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Ms. Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate at the School of Library & Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argued passionately and cogently about the obligation of librarians to protect the privacy of patrons using electronic serials and the data generated from that usage. Libraries should forcefully express their concerns to vendors of such resources about their collection and commercialization of user data and should stipulate provisions in their contracts and licensing agreements to prevent such misuse of patron’s personal information. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

How can libraries proactively demonstrate, quantitatively and qualitatively, return on investment in an academic environment that is increasingly concerned with tangible results? As speaker for Mississippi State University Libraries' 9th MidSouth eResource Symposium, Dr. Rachel Fleming-May, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences, articulated the need for libraries to communicate their true value and indispensability to campus communities, particularly through the measurement of electronic resource usage. The concept of 'use,' however, is complex and must be fully understood for meaningful incorporation into assessment measures. A brief summary of this session, also authored by Amanda Price, appeared in the 'E-Resource Roundup' column of the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2011: March). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electronic journal access is very different from the print world. Evaluating the usage information available is even more important. Drawing on experiences with usage statistics from the print environment and vendor sources, Kraemer and Bordeaux presented ideas for how to gather and present u sage data in the electronic environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part one of a two-part article on the CONSER Summit. It is a report of a meeting that included people from all aspects of the serials industry and CONSER people who have been involved in various endeavors at different levels, as well as others who could bring a unique perspective to help CONSER in dealing with electronic journals. The article includes a summary of conversations, discussions, and recommendations from the two-day summit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluates the EBSCOhost MasterFILE Elite as a source of periodicals in electronic form. Searching options offered by the database; Benefits and drawbacks of non-full text abstracted articles for library users and reference section staff; Delay in the publication of the current issues of periodicals on EBSCO databases.

The article focuses on a poster session about the importance of developing policies in close partnership with universities and their users by describing a comprehensive approach to usability testing. The session includes observations from the testers and development partners, sharing their experiences during the process and their views on the application of the approach to product development. The following topics are discussed: periodical subscriptions and cancellations; bringing open access journals into the catalog; evaluating electronic database journal coverage; quest for a centralized e-journals access management system at UNR and content overlap among the Elsevier subject backfile collections.