The high school library is part of a district-wide library department that includes libraries in each of the elementary and middle schools with a professional librarian assigned to each library.

Readership The audience for this book includes: newly appointed electronic resource librarians, librarians assigned the responsibilities associated with licensing and managing electronic resources, and library and information science students interested in learning the responsibilities related to an electronic resource librarian's position.

In other libraries where there is no librarian assigned specifically to periodicals, one or more librarians may perform the duties of a periodicals librarian along with other duties.