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.

• The Ares Users Meeting will run from 4:00-4:45 PM
• The Aeon Users Meeting will run from 4:45-5:30 PM

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:

• ILLiad 8.0: Maximizing the New Interface
• The New Policies Directory and WorldCat Registry Update
• OCLC ILLiad for Prospective Users
• OCLC Resource Sharing Users Group Meeting

For more information, or to register any of these OCLC meetings, please go to: www.oclc.org/info/ala.

The Copyright Clearance Center now offers colleges and universities an annual copyright license.  The Annual Copyright License allows the reuse of text-based copyrighted content within higher education institutions.  Educational uses include:

• Coursepacks—paper and electronic
• Class handouts
• Library reserves—traditional and e-reserves
• Electronic course content

The annual copyright license does not include documents received through interlibrary loan.

Additional information is available on the Copyright Clearance Center website:

http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=ac12

Many ILL offices close during the holiday season both so that materials don’t get lost during a busy period for the mail, and because of special holiday hours and staff vacations.

Libraries may now set their own supplier/non-supplier status using the ILL Policies Directory. Here are instructions:

1. Log into the Policies Directory at http://illpolicies.oclc.org/
2. Click on the My Units link in the black border at upper right.
3. Click the Change Supplier Status button.
4. Click on Change, to the right of the OCLC Supplier field.
5. In the Dates fields, you may either type in the dates or click on the calendar icon to specify the date range.
6. Click on Save after entering the dates.

Changes entered before midnight will be made the following day. Only one date, or date range, can be entered at a time.

Please note that the online form in the ILL Policies Directory may be used only for supplier status requests for periods of up to 184 days. If you are becoming a non-supplier for more than 184 days, please contact Jon Penn at Nylink (pennj@nylink.org).

We are pleased to announce a new LAND (Libraries and Nylink Deliver) participant effective November 17, 2008.  City College of New York (CUNY) has added a second location — the Center for Worker Education Library.

When addressing materials for this library please include the “Center for Worker Education” on the label. This will help the courier distinguish between the two City College Libraries.

CUNY - City College of New York (ZXC)

Center for Worker Education Library

25 Greenwich Street

New York, NY 10004

Thanks you for your continued support of the LAND service.

Registration is now open for the FREE “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ILL” workshop presented by RUSA STARS at ALA Midwinter. This workshop will take place from 8:30-12:30 on Friday, January 23, 2009 at the University of Colorado, Auraria Campus. There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served.

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.

The knowledgeable instructors are Cyril Oberlander (borrowing), Karen Janke (lending), Cindy Kristof (copyright), and Collette Mak (standards and resources).

Please register online at: http://www.bcr.org/STARS-preconference/ by January 16, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Margaret Bean at mbean@uoregon.edu.

Thank you to BCR and OCLC for sponsoring this no-charge workshop. We are also grateful to the University of Colorado, Auraria Campus for providing facilities.