CLC Combined ILL Roundtable, May 7, 2015, CCSU

CLC Combined ILL Roundtable, May 7, 2015, CCSU

CLC Combined ILL Roundtable, May 7, 2015, CCSU

Attendees: Jill Adams, Waterford; Mary Anne Ainsworth, Tolland; Tina Bothe, Darien; Carol Brennan, South Windsor; Nancy Brochu, Rockville; Karen Carey, Middletown; Steve Cauffman, State Library; Debi Cormier, Ellington; Carrie Crowe, Cheshire; Terry Decker, Ashford; Shauna DeStefano, Gateway C C; Kim Farrington, CCSU; Joy Parker Fitzgerald, Rockville High; Clara Flath, Madison; Julienne Francisco, UCONN Law; Susan Garry, Post University; Mark Gore, Housatonic C C; Marge Jones, Stratford; Sean Kegler, Mansfield; Judy Kelmelis, Groton; Amy Kilkenny, Essex; Lisa Kuraska, Ellington; Kirsten Liggins, Shelton; Gratien Meda, State Library; Wendy Miller, Winsted; Claire Murphy, State Library; Nick Nagurney, Perot Library; Linda Norrell, Trumbull; Elizabeth Oedel, Brookfield; Laurel Oravetz, North Haven; Amy Orlomoski, Andover; Bobbi Orlomoski, Canterbury; Cait Orlomoski, Columbia; Janice Otulak, UConn Health; Terry Palacios-Baughman, UCONN Storrs; James Pape, UConn Health, Blanche Parker, Darien; Stephanie Pempleton, Stamford;Cathy Shields, East Lyme; Cindy Shirshac, Durham; Monica Slomski, Milford; Jan Smith, Rockville; Cathy Steele, Wilton; Cindy Tillson, Haddam; Eileen Topitzer, Cheshire; Lien Tran, Capital C C; Jessica Venturo, Bibliomation; Carol Yarrison, Bibliomation

Welcome and Introductions

HEALTHNET: WendyUrciuoli

Librarians have to be health literate. On a good day, we forget 60% of what we hear in a doctor's appointment. Reliable information is hard to find. When you leave here after this talk, you will have five new tools to use that are current, accurate, complete and unbiased.

Medlineplus.gov: This is a mobile responsive, new website as of mid-May, 2015. The National Library of Medicine started Medlineplus. This site is vetted by librarians. It does not pick up a lot of duplicate sites.Drugs, supplements, medical encyclopedia topics and is in 45 different languages. Also Daily Med package inserts. It is more comprehensive than the actual inserts. It will discuss problems even if only one person exhibited it. The Directory links to specific specialists. It gives information of librariesthat have medical collections that are open to the public. This would allow you to guide a patron to the larger or more specific collection.

Google Advanced: Go to bottom of Google page to SETTINGs...ADVANCED SEARCH. This will give more choices to refine the search.

Cast a broader net with these other search engines: Bradley's website) this site ranks websites. Looking for similar sites: similarsitesearch.com Good to use to find sites to create a webliography. Similarsitesearch.com is good for locating sites in foreign languages.

Call or use HEALTHNET: HEALTHNET at UCONN Health Center provides free confidential health research for any Connecticut resident. HEALTHNET also offers training for your staff, or health programming for your library. Wendy will be going to Berlin Peck Library on health literacy. Contact Wendy and get brochures (860-679-4055, )

Genealogical resources for libraries: Thomas Kemp

The GenealogicalSociety of Utah has branch libraries in Connecticut, including the Godfrey library in Middletown, and also one in Hartford. Any CT library can affiliate with them. Agreement in handout, specific for public libraries, but this services is also available for all other types of libraries. Many areas of the world are having their records digitized including, America, South America, and Europe.

But if they want to borrow a customer who needs something not digitized, they will loan it and it will then push it to the top of the list for digitization. For years it was difficult to get Genealogical information. But this has changed.

What types of records are on the film?No newspapers, no government docs, but all birth marriage and death records in the US, church records, probate, land records things that are not in the public library have been filmed.The town clerk has many of these records.

