E-Resource Management Committee Meeting: April 11, 2025

CONFERENCE CALL

Members Attending: Jacob Del Rio, Robin Hofstetter, Joanna Kolendo, Elizabeth Nelson, Sara Rizzo, Megan Ruenz, Lisa Wallis

Members absent: Elizabeth Outler

CARLI Staff Attending: Yanira Cruz, Wyn Schell, Ted Schwitzner, Marisa Tolbert

Announcements   

• CARLI
  • The CARLI staff will be meeting in person in a couple of weeks, meaning some members will be meeting face-to-face for the first time.
  • Multiple IMLS grant opportunities CARLI was pursuing have been officially canceled.
• Members
  • Jacob announced that he received the official letter from IMLS that their 21st Century Laura Bush $250k grant has been officially terminated. Listen more about the impacts on other Illinois libraries, "Pause in federal funding puts future of Illinois libraries and museums in jeopardy".

Discussion

• Jacob agreed to co-chair ERMC for the remainder of the academic year, since Jennifer had to step down from the committee.
•  The group looked at the February and March survey results for ideas for future planning.
  • Megan noted that the comment about “ERM management in general” was a bit too general to be helpful.
  • Yanira suggest we might ask how long people have been in their roles, in order to know how to be most useful to new ER librarians. For instance, there is an understanding that the work is cyclical, but what does that mean? Some of the terminology also overlaps and may not be clear.
    • There are always a number of fires to put out, so how do ER librarians decide what to prioritize? Also, the market changes to quickly, writing documentation is so difficult – it takes so much time and will quickly become outdated.
  • Robin noted the Core Competencies were very helpful when they got started. Robin offered an introduction to E-resources for subject librarians, which really helped them understand the work for themselves. They also cited the e-resources lifecycle as being helpful.
  • Elizabeth suggested that perhaps a “chat” could be useful and fun, rather than a presentation. Then it could be opened up for questions.
  • Ted mentioned that there is a lot of value in being vulnerable and acknowledging there may be no point of mastery in the work.
  • Marisa thought CARLI staff could go back and look at the Alma Confidence Survey for ideas, especially now that we are 5 years post-migration.

Decisions

• Minutes of the March 14, 2025 meeting approved.

Tasks Assigned

• Lisa did meeting minutes.

Meeting Dates

• Next Meeting: May 9, 2025

ADJOURNED: 1:26 pm in order to begin the day’s presentation by Megan