Conference Reports

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2012

The 7th annual Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) conference was held from April 2-4, 2012, in Austin, Texas. This year's conference was the largest on record, with over 500 in-person and online attendees. Conference attendees and observers were very active on Twitter, using the conference hashtag #erl12 alone or in combination with individual session hashtags. The conference's major themes and selected session highlights are summarized below. In addition, a recording of the conference's fascinating opening keynote by Andrea Resmini, current President of the Information Architecture Institute, is available for free at the conference website. It's well worth watching, especially if you're a fan of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2011: Highlights

ER&L 2011 sold out well in advance of the registration deadline and attracted over 400 attendees (huge for this conference). There was a very active Twitter presence under the hashtag #erl11; ER&L organizers tweeted the conference under the Twitter name @ERandL. For a while, at least, you can see the entire conference Twitter stream at:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23erl11
See data about the Twitter stream at:
http://archivist.visitmix.com/sambr/1

ER&L 2010: Opening keynote

Librarians in the Wild: Thinking about Security, Privacy, and Digital Information
Lance Hayden
School of Information
University of Texas

ER&L 2009: Managing free e-resource collections

Managing freely available e-resource collections with today's vendor provided OpenURL knowledgebases: A challenge in quality control
Mike Bloomberg, Systems Librarian, Augsburg College
Chad Hutchens, E-Resources Librarian, University of Wyoming

ER&L 2009: Eigenfactor

Eigenfactor: Ranking and mapping the scholarly literature
Jevin West
Eigenfactor.org
University of Washington

ER&L 2009: Google Scholar

The Seismology of Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar rock your world?
Pam Howard
Ya Wang
San Francisco State University

ER&L 2009: Open-source ILS Panel

Open-Source ILS Panel
Karen Schneider, Equinox Software, Inc (support software for Evergreen)
Andrew Nagy, VuFind
Tim McGeary, Lehigh University

ER&L 2009: The Invisible Mainstream

The Invisible Mainstrean: E-resources in Workflows and Organizations
Matthew Barnes - R2 Consulting

JBK Summary:
This was a good presentation of the print/electronic paradox, because it didn't just go over the stuff everyone in the room knew - that the number of people assigned to print resource processing is an inversion of the number of e-resources coming in to the library. The presenter attempted to explain why the inversion exists, and showed some of the process that his consulting firm advises libraries to go through in order fix the problem.

ER&L 2009: Standards in the EResource World

Standards in the E-Resource World: COUNTER, CORE, and I2
John McDonald, Claremont University Consortium - COUNTER
Jeff Aippersback, Serials Solutions - CORE
Tina Feick, Harrassowitz - I2

ER&L 2009: Issues with Electronic Resources Librarianship

In Perpetuity: Institutional and implementation challenges with electronic resources librarianship
Lisa Sibert and Julia Gelfand
University of California, Irvine