From: "Castro, Jeannie" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:15:27 -0600

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ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting

Topic: Dr. Sarah Sutton presents on Core Competencies for Electronic
Resources Librarians, followed by open discussion

When: Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 1PM Eastern

Where: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 102A

Speaker Bio:

After 12 years as a practicing electronic resources librarian and
earning a Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University, in 2012 Dr. Sarah
Sutton accepted a position on the faculty of the School of Library and
Information Management at Emporia State University. Her dissertation
research on core competencies led to the creation of the recently
published Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians. In
addition to her teaching responsibilities at ESU, Dr. Sutton continues
to pursue research on librarian competencies, to promote the Core
Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians, and serves on the
NASIG Executive Board.

Abstract:

In July 2013, NASIG endorsed and published Core Competencies for
Electronic Resources Librarians providing long needed standards upon
which libraries may base electronic resource librarian (ERL) position
descriptions, supervisors may base ERL performance evaluations, and
LIS master’s programs may base electronic resources curriculum
development. In this presentation, Sarah Sutton, who chaired the task
force that developed them, aims to briefly describe the Core
Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians, their history and
development including the research from which they were derived. The
aim of this presentation is also to provide a synopsis of some of the
uses to which the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources
Librarians have so far been put in libraries, both anticipated (e.g.
curriculum development) and unanticipated (e.g. workflow and personnel
re-organization). It will conclude with an audience discussion of the
planned and potential future impacts of the Core Competencies for
Electronic Resources Librarians.

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Jeannie Castro
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Resource Discovery Systems
University of Houston |114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000

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