Personal Resilience in Project Management 2 - TV Edit 1a.pdf
Contributing an Open Source Solution to the Library Community
1. Ben Heet
University of Notre
Dame
Contributing an Open Source
Solution to the Library
Community
The Conference for Entrepreneurial
Librarians
Winston-Salem, NC
2. Contributing an Open Source solution to the library
community
About Hesburgh Libraries
About CORAL
- centralized online resources acquisitions and licensing
Present state of ERMS
Building an ERM
Open Source
Supporting the software
Users Group
- http://erm.library.nd.edu
3. Hesburgh Libraries
- 11,000 FTE (mostly undergraduate)
- $10,000,000 total materials budget ($6 million
electronic)
- 3 million total volumes held
ERMS History
- Local database (began as filemaker pro)
- Shared file space (Word docs, spreadsheets)
- Verde (two years)
- Investigated SerialsSolutions, III Millenium, e-Martix
4. Present state of ERMS
Verde
SerialsSolutions
III Millenium
ERM Essentials
E-Matrix
Others…
- CUFTS
- ERMes
- OLLARA
Which one do we choose?
- Functionality
- Complexity
- Flexibility
5. The CORAL Approach to
ERMS
Each Module specialized
Simplified and intuitive
interface
Optional interoperability
Designed by a library for libraries
Focus on workflow
Iterative development
6. Sharing is Caring
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7. Open Source
http://erm.library.nd.edu
Four available modules
- Licensing
- Organizations
- Resources
- Usage Statistics
Documentation
- User guides
- Installation instructions
- Technical documentation
9. Open Source Support
Challenges
Working with other libraries
Competing priorities
Enhancement requests
Support calls
Bug fixes
Training
Best Practices
We are g iving it o ur be st sho t!
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10. Building a
Community
First Users Group Meeting – ER&L 2011
coral-erm@listserv.nd.edu
New website – DRUPAL
Wiki?
Development partners
How are we going to do this?
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