Ian
I guess like you , responsibility for the actual "day-to-day" management of
e-journals (and e-texts in general come to that!) is divided between
different people due to the different skills and knowledge required. Hence
the information (subject) librarians, website manager, cataloguers
(metadata ..) and acquisitions librarian all have key roles to play. In
addition, the information resources manager (me!) has overarching
responsibility for both the general and financial management of e-j's
I agree that the mechanisms of management of e-journals are fundamental to
the implimentation of e-resources, without prior management planning,
libraries are asking for trouble. Pity I cannot find all the needed skills
in one person .... maybe you are lucky enopugh to have done so?
At the end of the day, this is just part of the re-engineering of academic
libraries and their services, and of course, for librarians to re-image
themselves in terms of their work and work roles ....
robert burrell
Southampton Institute
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