Abby Barker and Simon Barron present a guide to working with e-resources in the library and information sector. Delivered at the CILIP New Professionals Day 2012.

1. CILIP New Professionals Day
11th May 2012
#CILIPNPD12
“Have you tried logging
out and then in again?”

2. What do you want
to learn about
e-resources?

4. A... radical assumption would consider that all
knowledge, all information could be so condensed
that it could be contained in a limited number of
works placed on a desk, therefore within hand's
reach, and indexed in such a way as to ensure
maximum consultability. In this case the world
described in the entirety of books would really be
within everyone's grasp. The Universal Book created
from all books would become very approximately
an annex to the brain, a substratum even of
memory, an external mechanism and instrument of
the mind but so close to it, so apt to its use that it
would truly be a sort of appended organ, an
exodermic appendage.
Paul Otlet, Traité de documentation, 1934.

5. Abby Barker
University
Campus
Suffolk
E-resources
Librarian

6. Simon Barron
Durham
University
E-resources
Co-ordinator

7. An example of everyday tech support…

10. Over to you!
How would you
answer these real
life queries?

11. Further information
Training:
UKSG Introduction to Journals and E-resources Today
http://www.uksg.org/event/INJERT091012
UKSG E-resources Technical Update http://www.uksg.org/events/technical
Books:
Kate Price and Virginia Havergal, ed. E-books in libraries: a practical guide. Facet
Publishing. ISBN: 9781856045728.
Louise Cole, Electronic resource management: a handbook. Facet Publishing. ISBN:
9781856048149.
Ksenija Minčić-Obradović, E-books in academic libraries. Chandos Publishing. ISBN:
9781843345862.
Websites:
Laura Wilkinson, ‘E-Resources FAQ’ on Laura’s Dark Archive:
http://darkarchive.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/e-resources-faq/ Published 3rd November
2011.
Laura Wilkinson, ‘E-Resources – less frequently asked questions’ on Laura’s Dark
Archive: http://darkarchive.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/e-resources-%E2%80%93-less-
frequently-asked-questions/ Published 4th November 2011.

12. Any questions?
simon.barron.19@gmail.com
@SimonXIX
abigailbarker@gmail.com
@abbybarker