|
CARLI News
June 30, 2009
In This Issue:
Holiday Closing
Results of the 2009 CARLI Board Election
Board Task Forces Appointed
Committee Annual Reports Available
WebFeat to be Discontinued in 2010
Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager Discount Available
Serials Solutions Hosting CARLI Breakfast at ALA
Digital Collections
—Ensuring Enduring Access: A Forum on Digital Preservation
—Selected Statistics for CARLI Digital Collections
E-Resources
—Subsidized Access to Mary Ann Liebert Journals to be Discontinued
I-Share
—New CARLI WebVoyage FAQ and Blog Page Available
—I-Share Upgrade
—Syndetics Indexed Content Enrichment
ILDS Adding 3 New Locations
Preservation
—Steal this Preservation Idea: Polyester Dust Jacket or Book Covers
—Save the Date! Forum on AudioVisual Preservation
News from CARLI Libraries
—Newspaper Features Digital Collection from Knox College
—Librarians Invited to Attend Presentations on Chinese Academic Libraries
—Illinois State Library to Receive Laura Bush Grant
—Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Elected ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect
—Illinois Math and Science Academy Honored
—Rudasill named 2009 Marta Lange/CQ Press Award Winner
—Fritts Named 2009 ACRL DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award Winner
CARLI Staff News
—Dr. Connie Walsh
—Hamilton Elected to ILA Executive Board
—A Fond Farewell
Upcoming CARLI Events and Meetings
Contact Us
Holiday Closing
The CARLI Office will be closed Friday July 3rd for the Fourth of July holiday. Contact support@carli.illinois.edu or call toll free (866) 904-5843 to report any problems or concerns. As always, callers will have the option of paging a tech support staff person to report a system outage or other serious problem. CARLI staff will respond to all other issues and reports when regular business hours resume on Monday, July 6th.
Results of the 2009 CARLI Board Election
The 2009 CARLI Board of Directors election ended on Friday, May 29. New Board members elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2009 are Mary Case (University of Illinois at Chicago), Cindy Fuller (Millikin University), Donna Smith (Kankakee Community College), and Lisa Stock (College of DuPage). Beginning July 2009, Karen Schmidt (Illinois Wesleyan University) will be Chair of the CARLI Board and Connie Bakker (College of Lake County) will be Vice-Chair.
Outgoing members Carla Tracy (Augustana College), Claire Eike (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and Ellen Sutton (College of DuPage) participated in their final Board meeting on June 5th. The Board, staff, and membership appreciate and thank them for their time and their commitment to CARLI.
Board Task Forces Appointed
At their June 5th meeting, the Board discussed the CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards Program. Following the extensive discussion, Board members approved a recommendation to form a task force to undertake a full review and analysis of the Collections Enhancement Awards. Read the task force charge and roster on the task force web page. In addition, funding for the FY2010 Collections Enhancement Awards was reduced to $70,000 and a moratorium was instituted on funding for the Collections Enhancement Awards in FY2011. Funding for FY2012 will be determined following the final report from the Collections Enhancement Awards Task Force.
Funding for the separate CARLI/Open Content Alliance Book Digitization Initiative will remain at $100,000 for FY2011. It will also be reviewed by the task force and a recommendation made on funding in FY2012 and beyond.
The Board also convened a task force to implement structural changes to CARLI’s membership categories and governing structure, as recommended by the Executive Committee.
Committee Annual Reports Available
Annual reports from the Collections Working Group, E-Resources Working Group, Preservation Working Group, Public Services Working Group, I-Share Users’ Group, and the Digital Collections Users’ Group are available from the Reports and Meeting Minutes page on the CARLI web site. We extend our thanks to all CARLI committees for their hard work this year.
WebFeat to be Discontinued in 2010
Serials Solutions is working on a new federated search service and will be discontinuing WebFeat at the end of 2010. CARLI will discontinue subsidized access to WebFeat in March 2010, at the conclusion of the current contract. CARLI will work with affected libraries to investigate other product options, but the consortium does not plan to issue an RFP for a new federated search product.
Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager Discount Available
The RFP for an electronic resources management system (ERMS) concluded with Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager and 360 Counter selected. Governing and Associate members will be able to subscribe to these products at a discount.
Serials Solutions Hosting CARLI Breakfast at ALA
Serials Solutions will host an ALA Annual breakfast for CARLI members on Monday, July 13 from 9:00 – 10:00 am at the Hyatt McCormick Place (room - Convention Center 10a). This session will provide an opportunity for CARLI members to meet with Serials Solutions staff and learn more about their e-resource access and management services available through CARLI.
