From: Steve Oberg <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:59:12 +0000 The NASIG website just went through a redesign thus the new URL for the core competencies doc. Chuck, I have to openly admit to scratching my head over the job title of "Non-Serial Electronic Resources Librarian." Please accept my apology for any offense! I sure don't have a better job title to suggest off the top of my head. You make very good points about the growing, evolving range of tasks and responsibilities that aren't strictly serial in nature. Personally I like using the word "continuing resources" vs. "finite resources" when trying to make distinctions in discussions with my local colleagues, because I think that is clearer. However, in my experience, many of the "non-serial" or "finite" e-resources, including many that you mention, have more similarities to serials than to traditional monographs. One example I can think of is annual hosting fees for one-time backfile purchases or e-books, which we are seeing more of locally. Another example that I can readily think of is how the nature of the workflow for keeping "non-serial" or "finite" e-resources updated in terms of cataloging is so similar in many ways to serials. These things are, as Crystal Graham famously called them so long ago, bibliographic hermaphrodites. I'm not suggesting there is only one right way here, just reacting to and musing on this complicated issue from your response. Jeannie, thanks for the further context for your initial question. I can well understand 'the dance" you are going through! I am glad you raised this whole question and hope you glean enough information to bolster your case. Steve Steve Oberg Assistant Professor Electronic Resources and Serials Buswell Memorial Library Wheaton College Wheaton, IL 60187 On Sep 11, 2013, at 6:57 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:56:47 -0400 Thanks for the recommendation Chuck. I wasn't able to get the link to work, but here's another access point. http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=310&pk_association_webpage=1225 Tracy L. Thompson, Executive Director New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) Albany Law School Schaffer Law Library Albany, NY 12208 www.nellco.org [log in to unmask] At 09:24 PM 9/10/2013, you wrote: From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:33:18 +0000 PS. for the best description I know of for an electronic resources librarian, see the new NASIG publication: “Core Competencies of Electronic Resources Librarians” which is available on the NASIG website, http://www.nasig.org/committee-core-competencies-task-force.cfm Chuck Hamaker