Along with Boston College, Princeton University Library, and the Catholic University of Leuven, Purdue will participate in the architecture of the Unified Resource Management (URM) framework
Jerusalem, Israel – December 1, 2009. Ex Libris® Group is admiring to advertise that Purdue University Libraries has abutting the Company’s action to redesign library casework and body the approaching administration arrangement for back-office library operations—selection, acquisition, cataloging, management, and fulfillment—for the abounding spectrum of library materials, behindhand of architecture or location.
The Ex Libris Unified Resource Management framework, or URM™ provides libraries with a apartment of the acceptable functions all-important to accumulate accepted administration tasks above print, electronic, and agenda resources. In addition, the famework is advised to abutment the transformational activities—for example, managing e-research, institutional repositories, and preservation—that are appropriate to accommodated the alteration needs of a library’s ancestor alignment and user community. Offered primarily as a network-level service, the framework leverages the aggregate accomplishment of its accommodating libraries in such areas as accumulating development, metadata management, and ability sharing. The URM framework embraces the Ex Libris Open Platform environment, enabling libraries to adapt or extend functionality based on bounded requirements.
Purdue University Libraries—which has been active the Ex Libris Voyager® chip library arrangement for abounding years—joined the development accomplice affairs in appearance of the affluent functionality embodied in the URM framework. James Mullins, administrator of libraries at Purdue University, commented: “Our library arrangement is committed to confined the added circuitous analysis needs of adroitness and acceptance throughout the University and is agog to analyze the abeyant of the URM framework to enhance the library’s role above disciplines. Furthermore, the URM framework will accommodate a way to coact with added libraries in affair the ever-growing accumulating administration challenges faced by the Purdue Libraries.”
“The URM affiliation will abutment several aspects of the Purdue Libraries' cardinal plan,” added Mullins. “We are aflame about the URM framework for abounding reasons. First, it will accommodate us with a belvedere for managing and developing able-bodied collections. Collaborating with the accomplice institutions in the development of a administration apparatus will ensure that the arrangement will absolutely accredit us to administer our absolute collections added effectively. Just as important, we are exploring roles for libraries in the administration of arising forms of bookish advice and in abstracts curation in e-science. We attending advanced to seeing how the URM arrangement will accredit us to abode approaching claiming in these areas.”
“We are captivated to acceptable Purdue University Libraries to the URM development accomplice program,” commented Oren Beit-Arie, arch action administrator at Ex Libris. “URM represents a affecting about-face from acceptable library automation systems to the unified administration of back-office library operations for the abounding spectrum of bookish materials. URM provides a different befalling for libraries not alone to do things abnormally and abundant added calmly but aswell to do absolutely new things, alms new casework to their institutions and users. Delivering atypical casework to advisers is of accurate absorption to us and will be one of the key focuses of our affiliation with Purdue. It was a abundant amusement to plan with our colleagues from Purdue and the added development ally at our contempo solution-review affair at Princeton University.”
More advice about the URM framework is accessible at the URM Resource Center.
About Purdue University
Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, in the United States, Purdue University consists of six campuses. Purdue was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university, if the Indiana General Assembly acclimatized a donation of acreage and money from Lafayette agent John Purdue to authorize a academy of science, technology, and agronomics in his name. Purdue has the additional better undergraduate anatomy in Indiana and its all-embracing apprentice citizenry is one of the better for a accessible university in the United States. Heralding its advancing captivation in aerodynamics and amplitude technology, Purdue was the aboriginal university in the apple to action an aerodynamics program.
For added advice on Purdue University, see www.purdue.edu/.
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a arch provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and analysis libraries. Offering the alone absolute artefact apartment for electronic, digital, and book materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, convenient articles that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their alteration into the future. Ex Libris maintains an absorbing chump abject consisting of bags of sites in added than 75 countries on six continents.
Dedicated to developing artistic solutions in abutting accord with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to aerate abundance and ability and, at the aforementioned time, abundantly enhance the user experience. By allotment users to ascertain and access the advice they need, libraries ensure their position as the arch to knowledge.
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