... with attendees. Findings The biggest impediment to successful e‐resource management is lack of sufficient staffing. Originality/value This article provides a current view on the issues surrounding electronic resource management activities and ERMS deployment. The encouraging news...

... be contacted at: nmedeiro@haverford.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Resource management Library systems Data structures Tis easy to see, hard to foresee (Benjamin Franklin). Electronic resource management is the area in which I have had to focus my attention the past...

... resource management system (ERMS). Findings The article makes clear the reasons for the proposed ERMI extensions, and provides a means of effecting the extensions. Originality/value Readers interested in purchasing an ERMS as part of a library group will be familiarized with potential pitfalls...

... and insights into possible problems that can arise when creating a one‐stop shopping archetype for electronic resource management. Dumping such a large number of e‐books into the Library system in such a short time created a massive authority maintenance project for the Technical Services staff. HCL...

...Norm Medeiros Purpose To interview Jill Emery, Director of the Electronic Resources Program at the University of Houston. Design/methodology/approach Ms Emery discusses licensing, electronic resource management systems, and the open access movement. Findings Ms Emery takes a conservative...

...) and Lavoie and Gartner (2005) . For a discussion of the requirements for curating preservation metadata itself, see Bin Siraj Shaon (2005) . Digital libraries Research Electronic media Multimedia Resource management Traditionally, it has been the role of librarians, curators, and archivists...

... of the museum: ideas or things? ”, Muse , Vol. 7 No. 1 , pp. 28 ‐ 38 . Archives management Museums Resource management The Choices and Challenges Conference (www.hfmgv.org/research/publications/symposium2004/default.asp) is sponsored biennially at the Henry Ford in Dearborn Michigan...

... is to see those developments now taking place. For instance, I know of at least five companies and other organizations that either are actively developing e‐resource management systems or are planning to do so, and I’m pretty sure some others will begin to do so shortly. I think that’s a very good thing...