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Contributing an Open Source Solution to the Library Community Benjamin Heet, Senior Technical Consultant/Administrator, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries designed and implemented an open source electronic resources management system (ERMS) after finding the existing systems available on the market to be insufficient and overly complex. The Hesburgh Libraries set out to create a simple and easy to use web-based ERMS that was directly designed by the library staff who would use the system. The Hesburgh Libraries are now attempting to build a community of adopters that will shepherd the ERMS, called CORAL, into the future as a marketable and successful open source ERMS for the library community.
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Ben HeetUniversity of Notre
Dame
Contributing an Open Source Solution to the
Library Community
The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians
Winston-Salem, NC
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
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
Present state of ERMS
Verde SerialsSolutions III Millenium ERM Essentials E-Matrix Others…
- CUFTS- ERMes- OLLARA
Which one do we choose?
- Functionality- Complexity- Flexibility
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
Sharing is Caring
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Open Source
http://erm.library.nd.edu
Four available modules - Licensing - Organizations - Resources - Usage Statistics Documentation - User guides - Installation instructions - Technical documentation
We aren’t alone!
Open Source Support
Challenges Working with other libraries Competing priorities Enhancement requests Support calls Bug fixes Training Best Practices
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Building a Communit
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First Users Group Meeting – ER&L 2011 [email protected] New website – DRUPAL Wiki? Development partners How are we going to do this?
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The Big Question…
How can CORAL become and remain a successful ERMS for the library community?
