Using Millennium ERMSas a discovery tool:University of Tours experience

Anne Slomovici

ICOLC Europe 2009 - 27 octobre 2009 - Session 8

François-Rabelais UniversityThe academic library

The e-resources

François-Rabelais University – Tours (France)

public size

7 faculties : Faculty of Arts and Humanities : 3500Faculty of Languages and Literature : 2300Faculty of Law, Economics and Business : 4000Faculty of Science : 2300Faculty of Medicine : 3700Faculty of Pharmacy : 1200Engineers Schools : 3300

number of students :number of staff :number of researchers :dissertations :publications :

20300 950

1300110530

François-Rabelais Universitya multi-campus site

Academic Library : e-resourcesfacts 2008

Collection

total volumes: print journals: access to electronic journals: access to electronic books: access to licensed databases

600 0005 600

15 0008 000

72

E-journalsE-booksDatabase

Catalog

articles view / downloaditems view / downloadsessionssearchesitem view / downloadsessions

17385632245452491

100339137417228020

Budget total documentationelectronic resources

1 299 616 euros in 2008

346 254 euros in2008

Why an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS) ?

ERM Database structure : integration

relations between the different types of records

Library’s catalogaccess to bibliographic records: both printed and

electronic resources

One search to find them all !

Resource recorddescription, information access, list of the titles

linked to the resource

University portal (in French “ENT”)

access to e-mail, administrative, e-learning or documentary resources

Remote, authenticated access is key !

Academic Library : e-resourcesacquisition, types, research functionalities

Dublin Core MetaData linked to bibliographic record

Dublin Core MetaDatadisplay in the catalog

Link Resolverpaths to a wide variety of sources

Federated search not integrated into the ILS – some databases only - limited

search functionality

Prospects…

Prospects

OPAC 2.0

Users always want more ! What is important…

.Technology: a living product with a high degree of

flexibility

. A catalog of library with well structured data to provide

good search results

. User experience: anticipate ever-changing user

behaviors and library needs

Thank you for your attention

Anne Slomovici anne.slomovici@univ-tours.fr