Report on NASIG's E-journal conference

Patrick L. Carr, The Other Serials News: The E-Journal Stampede, NASIG Newsletter, September 3, 2006.  Excerpt:

For a sixth year, NASIG's Continuing Education Committee joined with Mississippi State University Libraries and EBSCO Subscription Services to cosponsor an e-journal workshop for information professionals in the Deep South region. Held at Mississippi State University (MSU) on July 14, 2006, this year's workshop, titled "Head 'em Up, Move 'em Out! Corralling the E-Journal Stampede," explored issues related to the role and management of e-resources in libraries. In attendance were over ninety information professionals from states across the southeast. Keynote speaker T. Scott Plutchak, Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, got the workshop off to a thought-provoking start with his presentation "After the E-Journal: Now It Really Gets Interesting." Arguing that now is the greatest time in the last five hundred years to be a librarian, Plutchak's presentation explored the trends that are currently reshaping the distribution of information and the role of libraries. From the Open Access movement to libraries' imperative to preserve information regardless of its format, Plutchak summarized the myriad of challenges facing information professionals today....