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ALCTS e-Forum: E-Resource Management: Tools, Tips, and Tricks of the Trade

June 16-17, 2020

Moderated by Rebecca Walton and Derrik Hiatt

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Tracking, maintaining, and assessing e-resources can seem overwhelming at times. Join colleagues from around the country in the ALCTS e-Forum to share the essential tools that you use to organize all of the metadata associated with your e-resources, and learn the tips and tricks of the trade that others have developed to assist in the processes relating to electronic resources in libraries. 

Moderators

Rebecca Walton has been managing electronic resources at Brigham Young University since 2006. In that time she has had the titles Electronic Resources Assistant (part time staff), Electronic Resources Specialist (full time staff), Electronic Resources Librarian (full time faculty), and now Continuations, Licensing, and Collection Analysis Librarian (full time faculty and unit head of the Continuations unit – our library’s term for the unit overseeing both serials and databases). 

Derrik Hiatt is Director of Resource Management & Discovery at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In addition to his MLS from Southern Connecticut State University, he has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Brigham Young University. Prior to moving to Corpus Christi, Derrik worked as Electronic Resources Librarian at Wake Forest University and Assistant Serials Librarian at Brigham Young University. He was a co-author of the “Continuities” column in Technicalities from 2013-2016.

What Is an e-Forum?

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

For information about upcoming e-forums, please visit http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

How to Register

You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing online. (http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa)

If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request@lists.ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*