Acquisitions Librarian now Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

["McMillan, Jennifer " <Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk>]

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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