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In their article, Samples and Blake explore the need for name authority control within E-Matrix, the locally developed electronic
resources management (ERM) system at North Carolina State University (NCSU). They reviewed practices across the academic library and vendor communities, strategies for data evaluation, best practices, and challenges in implementation. Blake and Samples note that librarians at NCSU realized that standardization was necessary to enhance collection intelligence by improving the methods for collecting, tracking, reporting, and analyzing data. The authors describe and include examples and illustrations of NCSU's design and workflow for conducting name authority work in E-Matrix. Their findings confirm that imposing name authority control on the organization name data within an ERM leads to greater precision and comprehensiveness
in reporting and collection analysis efforts, which results in more accurate and cleaner data. The authors' research also demonstrated that opportunities exist for future research, for collaboration, and for enhancement of the original project.