As merger discussions continue between MLC and INCOLSA, we expect to convene a membership meeting to approve the merger before the end of the year. The merger design team has been meeting regularly since July and expects to complete its work by November 12, when a Memoradum of Understanding (MOU) will be crafted. The MOU will be considered by the MLC board at its November 20 meeting. If the board approves the MOU, it will be sent to the MLC membership for consideration at a special membership meeting, which we have tenatively scheduled for December 16. Please hold this date. The meeting will be held at MLC in Lansing but member representatives will have the option to participate via conference call. (Some of you may remember that we used this method when we sought approval from the membership to purchase our building in 2002.) We expect to have registration information available shortly.
We have exchanged a great deal of information with INCOLSA and have learned much about Indiana libraries. We are convinced, now more than ever, that the merger will allow MLC to thrive, grow, and better adapt to an ever-changing environment.
October 29th, 2009
MLC staff Evette Atkin, Megan Dudek, and Ruth Dukelow will demonstrate Michigan Evergreen functionality at the MLA Conference in Lansing on November 4-5. Please stop by MLC’s booth #201-203 to see Michigan Evergreen in action!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
12:30-12:45pm Michigan Evergreen OPAC
1:30-1:45pm Michigan Evergreen Circulation
2:30-2:45pm Michigan Evergreen Cataloging
3:30-3:45pm Michigan Evergreen Admin Module
Thursday, November 5, 2009
10:00-10:15am Michigan Evergreen OPAC
11:00-11:15am Michigan Evergreen Circulation
12:00-12:15pm Michigan Evergreen Cataloging
1:00-1:15pm Michigan Evergreen Admin
2:00-2:15pm Michigan Evergreen Circulation
3:00-3:15pm Michigan Evergreen Cataloging
October 28th, 2009
Curious about Evergreen? Michigan Evergreen staff will be demonstrating the Evergreen open-source ILS software at the Michigan Library Association conference in Lansing on November 4-5 in the MLC booth (#201-203). If you’re attending the MLA conference, please stop by and check it out!
It was at the 2007 MLA Conference that MLC launched the Michigan Evergreen pilot program. Two years later, the pilot project is successfully completed, and ten libraries are up and running on the shared Michigan Evergreen system. We’re now looking for new libraries to join Michigan Evergreen. If you have questions about Michigan Evergreen, please feel free to stop by the booth or contact us directly at 800-530-9019 or via email:
Ruth Dukelow, dukelow@mlcnet.org
Evette Atkin, atkine@mlcnet.org
Megan Dudek, dudekm@mlcnet.org
October 23rd, 2009
Posted on behalf of Purdue University Libraries:
Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management
Patron-Initiated Collection Development:
Current Successes and Future Directions
To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010. Seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international libraries) about patron-initiated collection development, such as:
-interlibrary loan book purchase programs
-experiences with allowing patron use or selection to drive acquisition of electronic books
-consortial collection development plans with strong patron-driven acquisitions elements
-other innovative patron-initiated selection activities for materials in a variety of formats
-implications for the future roles of collection librarians in an environment of increased user-driven Acquisitions
-user discovery of patron-initiated collection development plans
The editors are particularly interested in proposals for articles that will that include evaluation/assessment/analysis.
Background
The special issue editors are members of the team that published the following article:
Anderson, Kristine J., Robert S. Freeman, Jean-Pierre V. M. Herubel, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, Judith M. Nixon, and Suzanne M. Ward. 2002. “Buy, Don’t Borrow: Bibliographers’ Analysis of Academic Library Collection Development through Interlibrary Loan Requests.” Collection Management, 27(3/4): 1-11.
This article analyzed six subject areas for books purchased instead of borrowed as the result of interlibrary loan requests in 2000-2001. Now that ILL book purchases have been standard procedure at the Purdue University Libraries for ten years, the authors and their colleagues will analyze this decade’s worth of information to explore the following topics in a series of four articles:
-Revisit the initial study by comparing earlier findings with more recent data
- Analyze the ILL book purchase program in relation to scientific/technical/medical (STM) titles
-Conduct in-depth statistical analysis across a decade of data, looking at issues such as patron status, subject areas as indicated by call number, subsequent circulation, comparison with similar subject area books acquired through traditional means, etc.
-Position paper on new roles for collection librarians. As user-initiated collection development frees time and effort from traditional collection duties and responsibilities, how will academic librarians develop and nurture emerging objectives and prerogatives, e.g. teaching, research?
The accepted articles from colleagues at other institutions will complement the four listed above.
Deadlines
November 13, 2009: Submit an abstract (maximum of one page) with the title and your proposed article idea. Your full contact information may appear on a separate page, but please include your name, institution, and email address on the abstract page.
December 4, 2009: The editors will notify authors whether their proposals have been accepted.
February 28, 2010: Submit completed article (10-25 double spaced pages).
Please submit abstracts and address correspondence to Judy Nixon (jnixon@purdue.edu) with this subject line: CM article proposal. We will be glad to answer any questions and look forward to your article proposals.
Editors (all from the Purdue University Libraries):
Robert S. Freeman, Foreign Languages and Literatures Librarian (rsfree@purdue.edu)
Judith M. Nixon, Education Librarian (jnixon@purdue.edu)
Suzanne M. Ward, Head, Collection Management (ward@purdue.edu)
Suzanne M. Ward
Head, Collection Management & Professor
Purdue University Libraries ILL
504 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2058
765-494-2850
765-494-9007 (fax)
ward@purdue.edu
October 13th, 2009
The new set has been posted to MLC’s Flickr photostream. Keynote speaker was R. David Lankes. Lankes discussed how library service should match how people build knowledge, as well as the obligation and power of libraries participating in their communities and society as a whole. Colleen Hyslop (Michigan State Univ), Larry Neal (Clinton-Macomb PL), and Anne Heidemann (Canton PL) comprised a response panel offering their views on Lankes’ theories and how such ideas can be put into practice. A stream of Lankes’ talk can be found at http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=826.
Following the feature presentation was MLC’s annual business meeting. This year the meeting highlighted a discussion by MLC Board Chairperson Pamela Grudzien, Interim INCOLSA Director Marnie Maxwell, and MLC’s own Randy Dykhuis regarding the current status and future of MLC/INCOLSA merger activities.
October 6th, 2009
