Bringing Presentations Home: As Seen at ER&L 2017–Localized at MHC with ALEPH, ARC, & SFX

Abstract

At ER&L 2017 in April, I attended various presentations around managing electronic resources. I was particularly interested in hearing about ideas for other ways than cost-per-use on which to base journal subscription reviews as well as how other libraries were tracking and managing perpetual access rights. Lucky for me, I saw and heard things that set my wheels turning. But how to bring these ideas home? How to make them work for my library, with our configurations, with our systems: ALEPH, ARC, & SFX? Hence … now at ENUG 2017 I can show how I used ALEPH, ARC, & SFX in combination to create reports of journal subscriptions for cancellation consideration not based on cost-per-use, and Steve Bischof, the Five Colleges ALEPH ILS Coordinator, and I will talk about how in ALEPH I intend to track and manage over time and through future-(ILS)-migration perpetual access rights information.