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(How) Have the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians
Influenced the Position?
ER&L, February 23, 2015 Sarah W. Sutton
@sarahwws
Overview
• Background
• Developing question
• Influence
• Preliminary results
• New questions
Core Competences for Electronic Resources Librarians
Research in progress
(How) Have the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians influenced the
position?
Research in progress
(How) Have the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians influenced the
position?
(How) Have responsibilities and qualifications for electronic resources librarians changed over
time?
Hartnett’s findings
(Hartnett, 2014, p. 252)
Hartnett’s findings
Responsibilities increasingly found in job ads:• acquisitions• budgeting• licensing• link resolvers• web scale discovery
systems• ERMS• authentication & proxy• usage statistics
Responsibilities decreasingly found in job ads:• cataloging,• general technical services
and systems-related responsibilities
• use of and experience with databases
• web site development• staff training• bibliographic instruction• reference
Research in progress: Job ads 2010-2014
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Change in job responsibilities over time: 2010 - 2014
Acquisitions
ERM
Licensing
Link Resolver
Usage Data
Web-Scale Discovery
Website Editing*
Reference*
Cataloging*
Training*
Research in progress: Job ads 2010-2014
Responsibility SourcesE-Resources Management 668Acquisitions 434Supervision 415Vendor Relations 359Usage Data 344Trends & Developments 343Professional Service 340Licensing 313Website Editing 291Leadership 278
Research in progress
Factors other than the CCERLs affecting trends:
– Advances in technology
– Additions or reductions in other positions’ and/or responsibilities
– Source of ads
• What about public libraries?
• Expanding the pool of sources
References
Hartnett, E. (2014). NASIG’s Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians Revisited: An analysis of job advertisement trends, 2000–2012. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(3-4), 247–258. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.03.013
NASIG Core Competencies Task Force. (2013). Core competencies for electronic resources librarians. NASIG. Retrieved from http://www.nasig.org/uploaded_files/92/files/CoreComp/CompetenciesforERLibrarians_final_ver_2013-7-22.docx
Sutton, S. (2011, May). Identifying Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians in the Twenty-First Century Library. Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX.
(How) Have the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians
Influenced the Position?
ER&L, February 23, 2015 Sarah W. Sutton
@sarahwws
