Using E-Journal Subscription Inventories to Improve Internal Documentation and Patron Access. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Urban, Sandra Gall
• Is Part Of: Technical services quarterly. Volume 36:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 269
• Page End: 280
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: E-journals -- subscriptions -- inventories -- serials -- acquisitions -- management; Technical services (Libraries) -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Technical services (Libraries) -- Automation -- Periodicals; Library science -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 025.0202854
• DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2019.1621568
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0731-7131

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Librarians have been struggling to maintain accurate information in their library catalogs since electronic resources became the preferred format. Adelphi University Libraries' (AUL) technical services unit realized its catalog's data no longer reflected actual periodical holdings or online access entitlement, and this article documents one library's process towards improved data. By using Google spreadsheets to conduct a subscriptions inventory, AUL improved periodical subscription details and holdings statements for increased patron access to e-journals.