Today, June 5th Gold Rush released a major update to its “Subscriptions” module. This latest update of Gold Rush’s electronic resource management system (ERMS) is the first of several major enhancements planned for this year. Please let us know in the Colorado Alliance office if you notice any difficulties with the new release in terms of either functionality or data.
The June 2007 release allows libraries to have broad control over many aspects of the module. During the initial cutover, the existing 87 fields retain their original order and with your original content. So nothing needs to be done until you are ready.
During the beta testing period of this new release several new ideas were suggested which will be added as incremental improvements during the fall.
Other planned substantial enhancements for early fall include an “Incident Tracker” which will allow you to monitor Web service outages to determine contract compliance and notify users of outages via the Gold Rush A-Z or link resolver interfaces. An XML gateway is also in development which will allow users to submit an XML query and retrieve back an XML bit stream to which you can apply your own templates and style sheets.
George