We Have Our ERM System, It's Implemented: Why am I Still Going Here and There to Get the Information I Need?

England, Deberah

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2013.760148

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“…England found that even with an ERM, many librarians are still storing additional information in spreadsheets, paper files, email records, and databases because these systems do not provide a home for all of the information necessary to manage electronic resources. 26 Downey describes the prepurchase workflows and tasks that current ERMs do not track. 27 Carroll et al describe using a Google calendar to create a renewal alerting system that its commercial ERM could not provide.…”

Section: Electronic Resource Management and Discoverymentioning

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The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

Sullenger¹

2016

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Section: Electronic Resource Management and Discoverymentioning

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The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

Sullenger¹

2016

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“…Many librarians across the world have shared their practical experiences of working with "TERM Model and how they implemented each stage; challenges faced and overcome" (Simmonds and Andalreb, 2001;Barbara and Presno Quesada, 2006;Dempsey et al, 2014;Morris and Larson, 2005;Perkins, 2008;Hartnett and Thompson, 2010;Al-Kharousi et al, 2016;Mahajan et al, 2016;Asore, 2015;Nagpal et al, 2015;Rathmel et al, 2014;Yang, 2013;Clift, 2012;England, 2013;Chou and Hong, 2013).…”

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Management of electronic resources by management institute in Pune City: a survey

Dhiwar

2021

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PurposeThe present study was conducted to find what practices Pune city's management institutes are following for managing their online databases. Essentially, the purpose of the research was to study librarians' awareness about the life cycle of electronic resources and how to manage their life span, so that the data in use do not go obsolete.Design/methodology/approachThis experimentative study was based on a structured questionnaire designed to discover whether librarians of Pune's management institute followed the recommended six-step process in managing the life cycle of institutes' electronic resources as proposed by Jill Emery and Graham Stone in their Techniques in Electronic Resource Management (TERMS).FindingsOur study revealed that the librarians are not following any fixed protocol and are managing electronic resources in an ad hoc manner as per their own discretion. A majority are not even aware of the six steps the TERMS model prescribed for managing electronic databases.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of the study is to find the current practices of management of electronic resources at management institutes / colleges affiliated to Savitiribai Phule Pune University. Institutes which are not subscribing any database other than databases provided by UGC-INFONET thus got excluded from the study.Originality/valueA comprehensive literature review revealed that although such studies have been carried out elsewhere in the world, there is nothing specific to the Indian scenario. This study aims to plug that information gap.

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“…England's (2013) survey finds that librarians store a wide range of data in different places: Administrative data supporting collection management, e-resource management, and licensing is stored in a combination of spreadsheets, e-mails, shared drives, and even paper files, depending on the type of resource and the librarian's preferences. A similar survey of academic librarians by Branscome (2014) finds that although electronic resources are predominantly managed within commercial library software systems, librarians also use more than 30 additional tools.…”

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Finding the gaps: A survey of electronic resource management in Alma, Sierra, and WMS

Singley¹,

Natches²

2017

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

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The objective of this study was to determine whether libraries that have implemented a next-generation library system are able to complete electronic resource management (ERM) workflows entirely within that system. A survey of librarians received 299 responses from users of Alma, WorldShare Management Services (WMS), and Sierra. Responses indicate that there are gaps in workflows and that many libraries are still performing core ERM tasks outside these three systems. The study concludes that these systems may require further development before they are able to fully support complex ERM processes.The rapid growth of electronic resources over the past 2 decades has fundamentally transformed how libraries acquire and manage their collections. To support increasingly complex electronic resource management (ERM) workflows, libraries have had to supplement their traditional integrated library system (ILS) with multiple additional software products such as ERM systems (ERMS), link resolvers, proxy servers, and knowledge bases. The lack of interoperability between these systems has also required librarians to invent manual workarounds such as storing data in spreadsheets, shared drives, or e-mails. For ERM processes to be optimally streamlined and efficient, more sophisticated applications-designed to support every aspect of ERM workflows-are needed. One measurement of success of any application designed to support ERM workflows should be the elimination of the patchwork of systems and workarounds that have plagued electronic resources librarians for years.In the past several years many academic libraries began retiring traditional print-resource-based ILSs in favor of next-generation systems that promise to more fully integrate electronic resource workflows. These new systems, dubbed "library services platforms" or LSPs by library automation consultant Marshall Breeding (2011), are designed to provide improved system functionalities that meet the current realities of complex collection management across all content formats. These new platforms can replace not only the library's ILS, but the ERMS and link resolver. As of December 2014, three LSP systems have been fully implemented by U.S. libraries: Ex Libris' Alma, OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS), and Innovative's Sierra (Breeding, 2015). Two other systems, Kuali OLE and Proquest's Intota, are partially developed but not yet fully implemented (Breeding, 2015).Although these new LSP systems have been implemented in academic libraries for more than 3 years (Breeding, 2015), there has been little written to evaluate their impact on ERM processes. In particular, there has been no study that measures whether the external tools needed in a traditional ILS/ERM environment-such as homegrown systems, spreadsheets, e-mails, and so on-are still needed. The objective of this study was to determine whether libraries that have implemented an LSP (Alma, Sierra, or WMS) are still using external tools or whether they are able to complete their ERM workflows entirely...

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We Have Our ERM System, It's Implemented: Why am I Still Going Here and There to Get the Information I Need?

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The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

The Promise of the Future: A Review of the Serials Literature, 2012–13

Management of electronic resources by management institute in Pune City: a survey

Finding the gaps: A survey of electronic resource management in Alma, Sierra, and WMS

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