Jane Burke, Vice President of Serials Solutions, will provide a brief overview of resource management tools that libraries are using to meet and overcome today’s economic challenges. She will also provide an update on the future of WebFeat and highlight their upcoming, new and improved federated search service.
Register online for this event.
Digital Collections
Ensuring Enduring Access: A Forum on Digital Preservation
So you’ve digitized materials and posted them online for user access. Now what do you do with all the files you spent so much time creating? How do we make sure these materials will be viable in 5, 10, or 20 years? Join CARLI’s Digital Collections Users’ Group and Preservation Working Group as we begin to scratch the surface of what digital preservation means for libraries.
The forum will be held on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Presentations include:
- “That Which Survives,” Jerome McDonough, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- “Distributed Digital Preservation: The MetaArchive Approach,” Rachel Howard, University of Louisville
- “Preservation—The Tip of the Institutional Repository Iceberg,” TJ Lusher, Northern Illinois University, and Christopher Stewart, Illinois Institute of Technology
- "Best Practices for Digital Preservation,” Tim Donohue, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Kevin Ford, Columbia College
To view the full agenda and to register, visit the event registration page. Please register no later than Friday, July 10, 2009.
Please email support@carli.illinois.edu if you have any questions.
Selected Statistics for CARLI Digital Collections
Selected statistics for collections in CARLI Digital Collections are now available.
Statistics have been collected since CARLI Digital Collections went online in April 2006 and are accessible for viewing in HTML or downloading in a TXT file. New monthly files are generated on the first of every month for activity during the previous month. Statistics include total collection home page views, on-campus vs. off-campus collection home page views, Saskia art images collection usage on-campus by institution, items viewed in a single collection, and size of each collection.
E-Resources
Subsidized Access to Mary Ann Liebert Journals to be Discontinued
Following an extensive review of usage, CARLI will discontinue subsidized access to Mary Ann Liebert Journals in December 2009, at the conclusion of the current contract. A Health Sciences task force is reviewing products that may be offered as a replacement. Liebert sales representatives will begin contacting CARLI libraries in July regarding individual licensing of the journals. More detailed information will be sent to the CARLI CCG and E-Resources listservs soon.
I-Share
New CARLI WebVoyage FAQ and Blog Page Available
CARLI has created an FAQ on our web site to share some of the most commonly asked questions and answers about the new look of WebVoyage, the Voyager public interface as supplied by Ex Libris. We anticipate that the FAQ will change over time and you will be able to note changes and additions to the FAQ by the "Last revised" dates that appear with each question.
Additionally, we have opened a new space on the CARLI blog for your comments on, and ideas about WebVoyage displays. The first entry on this topic includes instructions on how to set up a personal login so that you may post comments. The CARLI staff and the I-Share Users' Group's OPAC Team look forward to an open and productive blog conversation about this important matter.
I-Share Upgrade
The most current information about the recent I-Share Voyager upgrade continues to be available on the Voyager Upgrade web page. CARLI systems' availability status and other current known issues are also posted on the System Status page.
As with any software installation of I-Share's magnitude, fine-tuning is necessary. Staff are closely monitoring performance and addressing functional issues as they arise. CARLI staff are also working closely with the I-Share Users' Group OPAC Team to address display issues in WebVoyage and to specify and prioritize CARLI modifications to Ex Libris' default version of the public catalog interface.
Syndetics Indexed Content Enrichment
Later this summer, CARLI will load Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) including searchable tables of contents and annotations/summaries into the I-Share VuFind catalog. CARLI will cover the cost of ICE content for one year and will to monitor use to see how desirable the content is to libraries.
ILDS Adding 3 New Locations
We are pleased to announce that we will be adding 3 new locations to Illinois Library Delivery Service (ILDS) this summer. Morton College (MRT), and Kennedy-King College (KKC) will begin service on July 1. Richard J. Daley (RJD) will begin service on August 1. A revised paper label that includes the 3-letter ILDS code for the new locations is available on the Delivery web site.
Please join us in welcoming these new locations to ILDS!
Preservation
Steal this Preservation Idea: Polyester Dust Jacket or Book Covers
Libraries that routinely retain book jackets for their collections, or that collect books with fancy bindings, can create inexpensive, non-reactive dust jackets and book covers that will protect the original book jackets and bindings from damage over the long term. These covers can also be used to keep books that suffer from "red rot" (i.e. dried, flaking leather) from dirtying other books.
The covers are easy to make, and the supplies needed are relatively inexpensive: rolls of non-reactive polyester (less than $100 to cover several hundred books depending upon their size), a bone folder (less than $10 each), and scissors.
