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CARLI News
December 7, 2007
In This Issue:
CARLI Holiday Hours
Delivery Updates
Register for an ILDS Training Webcast
Lanter to Deliver ILDS Supplies to All Sites December 11-14
January-March Holiday Closure Schedules for ILDS
ILDS Web-Based Label System
Transitioning from the Current ILDS to the New ILDS
Stay Informed About ILDS
Interest Survey for FY 2009 Database Brokering Program Now Open
New Listserv for Small Libraries
New CARLI Member Pages
IACRL Spring 2008 Conference Call for Presentations
I-Share Updates
I-Share Voyager Software Upgrade Planned for Jan.8-9, 2008
I-Share Assessments Set for FY 2010-2012
I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team Announces
New Shared Complex Publication Patterns Web Site
IUG Meeting Highlights
I-Share Instruction Team Meeting Highlights
I-Share Resource Sharing Team Meeting Highlights
I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team Forum Highlights
I-Share Resource Sharing Team Forum Highlights
Do You Have a Suggestion for a Program, Symposium, or Continuing Education Opportunity?
The Products & Services Vetting Committee Wants to Hear from You
Upcoming CARLI Events, Meetings and Deadlines
Contact Us
CARLI Holiday Hours
The CARLI offices will be closed for the holidays December 24-January 1. Contact support@carli.illinois.edu or call toll free 866.904.5843 to report any problems or concerns.
Delivery Updates
Register Now for the ILDS Training Webcasts
CARLI will provide training for the new Illinois Library Delivery Service (ILDS) by webcasts on December 12, 13, 14, 18, and 19. Each webcast will run approximately 90 minutes and each will cover the same material. The webcasts are intended for staff at CARLI libraries who will be working with sending and receiving materials in the new ILDS system beginning service January 2, 2008. Advance registration is required.
The webcasts will be held at the following times:
- Wednesday, December 12, 1:15 p.m. until 2:45 p.m.
- Thursday, December 13, 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
- Friday, December 14, 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
- Tuesday, December 18, 1:30 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, December 19, 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
For those who cannot participate in the webcasts, the slides presented on the webcast will be made available on the ILDS website along with a sample training exercise.
Please register at least 24 hours in advance of the session. The registration form and additional details are available at http://www.illinoisdelivers.net/07train/.
CARLI uses the Wimba webcast system. As far in advance of the webcast as possible, participants will need to make sure they can access the Wimba system. Instructions for setting up access to both the web connection to Wimba and the conference call connection for audio are available at http://www.illinoisdelivers.net/wimbaprep.html.
Lanter to Deliver ILDS Supplies to All Sites December 11-14
Lanter will be delivering packages of supplies to each ILDS service location during the week of December 10th. Each site will receive a set of bags (some of the old canvas ones as well as some of the new purple zipper bags). Sites will also receive some "luggage tag" style label holders for the canvas bags as well as some plastic loops to attach these tags to the canvas bags. Please don't start using these supplies until January 2.
In addition to that, each site will receive a purple bag with documentation enclosed. The documentation includes an instruction guide for the new ILDS, lists of participating locations, and paper bag label and manifest templates that will serve as an offline backup system if/when you cannot connect to the ILDS web label system.
As mentioned above, Lanter Delivery Systems will deliver these materials to ILDS sites the week of December 10th. This is a "drop-off only" run for Lanter, they will not be picking up materials until January 2. However, please look for the purple bag and make sure you open it as soon as possible so that you can start reviewing the documentation. All of these documents are also in the process of being posted to the ILDS website, http://illinoisdelivers.net.
January-March Holiday Closure Schedules for ILDS
The new ILDS will begin on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. The courier company, Lanter Delivery Systems, will provide service 5 days per week, Monday through Friday, with the exception of the following holidays:
- New Years Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
We realize that many libraries are closed on other dates and we are now collecting those dates for the period of January 2 through March 31, 2008. To designate your closure dates, please fill out the online survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/ILDSdates.
Please complete the survey by December 14, 2007.
For additional information, or with questions about the survey, email support@carli.uillinois.edu.
