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CARLI News
April 30, 2007 Volume 1, Issue 6
In This Issue:
CARLI Committees—Call for Volunteers
CARLI Licenses Syndetic Solutions for UC
Portico Discounts Available to CARLI Member Libraries
Spring 2007 Database Brokering Period Extended To May 4
New CARLI Director of Administration and Planning
ILSDO Announces Grant Winners For Illinois Immersion 07
EIU wins ACRL award
Upcoming CARLI Meetings and Events
Support@carli.illinois.edu
CARLI Committees—Call for Volunteers
CARLI is seeking volunteers to serve on the following CARLI Working Groups, Users' Groups, and Teams:
- Collections Working Group
- E-Resources Working Group
- Preservation Working Group
- Public Services Working Group
- Digital Collections Users' Group
- I-Share Users' Group
- I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team
- I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
- I-Share OPAC Team
- I-Share Resource Sharing Team
- I-Share Instruction Team
Volunteers chosen will either serve a full three year term, July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2010, or complete a one or two year term to fill a vacancy. Faculty and staff members from all CARLI Governing member libraries with all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Current committee members whose term will expire June 30, 2007 who want to serve another term should submit a volunteer form.
Members of the CARLI community may volunteer by filling out the committee volunteer form by May 15, 2007. For more information, visit the Board and Committees pages on the CARLI web site and read the Guidelines for CARLI Committees.
CARLI Licenses Syndetic Solutions for UC
Syndetic Solutions enhancements were recently implemented in the I-Share Universal Catalog. Where available, cover images are now available in the brief search results view, and cover images, tables of contents, author notes, first chapters & excerpts, summaries & annotations, Choice, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly reviews are linked to the detailed record.
Syndetic Solutions enhances library online catalogs with specialized, quality bibliographic data. Syndetics hosts the cover images, reviews and other data on its servers and I-Share retrieves the images by automatically sending an ISBN query to Syndetics behind the scenes. The "Click for more information on this title" link in the detailed record will retrieve reviews, tables of contents, author notes, and cover images for all records for which Syndetics has these data, or approximately 2 million records in the I-Share Universal Catalog.
CARLI has negotiated discounted pricing for access to the Syndetics data for I-Share local catalogs. Customized pricing information will be sent to all I-Share libraries in early May. For more information, email support@carli.illinois.edu.
Portico Discounts Available to CARLI Member Libraries
CARLI has signed a letter of understanding with Portico, a not-for-profit electronic archiving service offering a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals. Launched in 2002 as a project of JSTOR, Portico was established to address the scholarly community's critical need for a reliable means to preserve scholarly e-journals.
As members of a cooperating consortium, all CARLI libraries are eligible to receive a 5% reduction in their Annual Archive Support payments. In addition to the consortia savings, libraries initiating support with Portico in 2007 will be recognized as a Portico Archive Founder and will receive 10% savings on their Annual Archive Support payment in each of the first five years of their participation. This savings will be added to the 5% consortia savings.
CARLI libraries that are current Portico participants include Northwestern University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Springfield, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Portico provides all libraries supporting the archive with campus-wide access to archived content when titles are no longer available from the publisher or other source, or when a publisher stops operations, ceases to publish a title, no longer offers back issues, or suffers a catastrophic and sustained failure of their delivery platform. Portico also provides a reliable means to secure perpetual access, if participating publishers choose to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access.
For more information and to find out how to join with Portico, visit the Portico web site.
Spring 2007 Database Brokering Period Extended To May 4
In response to member requests and the late arrival of some additional pricing, CARLI is extending the closing date of the current database selection period from Monday, April 30, 2007 until Friday, May 4, 2007.
Complete instructions for using the selection database are available when you log in.
If you didn't request a price for a particular database, you still have time to do so. To request pricing, or if you have questions about the selection process, email support@carli.illinois.edu.
New CARLI Director of Administration and Planning
CARLI is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas J. Dorst to the position of Director of Administration and Planning, effective April 9, 2007.
