...
- Innovative ERM License fee - currently approximately $7,500-$8,000/year. This is paid until September 31, 2014.
- Innovative ERM server (locally hosted)- 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 - Chris Manly
Benefits and potential savings:
- Record loads into to update the Innovative ERM - requires require considerable attention for one week every month. wear and tear on body and soul. Impact on patrons ( During this time there is impact on patrons (non-updated holdings, public display inaccurate, and slowslower response times) , staff (stress and ability to focus on other work) and staff time of 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 Blacklight more in closer sync with our electronci holdings managed in RM. This will reduce delays between purchasing content and having that content appear in discovery various discovery tools such as Blacklight and Summon.
- LicenseThe RM knowledge base comes populated with some license, resource information already in knowledge base for many resources - Innovative ERM system is all hand entry for resource and license records, and provider information. This must all be manually entered into the Innovative ERM system. The E-Resources and Cataloging uits should save a few hours per week in data entry.
- 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 (such as during a conference). Innovative ERM system has limited simultaneous connections and requires considerable training to get new users up to speed.
- Reducing Cornell staff are already using the Serials Solutions system for maintaining MARC record updates, Summon, and the OpenURL resolver. This has significant impact on training time, procedure retention, and ease of use by 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.
- Knowledge base Notifications alert us to changes in platforms, database titles, and other important maintenance issues. This will allow for more pro-active work to reduce access problems.
...
- Platform changes and other resource maintenance can often be time intensive projects. We can handle these tasks collaboratively and can make the changes for both institutions when both CULs have content in the same collections.
- Collaborative monitoring of Knowledge base Notifications will be possible, thereby reducing duplicate effort.
- Comparison of e-collections will be considerably easier. This will set us up to engage in in cooperative collection development decisions and shared workflow.
...