OCLC Web Scale Management
If you are interested in learning more about OCLC's Web Scale Management webinars and demos can be found here. The most recent demo was in December..
It's Time to Pay for Copyright
One of the January rituals for interlibrary loan personnel is to pay copyright payments for articles received in the last calendar year.
The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) has developed a set of guidelines to help libraries follow copyright law. These guidelines permit copying during a calendar year of no more than five articles from a single journal title, not owned by the library, dated within the past five years. This is known as the "Rule of Five".
When you go over the "rule of five", library personnel have developed various ways of obtaining those articles. Some purchase the article directly from the publisher which would cover copyright. Other libraries may continue obtaining the article from another library but then it is the borrowing library's responsibility to pay copyright payments to the Copyright Clearance Center for those articles.
Interlibrary loan personnel should develop a procedure to keep track of how many articles they order from each journal every year. You should keep those records for the last three calendar years unless your institution dictates you keep the records for a longer period.
For more information regarding paying copyright, see the following links:
WHITE PAPER Interlibrary Loan: Copyright Guidelines and Best Practices ILL Brochure (pdf)
CONTU Guidelines
Interlibrary Loan FAQs
Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (pdf)
- Bob Shaw
I have been told that sometimes my emails are confusing or random or too stream-of-consciousness for some. I have been working on it and I think the above tip from Lifehacker is awesome. When unsure of your clarity, read the email out loud. I find it is a good way to catch grammar errors as well. Another email tip I've implemented is waiting a full 24 hours before responding to someone who was less than nice. Putting some distance between yourself and the mean email and then reading your response out loud before sending could make a world of difference!
- Angela Milock
Fourth Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference!
Friday April 13, 2012, hosted at Loras College, Dubuque, IA sponsored by DALINC (Dubuque Area Library Information Consortium)
4th Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference
4th Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference is CANCELED scheduled for April 13, 2012. Due to low interest in presenting sessions it was decided to cancel it. They are hoping to try again in 2013 and 2014. Keep your eye here.
Computers in Libraries Conference—March 21-23, 2012
This year the Computers in Libraries Conference will be in Washington DC, March 21-23. From the website: "The conference program is filled with ideas, leading edge practices, tips, and techniques for creating innovative libraries and engaging communities."
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Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) in cooperation with Information Today, Inc. is happy to offer reduced rates to the Computers in Libraries 2012. If you register for CiL 2012 through MLNC, you will receive the special rate of $289 for the full 3-day conference, including Internet@Schools track sessions. Discounts are also available for the Internet@Schools track by itself. Discount rates do not apply to single day registrations or to preconferences. The complete conference schedule including a list of pre-conferences is available at: www.infotoday.com/cil2012.
To receive your discount, you must return your registration with payment directly to MLNC using the form found on our website: www.mlnc.org/services/CiL2012.pdf no later than February 8, 2012.
Contact MLNC Support (support@mlnc.org) or call the MLNC Office (800-969-6562) with questions or for additional information.
Call for Programs—2012 Colorado Interlibrary Loan conference
2012 Colorado Interlibrary Loan conference
via Resource Sharing-Group: ILLiad Libraries by Don Pawl
The 43rd annual Colorado ILL conference will take place April 26-27th, 2012 at the Colorado State University-Fort Collins campus at the Lory Student Center.
The CO ILL Conference Planning committee has begun to organize the 2012 ILL conference. We are lining up an interesting array of programs and would also like to hear from you. Do you have an idea, process or technique that you have developed locally that supports resource sharing? Is there a topic in resource sharing that you have lots of knowledge or interest in that you would like to share with others? We are looking for enthusiastic presenters who can inspire, teach or inform us about some aspect of resource sharing which we may not have known about.
If you are interested in presenting at this conference, complete the call for programs form.
Visit the conference website at: coill.cvlsites.org
Minitex Training Schedule
For course descriptions and registration, go to the
Minitex Upcoming Training Sessions
If you have questions about this training, or other issues related to Local
Holdings, please feel free to contact: David Linton,
Minitex — MULS unit
Minneapolis, MN
linto001@umn.edu
612-624-3360 / 800-462-5348
OCLC Resource Sharing News
OCLC Article Exchange
The experimental Article Exchange (AE) website will expire on January 31, 2012. On Febuary 1st, however, all access to AE will be through either WorldCat Resource Sharing or from the ILLiad addon. Here are some perks of AE:
- Eliminates security issues often encountered when documents are transmitted through email. Files up to 60 MB — including high resolution documents — can be placed on the site for pick-up by library users.
- Supports compliance with copyright guidelines with automatic deletion of files. Viewed files are deleted after 5 days or 5 views and unviewed files are deleted after 30 days.
- Minimizes local technical support because the Web site requires no software download or special arrangements for access through a local firewall.
- Provides platform-independent access from PCs, MACs or any operating system.
A monthly publication with writing contributions by Angela Milock, Joy Pohlman, Jane Richard, Eric Robinson, Bob Shaw, Al Wenzel, and Sheila Zillner.
Edited by Angela Milock.
Layout, graphics by S. C. Zillner.
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