Dear all,

Please accept my apologies for cross-posting. The following notice may be of
interest to you:

Haworth Press, now part of the Taylor & Francis Group, notes that its journal,
The Acquisitions Librarian, will change title after publication of Volume 19, Nos.
37/78 (2007).

The journal will continue under the new title of Journal of Electronic Resources
Librarianship, Vol 20, No. 1 (2008) with ISSN: 1941-126X and EISSN: 1941-
1278.

According to Haworth's Publisher, Bill Cohen,
"We struggled greatly with this decision. We regret profoundly, of  course, any
title change, for the added work it causes for serials and technical services
staff, as well as a perceived interruption in the faithful publication of a
continuing resource and its  bibliographic record.

We consulted widely before making this change, and we believe that with
library resources increasingly being "licensed" rather than "acquired" now was a
good time to change the title and reflect the direction we believe the
literature is going.

We were delighted when Bonnie Tijerina, Digital Collections Services Librarian
at UCLA, and an international leader in electronic resources management,
agreed to join with us to take over the Editorship of the newly-titled Journal of
Electronic Resource Librarianship. Bonnie heads the highly successful annual
Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, and spearheads an international
network of movers and shakers in this field.

We believe the 'new' journal will prove to be an indispensable resource for all
librarians responsible for acquiring, collecting, producing, and managing digital
resources.”

According to the Editor:
“Just a few years ago librarians managing electronic resources struggled to
find an identity and a voice to the myriad of new issues arising in our field.
Because of this I decided to pursue my latest endeavor of seeing The
Acquisitions Librarian journal through a title change to becoming the Journal of
Electronic Resources Librarianship.  When considering this editorship, I thought
about the topics of importance to librarians working in this area, and in
researching what has been done recently with this journal, it seems like an
appropriate evolution.

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship allows for a more focused
look at the digital environment’s impact on collecting, acquiring and making
accessible library materials today and in the future.  I am looking forward to
creating a place to shed more light on the questions, practices and future
directions in this arena.”

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship will be published quarterly during
2008 under the Haworth imprint. Online access will continue at
http://www.haworthpress.com/ during 2008. From 2009, the journal will be
available on informaworld, and will be published under the Routledge imprint.

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