Year: 2011

OCLC Update

OCLC Update

Christa Stark Weiker from OCLC will provide an update on the new WorldCat Resource Sharing program. Find out how WCRS promotes increase use of your collection and higher fulfillment rates. Christa will also unveil aspects of the future delivery services that OCLC is currently developing that will give WorldCat Resource Sharing users a simplified interface and efficient workflow for handling all types of requests.

The Program

The Program

Preliminary Schedule subject to change

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012: North Ballroom, Lory Student Center
8-9am – Breakfast and Registration, North Ballroom
9-9:15am – Welcome from Chair
9:15-9:30am – Welcome from Tom Moothart , CSU
9:30-10:30am – UnShelved
10:30-11:00am – Break and UnShelved Book Sales (volunteer needed)
11am-11:45am – Douglas County Ebooks????
11:45am-12:45pm – Lunch in Cherokee Park Ballroom, Lory Student Center
12:45-1:30pm – Orbis Cascade: Ebook Lending Through Global Catalogs
1:30-2:15pm – Chris Steele, Regis University
2:15-2:45pm – Break (with food)
2:45 – 3:30pm – Susan Wood, University of Memphis
3:30- 4:15pm – Russell Palmer, Lyrasis, Interlibrary Loan: The Future is Now
4:15-5:15pm –Jennifer Pearson, OCLC, Library Advocacy

2011 Was Great!

2011 Was Great!

We hope you had as much fun and learned as much as we did at the 2011 Colorado ILL Conference. We’re already preparing for the 2012 conference.  Stay tuned to the website for updates! In the meantime, enjoy yourself exploring the 2011 conference resources.

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Mindy White

Mindy White

Mindy White has an MLS from Indiana University in Bloomington, 1997. She has been the Library Director at the Colorado Mountain College Quigley Library since 2000, and also worked at the Three Rivers Library District in Glenwood Springs, and at the Farmington (NM) Public Library. Mindy serves on the CLiC Board and acts as the CMC Campus H.R. Liaison.

Dana Von Berg

Dana Von Berg

Dana Von Berg works for the University of Arizona Main Library in Tucson, AZ in the area of Interlibrary Loan. She handles difficult ILL requests and enjoys the challenge. Dana has a M.A. in Library Science and a graduate certificate in Digital Information Management from the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS).

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith

As Duke University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing. Kevin began his academic career with graduate studies in theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and then decided to move into library work. He holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University and has worked as an academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized theological libraries. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and he received a law degree from Capital University in 2005. Before moving to Duke in 2006, Kevin served as the Director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught Constitutional Law. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina. Kevin serves on the Intellectual Property Board and the Provost’s Digital Futures Task Force at Duke, as well as on the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Committee and the faculty of the Association of Research Libraries’ Institute on Scholarly Communications. He has written several articles on copyright issues in higher education, and maintains a highly-regarded web log on scholarly communications (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/) that discusses copyright and publication in academia. He is a frequent speaker on those topics.

Jim Minges

Jim Minges

Jim Minges has more than 35 years of experience in regional and statewide library development, consulting, and resource sharing services. He has served as Director of the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) since 1996. In 2003 NEKLS created NExpress, the first regional shared library automation system in Kansas, utilizing The Sirsi Unicorn automation platform. In 2008 NExpress migrated to the Koha open source ILS platform, and began a substantial expansion to the current 33 participating libraries. In 2002, he led implementation of a regional library courier service in Northeast Kansas. From 2006 to 2009 he led the planning and development of the statewide courier service, Kansas Library Express. In 2011 Blue Sky Express began service, linking the Kansas and Colorado courier services.

Bethany Badgett Sewell

Bethany Badgett Sewell

As the Access Services Librarian, Bethany leads the Access Services Team of the Penrose Library at the University of Denver, which includes Circulation, InterLibrary Loan, Reserves, Stacks Maintenance and Digital Production Services. She is also the current secretary for the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Sandy Hudock

Sandy Hudock

Sandy Hudock is the Head of Public Services at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She started there as the Interlibrary Loan Librarian and continues to assist as needed, believing it is the most rewarding service the library provides. Her father was a construction worker in the New York City area, and worked across the street from the World Trade Towers as they were being built. She is used to being on and around construction sites. Sandy has an MLIS from the University of Kentucky and an MA in English from Colorado State University.

