Tim Bucknall is the founder of the Carolina Consortium, a buying group made up of over 60 academic libraries in North and South Carolina. He is also an inventor of Journal Finder, a locally developed link resolver and knowledge base used by nearly 30 institutions in five states. In his spare time, Tim enjoys gardening, cooking, and woodworking.
Beth Bernhardt is the Electronic Journals /Document Delivery Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is responsible for providing electronic journal access to all members of the University. Beth also supervises Interlibrary Loan and document delivery services provided by the library. Beth is an adjunct instructor for Solinet and for the North Carolina State Library. In 2005 Beth became the new Prinicpal Director of the Charleston Conference.Although link resolvers are a wonderful, high-impact innovation, most
libraries are not maximizing their potential benefits. In this session,
the presenters will discuss how UNCG has tailored its locally developed
link resolver and knowledge base, Journal Finder, to increase traffic
to the Library’s eresources. And we will discuss how we utilize usage
data to make collection management decisions on format and content
