the CTW ILS by Coutts Information Services.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The Hawaii Library Consortium, a multi-type library consortium, spent over a year preparing for and executing an RFP for a statewide database package contract. Learn about our process from start to finish: vendor demonstrations, free trials & evaluations, drafting the proposal, creating a proposal scoring system, and making the decision.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
American University Library recently relocated its bound journals to consortial storage because of space constraints. Presenters will explain how usage trends justified the relocation; how document delivery now provides more efficient access to the items in storage; and how SFX and the ERM facilitate discovery of journal titles in storage.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The traditional role of libraries as aggregators, curators and disseminators of resources has been profoundly challenged by the notion of libraries as publishers of content. While publishing models include the ideas of aggregating, curating and disseminating content, these terms have radically different definitions in each context (libraries v. publishers). While we understand the motivation of publishers and their role in selecting and distributing content, much less is understood of the role that libraries should, or could play in the chain of “publishing” involved in their hosting of institutional repositories. This paper will explore: - the idea of publishing in the context of new models of library sponsored resource delivery; -the challenges facing libraries in identifying, selecting and curating content - emerging models of IRs especially in regard to discipline-based content
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
In 2007, Amherst College launched a new web site using the open source content management system, Drupal. Since then, the Library has worked with IT’s Web Services Group to build several web-based tools including a database locator, course guide builder, and dynamically generated new book lists. During the summer of 2009 we embarked on another collaborative project to improve electronic reserve management and access from course web pages. The system adapts the Drupal Biblio module to create a fully searchable database of e-reserves that streamlines processing for reserve staff. Registrar course information and enrollments are integrated to control permissions and displays. The open source bibliographic management system, Zotero is used as a staging area to collect, parse, and link bibliographic data.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The presenters initiated a procedure to proactively verify electronic journal content available to their constituents. A Microsoft Access database was developed to facilitate this new venture. The development of proactive verification procedures as well as the creation of the database will be discussed.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Copyright and intellectual property policies of an institution can greatly affect the academic culture in which we operate. This presentation will examine various IP policies that affect the work of faculty, students, and librarians and suggest ways to advocate for better policies.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
In today’s economy, libraries are increasingly looking for ways to affordably acquire digital content that gets used. To address this, ebrary is working with libraries to develop a Patron Driven Acquisition model, and a pilot program is underway. At ER&L, ebrary will discuss key findings and solicit input from participants.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Before taking an e-book workshop, most faculty had no knowledge of the wealth of collections available to them. The library at the University of Maryland University College has developed a unique and informative online workshop to help faculty learn about e-books and how to use them effectively in their classes.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Searches, sessions, article requests - we have access to data, but what’s the next step? Learn how the University of Arizona Libraries’ Spending Reductions Project analyzed usage of different types of resources to assess them against quality standards and make cancellation decisions. Tools, challenges and organizational approaches will also be discussed.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
For two years Duke University has celebrated Open Access Week with a series of awareness-raising events. Familiarizing our various patron groups with open access and its impact on scholarly research is crucial to ensuring its acceptance. Hosting Open Access Week events is a simple and affordable way for any library to inform patrons of the importance of open access.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Did you think that ERM was just for tracking licensing, cost, and other management information for electronic resources? In this session, a cataloger from the University of Washington discusses problems they have encountered with managing catalog record sets and describes how they are using ERM for managing the cataloging of sets, both electronic and microform.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
As electronic resources become more prevalent in Academic Libraries, communication between Electronic Resource Librarians and other departments such as Reference or Interlibrary Loan becomes increasing important. The results of a survey of Academic Librarians regarding interdepartmental communication shall be presented along with a demonstration of the Intranet used by Montana State University Libraries.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The public/private relationship between Lamar University and Higher Ed. Holdings is redefining the business of education. This program discusses the collaborative efforts of the Mary and John Gray Library to provide services for the University’s rapidly growing distance education student population.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Knowledge bases are tough cases to crack. As the latest in a string of agents responsible for this resource, you will be briefed on strategies for questioning witnesses, assessing software installation settings and tools, verifying subscriptions, and infiltrating the vendor-customer support network. Your predecessor is MIA and/or has been reassigned, so details may be scarce. Good luck!
