[Web4lib] Re: Web4lib Digest, Vol 24, Issue 21

[SharonQuinn Fitzgerald]

Hello Bonnie,

While I think the ERAM concept an exciting one to contemplate I have to say I was perplexed to read your call for the first 50 participants "who are willing to visualize a library not focused solely on print resource management."  Are there even 50
libraries out there that currently do focus solely on print management?    

The ERM approach, whether it be via a formal product or home grown necessity has been underway for a bit.    While there is certainly opportunity for a new paradigm and for new limbs to go out on, let's acknowledge there has been some movement
forward with electronic resource access and management.  Having said that, I am very much looking forward to following developments with ERAMS.   :)

Respectfully,

Sharon Quinn Fitzgerald
Head, Technical Services
Fogler Library
University of Maine
207-581-1667
207-581-1653 fax 

web4lib at webjunction.org on Friday, March 23, 2007 at 12:26 PM -0500 wrote:
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>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:14:47 -0400
>From: "Bonnie Tijerina" <bonnie.tijerina at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Web4lib] Are you talking about ERAMS?
>To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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>You Should Be!
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>ERAMS = E-Resource Access & Management Services
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>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:
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>    * 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?
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>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.
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>Where: Baltimore, Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Chesapeake Room
>When: Saturday, March 31, 2007
>Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
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>Light refreshments will be available.
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>Please RSVP to Jill Emery at J.Emery at austin.utexas.edu by March 29, 2007.
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>To learn more and participate in future discussions, please visit
>http://www.erams.org.
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>-- 
>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