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- Innovative ERM License fee - currently approximately $7,500-$8,000/year. This is paid until September 31, 2014.
- Innovative ERM server - Once we get through the migration to the linux VM, our server cost for the III ERM will be about $2000/year as the server is currently spec'd. (We may need to adjust its provisioning depending on actual performance once it's up and running in production.) The support contract with III is in the ballpark of $10K/year. Let me know if you need more specific numbers than that - chrisChris Manly
Benefits and potential savings:
- Record loads into III - requires considerable attention for week every month. wear and tear on body and soul. Impact on patrons (updated holdings, public display inaccurate and slow), staff (stress and ability to focus on other work) 10-20 hours per month. Some of the time saved could be spent handling more frequent Serials Solutions MARC updates loads, keeping Voyager and the ERM in closer sync. This will reduce delays between purchasing content and having that content appear in discovery tools such as Blacklight and Summon.
- License, resource , contacts information already in knowledgebase knowledge base for many resources - III system is all hand entry for resource and license records.
- Selectors will be able to access the system with relatively little training to view title lists, license terms, contact information. As a web based tool, this will be possible remotely (during a conference). III system has limited simultaneous connections and requires considerable training to get new users up to speed.
- Reducing the number of systems involved in e-resource management without loss of functionality or access to information. This has significant impact on training time, procedure retention, and ease of use.
- Cleaner matching of resources between management and discovery systems. This has significant impact on our ability to effectively troubleshoot resource access issues.
360 COUNTER at Cornell
License fees $10,450/year plus onetime set up $688
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- Annual harvesting of usage statistics - This will be mostly automated - SUSHI compliant resources each month, Non-SUSHI resources 2x yearly. System alerts us when changes are coming, usage harvesting data is out of date, - Sally Lockwood currently spends 12 weeks at about 75% of her time to harvest. If we can recover 50-70% of this time to handle only the more complicated issues and updating the system, considerable effort is recovered.
- Selectors will be able to access the system and make custom consolidated reports. This is possible, but complicated in the current "system"
RM-CE for 2CUL
License fees - $14,000 total, split between CULs for first year. $20,000 total years 2+.
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- Platform changes and other resource maintenance - One person/process can make the changes for both institutions when both CULs have content in the same collections.
- Alerts monitoring
- Comparison of e-collections will be considerably easier. This will help with set us up to engage in cooperative collection development decisions, shared workflow.
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