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June 3, 2008 In This Issue:CARLI Staff Moving to New Location June 17-18 CARLI Staff Moving to New Location June 17-18The final date is set! CARLI staff will move on June 17-18 from current locations on Daniel Street and Green Street in Champaign to our newly renovated space at Trade Centre South in Champaign. The new space will include 2 new meeting/training rooms and easy access to parking for staff and visitors. All phone numbers and emails will remain the same. CARLI staff will do their best to respond to support queries as quickly as possible during the move but response times may be slower than normal until all computer and phones are back online. No interruption in network service is expected. Please send US Mail to the new location after June 16th, 2008. The new address will be: 100 Trade Centre Drive, Suite 303, Champaign, IL 61820. 2008 Board of Directors Election–Voting Ends June 4th!Only one more day to cast your ballot in the 2008 election to fill four seats on the CARLI Board of Directors. One Governing Board member each will be elected from the community college sector, the private institution sector, and the public university sector, and one member will be elected at-large. Successful candidates will serve three-year terms, from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011. The candidates are: Public Universities:
Community Colleges:
Private College and Universities:
At- Large:
The election is being conducted by online ballot and library directors at Governing Member libraries have received their voting instructions and log-in information via email and US Mail. If you have any questions about the election process or if you have not yet received your username and password, please contact <support@carli.illinois.edu> with the subject heading 2008 Election. In addition to voting for members of the Board, there is also a proposed change to CARLI Bylaws on the ballot. The proposed Bylaws change, to move to quarterly meetings of the Board of Directors, was unanimously endorsed by the Board at their March 2008 meeting. Two-thirds (2/3) of the Governing members (67) must cast votes to institute a Bylaws change. CARLI Welcomes New MembersCARLI is pleased to welcome 8 new members beginning July 1, 2008. The new members serve over 13,000 Illinois higher education students, faculty and staff. Governing members are Chicago Theological Seminary; Richard J. Daley College, Chicago; Harold Washington College, Chicago; Lincoln College, Lincoln and Bloomington; and University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein. New Associate members include Pritzker Military Library, Chicago; and Rasmussen College, Rockford. In addition to the new members, 2 member institutions have upgraded their membership: Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary, Chicago, from Basic to Governing member; and Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, from Basic to Associate member. Library information for the new members will be added to the CARLI web site over the next few weeks. ILDS stops will be added beginning July 1 for those institutions electing to receive ILDS delivery. E-Resources UpdatesCARLI One-Time Purchase E-Resource Products Now Available CARLI is very pleased to announce that the selection system now includes products for one-time purchase by CARLI member libraries. To view products and pricing go to http://select.carli.illinois.edu/. You’ll need your library's ID and password to access the CARLI selection system, IDs and passwords for the FY 09 database selections remain valid. Pricing for the following products is available in the selection system:
Sage Deep Backfiles is available to all levels of CARLI membership. All others are available to Governing and Associate members. CARLI is offering a 10% discount for libraries that purchase all four products at the same time. The discount will be reflected on your final invoice. These are one-time purchases and include costs for the annual maintenance fees associated with the products, so no additional costs will be charged in subsequent years. More information about the One Time Purchase Program is available at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/news/88/65.html, through the selection system or by emailing support@carli.illinois.edu with the subject heading CARLI One Time Purchase Program. Gale Virtual Reference Library 2008 Offer Extended Gale is extending their offer of 25% off of libraries' tier pricing and 90-day payment terms for GVRL titles through June 16, 2008 for CARLI members. Sample titles now available through GVRL include Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd Ed., Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biographies, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Ed. More information is available at: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/GvrlMS?msg=ma. For pricing information, contact support@carli.illinois.edu. The discounts are designed to allow CARLI members to work together to get the maximum discount available. If you have further questions about the content of the databases, the attached title list or would like to place an order, please contact the Gale representatives: Marta Kwiatek or Derrek Pulliam. Digital Collections UpdatesSave the Date: Digital Projects Forum The CARLI Digital Collections Users Group will be hosting a digital projects forum on July 25, 2008, at Chicago State University. This forum will focus on the planning and creation of digital collections. A tentative list of topics that will be covered include:
Registration for this event will be available soon. Please contact the CARLI Office at support@carli.illinois.edu if you have any questions. The CARLI Digital Collections Users Group (DCUG) is pleased to announce the following improvements to the navigation and searching of CARLI Digital Collections (CDC).
