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CARLI News
February 25, 2009
In This Issue:
We Want to See You on the CARLI Web Site
Using Social Technologies in Library Instruction Forum
Regional Mini-Forums to Continue Tech Services Workflow Analysis Conversations
Copyright Basics and Library Reserves Workshop
Register for the eBooks Symposium
Save the Date! Public Services Working Group Regional Open Houses
E-Resources
—Management Tools for CARLI Licensed E-Products
—ICOLC and ARL Statements on the Economic Crisis, Libraries and Publishers
I-Share
—Server Address Change for I-Share Libraries' xxxftp Directories
—New I-Share "Welcome" Page
—VuFind Changes Introduced
—Adding an OPAC Search Box to Your Library's Web Site
—Voyager Upgrade Planned for June 2009
—Historical Browse Counts in I-Share
LSTA Grant Letters of Intent Due March 31
Preservation Tip: Mold! How to Identify Mold on Library Materials
In the News
—Moraine Valley Community College Recipient of 2009 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
—Poole New President-Elect of AAHSL
—Hinchliffe a Candidate for ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect
Other Upcoming Events
—"On the Front Lines" Conference March 16-18
—CRL Quarterly Orientation Webinars
—Save the Date: “Our Monograph Collection: A Call for Collaboration”
CARLI Events and Meetings
Contact Us
We Want to See You on the CARLI Web Site
Send us pictures of your library and we'll add them to the rotating photos on the home page of the CARLI web site. Images should be approximately 500 pixels x 230 pixels. Send photos and questions to support@carli.illinois.edu.
Using Social Technologies in Library Instruction Forum
Register now for the forum "Using Social Technologies in Library Instruction" to be held on Thursday April 2nd at the University of Illinois at Springfield. The forum will be open to all CARLI member libraries. Sessions planned for the forum include: LibGuides, Wikis, Clickers, and Web 2.0 Combinations. The forum is sponsored by the I-Share Instruction Team.
For more information or to register, visit the event registration page. We hope to see you there!
Regional Mini-Forums to Continue Tech Services Workflow Analysis Conversations
Register now for one of the regional half-day mini-forums to "continue the conversation" after September's Technical Services Workflow Analysis Seminar. These mini-forums, sponsored by the I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team and the I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team, will provide those who attended the seminar and any other interested parties an opportunity to discuss workflow issues with colleagues in an informal setting. There will be breakout sessions by various functional areas, as well as by size of library.
Dates and locations:
- March 18, Greenville College, Greenville
- March 19, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington
For more information or to register, visit the CARLI web site.
Copyright Basics and Library Reserves Workshop
Register for a day-long program, led by Tomas Lipinski, Co-Director and Associate Professor for the Center for Information Policy Research at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The program will begin with the basics of copyright and will then delve into the topic of copyright and reserve materials.
The workshop will be held March 20 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information or to register visit the event registration page.
This workshop is sponsored by the I-Share Users' Group and the Public Services Working Group, with funding provided by the CARLI Program Planning Committee.
Register for the eBooks Symposium
This day-long program will provide an overview of the eBooks industry from the perspective of the publishers and the users. Morning sessions will include presentations by Wendy Shelburne, Electronic Resources Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois; and Syed Hasan, Director, Licensing and Sales in the Americas, Springer. Over lunch, a representative from the University of Chicago Press will address the university press perspective.
The afternoon panels will feature CARLI institutions and their marketing and mobile technology, as well as technical services and collection development issues. The day will end with a vendor panel. Results from a recent CARLI survey about e-books usage in CARLI libraries will also be shared with attendees.
The eBooks Symposium will be held March 4 at the Hawthorn Suites, Champaign. For more information or to register, visit the event registration page.
The Symposium is sponsored by both the Collections Working Group and the E-Resources Working Group, with funding provided by the CARLI Program Planning Committee.
