0 Comments The OCLC ILL Policies Directory is a web-based source of interlibrary loan policies for WorldCat Resource Sharing libraries. The Policies Directory has been completely redesigned and includes a new user interface, a new hardware platform, and a new underlying database.
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All Nylink member libraries are invited to join the Nylink Reciprocal ILL Agreement. The purpose of this agreement is to encourage reciprocal interlibrary loan among libraries in the Nylink region. Libraries signing the agreement agree to provide free ILL service to other libraries also signing the code, and to abide by the provisions of the code. The Nylink ILL agreement has been signed by more than 200 libraries to date.
A list of Nylink ILL Agreement members is available on the Nylink web site
In addition, an OCLC Resource Sharing Group has been created to help libraries quickly identify code signers. A search by group symbol ZERO retrieves a list of the members of the Nylink ILL Agreement.
The text of the Nylink Interlibrary Loan Agreement may be found on the Nylink web site .
Back on January 22, CISTI announced that beginning on January 25, they would no longer bill using IFM (Interlibrary Loan Fee Management). CISTI announced today that they have reinstated their participation in the OCLC IFM payment option, Effective yesterday, February 3, ILL requests sent to symbol CAI with IFM payment selected will be processed as standard IFM transactions.
Receive 5% of if billed through Nylink and 10% off of IFM requests. You must be registered through Nylink to take advantage of these discounts. Visit the Nylink CISTI Information page and the Nylink CISTI Registration form
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Update: As of Feb. 3rd CISTI has reinstated OCLC IFM payment option
CISTI (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) has announced that starting January 25, 2010, they will no longer bill through IFM (Interlibrary Loan Fee Management). Nylink member libraries who have registered with CISTI through Nylink will continue to be billed for CISTI materials on their monthly Nylink invoice. Documents ordered from CISTI and billed through Nylink will receive a 5% discount off the standard CISTI price.
If you would like to take advantage of the Nylink discount and centralized billing, and are not already registered with CISTI through Nylink, please complete the registration form on the Nylink web site:
http://nylink.org/sharing/forms/cisti_reg.cfm
You can read more about Nylink’s CISTI offer at http://nylink.org/sharing/cisti.cfm
For questions about CISTI billing, please contact Peg Palmiere at palmierep@nylink.org or 1-800-342-3353.
RUSA STARS announces a FREE “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ILL” workshop at ALA Midwinter. This workshop will take place from 9:00-1:00 on Friday, January 15, 2010. Registration will begin at 9:00 and presentations will begin at 9:30. The workshop will be held in Room CO5/6 at the Boston Public Library. There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served.
You do not need to be registered for ALA Midwinter in order to attend this free workshop.
Registration is available online through the Lyrasis Classes and Events website:
http://www.lyrasis.org/?sc_itemid={4F056F6A-C22A-47A9-B575-C99015EF2E71}
This system-neutral workshop will cover best practices in resource sharing, address ways you can best serve your users, and provide an excellent overview of the resources and support available to ILL practitioners. Whether you’re new to resource sharing or have been providing services for years, this workshop will help you to reconsider your approaches, make decisions about user services, define best practices, and introduce you to ways you can best contribute to the resource sharing community while reflecting your own library’s mission.
Our knowledgeable instructors are Cyril Oberlander (borrowing), Karen Janke (lending), Cindy Kristof (copyright), and Collette Mak (standards and resources).
Thank you to Lyrasis, OCLC, and RapidILL for sponsoring this no-charge workshop. We are also grateful to the Boston Public Library for providing facilities.
For questions or additional information, please contact Megan Gaffney, RUSA STARS Education Committee at gaffneym@udel.edu .
If you are new to the field of interlibrary loan/document delivery or electronic reserves, you may want to want to check out the RUSA STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award. This award provides financial support for attending the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC in June 2010.
The nomination form for this award is available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/mentoring/starsatlasnomination.pdf
Don’t delay. Nomination forms must be received by December 15, 2009.
NRC-CISTI will be closed from December 24, 2009 at noon until January 4, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Clients transitioned to Infotrieve will have their orders processed during the shutdown period; all others will be processed beginning January 4. NRC-CISTI would like to thank you for your understanding and wish you all the joys of the season.
