1. Joyce McDonough Susan Marcin Colleen Major Krystie Klahn 2014.07.11

2. Administrative Perspective Every Library is unique Each organizes responsibility for eResources differently. What you should expect to know when you visit a library Overall Organization Major Changes anticipated or underway Staffing Changes

3. Collections & Services

4. Bibliographic Services & Collection Development Group

5. Continuing & Electronic Resources Management Division

6. Changes Anticipated New Library Management System Underway 2CUL 2CUL consortial ERM Staffing Changes University Librarian retiring

7. Administrative Perspective Keep the number of Knowledge bases maintained to a minimum Size matters Matters in terms of staffing How is work broken up? How many departments are involved? How many handoffs occur for an item to be acquired and accessible? Matters in terms of controlling & organizing content Smaller collections might use spreadsheets Medium size collections might use an access database The larger the budget/library, the more likely you are to find an ERM in use Matters in terms of the amount of material the library can acquire

8. Basic Information about the Library Collection Budget Information Sheet for Database Vendors https://library.columbia.edu/bts/cerm/vendor_data.html Collecting areas

9. Columbia University Libraries eJournals 182,987 bibliographic records 367,075 URL’s eResources 46,369 bibliographic records 50,883 URL’s eBooks 2,297,707 bibliographic records 2,514,774 URL’s Government Documents 135,700 bibliographic records 149,179 URL’s

10. Electronic Resources Chain Oliver Pesch’s Presentation: ERM’s and the eResource Life-Cycle: http://tinyurl.com/ERLifeCycle