I posted some comments in Web4Lib on this- but on code4lib, I'd like to be a bit more provocative and get y'all bothered.
* What online resources would you collect? - "collection" of online resources is an oxymoron. * How would you connect people to these new collections? - why do you think it is you that will do the connecting? * How will you control and manage these services? - if you want to be in control of these resources, take the blue pill * How will you provide your users with the most correct information possible? - take the red pill Eric
We've talked a lot about this at OCLC- should be noted that credit for starting this discussion goes to our colleagues at SerialsSolutions. Tim McCormick here at OCLC Openly likes to ask the question "What is [this interesting sounding concept] in opposition to? I think that the idea that the ERAMS concept is in opposition to is what our colleagues at ExLibris are calling "URM" or Universal Resource Management. To accentuate the differences: ERAMS: electronic resources need an entirely new/different management infrastructure. URM: libraries need a single management infrastructure for all their resources. Of course there are important truths in both sides of this argument, but you can see why Serials Solutions and Ex Libris are arguing the sides they have chosen.
ERAMS E-Resource Access & Management Services http://www.erams.org/ 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: * 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? Please join: Jill Emery, Bonnie Tijerina, & Elizabeth Winter to learn more about the ERAMS concept and the future possibility this concept holds for libraries. Where: Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Chesapeake Room When: Saturday, March 31, 2007 Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM Light refreshments will be available. Please RSVP to Jill Emery at [EMAIL PROTECTED] by March 29, 2007. To learn more and participate in future discussions, please visit http://www.erams.org <http://www.erams.org/>
-- Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly Informatics Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 http://openly.oclc.org/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything
