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Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group
Meeting at ALA Annual in Washington, DC.

Date: Saturday, June 23, 2007, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Capitol Hilton, Congressional/Senate Room

Title:  ERMS Continues: More on Standards and Systems

After the enthusiasm of acquiring a new electronic resource management
system (ERMS) subsides, libraries are often overwhelmed by the extent of
infrastructure adjustments and sheer manual keying that accompany the care
and feeding of an ERM system.  This program addresses some of the exciting
new emerging standards from ONIX for Serials, ONIX for Licensing Terms, and
the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) that
could expedite the assimilation of information from content providers (via
aggregators and PAMS) into a library's electronic resource management
system.

Speakers:
Kathy Klemperer, Library and Information Systems Consulting, Acton, MA.
Drawing on her experience in libraries, the subscription industry, and
standards groups, Kathy will introduce the standards work, pointing out the
types of library activities that can be facilitated with vigorous
implementation of these new standards efforts.

Linda Miller,  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Linda will describe current efforts to integrate an ERM into the suite of
software serving the Library of Congress, discussing some of the challenges
encountered in introducing the ERM at LC and pointing up areas of the system
that can benefit from robust support for the new standards related to
management of electronic resources.

There will be ample time for questions and discussion. Please come
participate.

Allene Hayes, Chair
Electronic Resources Interest Group

Luiz Mendes, Vice-Chair
Electronic Resources Interest Group