Taking over E-Resources management? Broadening your skills for a job search? This workshop is designed to show attendees the basic components of establishing access to e-resources, from acquisitions to authentication, including payment, acquisition models, management and discovery systems, user interfaces, publisher platforms, linking, and all the various vendors and consortia which might play a role. The presenters will help you analyze and understand the systems and resources in place at your own library, and connect you with resources to understand them better after you’ve returned from Austin. The workshop is intended to be followed up with a conference session on troubleshooting e-resources access problems, giving attendees the skills to identify, resolve, and track a variety of electronic resource access issues, from simple to complex, once they understand how that access should be functioning.

It will begin by introducing attendees to the different elements involved in making an online resource accessible to users and then describe the common ways in which the components can break.

Following the workshop, participants will: 

• understand a variety of e-resource acquisition models.
• understand authentication and e-resource access systems.
• understand e-resource data flows between systems.

AUDIENCE LEVEL: Foundation/ Beginner

PARTICIPATION: Lectures with virtual activities, Kahoot quizzes. 

COURSE OUTLINE: To be shared with registered course attendees prior to course start date.

Meet Your Course Instructors

Vanessa French
Collections Strategy Librarian – Associate Professor
Butler University

Vanessa French is the Collections Strategy Librarian at Butler University. She has been at Butler for more than 7 years and previously held the title of Electronic Resources Librarian. Prior to that, she worked at Indiana University as a staff member in the E-Resources Acquisitions Unit.

Josh Petrusa
Interim Director, Associate Dean for Collections and Digital Services – Associate Professor
Butler University

Josh Petrusa has been Associate Dean at Butler University Libraries since 2010, and is additionally currently serving in an interim leadership role. He has presented several times at ER&L and ALA conferences on e-resource management and library systems, and serves on several statewide committees in Indiana. His MLIS is from the University of Illinois, and he holds a BA from DePaul University.