ABSTRACT

Drexel University’s Executive Library Services (ExeLS) is a new fee-based service of the W. W. Hagerty Library to nonaffiliated users of the library. This overview to the history and development of the ExeLS service contains information regarding the practical aims and information to the process involved in establishing the service. Services, products, methods, accounting, markets, outlook for future activities, limitations, and useful tools provided by ExeLS are detailed. The author requests other fee-based services to share financial information to determine standard ratios. Also discussed is information on other benefits, beside financial, derived by the ExeLS service to the library.