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It’s perfect, except

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it’s the simple things: resource records and html

we’re in the process of filling out resource records for our electronic resources in our NEW e-resource management system, innovative’s erm. we discovered a neat thing yesterday: html code can be entered into the back end and it displays properly … Continue reading

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“doing your job in an uncompromised way”

james murphy of lcd soundsystem articulated something about how he has chosen to do his job in a way that really hit home with me.  during a fresh air (read / listen) discussion with terry gross he talked about what … Continue reading

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librarians as professional organizers

if you’re on twitter you may know that there is a feature called “lists.” putting people you follow into a list makes sense if you follow different kinds of people and want to be able to separate their tweets. maybe … Continue reading

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Using a prioritized list of features in the selection of an ERMS

Before we even began to look at the available commercial electronic resource management systems, our Team 1: Evaluation identified a list of features that we wanted our ERMS to have. We composed our list and then added to it using … Continue reading

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two-team approach to selecting and implementing an ERMS

In November 2009 I put together a team to evaluate our existing electronic resource management system (ERMS) to determine if it was satisfactory or if we needed to pursue another commercial option.  The first part of the process was completed … Continue reading

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