report on usage statistics written by Caryn Anderson. intro statement -- "Electronic resources are rapidly replacing print resources as the largest consumer of library and information center acquisition budgets. Logically, organizations want to evaluate the usage of electronic resources and incorporate the results into their decision making regarding resource acquisition, licensing and termination (as well as the related allocation of other library resources including staff and physical space). The current process for assessing the usage of electronic resources for a given institution, however, is extremely complicated, time-consuming, and highly unsatisfactory."

UC Libraries: Collection Development Committee: - documentation pertaining to UC's rationalized approach to the collection of e-resources, contains several links to helpful licensing resources.

ASIS&T Bulletin August/September 2006 - Recent Developments

There are many XML schemas available for modeling MARC data. Most take a literal approach, naming elements and attributes after their corresponding MARC fields, subfields, and indicators. Others represent only a small subset of the data libraries use to describe resources. XOBIS attempts to walk the middle path: describe the full set of library information, but reorganize this information into a structure that empowers the use of library data as just one more information resource available in the digital domain.

The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks" interchange format.

introduction to metadata from Getty