[Web4lib] ERAMS vs. URM

[Eric Hellman]

We've talked a lot about this at OCLC- should be noted that credit 
for starting this discussion goes to our colleagues at 
SerialsSolutions.

Tim McCormick here at OCLC Openly likes to ask the question "What is 
[this interesting sounding concept] in opposition to?

I think that the idea that the ERAMS concept is in opposition to is 
what our colleagues at ExLibris are calling "URM" or Universal 
Resource Management.

To accentuate the differences:

ERAMS: electronic resources need an entirely new/different management 
infrastructure.
URM: libraries need a single management infrastructure for all their resources.

Of course there are important truths in both sides of this argument, 
but you can see why Serials Solutions and Ex Libris are arguing the 
sides they have chosen.

Sorry I won't be able to join the discussion!

Eric


At 5:14 PM -0400 3/22/07, Bonnie Tijerina wrote:
>You Should Be!
>
>ERAMS = E-Resource Access & Management Services
>
>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, Dana Walker & Elizabeth Winter to
>learn more about the ERAMS concept and the future possibility this concept
>holds for libraries.
>
>Where: Baltimore, Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Chesapeake Room
>When: Saturday, March 31, 2007
>Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
>
>Light refreshments will be available.
>
>Please RSVP to Jill Emery at J.Emery at austin.utexas.edu by March 29, 2007.
>
>To learn more and participate in future discussions, please visit
>http://www.erams.org.
>
>--
>Bonnie Tijerina
>Electronic Resources Coordinator, Collection Development
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>Library and Information Center
>Atlanta, GA 30332-0900
>404-385-2044
>AIM: bltijerina
>bonnie.tijerina at library.gatech.edu
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