Notes from our meeting on 17th Dec

1. SCONUL project

1.1 Regina is attending the workshop at Bournemouth Uni on Monday. 

1.2 Discussed which use cases Salford would like to provide - have suggested: 

• No. 7     Co-delivery of print and electronic
• No. 15   Move to e-only
• No. 6     Cancellation of e-journal title

1.3 Discussed who would attend other workshops/ meetings

2 Process maps

2.1 Looked at work on numbering workflows so far - need all processes to be numbered and also to identify inputs/ outputs, processes and descriptions 

3. ERM systems

3.1 Would like to mark systems we have seen against out requirements doc - Charlotte to see if possible to have access to demo sites for any of the systems.

This is an interim blog post, to refelct on the progress of the project so far, and discuss the exciting new developments for the project. Over the past 6 months, we have been looking at electronic resource management, and have had the opportunity to examine our workflows, and present these for the various scenarios that we currently operate. From the workflows, we have created a preliminary set of requirements for an ERM, which can be used by other institutions. We have applied the MoSCoW methodology to the requirements document, in order to prioritise our needs.

We are now in a position where the Salfmeri work is being further developed by the University in the SCONUL Shared Services strand of the JISC LMS programme, The current ERM Requirements and Workflow deliverables be will enhanced as part of that process. We aim to have 3 open source ERMs operational, in order for us to assess how easy they are to install, and also to walk through their functionality. We will continue to blog here, and also on the SCONUL project blog once it has been established.

Notes from our meeting on 26th November

1. Our current processes
1.1. Charlotte has added the Process Map to the blog.

2. Shared Services Project
2.1. Angela has received confirmation that we have definitely had funding approved to extend the project and work on the JISC/SCONUL Shared Services project. Angela will attend a meeting in early December to discuss further details
2.2. Angela has passed the details of some open source systems to Justin Wood, who will sort out hosting etc

3. Visit to Sheffield
3.1. Angela and Regina visited the University of Sheffield to discuss their use of Verde
3.2. They are implementing this system in stages, starting with licences, then moving on to trials

4. Requirements document
4.1. We did some more work on the requirements document, rating the ERMs using the ‘MOSCOW’ scoring system

5. Next meeting
5.1. Charlotte will arrange either an extended or additional meeting where we can work more on the requirements document and will email everyone with the details