<div dir="ltr"><div><div>What have been the barriers to a successful revision?</div><div><br></div><div>Calida Barboza</div><div>Electronic Resources Librarian</div><div>Vanderbilt University | Jean and Alexander Heard Library</div><div>110 21st Avenue South | Nashville, TN 37203</div><div>615-875-4049 | <a href="mailto:calida.barboza@vanderbilt.edu">calida.barboza@vanderbilt.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Steve Oberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is our criteria. I wrote it based on another library’s criteria and after 3-4 years of using it, I don’t like it, mainly because it’s too inclusive and therefore harder to maintain over time. Efforts to revise the definition to be
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<p class="MsoNormal">DEFINITION:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Databases, abstracting and indexing resources, online reference works, journal and e-book packages, and freely available websites that are selected by subject librarians as having value for one or more subject areas.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.<wbr>org</a>> on behalf of Calida Barboza <<a href="mailto:calida.barboza@gmail.com" target="_blank">calida.barboza@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><span class=""><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Eril-l] criteria for e-resources on A-Z databases list<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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