[Web4lib] ERAMS vs. URM

[Elizabeth Winter]

Hi, Eric:

Interesting comments, related to how library systems vendors may be
jockeying for position in this brave new world of managing overwhelmingly
"e" products.

Credit absolutely goes to SerialSolutions for starting the discussion. 
Part of what we're trying to do w/ERAMs.org is to broaden the dialogue
outside simply the business product category of ERMs.  There seems also to
be a need  to rethink the way we do things within libraries and consortia
to manage e-resources (systems, skill sets, workflows, and mindsets are
issues that come to mind).

Please consider contributing to the discussion going on at
www.erams.org.

Best,
Elizabeth

Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator, Acquisitions
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: elizabeth.winter at library.gatech.edu
phone: 404.385.0593
fax: 404.894.1723

>
> 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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