The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) recommends "Mylar type D, manufactured by Dupont, and Melinex 516, manufactured by ICI, [ . . .] for use on books. Four mil polyester is suitable for most books."
The only other investment required is time. This is an excellent activity for student workers, particularly when they are stressed out during exam periods, and would like repetitive work that doesn’t require much thought.
The NEDCC has issued an illustrated pamphlet with simple-to-follow instructions.
Save the Date! Forum on AudioVisual Preservation
The CARLI Forum on AudioVisual Preservation will be held on October 13, 2009 at Columbia College, Chicago. Featured Speakers include Henrietta Zielinski and Thomas Hodge from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Jimi Jones and Jennifer Hain-Teper from UIUC. Registration and full program information will be available in early fall.
Topics will include the basics of preserving motion-picture film, sound, and photographs, A/V preservation on a small budget, and funding opportunities for A/V preservation.
News from CARLI Libraries
Newspaper Features Digital Collection from Knox College
Just in time for Railroad Days, Knox College's Seymour Library has launched "Railroads in the Midwest," an online digital collection of early documents and images.
The collection contains everything from high quality scans of 19th century photographs to PDFs of annual reports for long-defunct railroads, and is comprised of documents previously available in the library"s archives.
Read the full story online at Galesburg.com.
Librarians Invited to Attend Presentations on Chinese Academic Libraries
Lian Ruan, on behalf of the 2009 Chinese Librarians Summer Program, invites all those interested in learning more about academic libraries in China to attend one or more of the following presentations. The presentations, given by members of this year's cohort of visiting librarians from institutions such as Peking University, Zhejiang University, and Wuhan University will be held
- July 6, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
- July 9, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
- July 16, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
All presentations will be held in Room 66, UIUC Main Library. All presentations will be made in English, or with the assistance of an interpreter.
Illinois State Library to Receive Laura Bush Grant
The Illinois State Library is one of 33 institutions nationwide selected to receive a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to develop an institute where Illinois librarians can enhance their technology and leadership skills.
The State Library will use the nearly $420,000 grant to develop ILEAD U (Illinois Libraries Explore, Apply and Discover). The institute, which will be similar to the popular Synergy Illinois Library Leadership Institute, will consist of team- and project-based learning combining intermittent face-to-face meetings and online sessions over nine months beginning in October 2009. Participants will explore new forms of participatory Web 2.0 technology, hone their skills, and use the newly acquired skills to address the needs of their users.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Elected ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, coordinator for information literacy services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and assume the presidency in July 2010 for a one-year term.
Illinois Math and Science Academy Honored
The Illinois Math and Science Academy has been named the top high school nationally for science education, in a program sponsored by the Intel Foundation. IMSA is a state-supported boarding school for top high school students in math and science across Illinois. IMSA is a CARLI Governing member.
Rudasill named 2009 Marta Lange/CQ Press Award Winner
Lynne M. Rudasill, associate professor of library administration and global studies librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has been named the 2009 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science.
Fritts Named 2009 ACRL DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award Winner
Jack E. Fritts Jr., director of library services at Benedictine University, has been named the 2009 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Distance Learning Section (DLS) Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award. This annual award, sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, honors an ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success of, distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education.
CARLI Staff News
Dr. Connie Walsh
Congratulations to Dr. Connie Walsh, CARLI’s Chief Financial Officer. Connie was awarded her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield in May.
Hamilton Elected to ILA Executive Board
David Hamilton has been elected to the Executive Board of the Illinois Library Association (ILA). David is Program Coordinator, CARLI Electronic and Digital Information Resources.
A Fond Farewell
CARLI extends a fond farewell to Sarah Miller, Visiting Library Systems Coordinator. Sarah has departed for a job in Washington D.C. We wish her all the best.
Upcoming CARLI Events and Meetings
Important Dates
July 10 Registration Deadline for Forum on Digital Preservation
Forums, Training, and Workshops
July 21 “Ensuring Enduring Access: A Forum on Digital Preservation”, I Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign
Meetings
July 14 I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
July 16 I-Share OPAC Team, CARLI Office
July 20 E-Resources Working Group
Contact Us
All questions and comments about the e-newsletter should be directed to support@carli.illinois.edu. Subscribe to the CARLI Announce email list to receive the latest news.
|
Search
Featured Links
 CARLI Digital Collections
CARLI Systems Status
CARLI Blog
CARLI Wiki
CARLI twitter
Information for ILLINET Libraries
Newsletter Archives
|
View Calendar
Email Lists