Save the Date! Public Services Working Group Regional Open Houses
When the spring semester comes to an end, do you find you're in the mood to get out, to see new sights, to explore a different terrain? The CARLI Public Services Working Group (PSWG) invites you to come along for the ride as we visit five CARLI libraries on three different days:
- Heartland Community College and Illinois State University (Normal) on Friday, May 22nd
- John Wood Community College and Quincy University (Quincy) on Friday, May 29th; and
- Northwestern University (Evanston) on Wednesday, June 24th.
These visits will go well beyond simple tours of the host libraries. They are designed to encourage dialogue about public services practices, problems, and ideas. You'll have ample opportunities to network with your peers, to learn about the host libraries' public services practices, and to share experiences from your home library. Refreshments will be provided. Mark your calendar now for the date you wish to attend—registration and further details are coming soon!
If you have any questions regarding these events please email support@carli.illinois.edu.
E-Resources
Management Tools for CARLI Licensed E-Products
In the months ahead many of you will be facing difficult budgetary decisions. In order to give you access to the management information needed to make these decisions, the CARLI E-Resources staff has begun a series of brief informational email messages about the administrative tools available in the electronic resources licensed through CARLI. The first topic, the EBSCO Administrative Module, is available on the CARLI web site.
If you have topics that you’d like to see covered in future updates, please send your ideas to support@carli.illinois.edu.
ICOLC and ARL Statements on the Economic Crisis, Libraries and Publishers
CARLI has joined with 100 other members of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) to adopt the Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses. The statement is intended to help publishers and other providers who license electronic information resources understand how the current financial crisis affects the worldwide information community. ICOLC forecasts significant, widespread and prolonged cuts in library and consortial budgets that will be slow to climb back to pre-crisis levels.
The statement suggests a range of approaches that ICOLC members believe are in the mutual best interest of consortia and the providers of information services, and calls for consortia and publishers to work together to seek creative content solutions and flexible pricing, payment, and license options.
Following up on the ICOLC statement, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a statement aimed at scholarly publishers and vendors on the current global economic crisis and its effect on publishing and library subscriptions. The ARL statement reinforces some of the key points of the ICOLC statement, while going further to address the specific situations and concerns of the ARL member libraries.
The full statements are available on the organization’s web sites:
ICOLC Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses
ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis
I-Share
Server Address Change for I-Share Libraries' xxxftp Directories
Each I-Share library has an account with access to the library's xxxftp directory (where xxx is the library's three-letter I-Share code). The current server name for connecting to this directory, reports.carli.illinois.edu, is changing to files.carli.illinois.edu. Please update your secure FTP client software to use this new server address. The username and password to login remain unchanged.
The current server address and the new server address will both be functional during a transitional period. At a future date yet to be determined in 2009, the reports.carli.illinois.edu server address will no longer connect to the server. CARLI strongly recommends that you make the address change in your PC’s secure FTP software to files.carli.illinois.edu now.
For more information about connecting to your library's xxxftp directory and what it is used for, please see: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-prod/I-Share/secure/execute/SSHSecureShell.pdf .
IMPORTANT NOTE: This change does NOT affect Oracle/ODBC connections for running MSAccess Reports or Strawn Utilities. Do NOT make any changes to the server addresses used in those programs.
If you have any questions, please contact the CARLI Office at support@carli.illinois.edu.
New I-Share "Welcome" Page
CARLI and the I-Share OPAC Team are pleased to introduce a new look for the I-Share Welcome page. The redesigned page makes it easier for users to choose between the classic WebVoyage search interface and the newer VuFind search interface.
Many users will never actually see this welcome page, since they connect to their library's OPAC directly, with a URL that bypasses the welcome page, but we hope that users who do land on the welcome page will find the new design helpful. For an overview of the differences between VuFind and WebVoyage on the CARLI web site.
If you have comments or questions, please send them to support@carli.illinois.edu.
