OCLC Research has been working with staff from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions to design and build a tool that, when completed and stocked with data, will function as a real-time ILL cost study. The ILL Cost Calculator tool, which is currently being beta tested, will provide a mechanism for libraries to gather and process their own data, plus benchmarks against which to measure their own unit’s performance.
Marshall Breeding, Keynote Speaker, 47th Annual Colorado ILL Conference
Marshall Breeding, a well-renowned speaker on library trends, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming conference. Mr. Breeding has presented at numerous conferences, events and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and Libraries.org, a directory of libraries on the web. He has authored Library Systems Report, an ALA publication and is editor of Smart Libraries Newsletter.
Claudine Perrault hails from Florida, but moved out west as quickly as she could. She received her formal education in Arizona, and
considers employment at Douglas County Libraries (CO) her library finishing school. Claudine has been Director of the Estes Valley Library since 2005 and counts her lucky stars each night that she lives in the Rocky Mountains.
Bob Bennhoff is the AspenCat Services Manager working for the Colorado Library Consortium.
He has worked for CLiC for 4 years and in Colorado libraries for over 11 years.
Ashley Sneesby-Stippich is currently the AspenCat Consultant at the Colorado Library Consortium. Ashley received her Master of Information Science from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2013. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Wyoming, her home state. Ashley has been involved in projects at the University of Colorado’s Norlin Library, the Toppan Rare Books Library, and the American Heritage Center.
Library collections today have become more complex than ever, with proportions of electronic and digital resources increasing relative to print and other physical materials. To manage these complex, multiformat collections, libraries need to consider many different options, both in the technology tools used and in their operational workflows and discovery services able to provide optimal access. Rather than operate in isolation, libraries increasingly seek to share resource management and discovery among collaborative partners to expand the resources available to patrons and lower operational costs. Marshall Breeding will give an overview of the current technologies and recent events surrounding these trends.
Resource sharing is the key character in the AspenCat Union Catalog tale. Because AspenCat connects over 100 small and rural libraries across Colorado, resource sharing needs and practices are central to the decisions that drive the management and development of AspenCat as a service. AspenCat’s story trumpets the necessity of resource sharing small, rural libraries, and the importance of ILL services for library users everywhere.
Proposed Takeaways: Resource sharing creates and serves a network of libraries with a shared purpose; Resource sharing creates access for libraries and their communities; Resource sharing creates dialog about information organization and library practices; The ILL community’s work is important to libraries in many contexts; Developing and maintaining the systems that support resource sharing is key to providing access to quality materials for libraries.
Elissa Hardy, LCSW has worked in many different areas of social work since obtaining her MSW in 2003. She has worked in long term care, hospice, Big Brothers Big Sisters, an adolescent treatment program, outpatient mental health as well as with the chronically homeless population in Housing First and Assertive Community Treatment programs. She currently is employed by the Denver Public Library as the Community Resource Specialist connecting with customers experiencing homelessness and other adverse life experiences to provide support and connection to resources. In 2012, Elissa began teaching as an adjunct instructor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Denver University. She teaches classes focusing on the intersections of mental health, substance use and trauma including trauma informed care. Her own experiences and recovery with trauma and vicarious trauma are what brought her to social work. Elissa lives in Denver with her three dogs, all of whom enjoy a good mountain trail.
Katie Birch is a Director in OCLC’s Global Product Management division, with responsibility for resource sharing, analytics and shared print.
In this capacity, Katie oversees WorldShare ILL, including article exchange, policies directory and IFM, as well as ILLiad, VDX and WorldCat Navigator. Additionally, Katie is responsible for OCLC’s shared print strategy and working in partnership with Rick Lugg, OCLC’s Analytics product set.
Katie is available to speak on the many aspects of resource sharing and shared print.
Dennis Massie coordinates the SHARES resource sharing consortium for the OCLC Research Library Partnership and is involved with OCLC Research projects centered on sharing special collections and managing the transition from mostly print journal collections to mostly electronic.
Dennis is drawn more to the operational than to the theoretical, with a keen interest in improving processes. While for years he worked strictly for organizations whose names can be expressed as TLA’s (three-letter acronyms)–the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), New York University (NYU) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG)–Dennis scored a major breakthrough in 2006 by finally gaining employment with a four-letter organization, OCLC.
Dennis holds an MLIS from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Master of Arts degree in Creative
Writing from Emerson College.
It is June 13, 1915, and Enos Mills is preparing words to commemorate the realization of his life’s greatest dream: the newly-created Rocky Mountain National Park. Mills’ abiding reverence for mountains and nature began three decades earlier when he arrived in Colorado as a boy of 14. Later, a chance encounter with legendary John Muir inspired him to wonder: could he do for the Rockies what Muir did for Yosemite? Mills would criss-cross the nation, leading a tireless campaign of speeches, letters, and lobbying. Hear the dramatic story of Enos Mills, a passionate crusader for wilderness, in this first-person narrative evoking a joyous moment in history that secured the preservation of one of Earth’s greatest treasures.
Kurtis Kelly has been a stage performer for more than two decades and specializes in historic character reenactments. He has portrayed Enos Mills for the National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Conservancy, and the National Council of Geography Educators. Kelly provides the voice of Mills in the acclaimed new documentary, The Living Dream: 100 Years of Rocky Mountain National Park. Performance credits also include appearances as Lord Dunraven, the Irish earl and Colorado land baron; Abner Sprague, 19th century Colorado homesteader and surveyor; and F. O. Stanley, steam-car developer and proprietor of the historic hotel bearing his name. Kelly has appeared on National Public Radio and he serves as an emcee for Estes Park’s annual Scottish-Irish Highland Festival.
http://tedxfrontrange.com/program/kurtis-kelly/
Rachel coordinates efforts at the Central Library of the Denver Public Library to provide services to the Denver community. In her previous role she was the Collection Services Manager and project manager for Denver Public Library’s involvement in the Library Link initiative. Denver Public Library has taken the lead in transforming library catalog data into a format the internet can read, consume, and serve back up to our users.
Mary Stansbury has been on the DU LIS program faculty since 2008. Prior to moving to DU, she was on the faculty at the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. Her areas of research and community engagement include public libraries, digital inclusion, early literacy, and organizational management. Her MLS and PhD in Library Science are from Texas Woman’s University.