Paving the ERM Highway: the Expanding Role of ERM Systems and the Drive to Streamline their Data Population

Tina Feick is Vice President, Customer Relations for Swets Information Services, Runnemede, NJ. Deberah England is an Electronic Resources Librarian at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.Electronic Resource Management (ERM) systems are becoming comprehensive data repositories for eResource information, yet populating these systems with information is often labor intensive and time consuming. Our library and agent panel will look at the increasingly important role of ERM systems, the challenges to meet these growing needs through new methods and relationships, and how new standards are streamlining ERM data transmission