Gene Ann Trant

Gene Ann Trant

I am a native of Ponca City, Oklahoma. After graduation from Ponca City High School, I attended Oklahoma State University, graduating with a degree in Elementary Education. I also have a Masters in Library Science from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. After an odyssey that started in Oklahoma and went to Texas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, I came home to Colorado and a job that I love. I am now the director of the Wellington Public Library, in Wellington, Colorado. I have had a varied career working in libraries. I worked for the Poudre School System in Fort Collins, Colorado for ten years. Five of those years were spent as a media assistant at two different high schools. I then spent four years working in Iola, Kansas, for the Iola Public Library and the Southeast Kansas Library System. I have served on the ASCC (Automation System Colorado Consortium) Board and am on the AspenCat Cataloging Committee.

Stephen Abram

Stephen Abram


Stephen is delivering the conference keynote (description | slideshow).

Stephen Abram, MLS, is Past-President 2008 of SLA and the past-President of the Ontario and Canadian Library Associations. He is the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Markets for Cengage Learning (Gale). He was Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute. He was Publisher Electronic Information at Thomson after managing several libraries. Stephen was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries. He has received numerous honours and speaks regularly internationally. His columns appear in Information Outlook and Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, OneSource, Feliciter, Access, as well writing for Library Journal. He is the author of ALA Editions’ bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram. His blog, Stephen’s Lighthouse, is a popular blog in the library sector.

Value of Interlibrary Loan

Value of Interlibrary Loan

Some leaders in the Library community are challenging libraries to identify the value our patrons place on our services. Most libraries can estimate what it costs, turnaround, and other library-centric perspectives. We don’t know the value our patrons place on our services. This information is critical to informing our stakeholders and partners. This applies to everyone from public libraries needing to apprise boards, community members and other local governments to academic libraries who need to inform others in the university community and legislators. In addition, this information could help inform service design. I will present some research on ways to consider doing this with the bulk of the time devoted to a facilitated discussion with the audience.

Disruptions: Managing ILL in the middle of building renovations, closed collections, weeding projects and more

Disruptions: Managing ILL in the middle of building renovations, closed collections, weeding projects and more

Sandy Hudock from CSU-Pueblo and Bethany Sewall from the University of Denver will discuss how they have continued to provide ILL service while in the midst of major construction projects. They will discuss lots of practical issues like delivering items to patrons and accepting requests from other libraries when the library is closed for an indefinite period of time. Hear about lessons learned, tips from their experiences, and how to survive major renovations without major chaos.

Tempests on the Copyright Horizon

Tempests on the Copyright Horizon

Explore how the fast pace of new technologies is forcing the reinterpretation of decades-old copyright rules and licensing standards. The surging electronic books market and mass digitization are two key areas where librarians are striving to reconcile existing models of service with new means of delivery. Smith will explore what this means for libraries and their approaches to new technologies and interlibrary loan.

 

Collaborative Approaches to Resolving Difficult ILL Borrowing Requests: Using A Working Group and a Wiki for Knowledge Sharing

Collaborative Approaches to Resolving Difficult ILL Borrowing Requests: Using A Working Group and a Wiki for Knowledge Sharing

Dana Von Berg from the University of Arizona, Main Library will give a presentation based on an article she published in the Journal of ILL, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserves. The presentation will focus on how the University of Arizona’s “ILL Difficult Borrowing Group” operates and how information is shared among the group. She will also discuss how the wiki they created works and how content can be added and modified to it.

The Waters around You Have Grown: Small Libraries Transformed by Union Catalogs

The Waters around You Have Grown: Small Libraries Transformed by Union Catalogs

Imagine being in a small raft on the Colorado River during spring runoff! The water’s rising, you’re moving faster, enjoying the scenery and the spray. But here comes the first of many sets of rapids. How will you negotiate the turbulent waters and come out stronger on the other side? Take that scene and think about what a small or medium sized library faces when they become part of a Union Catalog. So much more is available to their patrons, but how will staff handle the increased volume? Does it change the way you do collection development, process ILL requests, does library use change? Jim Minges – Northeast Kansas Library System, Gene Ann Trant – Wellington Public Library in Colorado, and Mindy White – Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood share their experiences of what it’s like for smaller libraries to enter the world of resource sharing through the Union Catalog.