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TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management
One important librarian role over the next five to ten years is to provide access to online library resources – free, open access, or purchased, all valuable resources, in an intuitive, easy to use one-stop shop, and not to be afraid of running continual beta test in which new services and functions can be added when necessary. To do this, librarians and e-resources managers need flexible, interoperable resource-discovery systems based on open source software. In addition, we must continue to assess users' needs and reach out by adapting our systems to fit their requirements, rather than expecting them to come to us; indeed, our very future depends on it.1
TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management is a project started by Jill Emery, Portland State University, and Graham Stone, University of Huddersfield, to create best practices for management of electronic resources that is shared, monitored, and updated by librarians from throughout the world. We began this project a year ago by posting each TERM segment to a tumblr blog and a Facebook group page and soliciting feedback on our ideas from the library social community. At the same time we also solicited for workflow documents that could be shared via a publicly open dropbox. To date, we have 20 direct followers of the blog, 138 Twitter followers, and 152 Facebook members. This wiki is the latest publicly available version of TERMS and is intended to be updated and edited by contributors. We will have a team of editors to review all wiki updates and submissions provided. Here are the six main areas for TERMS:
EDITOR: Ann Kucera (akucer01@baker.edu)
EDITOR: Nathan Hosburgh (nathan.hosburgh@montana.edu)
EDITOR: Stephen Buck (stephen.buck@dcu.ie)
EDITOR Anita Wilcox (a.wilcox@ucc.ie)
EDITOR: Anna Franca (anna.franca@kcl.ac.uk)
EDITOR: Eugenia Beh (ebeh@library.tamu.edu)
References
1. Adapted from Stone, Graham (2009) Resource Discovery. In: Woodward, Hazel and Estelle, Lorraine (Eds) Digital Information: Order or anarchy? Facet, London, pp. 133-164
