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Subject: New List and Organization for Electronic Resources
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:35:00 -0400
From: Abigail Bordeaux <bordeaux@binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: bordeaux@binghamton.edu

Please excuse cross-postings.

We are pleased to announce the beginning of a discussion list,
Electronic
Resources in Libraries.  ERIL is a forum for discussion of the practical
aspects of handling electronic resources.  Issues covered could include:
collection development policy, electronic journal holdings, use
statistics,
licensing and negotiation, product set-up and maintenance, and specific
product issues.  Emphasis is on the sharing of experiences and expertise
among librarians in this relatively new area of the profession and the
list
is therefore limited to librarians.  For more information or to
subscribe,
please visit http://www.topica.com/lists/eril.

We are also forming a collaborative organization of librarians from all
walks in the profession to pool their talents.  Impromptu and planned
meetings of electronic resources librarians will be organized at all
conferences and other venues where we express an interest.  This
organization, also going by the name ERIL, will share actions taken and
information learned with all other electronic resource librarians via
the
ERIL list and the ERIL group-maintained web site, which is currently in
the
planning stages.  Further information about the web site will be posted
as
it develops.

Join us at meetings, conferences and coffee shops near you.

Abigail Bordeaux
Electronic Resources Access Librarian
Binghamton University Libraries
Binghamton, NY  13902
607.777.3217
bordeaux@binghamton.edu

Joan Conger
Database Performance and Assessment Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
(706)542-0705
jconger@uga.edu