NISO Forum: Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities (Day Two)

Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Day Two Welcome

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Day Two Keynote: Investing in a Time of Disruptive Change

9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.:

There have been fundamental changes in the way that information is created, distributed and used, this has a major impact on the systems that are used to manage and access information. The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), working in partnership with the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) has been exploring the impact of these changes and how the UK academic library requirements can be met. This talk will focus on the impact of the major changes, drawing on research and analysis in the UK, and will outline a model to help think through some of the changes and discuss the options for moving forward, in particular there is work underway exploring shared service options, and there are debates about whether Open Source is a realistic way forward. With the accelerating pace of change what way do we turn?

Whither ERMI?

10:15 a.m. - 11:00 am:

In 2004, the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) published a groundbreaking report on standards for electronic resource management in libraries. Since that time, a number of commercial and 'home-grown' systems have sprung up to implement and manage this information;  yet integrating e-resource data and workflows with existing library management systems and practices remains challenging. The Electronic Resource Management Data Standards Review currently being launched by NISO will undertake a gap analysis of ERM-related data and standards and make recommendations regarding future needs for e-resource management standards within the context of the broader library data management landscape.

See www.niso.org/workrooms/ermreview for more information on this project.

Break

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

The Library system in a broader context: Interaction with other library systems / interoperability

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.:

• Integrating Library Resource Management Systems into Campus Infrastructure for Research and Education
  MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
  
  In academic research libraries, Library Resource Management Systems are part of a large and complex IT landscape, both within the library and across the campus. To be effective, Library Resource Management Systems should seemlessly integrate with enterprise business systems (e.g., the HR database, Data Warehouse, campus network authentication and authorization system), with new library technology platforms (e.g., Institutional Repositories), and with other campus research and education systems (e.g., course management systems, departmental data archives). This talk will provide a framework for an institutional IT architecture, and the specific issues that arise when integrating different types of Library Resource Management System into the campus infrastructure.
   
• Considering a New Information Topology
  Diane C. Mirvis, Associate Vice President Information Technology and CIO,
  Magnus Wahlstrom Library, University of Bridgeport
  
  Institutions have traditionally managed information technology split into two broad areas – administrative and academic computing. Evolving tools like enterprise Portals, Library discovery platforms, institutional repositories, course management systems, and student information systems with learning management options are providing more opportunities to serve up content at the point users require it to complete a task. Information content from the Library and other providers becomes a commodity that is delivered to users via role based workflow. The discussion has broadened beyond talking about systems integration and standards, to rethinking how the organization supplies information to its constituencies. 

Lunch

12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Seamless Sharing: NYU, HathiTrust, ReCAP and the Cloud Library

1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.:

With the explosion in the number of digital and print repositories and the radically increased ability for sharing of these repositories, we find ourselves without an infrastructure to enable, manage and maintain these shared resources. What is needed is a clear proposal for how to effect this, complete with a pilot project that demonstrates, in real terms, how it could be achieved.

Under the auspices of CLIR and OCLC Research, we are developing precisely this proposal and pilot using:

• the NYU Library as the pilot library
• ReCAP as the print storage facility
• HathiTrust as the digital preservation repository

Our end result will be the infrastructure and inner workings of a cloud library-- one that provides seamless access to services in both print and digital form. At least one need for these services has been demonstrated by our pilot library-- for space issues, the NYU Library is in the process of de-accessioning nearly a million volumes from their print collections by next summer. With a cloud library service, they will be assured of trusted access to the physical volumes inside of ReCAP and trusted access and preservation of the digitized volumes inside of HathiTrust.

We will describe the current scope and status of the project, our research into the needs of institutions for this shared cloud library, how trusted digital and print repositories will be enabled, and how we will build appropriate service models to encompass all perceived needs.

Large Consortium Systems: Making the Library Work With Other Libraries

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.:

In March of 2008, the Council governing the Orbis Cascade Alliance voted to enter a development partnership with OCLC to migrate the Alliance's union catalog and consortial borrowing system to a new platform. The Alliance's strategic agenda called for an improved patron experience as well as better integration of local, consortial, and ILL borrowing. The strategic agenda recognized that effective library services and resource sharing required seamless interaction between products produced by different vendors. For this reason, it sought investigation of systems that communicated using standard protocols.

Planning and executing the migration took eight months, and the system has been in production use by all 36 Alliance members since December 2008. This session explains the implementation process as well as the organizational and technical challenges faced in migrating so many institutions simultaneously.

Brainstorming Possibilities: A Group Activity

2:00 p.m - 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Reports from Brainstorming

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Closing Presentation: Where can we go from here?

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Final Wrap-Up

4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.