From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:06:05 -0500

"If I had access to the library resources of the large public
university where I graduated, the small private school library where I
work might not have as much work to do for myself or many of the
faculty and staff."

Do you mean work to do tracking down individual articles?  If you mean
work to do getting more comprehensive access through subscriptions,
then students getting exposure to the broader range of resources is an
issue as well as professors getting access.  I wonder if widespread
alumni access to databases would shift the expectations on libraries.
It's a bigger deal if professors tend on average to come from better
ranked universities than they teach at.

-Wilhelmina Randtke


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:46 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Sean Andrews <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:58:56 -0600:
>
> > From: Doug Kariel <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:38:34 -0700
> >
> > Hi Liz,
> >
> > Our Post-doc people are considered part of the university community.
> > They and all other members of the university community (staff,
> > students, faculty) have access to all licensed resources as long as
> > they use links that use our proxy server and they are then
> > authenticated to use the licensed resource. This is the case in every
> > post-secondary institution that I am aware of. Libraries put the lists
> > of resources on their web page and the links ensure that the proxy
> > server is hit prior to users getting to a resource.
>
> If this is true on a broad scale, I've never been notified of it from
> any of the institutions I attended - but it would certainly make life
> easier.  If I had access to the library resources of the large public
> university where I graduated, the small private school library where I
> work might not have as much work to do for myself or many of the
> faculty and staff.  If this is true, then either I have less to worry
> about in the serials crisis at my small school, or I should be even
> more concerned about how it is settled at the large one.  Or both.
>
> Sean Andrews