Governance / E-Resource Management Committee Meeting: September 15, 2025

E-Resource Management Committee Meeting: September 15, 2025

CONFERENCE CALL

Members Attending: Jacob Del Rio, Robin Hofstetter, Andrea Imre, Joanna Kolendo, Samantha Loster, Thane Montaner, Elizabeth Outler, Megan Ruenz

Members absent: Elizabeth Nelson

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

Announcements   

  • None.

Discussion

  • Operation Fiddle Faddle (OFF) – Marisa and Ted provided additional updates on the EBSCO Network Zone collections. CARLI is putting together a survey that will go out to I-Share liaisons which will provide Libraries with 4 options:
    1. Activate collections on your own without assistance from CARLI;
    2. Ask for CARLI staff to do this on your behalf;
    3. CARLI can provide support while you figure it out.
    4. Your library has already completed this work.
  • Planned transition to be fully completed by early summer 2026.
  • CARLI Annual Meeting – Annual meeting is being held on October 21, 2025. This year’s table talk will be led by Robin Hofstetter. Jacob Del Rio has agreed to help Robin lead the table.
  • Open Access Collections made available by CARLI – Some of the committee members had questions around the Open Access collections made available by CARLI.
    • Ted explained that CARLI seeks input from several committees (Collection Management, Technical Services, Commercial Products, E-Resources Management) on which collections to make available.
    • Ted provided a demonstration in Alma on how to find the activated open access collections and titles in the IZ and NZ.
    • Opting out of these collections is not an option for CARLI libraries at this time since there are intricacies in place that don’t allow this to work well.
  • ERMC projects for this year – the committee discussed ways to serve the CARLI community this year. Ideas included hosting webinars and Q & A sessions on the topics of OFF and Alma parser parameters (linking parameters). More discussion will take place at the October meeting.

Decisions

  • Minutes from the August 6, 2025 meeting were approved.

Tasks Assigned

  • Megan Ruenz took minutes.
  • October Minute Taker: Elizabeth Nelson

Meeting Dates

  • Next Meeting: Monday, October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM

 

ADJOURNED: 2 pm