Under the direction of the CARLI Executive Director, Dorst will support the administrative and operational functions of the consortium as well as investigate new CARLI initiatives and state-of-the-art products, programs and services; and plan for the incorporation of new initiatives into the operation of the consortium. Dorst will serve as the staff consultant to the CARLI Strategic Planning Process. In his new role, Dorst will work closely with the membership, the CARLI Board of Directors, representatives from higher education institutions beyond the University of Illinois, and representatives from state agencies such as the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and the Illinois State Library.
Dorst is currently Director of Electronic and Digital Resources for CARLI, where he is responsible for the selection and licensing of electronic resources for CARLI libraries.
ILSDO Announces Grant Winners For Illinois Immersion '07
The Illinois Library Systems Directors Organization (ILSDO) and CARLI have announced six recipients of $300 matching grants to attend Illinois Immersion '07, the ACRL Regional Information Literacy Immersion Institute in July.
The grants, funded by ILSDO, were available to Illinois community college librarians to participate in the program. Grant recipients were selected by CARLI from the applications received by the March 30, 2007 deadline.
The recipients, all community college librarians from Illinois Library System members are:
- Cynthia Letteri, McHenry County College, North Suburban Library System;
- Beth Mandrell, Rend Lake College, Shawnee Library System;
- Larissa Moebs, Illinois Central College, Alliance Library System;
- Tim Salm, Rock Valley College, Prairie Area Library System;
- Lucy Smith, Triton College, Metropolitan Library System;
- Randi Sutter, Heartland Community College, Alliance Library System.
Eastern Illinois University's Booth Library Wins ACRL Award
Booth Library won the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Best Practices in Marketing @ your library Award. The award was presented March 30 at the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore.
The award recognizes academic and research libraries that demonstrate an outstanding best practices marketing program. The library staff created a unique program to promote the library as a cultural center. The EIU marketing plan capitalized on the traveling exhibit, "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature." The Library engaged a variety of stakeholders to invest in the initiative and to assist in crafting and delivering its message to on and off campus communities.
More than a dozen public and private agencies assisted in developing strategies to shape the message, as well as building awareness and interest. Among the results of this program was the fact that more than 80,000 people were exposed to the successful best practices initiative during the program's life span. The marketing plan also insured that over 40 scholars and almost 100 students from campus and area public schools were either presenters or participants.
Upcoming CARLI Meetings and Events
Meetings
May 2 Immersion '07 Task Force
May 3 Chairs of the CARLI Working Groups
May 4 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
May 9 CARLI Executive Committee
May 9 I-Share Instruction Team
May 9 Digital Collections Users Group Interface Subcommittee
May 11 I-Share Users Group
May 14 E-resources Working Group
May 15 Fiscal Period Close (Rollover) for Acquisitions
May 17 Digital Collections Users Group
May 18 CARLI Board of Directors, Kankakee Community College
May 18 Acquisitions/Serials Team
May 21 Collections Working Group
May 21 I-Share Resource Sharing Team
May 23 Fiscal Period Close (Rollover) for Acquisitions
June 1 Chairs of the CARLI Working Groups, Milner Library, Illinois State University
Other Deadlines
May 4 Spring Database Subscriptions—Deadline for Selections
May 15 CARLI Committee—Deadline for Volunteers
For meeting times and locations, or for additional information about CARLI forums, trainings, and meetings in May consult the CARLI calendar.
ILCSO's old oncall email address, which has been redirected to support@carli.illinois.edu for several months, has been disabled. Any mail now sent to the old address will bounce, returning an error message to the sender. Any references to 'oncall' in your local problem reporting procedures should be changed to support@carli.illinois.edu.
Contact Us
Questions and comments about the e-newsletter should be directed to Margaret Chambers. Subscribe to the CARLI Announce listserv. All other CARLI questions, comments, and problem reports should be directed to support@carli.illinois.edu.
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