This document provides an overview of e-resources for library professionals. It begins with a humorous reference to the title and includes an explanatory Venn diagram comparing e-resources to print resources. Key points about e-resources and MARC cataloging are briefly explained. Examples of principles for libraries from Ranganathan are listed. The document concludes by providing contact information for the author and citing various creative commons image credits.
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E-resources for Dummies
1. E-resources for Dummies
Manchester New Library Professionals Network
Not that you’re dummies: it’s just a pop culture
reference, yeah?
Simon Barron
simon.barron.19@gmail.com
@SimonXIX
2. It fully explains e-resources and
you’re very impressed.
Insert super-fancy,
explanatory Venn
diagram here.
10. This is MARC cataloguing. Gaze ye upon it and despair.
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13. Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the
Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let
me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an
Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' they then said, 'Very well,
say "Shibboleth“. If anyone said, "Sibboleth"
because he could not pronounce it, then they would
seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan.
Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell on this
occasion.
Judges 12:5-6, New Jerusalem Bible
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15. Sirkali Ramamrita Ranganathan 1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his [or
her] book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the
reader.
5. The library is a
growing organism.
17. Creative Commons licensed image credits:
‘Tangled technology’ from Flickr user stuant63.
‘Clouds’ from Flickr user karindaziel.
Ranganathan portrait from Wikimedia Commons.
Shibbolego from The Brick Testament:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/42000_ephraimites
_killed/jg12_05-06.html
Shibboleth image from University of Chicago:
https://itservicesinternal.uchicago.edu/insite/2009/january/sh
ibboleth.shtml