A Centralized, Cost-Effective System for Managing Electronic
Collections
Endeavor Meridian is a breakthrough program that provides a single
point for managing the complex relationships between a library's
electronic resources, the packages through which they are acquired,
and the licenses that govern their use.
By centralizing access to this information, Meridian reduces
the staff effort traditionally required to manage, deliver
and analyze e-content while providing improved service to patrons.
And because it was built specifically for electronic resource
management, Meridian provides a complete solution that is practical
for any library with active electronic resource collections.
Meridian: Built for the Challenges of E-Resource Management
Designed specifically to manage electronic resources, Meridian
provides the most complete solution for controlling all information
about a resource and its lifecycle. The system gives today's
libraries a central location to record detailed information
about an electronic resource and its associated packages
or licenses. Librarians familiar with electronic resources
know the challenges of managing complex relationships among
licenses, packages, and resources; the multi-threaded nature
of selecting, licensing, acquiring, and maintaining a resource
also adds complications. Meridian, as the hub for all activities
related to the library's electronic resources,
eases these problems by providing a central source for recording
data and tracking workflows.
Meridian also offers an intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface
that simplifies usage, enabling staff members to respond quickly
to patron needs. To facilitate quick and easy access to key
information, Meridian uses a summary display to highlight selected
data, defined by the user's role. From evaluation to license
negotiation, renewal or termination, from determining ILL privileges
to troubleshooting access problems, Meridian simplifies the
process.
Dynamic Integration with Your Existing ILS
Key data about an institution's electronic
resources, bibliographic
and holdings data, as well as acquisitions information,
is often maintained in the library's integrated library system,
and librarians want to use that data without having to duplicate
it in a number of systems. Endeavor Meridian fully integrates
with Voyager and
other ILS products, retrieving MARC data and order and invoice
records directly from the ILS as necessary. This dynamic
ILS integration helps improve resource analysis and management
by eliminating duplicate data entry and providing better
intelligence for business decisions about electronic collections
Designed for the Future
By providing easy access to all your electronic resource data,
Meridian will become a pivotal central source of information
for a range of activities related to electronic content.
Much of the information maintained for the purposes of administering
e-resource content can be used to drive public displays (both
as A-Z resource lists and integrated OPAC or gateway interfaces),
Open URL-enabled linking, entitlements, and database search
definitions. A rapidly evolving system, Endeavor Meridian
also addresses future applications such as the need to leverage
electronic management information to facilitate delivery
of access to resources via federated searching, linking,
and more.
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