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From: "Harper, Paulina" <harperp@uhd.edu>
Subject: RE: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal procedures --
Eleanor Cook
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:06:37 -0600

I too am interested in hearing your responses to this query.  Our
technical services department is in the process of reorganizing, and I
ultimately want to give one of my paraprofessional staff members some
responsibility for maintaining ejournal subscriptions and access.
However, this is not a function that is being done methodically here now
-- problems are dealt with as they are serendipitously discovered, but
we don't have any method for systematically verifying that access is
available (on an issue by issue level; of course we verify that we have
access to new subscriptions, etc.).
So, what procedures are you all using for this function, and what are
you doing as far as having paraprofessional or professional staff do
these activities?

Thanks,
Paulina Harper

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Paulina V. Harper
Serials Librarian
University of Houston-Downtown
One Main St.
Houston, Texas 77002

Office:  713.221.8464
Fax:  713.221.2752
E-mail:  harperp@uhd.edu <mailto:harperp@uhd.edu>
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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:43:54 -0900
From: Alexis Tibor <alexis.tibor@uaa.alaska.edu>
Organization: University of Alaska Anchorage
Subject: Re: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal procedures
--Eleanor Cook

We have not yet made the change, but future plans indicate that myself
and a coworker (neither librarians) who work in the serials department
will soon be handling ejournal upkeep.  Purchasing of all journals,
whether print or online, is done by someone else.  We have one librarian
who handles the electronic/online at the moment, but the plans seem to
be that although he is doing the setup we will be doing the maintenance.
  I must admit this concerns me.  We rarely have any free time so I am
wondering how we are going to be able to add this new duty to our
workflow.  It may be necessary to do some duty shifting.  We had
actually planned on starting by now, but with our library being attached
to the Divine/Faxon problem and our need to soon switch our serials
checkin software has put the project on hold.

--Alexis Tibor
Consortium Library
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage Alaska 99508

Alexis.Tibor@uaa.alaska.edu
(907) 786-4627
(907) 786-6050 fax

 > -----Original Message-----
 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:44:00 -0500
 > From: Eleanor Cook <cookei@appstate.edu>
 > Subject: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal procedures
 >
 > Dear SERIALST colleagues,
 >
<snip>

 > If you have paraprofessional staff doing anything in relation to the
 > ordering or upkeep of e-journals, please let me know.  What are they
 > doing, not doing and what level in your system are they.  How do they
 > feel about this added responsibility?  If you have a current position
 > description on file, please send it to me.
 >
 > Thanks much,
 >
 > Eleanor Cook

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College of William and Mary
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