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ALCTS Preconference

ERMS Implementations: Are We Taming the Electronic Tiger?

Thursday, June 22, 2006 from 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Morial Convention Center, Room 292
New Orleans, LA

Description
Features early implementers of the leading commercial ERMS. Panelists will reveal their implementation strategies, successes, and failures, and answer the question for those not as far along: Are ERMS taming the electronic tiger?

Objectives:
At this preconference participants will

1. Become familiar with various ERMS currently available in the marketplace;
2. Be able to identify processes and evaluate workloads they will have to initiate in order to have a successful ERMS implementation; and
3. Be able to discuss how different types of implementation techniques fit into their needs.

Target Audience
Library staff in the early stages of ERMS implementation or those considering purchase of an ERMS.

Speakers & Presentations (topics)

Rosemary Arneson, Carmichael Library Montevallo (SerialsSolutions ERMS)

• Taming LION and Other Electronic Resources

Rochelle Ballard, Princeton University (Meridian ERMS)

• Was It All We Thought It Would Be? Lessons Learned Implementing an ERMS

Trisha Davis/Celeste Feather, Ohio State University (Innovative ERMS)

• ERM at Work: A View From the Front Line

Norm Medeiros, Haverford College - Moderator

Jennifer Weintraub, Yale University (ExLibris VERDI)

• Creating a Green Space for E-Resources: Verde at Yale

Barbara Weir, Swarthmore College (VTLS)

• Taming the Electronic Tiger - Where's Gunther Gebel-Williams When You Need Him?

Sponsored by
ALCTS Serials Section

Cosponsored by
ALCTS Acquisitions Section (AS)
ALCTS/LITA Electronic Resources Management Group

North American Serials Interest Group

• Creating a Green Space for E-Resources
• Taming LION and Other Electronic Resources
• Was It All We Thought It Would Be?
• Taming the Electronic Tiger
• ERM at Work

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