Teaching Electronic Resource Management
Sheri V. T. RossMLIS Program, St. Catherine University
Charleston Conference 2010
Objectives of the Session
Share experiences from a recent ERM teaching experience Successes Course Components Challenges
Begin a dialog with other ERM educators Ideas for collaboration CUFTs Researcher
ERM Teaching Successes
Offered the course as a special topic Convinced the faculty that such a course would offer unique
content
Convinced students to enroll Helped students understand how ERM fits into the profession
they've been learning about
Developed a curriculum Combined theory (new) with practice (limited)
Unit Theory Concepts Practice
Evolution of Electronic Resource Management
Stakeholder theory and organization theory
Standards development in the ERM community
Reviewing and engaging with ERM social networking venues
Scholarly Communication
Stakeholder theory and macroeconomic theory
Scholarly communication, scholarly publishing, and serials in libraries
Conducting a stakeholder analysis for the development of an institutional repository
ERM Course Components
Unit Theory Concepts Practice
Electronic Resource Management work flow
Systems theory and organization theory
DLF ERMI and the development of ERMS
Coordinating administrative data with and without ERMs; work flow analysis
Access, Authentication, and Administrative Interfaces
Systems theory and networking theory
Proxy servers; web site design and management
Managing and branding subscriptions through administrative interfaces
ERM Course Components
Unit Theory Concepts Practice
Listing, Linking, and Reporting
Systems theory and networking theory
XML, A to Z lists, and openURL
Defining institutional holdings and running reports in a knowledge base; resolving links
Vendor Relations, Negotiation, and Licensing
Stakeholder theory and game theory
Information marketplace, contract law
Reviewing, negotiating, and amending licenses
ERM Course Components
Unit Theory Concepts Practice
Evaluation, Selection, Deselection, and Preservation
Microeconomic theory
COUNTER and SUSHI, digital preservation options
Managing use statistics, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and planning selection and deselection
Managing Change in the Information Environment
Organization theory
Project management and case studies from the LIS literature
Planning for change using project management and pitching solutions
ERM Course Components
Teaching ERM Challenges
Finding vendors that would provide access to discovery and management tools for the purposes of teaching
Knowledge bases Administrative interfaces ERMS
Integrating new (and sometimes conflicting) theory areas into those already learned in the foundations courses
Share Your Thoughts
Is the work of ERM unique enough to justify its own course?
Is ERM mature enough to integrate into an MLIS curriculum?
What concepts would you add or remove from the course components list?
How do you or would you integrate the practical use of ERM technologies?
reSearcher
Produced by Simon Frasier CUFTs Open Source Serials Management
GODOT Open Source Link Resolving
DbWIZ Open Source Federated Searching
Hosted service http://software.lib.sfu.ca/files/sfu.software.prices.pdf
Beginning a Dialog
An online forum to exchange pedagogical strategies
Collective suggestion to vendors to expand their graduate education offerings to include administrative interfaces, discovery tools and ERMs
Birds of a Feather discussion at ALISE and/or Lively lunch discussion at Charleston Conference
Contact Me
Sheri V. T. Ross
Assistant Professor
MLIS Program, St. Catherine University
St. Paul, MN 55406
ThanksHave a great conference!
