Electronic Resource Management in Libraries

Jewell, Timothy D.

doi:10.1081/e-elis3-120044671

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“…Attempts to manage access via cataloging in the online public access catalog (OPAC) proved too complex, so many libraries developed their own website listings, sometimes driven by a database. After 2000, commercial products, known as electronic resource management systems (ERMS), were used to manage libraries' listings of e‐journals, increasingly necessary with the huge numbers of items in subscription packages (Murdock, ), and attempts have been made to integrate this into ILS functionality (Jewell, ). According to Murdock () the ERMS model envisages distributing routinized tasks through a number of library functions, and so potentially replaces the need for an electronic resources (ER) librarian as such, or at least, requires more emphasis on an ER co‐ordinator role, across professionals throughout departments, all of whose roles would themselves have evolved.…”

Section: The Specialtiesmentioning

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Evolving academic library specialties

Cox

Corrall

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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The purpose of this review is to examine the shaping of librarianship in the academic context through the literature of career specialties, with Abbott's (1988) system of professions providing an analytic framework. The specialties investigated are systems librarian, electronic resource librarian, digital librarian, institutional repository manager, clinical librarian and informationist, digital curator/research data manager, teaching librarian/ information literacy educator, and information and knowledge manager. Piecemeal literature based on job advertisements, surveys, and individual case studies is consolidated to offer a novel perspective on the evolution of the profession. The resilience of the profession's core jurisdiction is apparent despite pressures to erode it. Forays into teaching, and more recently into open access and data management, can be understood as responses to such pressure. The attractions but also the risks of embedded roles and overextended claims become apparent when comparing past and prospective specialties.

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Section: The Specialtiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolving academic library specialties

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Corrall

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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“…The DLF ERMI report originally defined the concept of roles by describing how an organization could occupy a number of them, such as vendor, provider, publisher, licensor, and so on. 16 By assigning one or more roles to an organization, an ERM system will avoid the needless duplication and confusion that might result from creating separate entities for each organization in each role. 17 Again, this feature of E-Matrix could only function properly if organization names were assigned consistently throughout the data.…”

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Creating Organization Name Authority within an Electronic Resources Management System

Blake¹,

Samples²

2009

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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Staff members at North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries have identified the need for name authority control within E-Matrix, a locally developed electronic resources management (ERM) system, to support collection intelligence, the process of collecting, collocating, and analyzing data associated with a collection to gain a sophisticated understanding of its qualities for strategic planning and decision making. This paper examines the value of establishing authority control over organization names within an ERM system in addition to describing NCSU's design for conducting name authority work in E-Matrix. A discussion of the creation of a name authority tool within E-Matrix is provided along with illustrations and examples of workflow design and implementation for the assignment of authoritative headings. Current practices related to authority control and ERM systems in academic libraries and within organizations such as the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) are also investigated and summarized to provide context for this project. Future possibilities for the use of this type of authority control on the part of librarians, vendors, and standards bodies are explored. A s electronic resources management (ERM) systems become more advanced and their use more widespread, libraries have begun to consider the potential of these systems to aid in collections decisions by performing advanced data analysis functions. Name authority control is of critical importance if ERM systems are to be put to this use because information drawn into a system from different sources must be collocated to produce accurate and useful analyses and reports. Throughout the development of E-Matrix, a homegrown ERM system, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries has focused on the application's potential to facilitate effective collection intelligence, the process of collecting, collocating, and analyzing data associated with a collection to gain a sophisticated understanding of its qualities in order to strategically plan and make decisions. E-Matrix centralizes information from the library's catalog, link resolver, and assorted flat files within a single database and can perform analysis functions that include data from all of these sources. A challenge presented by this process is the identification and collocation of data elements imported to E-Matrix in a multiplicity of uncontrolled formats. Data about organizations, such as the names of publishers, vendors, providers , and licensors of serials and electronic resources, has been the most difficult element to normalize within E-Matrix. Because organization names are imported from unformatted fields created for outside applications, the data in E-Matrix naturally lacks consistency. The names of organizations appear in dozens of variant and erroneous forms, with neither any indication of connections between entities that indicate business relationships nor authorized forms of names. In aiming to use E-matrix as a sophisticated reporting and collection intelligence tool, ...

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Management of E-Resources Cataloging Workflows at the University of Maryland, College Park

Guay

Shapiro²,

King

2014

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Electronic Resource Management in Libraries

Cited by 3 publications

References 124 publications

Evolving academic library specialties

Evolving academic library specialties

Creating Organization Name Authority within an Electronic Resources Management System

Management of E-Resources Cataloging Workflows at the University of Maryland, College Park

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