Hi Jean,
I was hired as a Reference Librarian in 1987 but over the years I have
also acquired responsibility for serials (which now includes
registration of online access) and maintaining the database collection
seemed a logical extension since they are renewed each year.
Maintaining our database listings on our library page is part of this
job.  We are a small college with an FTE of 4,336.  I do not have an
office; my desk is in a fishbowl in the Reference area and if there is
a problem with a database, I'm usually the first to hear about it,
which is convenient.
Jean Lowe wrote:

>Increasingly electronic databases and journals are being taken care of
by an
>Electronic Resources Librarian.  My library doesn't have one and isn't
>likely to get one soon.  The library director wants our very long list
of
>electronic databases to be maintained by technical services.  I disagree
>with this.  In all of the past libraries where I have worked, this task
was
>accomplished in the reference department and/or systems.
>
>I am very curious as to who is maintaining lists of databases in your
>libraries and the evolving circumstances as to why/how it was decided
to do
>it that way.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jean Lowe

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Martha Coleman
Reference/Serials Librarian
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
Boreham Library
5210 Grand Avenue   PO Box 3649
Fort Smith,  AR  72913
479-788-7208     FAX 479-788-7209