VuFind Changes Introduced
CARLI staff recently introduced a number of important changes to VuFind, the alternative public interface to I-Share/Voyager. CARLI is waiting to receive the next major release of VuFind, so major development work is still on hold, but in the meantime the following changes have been made:
- The bibliographic data searchable in VuFind are now current as of 9 p.m. yesterday, rather than 3 a.m. yesterday. We anticipate that this will continue to be true from now on.
- "Unstemmed" search results (that is, matches that are closer to exactly what the user entered) have been "boosted," so that they now float to the top of result lists on author, title, and "all fields" searches. For instance, if the user searches for the author "Tompkin," works by Jessie Tompkin will now display higher in the list than works by Gail Tompkins, whose works are also retrieved because of VuFind's automatic "stemming" of all search inputs. The number of records retrieved by the user's search has not changed; just the default sort order of the search results has changed.
- The date sort function will now sort search results in reverse chronological order as expected: records now sort on the basis of the data in the fixed DATE1 field rather than the data in the 260$c.
- Bibliographic records with the obsolete rectype "b" are now correctly identified as "archives." See, for instance, http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf-whe/Search/Home?start_over=1&lookfor=robert+l+darcy+papers&type=all&submit=Find.
CARLI staff welcome your comments and suggestions about VuFind as well as your questions. Please send them to support@carli.illinois.edu.
Adding an OPAC Search Box to Your Library's Web Site
CARLI and the I-Share OPAC Team are pleased to announce a new service available for any library interested in adding an OPAC search box to its library web site. The OPAC Search Box Builder will allow libraries to design the OPAC search box they want to incorporate into their web site, and will present them with copy-and-pasteable HTML to do so.
Please send questions or comments to support@carli.illinois.edu.
Voyager Upgrade Planned for June 2009
CARLI is tentatively planning to upgrade I-Share from Voyager 6.5.3 to Voyager 7 on June 15-17, 2009. Among other changes, the upgrade is expected to include a utility critical to implementing the Universal Borrowing policy changes being recommended for I-Share resource sharing code revision work.
Specific details are not yet available at this early date, but please mark your calendar, particularly if you're the library’s I-Share liaison, and/or the person who installs the Voyager clients. If development and testing continue on schedule, we expect to implement Voyager version 7.1, but we may implement version 7.0 if there are delays in the release of 7.1. During the testing, we will attempt to streamline the upgrade so that it can be completed quickly and we will strive to keep most public service features of Voyager available throughout the upgrade, as much as possible.
More detailed information on the upgrade will be available later this spring. For a preview of the differences in functionality between the current version of Voyager CARLI is running (6.5.3) and version 7.1, refer to the Ex Libris web site where you will find a variety of resources. Contact support@carli.illinois.edu if you need log in instructions for the Ex Libris website.
Historical Browse Counts in I-Share
CARLI is pleased to announce a new method for gathering statistics on browses, that is, in-house use of library materials. When library staff discharge materials used in the library before returning them to the shelf, Voyager counts this as a browse, but it does not record the date of the browse, which makes it hard to account for these statistics for annual reports or other uses. CARLI is getting around this by sampling the browse counts every three months and making the data available for processing with Access queries.
Statistics are available by item location, item type, call number, and (for serials only) title. If you are interested in these statistics, verify that your library staff are consistently discharging materials that are used in house, or set a date to begin to do so, so that useful counts will begin to accumulate. More information is available on the CARLI web site.
LSTA Grant Letters of Intent Due March 31
FY2010 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant offerings are now available through the Illinois State Library. LSTA grants are available for the development of projects that specifically provide and focus on library service, new initiatives and library activities. All types of libraries (academic, public, school and special) and regional library systems are eligible for funding. Libraries must be members of one of the state's regional library systems. A required letter of intent is due March 31, 2009, with the complete application due May 1, 2009.
Descriptions of the new grant offerings, applications, deadlines and other information can be found on the Illinois State Library's web site.
