EDITOR'S NOTES
Librarians’ Personal Experiences With E-Resources
by Dick Kaser
In this issue, we share the stories of librarians exploring e-resources and applying their skills to developing services. Warning: Some of these narratives are vivid.
Follow Tim Kuelker’s journey as he describes his experience in moving from an urban setting to a rural library network invested in all of the latest technology and with all of the current tech programs, only to discover the insidious reality of the digital divide.
Hear the optimism in her voice as Colleen Sheils (on assignment in Japan) shares how she used basic software to automate the library listings for a highly distributed collection at a private English-language school without hardly spending a yen.
As you follow the narrative of Wesley Johnson (Daviess County Public Library), he gives you an insider’s take on how an independent film night morphed into an indie film production community project.
In her statewide ebook program feature, Beth Staats (University of Minnesota) shares her yearslong experience in building a set of e-resources.
And Randy Oldham (University of Guelph) shares how his consortium, the Ontario Council of University Libraries, has cooperated over several decades to share resources and how, recently, it has adopted the Alma/Primo platform to facilitate sharing of e-resources across the colleges.
Lastly, Online Searcher launches a new column by Barbie Keiser, which focuses on AI. In this instance, she writes about how AI is incorporated at Digital Science.
There are a lot of heartfelt stories in this issue. I hope you enjoy reading them all.
Dick Kaser, Executive Editor
kaser@infotoday.com
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