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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m not sure I understand the reasoning behind not including every collection in the A-Z list. As an end user, if my instructor highlights a particular collection/resource, I expect to be able to find it
from the catalog/library web site. If I’m looking for resources on a topic, I expect that every resource available on that topic is listed. Similarly, I don’t understand the logic behind not including links to all ebooks in a subscription full-text package.
PQ Literature One has a lot of classics in ebook form, but we don’t necessarily include the records in our catalog. As an end user, if I want to access a title, I search the catalog – if it’s not there, I presume access is not available. I would not think
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I can understand that a subject/course-oriented LibGuide would not necessarily every single collection that may have relevant content. The LibGuide is meant to be selective, although it would be nice to be
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As a Collection Assessment Librarian, I’ve found that usage is highly dependent on findability. If a collection is not findable from the catalog or library Web site, it’s usage will suffer. If they can’t
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi there, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I once tried to pare down our a-z list because I don’t feel we needed to have a database entry for every single little collection but I received a lot of pushback from librarians in public services. They like
the way their lists look and no matter how hard I tried to lower the number of databases, it was an uphill battle I wasn’t going to fight.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are also in the process of updating our A-Z list. We list mostly everything we subscribe to/pay for as well as a few open access resources, but we are also not exhaustive about these and may end up eliminating them at some point for
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<p class="MsoNormal">One constant challenge I am curious about is how others handle collections from Gale. We currently have 200 databases in our A-Z list and nearly 70 are from Gale. We don't even include all the sub-collections in Archives Unbound. It is
a lot to maintain and while listing all of them versus just some seems to be easier for tracking, I know many are not used and am tempted to hide them at the least. There is also the challenge of the periodic database name change and the maintenance that comes
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Everything we pay money for is on the list. I check it a couple of times a year to make sure everything is still responding, URLs haven't changed, and so forth. (Large database
vendors are pretty good about stable URLs and forwarding old URLs, but some of the smaller places... oy vey!). We get most of our databases as part of a package deal from the Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission, so I monitor their mailing list and
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We also include some open access resources if they are reasonably general and/or relevant to our university's instructional goals (e.g., the Directory of Open Access Journals several free music databases for our very busy music department, the Occupational
Outlook Handbook for our career center, etc.) but we don't obsessively track down every OA resource ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We have (currently) 98 databases and other resources, so we worry a bit about having too many databases for our students to reasonably keep track of. I suspect that most of
them just use our discovery portal and search everything, even if it would be better to focus more tightly on one database...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Database list? Does your list also include Open Access resources? If so, how do you decide which OA resources to include/exclude? Even if your library doesn't have formal guidelines, it would be great to hear from you. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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