[Web4lib] IFLA Conference: Electronic Resource Management Systems

[Luiz H. Mendes]

Please excuse duplication 

 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:  A Solution with Its Own Challenges

 

The IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources (SOCR) Section and the
University of Western Cape (UWC) invite you to participate in an exciting
experience hearing and discussing about Electronic Resource Management
systems (ERMs). 

 

The Satellite Conference will take place Aug. 16-17, 2007 in Cape Town,
South Africa in conjunction with the Durban World Library & Information
Congress. The program will cover how ERMs are driving organization change,
what they may be evolving into, the challenges they present to the libraries
using them, and whether they can be at all useful to libraries who are just
developing their online presence.

 

The opening plenary session will cover the historical development of ERMs by
Kimberly Parker, a member of the original Digital Library Federation
Electronic Resource Management Initiative group that developed the framework
upon which all current ERMs are now constructed.

 

The registration form is available at
http://www.library.yale.edu/preifla2007/ (with significant fee reductions
for registrants from Africa).  Attendees will be responsible for their own
transport and accommodation during this event, and the Web site offers many
suggestions for your Cape Town stay, at different price points.

 

We also welcome you to the Section meetings and program in Durban and a
strong program about Serials and Other Continuing Resources in Africa and
the developing world.

 

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

 

Helen Heinrich / California State University, Northridge On behalf of SOCR
Section helen.heinrich at csun.edu