California Library Association Pre-Conference Institute on Electronic

Resource Management, Friday, November 10th, 2006, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street, Sacramento CA 95814



Registration fee: $75



Presented by CLA Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section

(CLA ACTSS)



As more resources become available electronically, libraries face an

ever increasing challenge of managing, providing access, and collecting

e-metrics of electronic resources. In order to streamline this activity,



libraries are revisiting and refreshing their organizational structures

to properly staff and manage e-resources. Some have adopted a

centralized model and others are continuing to follow a distributed

model where the work is incorporated throughout the library. This

program will cover the four major areas of ERMS:



Electronic Resources Management Systems: What ERM systems are available?



How to assess what your library needs, getting started with ERMS,

evaluating ERMS.



Organizational Integration: Who is involved in managing e-resources

throughout the library? What are the license issues; what workflow

designs have been developed by libraries?



E-Metrics: Extracting and analyzing electronic resource data - best

practices



Future trends: Where ERMS are going



Objectives of the Pre-Conference Institute:



*Understand the current issues and trends in the management of

electronic

resources, including licensing, internal workflow models, and

assessment.



Also examine the historical context that led to ERMs and current

standards.



*Be able to identify current and prospective ERM systems, understand

what

they are offering, and be able to compare and evaluate competing

products.



*Understand real-world implementation of ERM systems and the work

required on the part of purchasing libraries.



Serials, collection development, acquisitions, electronic resources and

acquisitions librarians, or anyone else charged with managing electronic



products and subscriptions will be interested in this program.



Speakers: Margaret Hogarth, University of California, Riverside; Paoshan



Yue, University of Nevada, Reno; Navjit Brar, California Polytechnic

State

University, San Luis Obispo; Theodore Fons, Innovative Interfaces Inc.;

Ted Koppel, Ex-Libris; Brian Schwartz, Endeavor Information Systems



To enroll, or for more information, please visit the following sites:



registration form,



CLA Conference home page



You are not required to register for the main CLA Conference if you

attend

only the preconference.



Xiaoli Li

Acting Head, Serials Department

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA 95616

Phone: 530.752.6735

Email: xlli@ucdavis.edu