Please excuse any cross-posting!

 

In January, I took on the role of Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian at an institution that manages approximately 650 electronic journal subscriptions from a wide variety of vendors. This is a much larger collection than I am used to managing and I am new to SFX.

 

My questions here involve insuring that the thresholds for access to the journals displayed on our website are updated appropriately.  My predecessor in this position used to go through all 650 electronic journals once a month checking to see if any of the thresholds needed to be updated. I went through this process earlier in the year and it took me four full-time work days to check all of the journals and to make all of the changes necessary in SFX.  Adhering to my predecessor’s workflow, I began the process again yesterday.  I’m about 150 journal in, and so far around 10% of the journal thresholds have needed to be updated.  Some of the thresholds are locally created and others are global SFX thresholds. 

 

I realize that it’s possible to set moving threshold walls, but these settings aren’t capturing all of the fluctuation in so many different titles from so many different vendors. 

 

I’m already getting to the point where I’m about to suggest bringing in volunteers to do nothing but check thresholds since this could potentially take up so much of my time.  

 

So the questions are these:  Is this situation normal? How do other small-to-medium-sized libraries handle threshold management? 

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

-Jason