Preservation Tip: Mold! How to Identify Mold on Library Materials (Part 1)
Many libraries are concerned about mold on library materials, and rightly so. Not only can mold cause significant health risks such as allergic reactions and other respiratory problems, but it can severely damage many library materials, including paper, leather, parchment and vellum, cloth, and even most audiovisual materials. Here are a few tips on how to identify if you have mold. Our tip for next month will be how to maintain an environment that won’t encourage mold to grow.
Identifying Mold
Mold has two states and can be found on library materials in either of them.
- Active mold is mold that is currently growing. It appears three-dimensional and either fuzzy or sometimes slimy. If you touch active mold, it will feel slightly moist and will smear easily. Active mold means that the mold colonies are producing spores (mold’s version of seeds) and is probably spreading to other materials. If active mold is found, the materials should be isolated and moved to a less conducive environment if it’s only on a few items; or, if many items are affected, immediate steps to correct the environment should be taken.
- Inactive mold is mold that was active at one time, but is now in a less suitable environment and has effectively gone into hibernation. Inactive mold may still appear three-dimensional, but will not be wet in appearance or in feel. Inactive mold may also appear much less fuzzy than active mold, depending on the length of time since it was last active. Inactive mold is not producing spores, but in most cases will have spores associated with it that can still be spread and germinated.
If you find inactive mold, or if you have forced active mold into an inactive state, it may be removed from a small number of items using appropriate tools and training. Contact a local preservation or conservation professional for guidance. For large outbreaks of active or inactive mold, professional recovery firms such as Munters, Balfour, or BMS Catastrophe should be called to assess the situation and provide assistance, or materials should be discarded.
Please note: Even once mold has been removed, it will frequently leave permanent stains on porous materials, such as paper and cloth. Do not expect a treated item to look as if it was never damaged by mold.
Additional Resources
Identifying Mold on Paper provides definitions of mold and mildew, causes of mold, health hazards associated with mold.
Florian, Mary Lou. Heritage Eaters: Insects and Fungi in Heritage Collections. London: James & James, 1997.
Florian, Mary Lou. Fungal Facts: Solving Fungal Problems in Heritage Collections. London: Archetype, 2002.
In the News
Moraine Valley Community College Recipient of 2009 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
The Moraine Valley Community College Library, Palos Hills, is the recipient of the 2009 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the community college category. The library was recognized for creating an environment that fosters numerous relationships with partners outside those traditionally associated with libraries.
The award, sponsored by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and Blackwell's Book Services, recognizes the staff of a college, university, and community college library for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of the institution.
Poole New President-elect of AAHSL
Connie Poole, Associate Dean for Information Resources and chair of Information and Communication Sciences department at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has been chosen as president-elect of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). After a one-year term, Poole will become president of the group. AAHSL is the association of libraries serving U.S. and Canadian medical schools, all members of or affiliated with the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Hinchliffe a Candidate for ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and head of the undergraduate library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is a candidate for Vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). The election will take place later this spring.
Other Upcoming Events
On the Front Lines Conference March 16-18
"On the Front Lines", the sixth statewide library practitioners' conference will be held March 16-18 at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). The conference, sponsored by the Illinois State Library and the Secretary of State's Office, is designed to equip and enlighten "front line" staff with training, exposure and techniques that will enable them to handle their work more effectively and efficiently. Conference sessions will focus on topics of interest to all types of libraries.
Speakers will include:
- James LaRue–Director, Douglas County Libraries
- Rachel Gordon Singer–Webmaster, LISjobs.com and Consulting Editor @ Information Today, Inc., Books Division
- Aaron Schmidt–Digital Initiatives Librarian, District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) & Publisher, http://www.walkingpaper.org
- Karen Hyman–Executive Director, South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
- Anne Craig–Director, Illinois State Library
The registration fee of $15.00 is applicable to one, two and/or three days of this event. This fee includes breakfast, lunch (when applicable) and all programs.
For more information or to register log on to L2.