ILDS Web-Based Label System
The web-based label creation system is in its final form. Staff are making final preparations to cut over to a publicly available system. Watch the ILDS listserv for an announcement about when sites can start experimenting with the system.
Transitioning from the Current ILDS to the New ILDS
A number of libraries have had questions about how and when the current ILDS will shut down and how items en route during the transition will be handled. We will send out more detailed emails about this in the near future, but here's a brief version of the answer for now—remember this applies ONLY to sites serviced by the current ILDS—29 libraries plus the systems. ILDS will pickup and deliver on December 26 and 27. December 27 will be the last day that items are picked up by the current ILDS. On December 28, ILDS will deliver only and will not pickup. December 31 and January 1 are holidays for the current ILDS (no service). On January 2, Lanter will start providing ILDS service. We expect that January 2 will be pickup service only as they won't yet have materials in their system to deliver. Again, this is for the current direct ILDS sites. If you receive delivery from your regional system now and will be in ILDS as of January 2, please consult with your system about their holiday schedule and yours.
Stay Informed About ILDS
For the most current information about ILDS, to see the list of ILDS participants, or to join the Delivery listserv, visit the ILDS web site www.illinoisdelivers.net.
Interest Survey for FY 2009 Database Brokering Program Now Open
CARLI needs your participation in the annual member interest survey. Open now through December 14, the survey will gather information regarding the level of interest in various electronic resources for the FY 2009 (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009) database brokering cycle. Your feedback will ensure that the CARLI e-resources program includes the resources that will be of the greatest benefit to your library.
Survey results will provide essential information to CARLI and the vendors to begin negotiations and provide database pricing earlier in the year. This will allow CARLI to initiate the selection cycle as early as possible next spring to accommodate the demands of your institutional budgeting. Database pricing will be made available next spring through a secure, password-protected web-based selection system.
The survey is available at www.surveymonkey.com/2007CARLIInterest. Survey instructions have been sent to all e-resources contacts via the CARLI CCG listserv. If you didn’t receive your instructions, or if you have any questions, please email support@carli.uillinois.edu.
New Listserv for Small Libraries
Traveling and meetings take money and time, both in critically short supply for small libraries. CARLI has established an email distribution list called smallerlibs-ig@carli.illinois.edu.
If you work in what you consider a small library, or if you are merely interested in the issues of small academic libraries in Illinois, we invite you to subscribe to the list and to talk amongst yourselves.
The list information page (from which you may subscribe) is at http://carli.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/smallerlibs-ig.
New CARLI Member Pages
CARLI has worked for many months to integrate information from multiple databases to create directory pages for each CARLI member library. We're happy to announce that phase one of that project is complete. We invite all libraries to review the information now posted about them on the CARLI web site at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-libs.html. Please send any changes to support@carli.illinois.edu, and include the staff member's job title and email address in addition to their name and phone number.
Please note that CARLI is no longer maintaining the data in the old ILCSO online directory. If you have bookmarked the old directory, please update your bookmarks to http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-libs/members_i-s.html.
IACRL Spring 2008 Conference Call For Presentations
"Librarians as Leaders: Energizing Our Communities"
March 27-28, 2008
Bloomington, IL
The IACRL 2008 Spring Conference Planning Committee invites you to share your practical solutions, creative approaches, and philosophical observations that will inspire academic librarians in Illinois to provide leadership and energetically engage their communities. Presentations may highlight formal or informal opportunities for leadership in any part of the library (e.g., technical services, technology, instruction, administration).
- The submission deadline is December 10, 2007. The Planning Committee will review proposals and notify presenters by January 21, 2008.
- Presentations may take the form of contributed papers, demonstrations, panel discussions, or posters.
- Program sessions are scheduled for one hour, including at least 10 minutes for questions from the audience.
- Visit the IACRL website (http://iacrl.net/) for more information about the conference.
