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The California State University system implemented Ex Libris's Alma and Primo as a consortium in 2017. Consortial management of electronic resources in these systems has offered significant benefits as well as surprises and difficulties. While Alma is able to support a consortium with multiple ways of acquiring and accessing electronic resources, the result is an architecture that is more complex than the setup for print resources. Similarly, Primo is able to manage the complexity of bibliographic records from twenty-three libraries as well as article-level discovery records, but its mechanisms for this may be counterintuitive at times. This article discusses some of those details and also addresses the interlibrary communication that has developed to meet the demands of this shared implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This session focused on migrating from a traditional electronic resource management system to OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.’s cloud-based WorldShare Management System, where e-resource data is created and maintained in a global environment. The session highlighted how implementing a unified, global system allowed the University of Nebraska Omaha Library to streamline e-resource management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that Chris Bulock is the recipient of the 2014 First Step Award, Patrick Carr is the recipient of the 2014 Esther J. Piercy Award and Magda El-Sherbini is the recipient of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award for 2014.

This article is a report of a concurrent session presented by Katherine Hill and Maria Collins of North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries at the 2013 North American Serials Interest Group conference. NCSU Libraries is a participant in the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) project, which will provide an openly available knowledgebase for Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE). Results from a survey conducted by NCSU librarians are discussed, which focus on the e-resource management community and their expectations of the data provided in knowledgebases. The survey investigates problems and improvements in respect to data quality. Respondents also commented on their expectations of a community-managed project as well as the viability of a project like GOKb. Future directions and initiatives in the knowledgebase space were also summarized in the presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]