RIM System Implementation & Management with a Small Team of Librarians: Challenges & Opportunities
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Iakovakis_EFS 2023 Presentation
Description
A small team of three Oklahoma State University librarians have led the implementation and administration of Experts Directory, a RIM System hosted by Symplectic Elements, beginning in late 2019. This presentation will focus on the unique service model we developed at OSU, where the librarians are the sole system administrators and have managed the entire process of configuring the external and internal data feeds with campus IT, HR, Grants, the Registrar, campus communications, university administration, and faculty members themselves. We will discuss our processes for building and managing these relationships during implementation and how the partnerships have evolved now that the project is stable and includes live public profiles for over 600 faculty members. Although procurement was finalized prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the implementation took place afterwards, and the presentation will talk about how working remotely impacted system rollout. We will also address the benefits to the library of our leadership of the project, such as integrating with the institutional repository and giving us opportunity to build technical skills that transfer to other library projects. We will close with the challenges of RIM system administration with a small library team and offer some lessons learned and suggestions for other institutions working in this space.
Event Website
https://expertfindersystems.org/program.cfm
Start Date
6-4-2023 9:55 AM
End Date
6-4-2023 10:10 AM
Recommended Citation
Iakovakis, Clarke, "RIM System Implementation & Management with a Small Team of Librarians: Challenges & Opportunities" (2023). International Forum on Expert Finder Systems. 10.
https://efsrimsrepository.expertfindersystems.org/efs_forum/2023/fullschedule/10
RIM System Implementation & Management with a Small Team of Librarians: Challenges & Opportunities
A small team of three Oklahoma State University librarians have led the implementation and administration of Experts Directory, a RIM System hosted by Symplectic Elements, beginning in late 2019. This presentation will focus on the unique service model we developed at OSU, where the librarians are the sole system administrators and have managed the entire process of configuring the external and internal data feeds with campus IT, HR, Grants, the Registrar, campus communications, university administration, and faculty members themselves. We will discuss our processes for building and managing these relationships during implementation and how the partnerships have evolved now that the project is stable and includes live public profiles for over 600 faculty members. Although procurement was finalized prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the implementation took place afterwards, and the presentation will talk about how working remotely impacted system rollout. We will also address the benefits to the library of our leadership of the project, such as integrating with the institutional repository and giving us opportunity to build technical skills that transfer to other library projects. We will close with the challenges of RIM system administration with a small library team and offer some lessons learned and suggestions for other institutions working in this space.
https://efsrimsrepository.expertfindersystems.org/efs_forum/2023/fullschedule/10