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CARLI News
December 1, 2006 Volume 1, Issue 1
Welcome!
You’re looking at the first official CARLI e-newsletter. It’s a work in progress. We’ll be looking at ways to make it more useful, more visually appealing, and easy to find on the CARLI website. We’d love to hear your suggestions about what you’d like to see, and how often you’d like to see it. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Don't Wait
Avoid the last minute rush, send in your CARLI membership agreement now. Copies are available on the CARLI web site. Don’t know if your institution has sent in your form? Want to know what institutions will be a part of CARLI in 2007? Request a copy of the 2007 membership list.
News from the CARLI Board
At the November meeting, the CARLI Board of Directors approved two new resources for CARLI members and approved a new member library:
Chronicle of Higher Education Online—Partial Subsidy
We’re excited to announce that CARLI will pay the full cost of Chronicle of Higher Education Online from January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2007 for all members who have returned their membership agreements by December 28, 2006. For institutions returning membership agreements January 1-January 31, 2007 (the final deadline), CARLI will provide full access February 15, 2007 through June 30, 2007.
Beginning July 1, 2007, CARLI will subsidize the annual subscription cost at the rate of 80% for governing members, 40% for associate members, and 20% for basic members, with a commitment to continue this level of subsidy through FY2010. CARLI members will have the opportunity to subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education Online for the period July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008 as part of the Spring database brokering process. Request a copy of the CARLI press release.
Harper’s Weekly (HarpWeek) 1890-1912—Purchase
CARLI will purchase online access to the full text of Harper’s Weekly (HarpWeek) for the years 1890-1912. We currently offer HarpWeek 1857-1889 to all CARLI member libraries and we’re pleased to add the additional 15 years of coverage. HarpWeek offers a comprehensive historical record and is used extensively on CARLI member campuses. Over the last academic year, the current collection was used on 75 CARLI campuses and had 179,000 page downloads. CARLI expects the interest and research value of the collection to grow with these additional years of full text. Libraries should have access by January 1, 2007. If your library already has a link to HarpWeek, you won’t need to do anything else to obtain the additional years. To establish a link to HarpWeek contact support@carli.illinois.edu.
Field Museum Library Approved for Governing Membership in CARLI
CARLI is thrilled to count The Field Museum Library among our governing members for 2007. The Field Museum has been an international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography since it’s founding in 1893.The Main Research Collections concentrate on biology, and anthropology, archaeology, museology, and related subjects and contain over 275,000 volumes. The Mary W. Runnells Rare Book Room (7500 volumes), the Photo Archives (over 250,000 images) and the Institutional Archives supplement the main collections. For more information about the Field Museum collections visit http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/default.htm.
View the full agenda and minutes from the meetings of the CARLI Board of Directors.
CARLI to Host ACRL Illinois Immersion ’07: July 13-18, 2007
CARLI and ACRL's Institute for Information Literacy are pleased to announce Illinois Immersion '07, the Regional Information Literacy Immersion Institute sponsored by ACRL to be held at the Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, July 13 – 18, 2007. CARLI is hosting Illinois Immersion '07 with support from the Illinois State Library.
Illinois Immersion '07 will be 4 ½ days of learning and intensive interaction among academic librarians. A faculty of nationally recognized librarians will teach the program. Acceptance to the Illinois Immersion Program is competitive; participation is limited to 90 to ensure an environment that fosters group interaction and active participation.
For preferred consideration for Illinois Immersion '07, Illinois residents should apply by Wednesday, February 28, 2007. As space allows, applications will be accepted (including non-Illinois residents) until Friday, March 30, 2007. For additional details and application materials, visit the CARLI website.
New Features on the CARLI Web Site
What's New on the CARLI Blog?
Just like the new e-newletter, the CARLI blog has arrived. If there are topics you’d like us to address, information you’d like to see, or if there are other resources that we should add, let us know. Comment on first blog posting.
Need a Wiki for your CARLI Group?
Contact your group liaison or email support@carli.illinois.edu.
What's Been Submitted to the Products & Services Vetting Committee?
Do you have something to submit but want to see if it’s already being considered? CARLI members have a lot of great ideas and we want to keep them coming. We’ve made it easier for you to check on the status of the suggestions submitted to the PSVC. See the list of suggestions and their status.
Ready to submit a new suggestion to the Products and Services Vetting Committee? Fill out the online form.
Have A Program Suggestion?
Is your suggestion for a program, symposium, continuing education opportunity? Use the program suggestion form.
I-Share Updates
Voyager: Analyzer
CARLI has acquired the Analyzer module for the Voyager integrated library system. Analyzer will be available to all I-Share libraries at no direct cost. Analyzer's web-based, user-friendly reporting and distribution capabilities represent a significant enhancement to CARLI’s current Microsoft Access reporting tools for Voyager.
CARLI will announce a schedule for Analyzer training for I-Share library staff in early 2007. For more information about the CARLI implementation of Voyager send an email to support@carli.illinois.edu.
New I-Share Libraries
The CARLI Board has accepted the I-Share applications of fifteen institutions. With the addition of the institutions in 2006-2007, I-Share will grow from its current 65 library databases, to 71 library databases. The 6 new I-Share participants have combined holdings of over 790,000 items and serve over 17,000 students.
The institutions to be added in 2006-2007 are:
Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (serving Frontier Community College; Lincoln Trail College; Olney Central College; and Wabash Valley College)
Knox College, Galesburg
Monmouth College, Monmouth
Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria
Trinity International University, Deerfield
Institutions pre-approved for 2007-2008 are:
Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago
Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago
Erikson Institute, Chicago
Harrington College of Design, Chicago
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Upcoming CARLI Events and Meetings
For additional information about CARLI forums, trainings, and meetings in December and events scheduled for 2007, consult the CARLI calendar.
Forums
December 6: FY2008 Collections Enhancement Awards Workshop in Chicago
December 7: Mass Migration: Moving from Print to Electronic in University Park
December 12: FY2008 Collections Enhancement Awards Workshop in Normal
Training
November 30-December 1: Voyager Acquisitions/Serials Training at CARLI
December 4: SFX Training in Oakbrook
December 5: SFX Training in Oakbrook
December 6: Understanding and Using MFHDs Training at CARLI
Meetings
December 1:
Digital Vision Task Force
Preservation Working Group
December 4:
Collections Working Group
I-Share CAT
December 8:
Digital Vision Task Force
I-Share Users Group
Products and Services Vetting Committee
December 11:
Digital Collection Users Group
E-resource Working Group
Program Planning Committee
I-Share Instruction Team
Regional Info Literacy Immersion Planning Task Force
December 14: Acquisitions/Serials
December 15: Digital Vision Task Force
December 22: Digital Vision Task Force
Send Us Your Suggestions
Thanks for attending the 2006 CARLI Annual Meeting. PowerPoint presentations from the meeting are available now.
We’re planning now for 2007. Send us your program ideas.
Questions, comments about the e-newsletter should be directed to Margaret Chambers.
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