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CARLI News
August 8, 2007 Volume 1, Issue 9
In This Issue:
Apply Now for the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication
SAGE Premier Discounts Available to CARLI Members
Informational Webinars on Electronic Resource Management Systems
Register Now for SFX "Refresher"Training Sessions
New Vice-Chair Selected by the CARLI Board
2007-2008 CARLI Committee Rosters
Special Election to Fill a Vacancy on the CARLI Board of Directors
FY 2008 CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards Announced
I-Share updates
Voyager Client Time-Out Change Installed
Voyager Universal Catalog Rebuild Completed
FY 2007 Annual Statistical Reports Package Available
Local Catalogs Hit 25 Million Bib Records
Saskia Digital Images for Art Education
Where are your students going for information?
Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems
Upcoming CARLI Meetings and Events
Contact Us
Apply Now for the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication
The first regional ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication will be held December 5-7, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for applications is Friday, September 14, 2007. Acceptance to the Scholarly Communication program is competitive and limited to 100 individuals.
The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) will host the institute that offers tools and techniques to build a scholarly communication program or move an existing one to the next level. Participants will assess their campus environment before the institute and engage in 2.5 intensive days of active learning. During the institute, participants will develop customized program plan components to implement at their home institutions.
The institute sponsors are seeking participation from a wide range of academic libraries, from community colleges to research institutions. All institutions are invited to apply. Institutions from Illinois will receive preferred consideration. Institutions are encouraged to propose teams that reflect various institutional perspectives, such as librarians, library administrators, faculty, and campus administrators.
Get complete details about the program and apply online. For questions about the institute and/or the application process, please contact Elizabeth Clarage, CARLI.
SAGE Premier Discounts Available to CARLI Members
CARLI recently acquired the Sage Deep Backfile as the first selection of the CARLI Shared Contribution Program. The Sage Deep Backfile provides full-text access to 302 journals, comprising over 357,000 articles, back to volume 1, issue 1; through the last issue of 1998. Get more information on the Sage Deep Backfile purchase.
To complete the collection of SAGE journals, CARLI is in final negotiations for the SAGE Premier package for participating libraries. SAGE Premier offers electronic access to over 450 SAGE full-text journals for a small increase in participating library’s current SAGE journal expenditures. Additional benefits of the Premier subscription include fixed annual price increases of through 2010, and discounts on print subscriptions for schools wishing to maintain print subscriptions.
SAGE Premier includes the following:
- Access to 452 SAGE journal titles comprising over 140,000 full-text articles
- Access via SAGE Journals Online, powered by HighWire Press
- Access to the current volume and issue back to 1999
- Perpetual access to the published content for the years in which you participate
- COUNTER-2 compliant usage statistics
- Enhanced search features
- CiteTrack email alerts: track authors, articles or keywords
- OpenURL 1.0 linking to articles
- RSS Feeds available
For detailed information about the Sage Premier offer, contact: David Seminaro, Library/Consortia Sales Manager, SAGE Publications at 847.949.1663.
Informational Webinars on Electronic Resource Management Systems
CARLI library staff are invited to informational webinars on Electronic Resource Management Systems, also known as ERMS. ERM vendors, Ex Libris and Serials Solutions will be offering CARLI libraries online web demonstrations of their products over the next 2 weeks. Attendance for the webinars is free, but we are taking registration on the CARLI website to get some idea of the number of participants to expect.
A. Serials Solutions: Wed. Aug. 8 at 3pm CDT
B. Serials Solutions: Thurs. Aug. 9 at 10am CDT
C. Ex Libris: Mon. Aug. 13 at 10 am CDT
These sessions are intended to help CARLI members learn more about ERM products so that we can all be more informed about what these systems could offer libraries and consortia. CARLI does not currently offer a consortially supported ERM or consortial ERM pricing, and the CARLI Board has made no decision as to if and when the consortium might do so.
Find out more about how to participate in these webinars, access background information on ERMS, or register online.
Register Now for SFX "Refresher" Training Sessions
CARLI will be holding an SFX refresher training session August 22, 2007. If you are interested in this training, please see the information listed below. There are also still spots open in our “new implementers” training session, which will be held on August 21. This session can now also accommodate those seeking refresher training.
Intended audience: Staff from CARLI libraries that already have an SFX instance on the CARLI server, who assumed responsibility for SFX after their colleagues were trained, or who attended training previously but were unable to apply the training soon enough and so now need a refresher class in order to "go live" with SFX.
Session description: These are each one-day training session that will cover the same material that was covered in your institution's initial hands-on implementation training. If there are SFX targets that did not get activated during your initial training day and that remain to be activated, please bring that information with you to class.
Registration: Required. A maximum of two individuals per institution may attend. If you are unsure whether you should attend this training, or if you have any questions about this training, please contact the CARLI office at: support@carli.illinois.edu. Registration is available on a first-come, first-served basis. CARLI reserves the right to cancel this class if it is under-enrolled.
