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The E-Resources Playbook: A Guide For Establishing Routine Assessment Of E-Resources, Lanette Garza

Library Faculty Research

Assessment of ongoing or potential electronic purchases has always been a challenging and time-consuming process for librarians. In most cases, the organization, maintenance, sharing, and use of electronic resources data can be overwhelming. Diligent planning, monitoring, and assessment of e-resources is more important than ever. This article lays out the step-by-step process of creating an e-resources assessment playbook. This playbook will essentially be a book of strategies that will help orchestrate and illustrate steps and techniques for carrying out particular e-resources reports.