[Eril-l] Staff Hours per E-Resource Title

[Jill Emery]

Hi All,

I also want to recommend this fairly recent publication in *Library
Resources & Technical Services (April 2018)* that is likely to be helpful:

Assessing Staff Alignment in Technical Services
by Jim LeBlanc, Martin Kurth
http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.62n2.66

Jill

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:34 AM Melissa Atkinson <melissa.atkinson at acu.edu>
wrote:

> Here are some resources I found that might help. (If anyone doesn't have
> access to these, let me know, and I will send you the PDF except Murdock.)
>
> I was an e-resource librarian for over 15 years (I still do some of it in
> my new role), so if you want a personal experience narrative, I would be
> happy to provide one, including estimated hours for each task.
>
> Mckinnon, D. (2016). Notes on Operations.* Library Resources & Technical
> Services, 60*(2), 115–129.  (Workflow and workload challenges for
> e-resources)
>
> Zhu, X. (2016). Driven adaptation: A grounded theory study of licensing
> electronic resources. *Library and Information Science Research, 38*,
> 69–80. (also workflow/workload)
>
> Murdock, D. (2010). Relevance of electronic resource management systems to
> hiring practices for electronic resources personnel. *Library
> Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services, 34*, 25–42.
> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcats.2009.11.001  (I don't have access to
> this, but it might be helpful according to the abstract)
>
> West, W. L., Miller, H. S., & Wilson, K. (2011). Electronic journals:
> Cataloging and management practices in academic libraries. *Serials
> Review, 37*, 267–274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2011.09.009
> (older but has a table showing hours worked)
>
>
> Melissa
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:50 AM Spindler, Holly <Holly.Spindler at cchmc.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve been asked by my organization to “quantify my work” as a solo
>> electronic resources librarian.
>>
>> While I understand that the world of managing e-resources is complicated
>> and varies based on institution, I was hoping to find an article, study,
>> etc. that might list the average hours spent by staff, per e-resource
>> title, on managing (the entire lifecycle) an e-resource.  Perhaps something
>> like, in a library with 10,000 e-resource titles X amount of staff hours
>> are used to manage those titles each week.  Or, on average, one e-resource
>> title takes X amount of staff hours to manage during its time as part of
>> the library collection- beginning to end.  Or even a breakdown of how much
>> average time is spent on the various aspects of  e-resources management
>> e.g. hours spent on selection, acquiring, providing access/maintenance,
>> troubleshooting, usage statistics, etc.
>>
>> I’ve spent quite some time searching for this information myself- but
>> have come up empty in the resources available to me.
>>
>> If anyone knows of any articles that might include some of this type of
>> information, or even a standard that your library has for these numbers-
>> I’d VERY much appreciate learning about them!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Holly
>>
>>
>>
>> *Holly Spindler, MLIS*
>> *Resource Management Librarian*
>> *Pratt Research Library*
>>
>> *Cincinnati Children's*
>> 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229
>>
>>
>>
>>
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