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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 [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] 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