A Locally Created ERM: How and Why We Did It.

The article describes the utilization of Microsoft Access to develop a basic, effective and inexpensive electronic resource management (ERM) for the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse's Murphy Library. Attending the "Taming the Electronic Tiger: Effective Management of E-Resources" symposium in January 2004 influenced the author's decision to create an ERM for the library. The initial development of the ERM took about two months and 40 hours. It featured vendor names, link between specific databases and vendors, data elements, alternate login information and Uniform Resource Locators (URL) links. The author claimed that the ERM brought about significant improvement to the library.