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Portland State University

Library and Information Science

Library science

2017

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Er&L 2017: Tacos, Queso, And Electronic Resources, Jill Emery Apr 2017

Er&L 2017: Tacos, Queso, And Electronic Resources, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Provides an overview of the 2017 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference.


When Erm Met Alma: The Intricacies Of Content Management In A Shared Consortia Landscape, Siôn Romaine, Jian Wang Feb 2017

When Erm Met Alma: The Intricacies Of Content Management In A Shared Consortia Landscape, Siôn Romaine, Jian Wang

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2013, after nearly two decades of operating in a distributed legacy Integrated Library System (ILS) environment on local servers, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of public and private academic libraries in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, began a two-year-long process to migrate its 37 members to a shared implementation of Ex Libris's cloud-based Alma library management system (LMS) and Primo discovery interface. Although much has been written on electronic resource management (ERM) functionality at an institution level, little has been written on serials and ERM functionality and workflows within a shared consortial environment. This article discusses the challenges and …