Resumen de Meeting the e-resources challenge through collaboration: : An OCLC perspective on effective management, access, and delivery of electronic collections

Jill Fluvog, Maria Collins, Dawn Hale, Andrew K Pace, Gwen Sinclair

• The session explored how collaboration among libraries, suppliers, and the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) cooperative can address some of the problems being faced with the management of electronic resources. Examples of specific challenges that impact budgets and services are: libraries’ reliance on multiple non-interoperable systems; the difficulties in getting and maintaining high quality and timely metadata; and the issues with managing workflows that cross system and staff boundaries. As work continues to introduce and enhance integrated systems for electronic resource management, these cooperative efforts can improve both the quality of the services and the associated data and workflows.