Challenges in E-Resource Management: A Practitioner s Guide

A no-nonsense guide offering practitioners straightforward solutions and support in managing electronic resources. As the importance of e-resources to library collections grows, the skills needed to create, develop, and manage them have become increasingly critical to information services and professionals. This practical step-by-step toolkit provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of e-resource management including selection of content, developing workflows and knowledge bases, technologies, resource discovery, analysis and troubleshooting. Up-to-date coverage of key issues such as authentication, licensing and user behavior are interlaced with case studies highlighting key principles, offering the information needed to deal with all the potential problems and complexities of this rapidly evolving role.