RESOURCE SHARING USERS GROUP
PRESENTATION
Redefining
Interlibrary Loan, September 21, 2006,
Steele
Memorial Library,
This program was well attended by 33 people from various types of libraries within our region. Both administrative and support staff were represented.
Mary Sue Iddings from OCLC presented us with information about the benefits of a group catalog. She and Kate Vincent, OCLC, will be working with SCRLC to investigate the possibilities of a regional group catalog.
Jon Penn, Nylink,
introduced us to “Recent Enhancements and Future Plans for Resource
Sharing”. He covered filtering by
volume/year in custom holdings, the ability to renew over dues for items that
are more than 14 days overdue, “review-in-process’ category, batch updating and
printing enhancements, auto deflection, improvements to supplier status
changes, link to the administrative module and local holdings, and constant
data persistence where it is repeated into the ILL form. Jon briefly went over
changes that are expected in 2006-2007.
If you would like a copy of his power point presentation, please contact
The afternoon breakout sessions were lively discussions where everyone shared their experiences and gained some useful knowledge. Our moderators were:
Document Delivery
Technologies – Ben Hogben, Access
Services Manager,
Staff & Training Issues – Lorie Brown, ILL & Youth Services, Southern Tier Library System
ILLiad Users - Helen
Insinger, Head of ILL & Document Delivery,
A special thanks to our moderators whose expertise and generosity were instrumental in making this program a success. SCRLC encourages collaboration and resource sharing, however, it is our members that give strength to our programs. (BLM)