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 OR Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Location:
MicroTek Oakbrook Facility
3010 Highland Parkway
Highland Landmark III, 1st floor
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Time: 9:00pm – 5:00pm
For more information or to register for Tuesday, August 21.
For more information or to register for Wednesday, August 22.
Please contact the CARLI Office with any questions.
New Vice-Chair Selected by the CARLI Board
Mary Case, University of Illinois at Chicago, was chosen to serve as Vice Chair-Chair Elect by the CARLI Board of Directors at their meeting on July 20. She will serve as the Board Chair beginning July 1, 2008. Mary is currently the University Librarian at UIC.
2007-20008 CARLI Committee Rosters
New members have been appointed to the CARLI committees, working groups and users groups and the new rosters are posted to the CARLI Board and Committees page on the CARLI website. Participating in these groups offers CARLI member library staff a unique opportunity to influence the future of the consortium and its services and we’re thankful to all who volunteered to serve.
The names of all those who volunteered but who were not appointed at this time will be retained in CARLI's volunteer database, for possible consideration as other positions become available throughout the year. Please visit the volunteer page if you would like to add your name to the volunteer database or to add information about your interests and qualifications.
Special Election to Fill a Vacancy on the CARLI Board of Directors
A Governing Member's seat representing Community Colleges on the CARLI Board of Directors has become vacant with the retirement of Eric Welch, Highland Community College. In accordance with the CARLI Bylaws, an election will be held to select someone to complete Eric's term, which runs through June 30, 2008.
Community College Governing Member directors will be eligible to vote in this special election. The election will be held from Wednesday, August 8 through Friday, August 24, 2007. Community college library directors will receive their voting instructions via email later this month.
If you have any questions about the CARLI Board of Directors special election, please contact Tom Dorst.
FY 2008 CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards Announced
The recipients of the CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards have been notified, with $249,999 in awards funded for the FY 2008 Program. The titles of the projects funded, and the primary contact for each award are:
- Anthropology (Year 2): Cultures Across the Curriculum, JoAnn Jacoby at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign;
- Asian Studies Partnership: Business and Economic Relationships with Asia Since the Asian Economic Crisis, Ted Schwitzner at Illinois State University;
- Computer Science Partnership: New Media, New Networks, New Technology, Ted Schwitzner at Illinois State University;
- Digital Transformations in Animation, Graphics, & Cinema Collection Partnership, Courtney Greene at DePaul University;
- ESL Materials: Meeting the Needs of Non-native English Speakers, Ladislava Khailova at Northern Illinois University;
- Green Technology Collection Enhancement Partnership, Nancy Weichert at the Illinois Institute of Technology;
- Higher Education Leadership, Katie Maier-O’Shea at North Park University;
- Homeland Security: Scientific, Technical, and Managerial Aspects of Disasters, Nestor L. Osorio at Northern Illinois University;
- Latin American Studies: Meeting the Needs of Illinois’ Academic Curricula in History, Politics, Culture, and Society, Vanette M. Schwartz at Illinois State University;
- Libraries Assisting in the Education of Students with Special Needs, Luann DeGreve at Benedictine University;
- Local History Online, Bill Thompson and Jeffrey Hancks at Western Illinois University;
- The 'New' Core: Emerging Fields in the Sciences Collection Project, Heather A. Jagman at DePaul University;
- Popular Expressions of the Arts, Allen Lanham at Eastern Illinois University.
Information about the FY 2009 CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards will be announced later this year.
I-Share Updates
Voyager Client Time-Out Change Installed
On August 1, the CARLI technical support staff installed a change to Voyager to reduce the number of time-outs that have been occurring in Voyager for the past several months. The change was made on the Voyager servers run by CARLI; library staff don’t need to make any changes in their Voyager client settings to take advantage of this change. The change automatically went into effect when your client programs were reconnected to the Voyager server following the installation.
If you've been experiencing time out problems, please let us know if this change has resolved your problems, or at least minimized them. As always, please send your questions and comments to support@carli.illinois.edu, and report any critical system problems to us at our 24x7 toll-free number of 866-904-5843.
Voyager Universal Catalog Rebuild Completed
CARLI staff have completed the "rebuild" of the Voyager Universal Catalog (UC) to include the holdings of the six new I-Share libraries. The rebuilt database is now available for searching by users and library staff. Holdings from the new libraries are now displayed in the UC and are available for requesting through Universal Borrowing. The new libraries are: Carl Sandburg College, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges, Knox College, Monmouth College, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, and Trinity International University.
The rebuilt I-Share catalog replaces the frozen catalog that has been available since the rebuild began. If you have questions about the rebuilt Universal Catalog, please contact support@carli.illinois.edu.
The Universal Catalog, with holdings from 71 I-Share libraries, contains over 32 million items, and 9 million unique bibliographic records.
FY 2007 Annual Statistical Reports Package Available
The FY 2007 annual statistical reports package is now available for all I-Share libraries. You can download the stats package from your respective xxxftp directories. The date range for circulation stats is 7/1/06-7/1/07. The collection stats are current as of the date shown on the top of the report.
