The document discusses opportunities for collaboration in electronic resource management (ERM) using emerging web technologies. It notes that e-resources now impact all areas of library operations and the marketplace is constantly changing, requiring new management approaches. Collaboration could help address issues like a lack of comprehensive, structured, and accurate data across institutions by creating data once and sharing usage statistics, qualitative evaluations, and advisory notices. Web 2.0 principles like being participative, user-centered, sharing information, and building trust could support collaborative knowledgebases, licensing repositories, and usage statistics to improve decision making in ERM.
6. eResources are impacting every area of the library’s operations e-Resources are now an essential part of the library service, and as such, have a lot of internal stakeholders. University of Wolverhampton
8. This new era calls for a different library management style
9. This new era calls for a different library management style It’s an area that is very difficult to write procedures for, as the situation changes on an almost daily basis. This in turn makes it difficult to standardise practice for a team of people to take on the work, rather than relying on an individual to build up expertise. University of Surrey
15. Data that can be created once In the printed era… In the electronic era…
16. Data that can be created many times In the printed era… In the electronic era…
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18. How can Web 2.0 and collaborative practices stop the pain?
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22. How would a collaborative approach to knowledgebases help?
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24. How would a collaborative approach help with qualitative evaluation? Using feedback from a subject librarian at another institution would definitely be useful, especially if It was the same or a similar subject. Focus Group Attendee It would be good to see other universities’ feedback for trials. University of Birmingham
25. How would a collaborative approach help with quantitative evaluation?
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27. How would a collaborative approach help with advisory notices of planned downtime?
28. How would a collaborative approach help with information literacy?
29. How would a collaborative approach help with troubleshooting?
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31. Should we adopt a collaborative approach to the whole of ERM?
33. Licensing Social software has some mileage in the realm of licensing. There is a parallel here with cataloguing. It would be particularly beneficial for NESLI which is the same for everyone. There is occasional divergence by publisher or by library. Kings College London
34. What are the obstacles? Organisational Legal Industrial
35. However… If a communal licensing repository cuts down queries from libraries arising from package / title changes, for example, then publishers may embrace it. University of Wolverhampton
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39. Collaborative opportunities in electronic resource management using emerging web technologies Electronic Resources & Libraries, 2008. Sarah Bartlett Senior Analyst, Talis Information Ltd. Wednesday 19 th March, 2008
My name is… I work for Talis, a UK company developing a semantic web platform and evangelising on both Library 2.0 and the semantic web. We are also an ILS vendor, serving both academic and public libraries. At Talis, we’re working on a project to develop an electronic resource management system. One of the goals of the project is to maximise opportunities offered by emerging web technologies. This is how I’ve come to be exploring this area. Importantly, Project Xedio runs with the Scrum process, which enables a community of academic libraries around the development project to review progress at regular intervals and decide on priorities. This community is called an Advisory Group) and it’s important to mention it upfront as I’ll be quoting various members of the Advisory Group throughout this presentation.