Please include the following information when submitting your proposal:
Title:
Format (paper, demonstration, panel discussion, poster):
Description (approx. 100 words):
Presenters:
Name, Address, City/State, Phone, FAX, Email:
Please e-mail your program proposal (and direct any questions) to:
Sarah George Wessel
Illinois Wesleyan University
I-Share Updates
I-Share Voyager Software Upgrade Planned for Jan.8-9, 2008
CARLI staff are planning to upgrade I-Share, CARLI's Voyager system, from version 6.1 to version 6.5.3 overnight on Tuesday, January 8, 2008. The system will be down for the upgrade beginning at 5pm on January 8, 2008 until approximately 8am on January 9, 2008. See the complete announcement at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/news/69/65.html. Future updates and information will be posted to the I-Share email list.
I-Share Assessments set for FY 2010-2012
At their November meeting, the CARLI Board of Directors approved I-Share assessment levels for FY 2010 – FY 2012. These assessments apply to the 71 current participants in I-Share.
New I-Share assessments for FY 2010-2012 were sent to library directors in November. The table of assessments for FY2009-2012 is available at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/reports/board/FY09_12Assess.pdf.
I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team Announces New Shared Complex Publication Patterns Web Site
The I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team is excited to announce a place to share Complex Publication Patterns (CPPs)! Point your browsers to http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/secure/acq/compatt.html for the list of currently shared CPPs. From this page you can go to a form to share patterns your library has created. We hope this collaborative page will prove useful to all libraries.
IUG Meeting Highlights
- IUG is in the process of planning an I-Share Library Liaisons' Forum for this spring: topic ideas are welcome.
- The IUG is preparing a recommendation for a hands-on workshop on copyright for academic librarians to develop guidelines for copyright compliant policy statements for use in their libraries. The recommendation will be submitted to the Program Planning Committee for consideration.
I-Share Instruction Team Meeting Highlights
- The I-Share Instruction Team is considering a forum or workshop on integrating social software into library instruction.
- The group has started adding instruction resources to the CARLI wiki: http://wiki.carli.illinois.edu/index.php/Main_Page. The material can be found under the I-Share link.
I-Share Resource Sharing Team Meeting Highlights
I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team Forum Highlights
I-Share Resource Sharing Team Forum Highlights
Products & Services Vetting Committee Wants to Hear from You
We know CARLI members have a lot of great ideas, and we want to keep them coming. The Products and Services Vetting Committee reviews all suggestions for new and enhanced products and services for CARLI. The PSVC will consider recommendations received from individuals and groups, screen the ideas to identify which should have staff analysis, prioritize the ideas, and make final recommendations to the Board.
Are you ready to submit a new suggestion to the Products and Services Vetting Committee? Fill out the online form at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/reports/prodvett/propose.php.
Review the status of all suggestions submitted to the PSVC on the CARLI web site at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/reports/prodvett/view_props.php.
Do You Have a Suggestion for a Program, Symposium, or Continuing Education Opportunity?
Submit your proposal to the Program Planning Committee at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/reports/ppc/propose.php.
Mark Your Calendars for Upcoming CARLI Events, Meetings and Deadlines
Important Dates
December 16 I-Share System Downtime
January 2 New ILDS begins service
Training
December 12 ILDS Training Webcast
December 13 ILDS Training Webcast
December 14 ILDS Training Webcast
December 14 Proposal Workshop, FY09 Collections Enhancement Awards
December 14 Proposal Workshop, CARLI Book Digitization Initiative
December 17 Proposal Workshop, FY09 Collections Enhancement Awards
December 17 Proposal Workshop, CARLI Book Digitization Initiative
December 18 ILDS Training Webcast
December 19 ILDS Training Webcast
Meetings
December 10 E-Resources Working Group
December 11 I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team
December 12 Collections Working Group/Serials
January 14 E-Resources Working Group
January 15 Digital Collections Users Group Tutorials
January 16 Executive Committee
January 17 Digital Collections Users Group
January 18 I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team
January 24 I-Share Users Group
January 25 CARLI Board of Directors
For meeting times and locations, or for additional information about upcoming CARLI forums, trainings, and meetings consult the CARLI calendar http://www.carli.illinois.edu/calendar.
Contact Us
All questions and comments about the e-newsletter should be directed to support@carli.illinois.edu. Subscribe to the CARLI Announce listserv at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/email-lists.html.
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