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Date:         Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:53:15 -0600
From:         Jane Prokesh <jprokesh@UTDALLAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Publicity for E-journals

We are cataloging several electronic journals, and despite the classic
objections, giving holdings when possible, and when these can be monitored
to some extent. We have the electronic journals listed on our library
reference page, and new ones are marked with a flashing "new" alert. In
essence, I guess we do set off lights, etc. I like the party idea, though.

Jane Prokesh
Serials cataloger
University of Texas at Dallas

jprokesh@utdallas.edu

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Date:         Mon, 19 Jan 1998 07:53:12 -0500
From:         Pam Wells <pam@UTSVA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Publicity for E-journals

Dear Jane,

We are a small academic library with about 600 students and have just
subscribed to 10 individual e-journal titles through Project Muse. We
sent an e-mail notice to all faculty and staff with instructions on how
to access the site at Johns Hopkins, plus a hard copy to all faculty.
Also we notified our Graduate Student Assn., who put a link to the site
on their web page.  Since we do not have a working home page yet for the
seminary, we put instructions in the library's computer lab for general
use.

Hope this helps,   Pam Wells

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Jane Thompson 558-8310 wrote:

> I have searched the archives of Serialst looking for any
> descriptions of what people are doing to alert their users to new
> electronic journals when the library provides access. Do you have
> an ongoing continuously revised class in E-journals? do you have
> a party with balloons? Hot links on your home page? Signs around
> the library? Visits to departments to demo to faculty? All of the
> above? We have substantial number of titles available, and
> haven't done much to publicise, so are looking for effective ways
> that a smallish staff can bring these titles to the attention of
> our users.
>
> Any ideas welcome. Thanks!
>
> --Jane Thompson, University of Cincinnati Health Sciences
> Library--thompsjl@uc.edu or thompsjl@ucmail.uc.edu