E-Resource Management Committee Meeting: November 17, 2025

CONFERENCE CALL

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

Members absent: None

CARLI Staff Attending: Yanira Cruz, Nicole Ream-Sotomayor, Ted Schwitzner, Marisa Tolbert

Announcements   

• CARLI renewals and selections for calendar year 2026 wrapping up, everyone should have received confirmation emails from ConsortiaManager.

Decisions

• Consent to record the meeting.
  ● Minutes of October meeting approved.
  ● CARLI’s OFF project team will reach out to Jacob, Robin, and Megan to plan support for libraries that requested orientation for activating EBSCO databases in their Institution Zone before CARLI turns them off in the Network Zone.
  ● Confirmed plans for series of usage statistics webinars:
  • (February) Understanding Counter Stats (including transition to 5.1) – Jacob;
  • (March) Interpreting Counter Stats & Storytelling – Samantha & Megan;
  • (April) Using Analytics to Pull Your Data/Working with Vendors/ SUSHI without Analytics – Andrea, Samantha & Elizabeth Nelson
    ● Robin will write the annual report in May.

Tasks Assigned

• Elizabeth Outler took minutes.
• November Minute Taker: Samantha Loster.

Meeting Dates

• Next Meeting: Monday, December 15, 2025 at 1PM

ADJOURNED: 1:52 pm