Dear all,
Please accept my apologies for cross-posting. The following
notice may be of interest to you:
Haworth Press, now part of the Taylor & Francis Group,
notes that
its journal, The Acquisitions Librarian, will change title
after
publication of Volume 19, Nos. 37/78 (2007).
The journal will continue under the new title of Journal of
Electronic Resources Librarianship, Vol 20, No. 1 (2008)
with
ISSN: 1941-126X and EISSN: 1941-1278.
According to Haworth's Publisher, Bill Cohen, "We
struggled
greatly with this decision. We regret profoundly, of course,
any
title change, for the added work it causes for serials and
technical services staff, as well as a perceived
interruption in
the faithful publication of a continuing resource and its
bibliographic record.
We consulted widely before making this change, and we
believe
that with library resources increasingly being
"licensed" rather
than "acquired" now was a good time to change the
title and
reflect the direction we believe the literature is going.
We were delighted when Bonnie Tijerina, Digital Collections
Services Librarian at UCLA, and an international leader in
electronic resources management, agreed to join with us to
take
over the Editorship of the newly- titled Journal of
Electronic
Resource Librarianship. Bonnie heads the highly successful
annual
Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, and
spearheads an
international network of movers and shakers in this field.
We believe the 'new' journal will prove to be an
indispensable
resource for all librarians responsible for acquiring,
collecting, producing, and managing digital
resources."
According to the Editor, "Just a few years ago
librarians
managing electronic resources struggled to find an identity
and a
voice to the myriad of new issues arising in our field.
Because
of this I decided to pursue my latest endeavor of seeing The
Acquisitions Librarian journal through a title change to
becoming
the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. When
considering this editorship, I thought about the topics of
importance to librarians working in this area, and in
researching
what has been done recently with this journal, it seems like
an
appropriate evolution.
The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship allows for
a
more focused look at the digital environment's impact on
collecting, acquiring and making accessible library
materials
today and in the future. I am looking forward to creating a
place to shed more light on the questions, practices and
future
directions in this arena."
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship will be
published
quarterly during 2008 under the Haworth imprint. Online
access
will continue at http://www.haworthpress.
com/ during 2008. From
2009, the journal will be available on informaworld, and
will be
published under the Routledge imprint.
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