Randa Sammouri
Supervisor, External Document Delivery Unit
Superviseur, Unité de fourniture de documents externes
NRC- CISTI Library/ CNRC – Bibliothèque de l’ICIST
1200 Montreal Road
M-55 Room 29
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Phone (613) 993-9246
Fax (613) 990-7785
Randa.Sammouri@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
One of the current trends in resource sharing has been the growth of purchase on demand. In the age of Netflix and Amazon, user expectations for delivery of information have changed, and these changes have led to a re-evaluation of the traditional resource sharing model. The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative is a good example of the work that is being done in this area. One of the key beliefs behind Rethinking Resource Sharing is that that there are often multiple options available to get information resources. While traditional ILL is still a viable option, there may be occasions where it is, cheaper and faster to purchase the item.
For purchase on demand to work efficiently as a substitute for ILL, the order process needs to be simplified. The library staff at SUNY Geneseo has developed a toolkit that is designed to streamline the purchase on demand process, and optimize the acquisitions and interlibrary loan workflow.
http://toolkit.idsproject.org/doku.php?id=borrowing:purchasingworkflow
In addition, the Geneseo folks have created the GIST (Getting it System) Toolkit. According to the IDS Project website:
“The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) is a customizable set of ILLiad tools and workflows that will enhance interlibrary loan and just-in-time acquisitions services; purchase request processing; and cooperative collection development efforts. GIST was developed at the State University of New York College at Geneseo with an eye toward converging ILL and Acquisitions workflows and user interfaces, while leveraging the strengths of various workflows and systems. Beware: GIST was designed to transform the business of borrowing, buying, and accessing.”
Check out the GIST Toolkit at:
http://toolkit.idsproject.org/doku.php?id=wiki:gist
The SUNY Office of Library and Information Services have also recognized the importance of purchase on demand. In June 2008, the SUNY Borrowing Task Force and SUNY OLIS sponsored a day long conference on purchase of demand. This event was held in conjunction with the SUNYLA Annual Conference and focused on the relationship between acquisitions and interlibrary loan. The agenda included speakers from both acquisitions and ILL, and provided an opportunity for ILL and acquisitions staff to discuss how they could work together to implement purchase on demand programs. I attended this pre-conference and was struck by the fact that this was the only event (in my memory) where both ILL and acquisitions staff met together to discuss common interests and opportunities for collaboration. Since purchase on demand requires increased cooperation and communication between the acquisitions staff and the interlibrary loan staff, this conference provided an opportunity to bring both groups together.
There is also evidence of support for purchase on demand in Western New York. The Western New York Library Resources Council, one of nine regional library councils in New York State, is funding a purchase on demand pilot. WNYLRC is providing $20,000 in funding to be shared among all participating libraries to purchase materials. This pilot began on October 1, 2009. Under this pilot, materials are purchased through Amazon, and are paid for by WNYLRC. Materials may be shipped directly to the requesting library or directly to the patron depending on each library’s preference. More information on this pilot is available at:
Nominations are being sought for the Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Awards. This award, now in its second year, recognizes and honors an individual or institution for changes they made to improve users’ access to information through resource sharing in their library, consortium, state or country.
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards consists of a $1,000 cash award and a citation. In 2009 Rethinking Resource Sharing expects to make up to three awards.
Additional information about this award is available at:
http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/innovation.html
Are you planning to attend ALA Midwinter? If so, there are many resource sharing meetings, programs, and activities planned. Here is list of some of the sessions that you may wish to attend:
RUSA Stars (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section) has scheduled a variety of events at ALA Midwinter. These include an all day pre-conference, an ILL discussion group, a hot topics discussion group, a membership social, and meetings on the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative. For a schedule of RUSA Stars activities, go to:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/stars/index.cfm#midwinter
While visiting the exhibits, you may also want to stop by the Atlas Systems booth. Atlas will be in Booth #2514. The Atlas staff would be happy to talk with you about ILLiad, Aeon and Ares. A representative from Nylink will be at the Atlas booth on Saturday, January 24 from 10:00-11:00AM, so stop by and say hello.
In addition, Atlas is hosting the first Atlas Systems Users Meeting on Saturday, January 24 in Room #703 at the Convention Center.
Attend these meetings and learn in-depth details about current releases, future release plans, and general product information.
In addition, ILLiad users can learn all about ILLiad 8.0 on Saturday, January 24 from 8:00-10:00AM in Room #108 at the Convention Center
OCLC is scheduling a variety of meetings and information sessions at ALA Midwinter. Topics include:
For more information, or to register any of these OCLC meetings, please go to: www.oclc.org/info/ala.
