{"title":"The Electronic Resources Group: using the cross-functional team approach to the challenge of acquiring electronic resources","authors":"Suzan McGinnis , Jan H. Kemp","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00084-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00084-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The acquisition of electronic resources presented many new issues for staff at the Texas Tech University Library. Traditional communication pathways between acquisitions and other departments were inadequate to address the increasingly complex questions that were raised in the process of acquiring the electronic resources that were increasingly in demand by the university community. While it was possible to handle decision making for electronic resources through the library’s departmental structure, the process was hampered by a lack of speed and focus. To resolve this problem, six library staff members were brought together to form an electronic resources group (ERG). This cross-functional team is composed of library staff from four different departments, each of whom had experience with different aspects of acquiring electronic resources. Members continue to work within their departments and report to their functional managers, but they also report to the ERG project manager and are expected to contribute substantially to the accomplishment of group goals. This paper describes how Texas Tech has successfully used the cross-functional team approach for managing the acquisition of materials in electronic formats.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 295-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00084-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72099757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outsourcing, quality control, and the acquisitions professional","authors":"Sharon W. Propas , Sue-Ellen Johnson","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00082-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00082-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Outsourcing, long a presence in the library world, is increasingly seen as a way to cut technical service costs. This development has caused great insecurity among technical service librarians and frequent discussions about whether cataloging and acquisitions are threatened specializations. We argue, based on outsourcing experiences at Stanford University Libraries, that the need for experienced technical services librarians increases rather than decreases in a library that outsources some of its technical service operations. Quality control, once built into routines carried out at the clerical level, becomes a major factor for the success of the outsourced operation. This quality control component logically devolves to librarians who know how the finished product should look. We describe the quality control programs developed for monitoring a no-return approval plan and vendor-supplied cataloging.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 279-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00082-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72099759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Electronic Resources Group: using the cross-functional team approach to the challenge of acquiring electronic resources","authors":"Suzan D. McGinnis, Jan H. Kemp","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00084-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00084-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"15 1","pages":"295-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73319624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the partnership working?: evaluating the approval plan vendor","authors":"E. Carpenter","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00057-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00057-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":"329-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82185366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outsourcing, quality control, and the acquisitions professional","authors":"Sharon W. Propas, S. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00082-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00082-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"4 1","pages":"279-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86612129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approval vendor selection—what’s best practice?","authors":"Linda A. Brown","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00055-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00055-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"30 1","pages":"341-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76189995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Usefulness of Impact Factors in Serial Selection: A Rank and Mean Analysis Using Ecology Journals","authors":"K. G. Altmann, G. Gorman","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"3 1","pages":"147-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79106891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}