A no-nonsense guide offering practitioners straight-forward solutions and support in managing electronic resources. As the importance of E-resources to library collections grows, the skills needed to create, develop, grow and manage them have become increasingly valuable to modern information services and professionals. This practical step-by-step toolkit gives you a thorough grounding in all aspects of e-resource management including selection of content, developing workflows and knowledge bases, technologies, resource discovery, analysis and troubleshooting. Up-to-date coverage of key issues such as authentication, licensing and user behaviour are interweaved with cross-sectoral case studies highlighting key principles, enabling the reader to deal with all the potential problems and complexities of this rapidly evolving role. This is an indispensable guide for anyone managing e-resources or creating and developing new electronic collections in academic, public, school or special libraries and also in archives and museums. It will also demonstrate the translation of theory into practice for LIS students and academics
