September 2004 I recently returned from the Eastern Great Lakes Innovative User's Group meeting in which Innovative demonstrated a new product, an Electronic Resource management system. In my September blog I was very excited about Millennium's ERM. I had been using a very long detailed Excel file to manage my resources and Innovative's product looked like the answer to my prayers. Unfortunately at the time, I didn't get all the answers to my questions because the sales person demonstrated who (I feel) didn't quite have a sold grasp on library needs.

Well in the latest issue of The Serials Librarian is the article:
Integrating and Streamlining Electronic Resources Workflows via Innovative's Electronic Resource Management (not free online)
Laura Tull, Janet Crum MLS, Trisha Davis, C Rockelle Strader
The Serials Librarian
Page Range: 103 - 124 DOI: 10.1300/J123v47n04_11
Copyright Year: 2005

Abstract:
Libraries have been grappling with the management of the growing number of electronic resources, such as e-journals and electronic article indexes, for the last decade especially after the availability of many of these resources on the World Wide Web. The integrated library system wasn't originally designed to accommodate many of these functions. In 2002, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. partnered with several of their customer libraries to develop a module to manage electronic resources based on the work of the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resources Management Initiative. The result of this partnership is a module that addresses functions such as tracking trial access, license negotiations, maintenance, troubleshooting as well as integration into the online catalog.

Whooo hooo, a library's experience with the product, exactly what I wanted back in September.