Electronic Resources Interest Group

Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2008 in Philadelphia, PA.

Date: Saturday, January 12, 2008, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Location: Loews Hotel, Washington Room

Title: Making E-Resources Management More Manageable: RECORDS

Central to the workflows and management of e-resources are bibliographic records. While there is now a general, well-established workflow for e-journals which are, for a large part, represented by standard CONSER records in most systems such as Serials Solutions and SFX, the same is not true for e-monographs and integrating resources (databases). Proposals have been made to guide the creation of records for e-monographs by publishers and vendors, and some proposals are in the making for a provider neutral IR-record. Where are we? What are publishers and vendors doing in this area? After all, source and quality of records impact our decisions, workflows, and management of e-resources.

Speakers:

Nicole Pelsinsky, Serials Solutions
Peter Fletcher, UCLA
Timothy Savage, OCLC

A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Luiz H. Mendes, Chair, luiz.mendes@csun.edu
Jennifer Lang, Vice-Chair, lang@Princeton.EDU