ILCSO Users’ Advisory Group
Report to the CARLI Board of Directors
October 21, 2005
IUAG’s last meeting was held on Thursday, October 6. IUAG has a meeting scheduled on Thursday, November 10
Approval of IUAG committee/task force documents
The IUAG approved the Consortial Cataloging and Authority Control Committee’s document, “Best Practices for Bibliographic Records from Non-OCLC Sources” and Circulation and Universal Borrowing Functionality Task Force’s document, “Options for configuring links from SILC to I-Share OPACs.” The CCAC’s best practices document provides recommendations for consortial libraries in dealing with vendor-supplied records, including the provision of system control numbers and restrictions placed by vendors on the use of records. CCAC will be presenting this document at its Fall Forum on Wednesday, November 2. The best practices document is available at http://office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Reports/iuagccac/ccacvendorrecs.html.
SILC document discusses the various options for configuring Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (SILC) so that it links link to the Universal Catalog allowing users can place requests. It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to complete the linking in the SILC administrative module. The document is available at http://office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Docs/silc_to_uc.pdf.
WebVoyage Usability Study Report
WebVoyage Usability Study Task Force is in the final stage of compiling its report and will forward it to IUAG for consideration at its November 10 meeting.
Forums
Cataloging and Authority Control Committee (CCAC) will sponsor its forum, “Fall Cleaning: Tools and Techniques for Cataloging Maintenance,” on Wednesday November 2, 2005 at the University of Illinois at Springfield. IUAG’s Acquisitions/Serials Task Force (Acq/Ser) will sponsor a forum on November 29 at Heartland Community College. The forum will address how to handle electronic resources in acquisitions, both the big picture issues/”environmental scan” and the more hands-on aspects.
The End User Instruction Committee (EUIC) will offer five training sessions to instruct ILCSO/I-Share member libraries' staff in the deployment of tutorials developed by the committee and the use of Camtasia Studio software to create and modify the tutorials. The training sites will be held in November and December and at these locations: Heartland Community College, North Central College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Columbia College and Eastern Illinois University.
IUAG continues to brainstorm ideas and/or possible speakers for the Voyager Reports (May 2006), IUAG Liaisons (April 2006), and Reference/Public Services (February 2006) forums.