If you have any questions about these new features please contact support@carli.illinois.edu. New Metadata Requirements for CARLI Digital Collections The CARLI Board recently approved several changes to metadata requirements for CARLI Digital Collections and endorsed a document on metadata best practices entitled "Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collection: Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata", created by the CARLI Digital Collections Users Group’s Standard Subcommittee. While the "Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata" are intended to be used as a guideline for institutions creating collections in CARLI Digital Collections (via CONTENTdm), it contains important information on new required fields and several notable changes to the metadata format that are now required before a collection will be published. These changes are also reflected in updated versions of all other CARLI CONTENTdm documentation. All documentation, including "Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collection: Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata" can be found on the CONTENTdm System Documentation page. CARLI/Open Content Alliance Book Digitization Initiative UpdatesFY2009 Participants Announced The Collections Working Group is pleased to announce the CARLI/OCA Book Digitization Initiative participants for FY2009. The group was excited about the number, excellence, and breadth of the proposals received. All qualified proposals have been approved for scanning in this first year of the Book Digitization Initiative. Later this month, more detailed information about the procedures will be sent to each participating institution. Scanning will begin August 1, 2008. The following institutions will be participating in the inaugural year of the project:
CARLI Board Approves Funding for FY2010 At its May meeting, the CARLI Board of Directors approved a second year of funding for the CARLI/OCA Book Digitization Initiative. Information about the FY2010 program will be announced later this year. Subscribe now to the listserv for the Open Content Alliance. This list is open to staff at participating OCA institutions as well as all interested others. If you know of someone who might be interested in subscribing to the list, send the following message to listserv@listserv.uiuc.edu: subscribe oca your full name. The listserv is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is managed by Betsy Kruger. SFX A-Z ListAccording to CARLI records, more than half of the libraries with an SFX instance on the CARLI server now take advantage of the A-Z list of available journal titles that SFX creates for them. These electronic lists, linked from library web pages, connect users to electronic (and for some libraries also print) journals to which they have access. Both the look and the content of the lists can be easily customized via web-based SFX administration. The lists are updated each night, as necessary. Users still have access to the A-Z lists while the nightly updates are in process. Search functions include:
CARLI Annual Meeting October 24, 2008Attend the 2008 CARLI Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, October 24, at the iHotel, Champaign. The keynote speaker will be Marshall Keys. Breakfast meetings for all Governing Directors, and all Committee and Working Group Chairs will be held before the Annual Meeting. The final schedule and registration information will be announced as soon as the details are available. CARLI Member Libraries Invited to Attend Portico Participants' Meeting at ALAAttend the third Portico Participants' Meeting during this year's ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. The meeting--open to those interested in learning more about Portico and to all participating libraries and publishers--will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2008, in the Marriott Anaheim Hotel. A continental breakfast will be offered at 8:00 am, and the program will run from 8:30 - 10:00 am. Topics on this year’s program include:
If you have any questions about the program or Portico, please send an email to participation@portico.org. Subscribe to the New Calendar RSS FeedThe CARLI calendar now has an RSS feed. To subscribe, visit http://www.carli.illinois.edu/calendar/rss.php. Upcoming CARLI Events, Meetings and DeadlinesImportant Dates Training and Forums For meeting times and locations, or for additional information about all upcoming CARLI forums, trainings, and meetings consult the CARLI calendar. Contact UsAll questions and comments about the e-newsletter should be directed to support@carli.illinois.edu. Subscribe to the CARLI Announce email distribution list to receive the latest news. |
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