Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh

More and more E-content, more and more E-only with no paper to fall back on.

The ERM marketplace (in broad terms) is a very young marketplace. Many commercial products are less than a year old.

What do you want? Define your problem and your universe (just databases? databases and E-journals? stuff on CD-ROM?)

Mostly based on the DLF ERM spec. It is very detailed, so determine which elements have meaning for your environment. Troubleshooting and vendor contact information was an issue for Pitt. Might as well compile that information in vendor-neutral (tab delimited) spreadsheets, even if DRM is years away, it will still be useful. Don’t wait for the moving truck to pull up to the house to start packing your boxes.

Identify your resources: electronic records, licenses (where are they now?), vendor data, contact information, etc. Clean up all your existing information.

Electronic item records: remember GIGO

Andrew White, Joseph Balsamo, Khaled Saeed from Health Science Center Library, Stony Brook University.

Built their own ELM. Large library IT staff with expertise and committment to these kinds of solutions.

How does collection management integrate with electronic resource management. Dealing with cancellations, changes in vendor, changes in bundled subs., duplication of titles in different contracts, multiple formats for the same title, changes to URLs.

ERM provides information for making educated decisions (contract info, usage, etc.).

Various response options: Excel worksheets, Kardex, emails of URL updates, static list.

Shows diagram of many librarians making changes in many areas (OPAC, web site, proxy server) when things change. Looking for single point of entry for the staff for making changes–change once, propagate everywhere in real time. For public, provide search and browse interfaces with holdings information, again in real time.

Shows staff interface to ROAMS: enter a bib number or do a KW title search. Edit, suppress, delete, undelete each title. Deletion does not remove the title permanently, keeping data for historical purposes. Easy editing of information on each title.

Shows patron interface. Divided by E-journal, database, other formats. Option to browse or search to find titles.

All built on an open source platform. Can create RSS feeds out of the database.

Q. Why roll your own, when there are extant products? Andrew: this is a replacement for TDNet or Serials Solutions on steroids. We can do more with our product that we could with those [it is unclear to me what that is]. Jeff: no solution is free of expense, the question is just where you choose to spend your money.

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