Thinking About Innovation Through the STAR Checklist & Beyond
This session will define innovation as well as discuss ways to inspire and enable innovation. A variety of examples will be shared in the areas of technology, policy and workflow.
BIBFRAME and LibHub
Libraries and the Web are natural partners, but have yet to connect and share their power in a truly meaningful way. The Libhub Initiative aims to change that by engaging libraries to deliver the expert richness of content, context, and curation into formats that the Web can understand and share. Denver Public Library has been the pioneering institution in this initiative to translate MARC catalog data into BIBFRAME and publishing it on the Web. Learn about our partnerships, experiences, and the relationship of this initiative to resource sharing.
RAPID: Reinventing ILL
RapidILL has been at the cutting edge of library resource sharing since its inception as an unprecedented article delivery service to the Colorado State University community following a devastating flood that damaged the CSU Libraries’ collection in 1997. Thanks to the request of the original libraries, CSU developed Rapid as a two-way resource sharing system, and has since grown to nearly 300 libraries worldwide. Rapid focuses on a low cost, very fast and highly efficient interlibrary loan service. Tom Delaney and Mike Richins will give an overview of the Rapid system, and share details on Rapid’s recent initiatives focusing on Open Access and a dynamic returnables project.
Mentoring, Beginning and More…
The mentoring program at DU started in 2014. They try to match mentors and mentees based on interest and experience. The process is labor intensive but so worth it. They will bring us up to date on their mentoring project at DU and how to start thinking about a mentoring program in your library.
Libraries aren’t always about BOOKS
Libraries have been a hub for their communities since they began. Our customers are a subset of our community’s population which leads us to the realization that the library isn’t always about books. Denver Public Library is learning how best to serve the whole community, including community members who are homeless. Elissa Hardy with DPL will share the approaches being taken to address this special population.
Tom Delaney
Tom has been an Interlibrary Loan for practitioner since 1985. He started his ILL career as the department head for Colorado State University. In 2003, he became the department head for ILL/DD at Columbia University in New York City. In 2006, he returned to RapidILL as a director for project outreach and support; currently Rapid is utilizing him as a statistical and process analyst. Tom has given numerous presentations and appearances. He co-presented (with Mary Jackson) a series of Interlibrary Loan workshops for The Association of Research Libraries, in addition to numerous ILL presentations on automation and process streamlining in places as far flung as Helsinki, Finland to Singapore, in addition to many presentations in the US. Throughout his career, his work focus has been to introduce automation to reduce the high-pressure and staff-intensive workload demands on Interlibrary loan staff.
Mike Richins
Mike Richins has 16 years of experience in library resource sharing. Prior to joining the RapidILL team in 2010, he was the Interlibrary Loan Lending Supervisor at Colorado State University Libraries. Mike is currently the Coordinator of Customer Support and System Development for RapidILL, and works with libraries on Rapid setup, training, workflow, and support. He also conducts RapidILL workshops, and promotes the service through conference presentations and webinars.