discussing e-resource management at ALA

[Kimberly Parker <kimberly.parker@yale.edu>]

This is to inform readers of this list that there will be a meeting to
discuss E-resource management metadata Friday 6/14 at ALA. Like the prior
meeting held at ALA Midwinter, it is being sponsored by the ALCTS
Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group
-- whose support is (once more) gratefully acknowledged.

Meeting Agenda:
Time and Place:	Friday, June 14th, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
		Georgia World Congress Center, room B304.

Meeting Agenda:

1. Welcome, introductions and goals. (Tim Jewell)

2. Brief development reports on local E-resource management systems.
(All)

3. Reports from the May 10th NISO/DLF Workshop on Standards for Electronic
Resource Management (Tim Jewell; Nathan Robertson; Sharon Farb; Ivy
Anderson)

     --> See
http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/nisodlf/home.htm for
summary notes, PowerPoint slides and handouts from the workshop.

4. Draft strategy for developing functional specifications and promoting
relevant standards. (Tim Jewell)

5. Breakout group organizational discussions aimed at refining data
element lists and definitions over the next several months. Functional
areas are:

     a. Description (Nathan Robertson, group leader)
     b. Licensing (Sharon Farb, group leader)
     c. Access, Administration and Support (Ivy Anderson, group leader)

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Kimberly Parker
Electronic Publishing and Collections Librarian
Yale University Library
130 Wall Street              Voice (203) 432-0067
P.O. Box 208240              Fax (203) 432-8527
New Haven, CT  06520-8240    mailto:kimberly.parker@yale.edu
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