ER&L 2016

April 3–6, 2016

Austin, Texas

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S08 - Achieving the Holy Grail of Electronic Resource Management: Automated Holdings Feeds in a Knowledge Base

Monday, April 4, 2016 at 10:45 AM–11:30 AM CDT

Room 301

Conference Track

1. Managing e-Resources & Licensing

Learning Objectives

Understand how automated holdings feeds can save library staff time and frustration and improve user access to electronic resources,

Learn specific steps that content providers need to take to make these feeds a reality,

Witness an example of an important collaboration between content providers, knowledge bases and libraries

Abstract

Libraries face many challenges with maintaining electronic resource holdings that are constantly changing. Learn how content providers, a knowledge base and libraries are working together to ensure accurate and updated knowledge base holdings via institution-specific automated feeds which save library staff a great deal of time and frustration.

Presenters

Charlie Remy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Sandy Cahillane, Bay Path University