CRL Quarterly Orientation Webinars
CRL staff encourages any CARLI member that is contemplating a CRL membership to join in a webinar to learn how to get the most benefit for their membership fee.
If you are interested in attending the April 8, 2009 webinar, please send a note with your name and institution to support@carli.illinois.edu and the webinar setup guidelines will be sent to you.
Save the Date: "Our Monograph Collection: A Call for Collaboration"
"Our Monograph Collection: A Call for Collaboration" will be held at the I-Hotel in Champaign on June 10th, 2009.
This library conference will feature a keynote speaker and will present data and results from a recent CARLI-funded research program assessing Illinois' I-Share monograph collection and the use of that collection. Your participation is needed to provide comments and to help plan for the future direction of our statewide, shared monograph collection.
Registration and full program information for this free conference will be available by mid-April. Lunch will be provided.
This conference, and the research program "I-Share Monograph Collection Assessment: What are we buying and how is it used?" were funded by a CARLI Access and Analysis Award, with planning and registration managed by Tina Chrzastowski and Lynn Wiley, Co-Primary Investigators.
Upcoming CARLI Events and Meetings
Training and Workshops
February 26 I-Share Users' Group Reports Forum Webinars: "Targeting Dust Bunnies" and "Improving the Annual Statistics Package: A Report of the IUG Statistics Task Force"
February 26 Voyager Acquisitions/Serials Training, CARLI Office
February 27 I-Share Users' Group Reports Forum Webinars: "Using MS Access: An Introduction to Getting Information without Writing Queries from Scratch" and "A Trio of Topics for Confident Access Query Writers"
March 4 eBook Symposium, Hawthorn Suites, Champaign
March 10 State of Confusion: Writing your Digital Imaging Grant, Illini Center, Chicago
March 12 Using Macro Express Software to Assist with Data Maintenance in I-Share Voyager Databases, CARLI Office, Champaign
March 18 Technical Service Workflow Analysis Seminar Mini-Forum, Greenville College, Greenville
March 19 Technical Service Workflow Analysis Seminar Mini-Forum, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington
March 20 Copyright Basics and Library Reserves Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 2 Using Social Technologies in Library Instruction Forum, University of Illinois at Springfield
April 30 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team/Acquisitions and Serials Team Forum, University of Illinois at Springfield
May 21 I-Share Users' Group Liaison's Forum
May 22 Public Services Working Group Open House, Heartland Community College and Illinois State University
May 29 Public Services Working Group Open House, John Wood Community College and Quincy University
Meetings
February 26 eBook Symposium Planning Group
March 4 I-Share Instruction Team
March 4 Digital Collections Users' Group Standards Subcommittee
March 6 Tutorials Interest Group Open Conference Call
March 6 CARLI Board Meeting, CARLI Office
March 9 E-Resources Working Group
March 10 I-Share OPAC Team
March 10 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
March 12 Digital Collections Users' Group
March 13 I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team, CARLI Office
March 16 SFX Interest Group Open Conference Call
March 24 SFX Interest Group Open Conference Call
March 27 Public Services Working Group
March 27 I-Share Users' Group, CARLI Office
April 1 I-Share Instruction Team
April 13 E-Resources Working Group
April 14 Collections Working Group
April 14 I-Share OPAC Team
April 14 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
April 16 Digital Collections Users' Group
April 17 I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team, CARLI Office
April 20 Preservation Working Group
April 20 SFX Interest Group, Open Conference Call
April 24 I-Share Users' Group, CARLI Office
April 28 SFX Interest Group Open Conference Call
May 6 I-Share Instruction Team
May 11 E-Resources Working Group
May 12 I-Share OPAC Team
May 12 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
May 15 I-Share Acquisitions and Serials Team
May 18 SFX Interest Group Open Conference Call
May 21 Digital Collections Users' Group
May 22 Public Services Working Group
May 22 I-Share Users' Group
May 26 SFX Interest Group Open Conference Call
May 27 Executive Committee
May 29 Collections Working Group
Contact Us
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