Consult the Annual Voyager Statistics Package for details and descriptions of each report.
I-Share consortial stats are also being compiled and will soon be posted to the web site. Watch for an announcement when they become available.
Local Catalogs Hit 25 Million Bib Records
Oakton Community College loaded a record to their catalog on July 27 that brought the combined total of bibliographic records in the 71 I-Share libraries' catalogs to 25 million. The title is: Integrating environmental print across the curriculum, preK-3: making literacy instruction meaningful, Lynn Kirkland, Jerry Aldridge, Patricia Kuby. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2007.
The 25 million figure counts all bibliographic records across all 71 databases, and as many libraries hold a number of the same titles, this counts many titles more than once. The I-Share Universal Catalog de-duplicates these records and currently includes over 9 million titles.
Saskia Digital Images for Art Education
Do you have faculty that uses art images for teaching? Are you looking for ways to help them integrate digital images into their courses? CARLI can help!
CARLI governing and associate member libraries have access to the Saskia digital image archive from Scholars Resource. This collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture, and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt.
The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format, so whether teaching staff needs to add images to a PowerPoint presentation or use a high-resolution version to show details of a painting, they have exactly what they need! Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts:
- Architecture, 2nd edition
- Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 4th ed.
- Art Across Time, 2nd ed.
- Art and Ideas, 10th ed.
- Artforms, 7th ed. revised
- Art History, rev. 2nd ed.
- Culture and Values, 6th ed.
- Exploring Art, 1st ed.
- Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th ed.
- History of Art 6th ed.
- A History of Far Eastern Art 4th ed.
- History of Italian Renaissance Art, 4th ed.
- History of Italian Renaissance Art, 5th ed.
- Living with Art, 6th ed.
- Medieval Art, 2nd ed.
- Northern Renaissance Art, 2nd ed.
- The Story of Art, 16th ed.
- Understanding Art, 7th ed.
- The Visual Arts: A History, 6th ed.
The Saskia archive is powered by CARLI’s CONTENTdm-based digital library service. CONTENTdm makes searching for the images easy. Users can access “pre-defined” searches that group images from major textbooks together, or they can use keyword or advanced searching to find the exact images they need. By downloading the CONTENTdm PowerPoint plug-in, you can load images and their descriptions straight into PowerPoint presentations!
If you are interested in promoting the Saskia collection to your campus art community, CARLI has created a template that you may use. This template is a press release that your library can customize and use to disseminate information about Saskia to art faculty, teaching assistants, staff, and students. A copy of this document (in Word format) is available for download from the CARLI web site. Please look for it under the section “Saskia Art Images Resources.” Also available is a Saskia informational sheet on that library staff may use to answer some of the common questions about using the collection.
Information about the Saskia collection may be found at http://www.saskia.com/
For more information about CARLI’s Saskia archive contact support@carli.illinois.edu.
Where are your students going for information?
The Internet can be difficult to navigate and good information can be hard to find. Expand your Reference Department to provide service to your patrons wherever they are and whenever they need information. Ask Away is Illinois’ statewide, virtual reference, multi-type library, online reference service, staffed 24/7 with qualified librarians.
- 250 Illinois libraries are currently participating
- 2500+ email questions and 2800+ chat sessions answered monthly
- Co-browsing and a referral system for questions expand the cooperative to over 800 worldwide libraries.
Try Ask?Away with the FREE Semester Trial Offer Aug. 15 – Dec. 15, 2007, available through the Illinois State Library.
Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems
Lincoln Trail Libraries System is pleased to announce a premiere conference, the Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems. September 13-15, 2007. Take advantage of this opportunity to listen, learn and talk to nationally recognized speakers discussing the challenges and changes within the Integrated Library System landscape.
Speakers will include:
- Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University
- Karen Schneider, author of Free Range Librarian
- Carl Grant, President of CARE Affiliates and previous executive at various ILS companies
- Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President for New Services
- Representatives from the Georgia Pines Open Source (Evergreen) ILS project
- Kate Sheehan, Library Thing for Libraries, Danbury Public Library (CT)
- and others.
For additional details including the agenda, costs and hotel information visit the Symposium web site.
Upcoming CARLI Meetings and Events
Training
August 8 Serials Solutions Webinar
August 9 Serials Solutions Webinar
August 10 SFX JumpStart and TotalCare Informational Web Session
August 13 Ex Libris Information Webinar
August 21 SFX Refresher Training
August 22 SFX Refresher Training
Meetings
August 10 I-Share Instruction Team
August 13 E-resource Working Group
August 15 Digital Collection Users Group
August 16 I-Share Resource Sharing Team
August 16 Preservation Working Group
August 17 I-Share Acquisitions Serials Team
August 23 I-Share Cataloging & Authority Control Team
August 24 I-Share Users Group
August 27 Public Services Working Group
For meeting times and locations, or for additional information about CARLI forums, trainings, and meetings in August consult the CARLI calendar.
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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