To All-
Sometime back I wrote asking about staffing for ejournals.   The following
is my summary of the responses

Collection development of ejournals was a combination of
        >ejournal selection was part of the collection development teams
assignments
        >or not as frequently
                one person who was doing everything, that is, selection and
processing

Reviewing the agreements and negotiating the agreements
        >at least one full time person, with some other assignments, but
mostly worked on ejournals
        >sometimes the "negotiating" was just in-house with their own legal
department
        >consortium was handled normally outside the roll of the respondents
(upper management)

Cataloging the titles
        >was included with other cataloging assignments, with maybe one
cataloger as the focal point

Do you have staff that assigned, full time to your ejournal project?
        >most of the time it was - yes, but said it was not "always" 100% of
their  time  -- it might depend on the  time of year

Once you have a  core list of ejournals, did the staffing change?
        >No one seemed to have a long enough history for this question

Does anyone know of a benchmark?
        >No

By the time you added up that this person did 20% of their time doing, etc
...  Let me summerize that the average staffing level was approximately 1 to
1 1/2 FTE working on ejournal projects.  (This doesn't include cataloging,
to little information).

I am also assuming that as a Library establishes a core list of ejournals,
and has dealt with most of their publishers, the staffing will level off and
will go down to a 1/2 or to 1 FTE.  Does this sound reasonable??

Again I thank you and
Have a great day!

Madeline Windsor
windsor@bnl.gov
631 344 5069