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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mainly it is due to lack of consensus and shared understanding among subject librarians. Whenever the topic of revising what gets on our Databases A-Z list comes up, the discussion tends to go in a lot of different
directions. Since one particular organizational group (not the subject librarians group) maintains the list, there isn’t a broad awareness among others of what that work entails. There are times, to be quite honest, when I’ve seriously considered just making
the change under the principle of better to ask for forgiveness than permission, and I’m not sure it’d even be noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Calida Barboza <calida.barboza@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, March 19, 2018 at 1:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Steve Oberg <steve.oberg@wheaton.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>eril-l <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Eril-l] criteria for e-resources on A-Z databases list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">What have been the barriers to a successful revision?<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Calida Barboza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Vanderbilt University | Jean and Alexander Heard Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Steve Oberg <</span><a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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 more selective have not yet been successful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Assistant Professor and Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="tel:(630)%20752-5852" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">+1 (630) 752-5852</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Eril-l <</span></span><a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">>
on behalf of Calida Barboza <</span></span><a href="mailto:calida.barboza@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">calida.barboza@gmail.com</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>eril-l <</span></span><a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Eril-l] criteria for e-resources on A-Z databases list</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><a name="m_-2925627824214775748__MailOriginalBody">What policies or criteria do you use to decide if an electronic resource belongs on your A-Z Databases page? </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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