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Users are faced with a daunting task when attempting to wade through the vast amount of information available at today’s modern library. In order to facilitate the discovery and use of these resources, various databases, search interfaces, and tools have been developed. In the current model, the user is faced with the problem of dealing with multiple information silos. Implementing a “Web-scale discovery” (also referred to as “unified discovery”) service simplifies information discovery and better leverages the vast majority of resources for the user.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Usage statistics with cost per use have become an important factor in evaluating an electronic resource. This session will consider the ways to gather usage statistics and also look at the other points of considerations in e-resource evaluation. Discussion will also cover the value of usage statistics and whether we are just being overwhelmed by numbers.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
After two surveys and transactional analysis, NISO’s I2 Working Group is ready to move forward to finalize the metadata required to define the identifier, consider options for other identifier standards, ensure legacy systems are addressed, and explore possible registries and maintenance agencies. Next steps for the identifier standard will be discussed along with the need for support for testing and plans for implementation within the e-resource supply chain, institutional repository sector, and library resource management (ILL).
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Services recommending books - BibTip, LibraryThing, University of Huddersfield borrowing recommendations, and articles - bX from Ex Libris, PubMed, Synthese (CISTI) now exist in the academic context. JISC in the UK is sponsoring a major project, MOSAIC: “Making Our Shared Activity Information Count.” This session will provide an overview of these recommendation systems, describe their different approaches to data mining, and discuss their role in improving information retrieval and user experience in a now nearly fully online scholarly information world.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The University of Illinois uses a locally developed metasearch service, “Easy Search.” We have recently added the ability to query the metasearch program as a RESTful web service, allowing library content to be promoted to external web pages such as departmental web presences or courseware.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
As budgets and resources dwindle due to the current economic downturn, it is more critical than ever to ensure all members of the information chain work together as efficiently as possible. This panel will explore utilizing the latest ONIX standards to upload holdings and licensing information, creating systems that ensure renewals and upgrades to electronic components seamlessly, becoming SERU compliant as well as tips on successfully negotiating electronic packages. Times like these within the information community translate to subscription agents, publishers, libraries and consortia needing to streamline productivity, function with leaner resources and create better technologies, all while solidifying processes and tasks.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The College of New Jersey Library (TCNJ) has been acquiring an increasing number of e-reference resources to meet students’ needs. However, the use of electronic reference does not appear to have kept pace with our expectations. Therefore it has become essential to develop a systematic plan to evaluate electronic reference sources in a library context from several perspectives: the characteristics of the electronic references, system functionality, suitability for inclusion in the library collection, inter-operability, users learning needs and faculty teaching patterns. This paper proposes a suite of methods for evaluating and marketing electronic reference resources and must-have functionalities in an online environment for publishers.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The “eBooks on Demand” (EOD) network allows users to request the digitisation of copyright-free books from the EOD network libraries’ collections. The service is organised in a pan-European network of currently more than 20 libraries from 10 European countries.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
The proposed session will draw on VIVA’s experience to address methods of preparing and presenting use data that allow for the examination of trends over time. The session will address methods of preparing use data for long-term storage and explore PivotTables and PivotCharts as a means of displaying the collected data. The session will also present ways to “batch process” COUNTER compliant use data using Excel and will discuss how non-COUNTER formats can be included in the compiled data. The session will be divided into two portions – a lecture portion and a “hands-on” portion. The hands-on portion will require the provision of computers with Microsoft Excel installed. If a teaching facility with ample computers is not available, it is also possible to run the session as a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) event. This was done successfully at the International Coalition of Library Consortia Spring meeting in April 2009.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Everyone loves feedback but too much of a good thing can result in chaotic communications and a haphazard workflow. In a digital library, the feedback “button” doesn’t filter; it collects patron response regarding everything from missing pages within a particular scan to technical difficulties regarding the delivery of the digital book. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is implementing software designed to streamline the processes involved in collecting and responding to patron feedback.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Recent studies suggest a lack of user-centered data on academic library research guides, as well as the lack of adherence to learner-centered design principles. I will discuss the successful collaborative process, including project managment aspects, whereby CSUMB librarians recreated our new, learner-centered research guides using open-source Library a la Carte.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Subscription agents continue to evaluate their roles in the electronic world, and libraries struggle with whether to use an agent or go direct to the publisher. Based on interviews with librarians, administrators, and subscription agents, the presenters will discuss the benefits and challenges associated with collaborative e-journal management.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this study is to explore the awareness and adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in Pakistani libraries.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
