E-Res tracking
Back in the saddle again,
We’re talking about consolidating all our myrid spreadsheets & text files & nascent databases containing all out E-res data to get a better handle on what we have, where we can adminster it from, who to contact for troubleshooting, when renewals are, how much each costs, whether or not we have perpetual access to content already paid for (like in Emerald).
My head hurts just thinking about it; I mean I’ve done similar before (at M[f]POW), but I got spoilt by having a new Electronic Resources Librarian get hired in just as I was getting all the data pieces consolidated. Then we went with SerialsSolutions ERM product and it was going spiffily when I left.
We’ll see about shaking some funding loose for this, though I suspect there are other pressing priorities from a content hole point of view.