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.

The OCLC Policies Directory is the repository of interlibrary loan policies for OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing libraries. A new, completely redesigned Policies Directory was released on January 10, 2010. The changes include a new user interface, hardware platform and underlying database. All existing policies, deflections, and contact data remain the same. The new interface is based on feedback received during usability testing with existing Policies Directory users. In addition, WorldCat Registry data is now incorporated into Policies Directory interface.

See a complete list of changes and enhancements: http://www.oclc.org/info/policies/

For more information about the new Policies Directory, please contact support@oclc.org.

The LAND Advisory Committee met on December 16, 2009 by telephone conference call. In addition to committee members, the meeting featured Velocity Express staff Brian Stekloff and Aaron Odud, who explained the nuts and bolts of making LAND work on a daily basis.

The minutes of that meeting are available online (PDF).

Also available: a brief power point presentation on LAND Services (PDF)

The annual ILLiad International conference is taking place March 25 & 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach.  A number of pre-conference programs are available on March 24.  These include Nylink’s own Jon Penn, presenting with Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems.  This workshop will include both a morning and afternoon session (hands on lab in the afternoon!) on March 24.  If you are going down to the conference make plans to participate in this workshop.

ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:00 am – 12:00 noon

Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems

Join instructors Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame, Jon Penn of Nylink, and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems to learn about the ILLiad database, OCLC Usage Stats, and how to create custom reports. We will explore:

• Basic ILLiad database tables and relationships
• ILLiad web reports vs OCLC stats
• Exporting data from OCLC Usage Stats for Use in Microsoft Excel
• Exporting data from the ILLiad client and web reports for use in Microsoft Excel
• How to access the ILLData database using Microsoft Excel
• Extracting data for annual report topics
• Using mapping software to display data for visual impact

This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).

ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple – Hands-on Lab

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

NOTE: ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple class is a prerequisite in order to attend this class

Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems

This session requires the use of a personal laptop with Microsoft Office programs. Lab exercises will include extracting sample ILLiad and OCLC Usage Stats data to create:

• Spreadsheets
• Pivot tables and charts

This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).

There is more information about this workshop on the 2010 International ILLiad Conference web site:

https://www.atlas-sys.com/conference/login.aspx

ILLiad 8: Borrowing from Submitted by Customer to Request Finished

Join Atlas Systems and Nylink as we explore ILLiad Borrowing with OCLC from top to bottom. This is an in-depth borrowing processing class offered over four one-hour online sessions. Topics for discussion:

• OCLC settings that impact your ILLiad efficiency
• How patron registration data impacts processing and options for streamlining
• Basic borrowing workflow
• Overdues, unfilleds and conditionals, renewals, ALA requests and more
• Odyssey trusted sender
• Basics of customizing borrowing email templates and word documents
• Purchase on Demand workflows and other available acquisitions and collection development customizations in ILLiad
• Dealing with connection manager errors and special messages

Dates and Cost

February 22, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 23, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 24, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 25, 2010 1-3 PM ET

Cost: $400.00

For more information about this workshop, and other classes offered by Atlas Systems, please go to the Atlas Systems training web site.

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.

The next meeting is of the Nylink LAND Advisory Committee will be held on Wednesday, December 16th from 1:30 pm – 2:30 p.m.
The goal of this meeting will be to provide the members of the advisory committee with a better understanding of how LAND operates. To help achieve this goal, Aaron Odud (Network VP for New England and South Jersey) and Brian Stekloff (Northeast Regional Account Director) from Velocity Express will participate in this meeting. This meeting will also provide members of the committee with an opportunity to talk directly to Velocity staff about the LAND service.

For more information about the LAND Advisory Group, please see http://nylink.org/delivery/LAG.cfm.

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