This program will chronicle one library’s experience as a beta site for a new ERM system. Milestones in the process will be covered, including needs assessment, determining desirable functionality, communication with the vendor and the release of the final product.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Three groups independently negotiate for and/or license e-content for the not-for-profit academic institutions in Florida: CCLA, FCLA, and ICUF. This program will review the panel’s experience in identifying and meeting the challenges of expanding cooperative licensing and e-resource purchasing efforts across three disparate systems.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
With all the information resources available today, both vendors and libraries face the same challenge: reaching and appealing to the end-user. This session will look at our experience with user testing and focus groups and how the lessons we learned challenged our assumptions and guided our product development and marketing activities.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Harvard University migrated from a local electronic resource management system to a vended ERMS in July 2009. This presentation will discuss Harvard’s implementation of the new system, factors that led to a successful conclusion, and ongoing work to improve and extend use of the system.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
During the last three years, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has undertaken three separate de-duplication projects that involved the de-selection of resources based on their availability through certain methods of electronic access. This presentation will cover criteria, priorities, and procedures used in planning and executing these three projects.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
An overview of how the Kresge Business Administration Library at the University of Michigan has created a library collection to best serve its users in the twenty-first century, looking specifically at programmatic and user needs, duplication of resources, and budget restrictions.
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ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009
Using data to change the conversation with subject selectors and publishers.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this research is to identify the familiarity, factors which influence the students’ acceptance and the problems which they are facing while accessing e-resources in the female campus of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Librarians working to simplify access to library-provided resources often turn to metasearch or federated search solutions. Some question whether these new services improve the user experience or introduce a new level of complexity to searching. This program is a review of issues and potential solutions for single-search discovery and delivery of services using metasearch.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
Distance, eight time zones and separate network differences create difficulties in communicating needs and solutions for keeping access to electronic resources at Texas A&M University at Qatar available to faculty, researchers and students. Using social networking and tutorial software such as Jing and Camtasia have provided a visual means of communicating what is meant by “access the resource by doing this” or “it doesn’t work anymore.” Going beyond developing tutorials for users who need to access resources using a variety of access methodologies, the librarians responsible for maintaining access have begun creating tutorials to explain access problems and solutions to each other and to vendors, and will demonstrate the ease of using these new visual tools.”
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The growing e-book market raises questions regarding access. Many libraries use their catalogs as a conduit to e-books because of user expectations and because vendors offer free MARC records. This presentation explores the challenges associated with these records including information quality, user expectations, and cataloging workload. A checklist regarding these issues is provided.
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide general guideline for design of a low cost digital library providing services that are most frequently required by various categories of special library users in developing countries. This paper also aims at illustrating strategies and method approaches that can be adopted for building such projects. Seeing the importance of designing an inexpensive digital library as basic principle for the design accordingly, the utilisation of today’s ICTs and freely available open sources software is the right path for accomplishing such goal. The paper intends to describe the phases and stages required for building such projects from scratch. It also aims at highlighting the barriers and obstacles facing Arabic content and how could such problems overcome
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Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
What are libraries doing to promote the use of electronic resources? This research uses a thorough literature review to describe what techniques libraries are trying, identifies which are the most commonly used, and provides an evaluation of how a library determines its marketing strategy to be a success or failure.
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