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Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group
meeting at ALA 2008 Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008 from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Disneyland Hotel, Adventure Room

Title: ERMing for a Consortium: Are We There Yet?

Are there successful Electronic Resources Management systems (ERMs)
implementation models for consortia? What are vendors doing to improve their
systems to be deployed at the consortium level? What works? What doesn't
work? What needs to be done for libraries to explore this option to
integrate and implement an ERM at the consortium level? What is the needed
functionality? The program provides three perspectives on the topic: the
vendor, the consortium, and the librarian.

Jeff Aipperspach, Product Manager, Serials Solutions
Ted Fons, Director of Customer Services, Innovative Interfaces Inc.

Rick Burke, Executive Director, Statewide California Electronic Library
Consortium
Tommy Keswick, Membership Services Coordinator, Statewide California
Electronic Library Consortium

Angela Riggio, Head of Digital Collection Management, Digital Collections
Services, UCLA

A question and answer session will follow the presentations. In addition, a
vote for the the 2008-2009 ERIG co-chair/chair-elect will take place during
the program. Candidate information (there are four candidates) is at the end
of this announcements, and ballots will be distributed at the program.

Electronic Resources Interest Group
Luiz H. Mendes, Chair,  <blocked::mailto:luiz.mendes@csun.edu>
luiz.mendes@csun.edu
Jennifer Lang, Vice-Chair,  <blocked::mailto:lang@Princeton.EDU>
lang@Princeton.EDU

CANDIDATES FOR ERIG CO-CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT, 2008-2009

Amira Aaron
Director for Information Resources, Brandeis University Library and
Technology Services

Amira Aaron is currently the Director for Information Resources at Brandeis
University Library and Technology Services in Waltham, Mass., a position she
has held since November 2006. Her previous position was at the Harvard
University libraries in the Office for Information Systems as Manager of
Digital Access and Content. In both of these positions, she has directed the
management of e-resources and related systems and services in all of their
complexity. At Brandeis, she serves as a member of the senior management
team of a merged organization and is responsible for the transition of
information resources to the electronic environment as well as the provision
of high-quality access to these resources. Her particular interests deal
with federated searching, ERM's, link resolvers, e-resource 24/7 support and
next generation public interfaces. Amira has previously chaired several
interest groups, both in ALCTS and LITA, and has been a frequent speaker on
topics related to the management of electronic resources.

Sharon Dyas-Correia
Head, Serials, University of Toronto Library

Sharon Dyas-Correia is currently the Head of Serials for the University of
Toronto Library, a position she has held since May 2003.  Her
responsibilities include acquiring and managing subscriptions, licenses and
holdings data for over 47,000 print and electronic continuing resources.
Previously, Sharon was Director of Collections Management and Access
Services at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library and Acting Head of
the Faculty of Education Library, University of Toronto. At the University
of Toronto, Sharon is chair of Library Council, a member of the Collection
Development and Management Committee, and a member, attendee or leader of
several Acquisitions, Cataloguing, Serials, ILS and ERM implementation
groups.  Sharon is also an Enhancement Forum Moderator for the International
Users Group of her ILS and on the Editorial Board of Serials Review.

Kevin Furniss
Serials and Electronic Resources Catalog Librarian, Tulane University

Kevin Furniss is the Serials and Electronic Resources Catalog Librarian at
Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, a position he has been in for a
little over a month. He is new to the world of full-time serials and
e-resources cataloging and joining the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest
Group provides an excellent opportunity for him to work with other serials
and e-resources professionals. He welcomes the opportunity to serve as
Co-Chair.  Kevin has planning experience with everything from one-day
regional workshops to national conferences, and looks forward to working
with ERIG to provide events that are meaningful, mind-expanding, and will
help us grow as professionals.

Michael Waldman
Head, Collection Management, Baruch College Library, CUNY

Michael Waldman is currently the Head of Collection Management at Baruch
College Library, a position he has held since October 2006. Before that he
was the Serials and Acquisitions Librarian. In his current position, he
manages Baruch's electronic resources, from selection to access, and acts as
the point person for troubleshooting. He is the chair of the Federated
Search committee, which just recently successfully launched our federated
search product. In addition, he manages the library's materials budget,
coordinates and oversees collection development for the library, and
oversees acquisitions, cataloging and serials. He represents Baruch at the
City University of New York's (CUNY) Electronic Resources Advisory
Committee.