ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Electronic resource management

Hey kiddo! Have you ever seen your parents trying to find a specific book or article on their computers? That's called electronic resource management. It basically means managing electronic resources like eBooks, research articles, journals, and other digital materials.

Just like how your parents keep their things sorted in different cabinets and drawers at home, libraries and educational institutions also use electronic resource management systems to keep track of all these digital materials and make them easily accessible to students and researchers.

These systems can help librarians manage subscriptions to different electronic resources and keep track of when they expire, or how many people are using them. They can also help them organize these resources by subject, author, or date to make it easier for people to find what they need.

So, in short, electronic resource management is just like organizing a bunch of cool digital stuff so that people can find them easily and use them to learn new things and explore new ideas!
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