Two decades after the advent of electronic journals and databases, librarians are still grappling with ways to best manage these resources in conjunction with their print resources. In addition, economic pressures at most institutions of higher learning are resulting in librarians having to justify each dollar spent on collections and resource management. Furthermore, ebooks are becoming yet another stream of purchasing and management with the added complexity of patron driven acquisitions. All this results in the need to codify the management of electronic resource management more than ever. Over the next 3 months TERMS will look at each of the stages in the e-resources cycle on our blog:1 Investigating New Content for purchase/addition 2. Acquire New Content 3. Implement 4. Evaluation and Ongoing Access 5. Annual Review 6. Cancellation and replacement

Bibliographica is an open catalogue of cultural works. There are currently 3017569 works in the database.  A project of  the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Deeply flawed article on the "hidden" costs of moving to an open source ILS. This is what happens when you try to apply any 'ol open source project to the open source ILS market. Tsk tsk.

Customizations available to Michigan Evergreen libraries for an extra fee.

Holmes County District Public Library comparison of Evergreen 1.4 and Horizon (2000).

Snell Pro implementing and supporting Columbia College Library in move to Evergreen.

Easy to understand workflow diagram of the acquisitions workflow in Evergreen showing how it differs depending on whether your vendor supports EDI or not. By Tim Spindler and the folks at C/W MARS.