jemery March 22nd, 2007
We are looking for the first 50 participants who are willing to visualize a library not focused solely on print resource management and willing to go out on a limb and conceptualize the library which is focused on user access and management of online resources & services. Four questions we will be brainstorming about, to try to develop our future scenario today, are:
- What online resources would you collect?
- How would you connect people to these new collections?
- How will you control and manage these services?
- How will you provide your users with the most correct information possible?
Please join: Jill Emery, Bonnie Tijerina, & Elizabeth Winter to learn more about the ERAMS concept and the future possibility this concept holds for libraries.
Where: Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Chesapeake Room, Baltimore, MD
When: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Light refreshments will be available.
Please RSVP to Jill Emery at J.Emery@austin.utexas.edu by March 29, 2007.
Tags: Discussions
Bonnie Tijerina March 22nd, 2007
As “e” becomes more prevalent, we are shifting workflows, but how about the creation of a new department focused solely on electronic? At the ER&L Conference we heard a few libraries are doing that, one being UCLA. Sharon Farb, Angela Riggio and Andrew Stancliffe presented on how they used the workflow diagrams from the ERMI Report to create the Digital Collections Services Department. I am interested to see how this relatively new department grows/changes. This presentation brought up a few questions for me that I don’t have answers to but are on my mind:
- Are we putting appropriate time, effort, resources into what is (or is becoming) the majority of what we spend our materials budget on? If not, why not?
- What changes should we be making in resource allocation and, more importantly, how do we convince those who allocate resources?
Tags: Organizational changes, Workflows
jemery March 22nd, 2007
[JE]: Hi Dan,
How are subscription agents helping libraries in maintaining accurate and precise knowledgebases?
[DT]:
Subscription agents like EBSCO have been in routine contact with over
14,000 publishers in the print world and built a strong database of ordering and payment information as well as limited electronic metadata. From the rapid conversion of our academic business from print to an electronic component, which now involves 72% of our academic orders, subscription agents have totally reengineered their title file or acquisitions and service knowledge base into a real time e-journal bibliographic tool that have moved a traditional ordering system into a bibliographic tool with new data elements to enable libraries to access and better manage their e-collections. We have reengineered our databases, expanded our staff, improved the level of staff to support this effort, instituted training for e-journal management and also are applying Web searching techniques to go out and collect data from publishers web sites.
Now that we have expanded our business line to include an A to Z
service and our Link resolver, there is a constant demand for current updated information. These new products have forever changed our data collection operation as this recent requirement has placed a high priority on obtaining and maintaining our knowledge base. We have added a dedicated team of professionals whose full time job it is to maintain the knowledgebase which builds on our traditional ordering and payment function. We get data directly from the publishers, we mine the data with our spiders crawling around publisher sites, and we collect data from our 32 offices as publishers announce changes to their data.
Maintaining a high quality knowledgebase is part of our strategic
mission in support of e-journal access and management and we are constantly looking for ways to keep that critical data up to date. So far we have made considerable progress in meeting this goal. Our knowledgebase gets better and stronger every day.
Dan Tonkery
Vice President, Director of Business Development
EBSCO Information Services
Tags: Subscription Agents
ewinter March 21st, 2007
Serial Solutions’ ERAMS concept seems able to encapsulate most of the types of work currently done in libraries:
- Determining what goes into the knowledgebase (kb) = collection development. This seems to map to Collect and Control.
- Making sure things are added to the kb accurately in a timely way = acquisitions + cataloging. This seems to map to Correct.
- Presenting kb contents in a meaningful way to users = system/web/user interface design and development + information literacy and reference services (help the user interpret and use what s/he finds) + document delivery services (provide users with specific units of content). This seems to map to Connect.
- Ensuring that kb contents represent a good use of library budgets and are acquired smoothly = administration + collection development + acquisitions. This seems to map to Control.
Other thoughts?
Disagreements?
Tags: Processes
Bonnie Tijerina March 14th, 2007
What is the ER&L Forum?
Bonnie Tijerina (ER&L Conference Coordinator) and conference planners have created this blog for a few reasons:
1. We had several blogs on the ER&L Learning Community (Moodle) site and wanted one place for them all to live.
2. We wanted a neutral place to migrate discussions that were beginning on the blog that was erams.org
3. To fill a need for continued discussion after the ER&L Conference
4. To create a place to share ideas and for conference planners to get feedback about future ER&L Conferences, programs, etc.
Why do we need ER&L Forum?
We need a place to focus on improving the current state of libraries, to create and share what we are doing, and to define the future direction of products, services and content. To create a community, an understanding, and a vocabulary about how we need to manage and make accessible our electronic content which is taking over more and more of our materials budgets.
Who Should Care?
Those who are eager to visualize a library not built around a print resource management model but willing to conceptualize the library which is focused on user access and library management of online resources & services.
Librarians, Technologists, E-Resources Vendors, Library Administrators, Creators, Publishers & Preservers of e-content, and all others who want to ensure proper access to electronic content for library patrons.
How Can I Contribute?
This blog is open for everyone to post comments. You can easily add entries as well. If you are already a member of the ER&L Community, it’s simple. Just login to this site using your username and password you use on the ER&L Community website. If you’re not an ER&L member, just become a member and posting will be simple for you as well!
Tags: Uncategorized
Charlene Barina March 1st, 2007
Neat series of blog entries on ER&L 2007 activities and presentations. Check it out at Wake Forest’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library blog.
There’s another one at Kansas State Libraries Conference Reports section of their blog.
Tags: Conference 2007
Charlene Barina March 1st, 2007
As a FYI, we’ve moved keynote information (powerpoints, audio, bios, etc) into its own conference session so that it’s easier to find and discuss. It is under Conference 2007 as Keynote Speakers, and it will require the enrollment key you all have been sent to get access to it.
Tags: Conference 2007, Online content
