Many e-resources librarians deal with a chicken-and-egg problem: Libraries need to be able to track important universal information about e-resources while cultivating site-specific metadata that is not common to all libraries. However, CORAL, an open source ERM, provides opportunities for integration with global knowledgebases that can seamlessly leverage universal data.
Right now, I spend most of my work time obsessing about authentication, battling a link resolver, and manipulating CORAL. Please talk to me about these things! (Seriously. I need all the tips I can get.)