Ancestry is beginning to add many of the collections that Utah just added. Most of it is available at This includes over 200,000 digital books online.

City directories are now digitized and all words searchable. So, no longer do you have to tell the patron to go to Godfrey, or Hartford, you can have access to it at

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Key genealogical sources :

Family Search:

Internet archive:

Google Books:

Family Search – Books:

Images: Internet Archive Book Images: book images site indexes images of people in books, buildings, etchings, online that are easily retrievable.

Find a Grave: Find a Grave is siloed, but it's better than nothing. Owned by ancestry.com, biographical sketches are now online.

The first four sites cover as much information as the Utah library. It is the same collection that Utah has. The Godfrey Library is a great place to go for skilled expertise. but they do not have the same sources, they have a much smaller footprint and do not have the exhausted resources. But, bear in mind that theGodfrey would have more than all the 10 largest collections in CT public libraries.

Everything that is on ancestry.comis free on FamilySearch.org. And Family Search has the UNIQUE stuff.

If you have problems or a difficult question with anything.....contact Tom, 860-218-5479, .

CLA Resource Sharing section update: It's a fun section, always welcoming new members. The major focus of the section is to plan programs for the CLA Conference. This year we sponsored two programs, and between both programs over sixty librarians attended. As always the section is looking for new members. You must be a CLA member to participate!

Brief recap of the two sessions from the 2015 CLA Conference:

Session #1: IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

Connecticut’s statewide eBook service is sure to have an impact on interlibrary loan lending, authors, and the publishing industry. Eric Hansen will present an update on the history and status of the service, Susan Santangelo will discuss the author’s perspective, and Troy Juliar of Recorded Books will discuss the eBook vendor’s point of view.

Eric Hansen, presenter

  • Research and surveys were performed by the State Library’s eBook Task Force and the Department of Consumer Protection, starting in ????? .
  • The final report recommended:
  • Invest in an e-platform
  • Increase Library funding
  • Wait and see approach
  • RFI was compiled to find a consultant to develop an RFP.
  • A new logo eGO has been designed to serve as a portal for “all things digital”.
  • No exact time frame—prefer to not rush into this so as to “get it right”.
  • Bond $ was approved to develop an e platform.

Susan Santangelo, presenter

  • Susan is the author of the “Baby Boomer” mystery series, with the first novel, “Retirement can by Murder” self published in 2009. She had to start her own Publishing Company, as none of the “Big 5” was interested in an independent author.
  • The next books followed a similar construction of the storyline, Moving can be…, Marriage can be…, Class reunions can be…. She is currently working on book 6.
  • She was approached by “Suspense Publishing”, a business that assists authors in getting their books published as e-books, which was new territory for her.
  • Her first two books were immediately popular and she sold thousands of eBooks.
  • eBooks are a blessing and a curse. Much pressure, as consumers are choosing a book in one click! The Covers are so critical to being chosen by the purveyor, in an instant. Color? Design? Also, independent authors must “market” their own books, unlike big named authors writing for the “Big 5”.

Troy Juliar, presenter

  • In the beginning, “friction” was created by the “Big 5” publishers to make e-books difficult. Think of how the Music Industry has to deal with pirates and the way music is now consumed, paying low royalties. Publishers do not want to have a similar end so they are trying not to jeopardize their income.
  • The publishing environment is a “moving ecosystem”. Resistance is beginning to melt away and libraries are now, reluctantly, being viewed as part of the “ecosystem”. More “mutual” progress needs to occur, as libraries want perpetuality in digital format, just like book formats.
  • Recorded Books only offered audio recordings until 2010. They were basically “forced” to get involved with the digital format, which has been very trying. There is difficulty in becoming a proficient technology company as there is much competition to find qualified IT staff.

Session #2: LET IT GO: HOW TO REVISE YOUR RESOURCE SHARING POLICIES AND OPEN UP YOUR LIBRARY COLLECTIONS FOR ILL LENDING

Thomas Bruno, presenter

  • You can’t spell “CHILL” without ILL (keeping with the Frozen theme)
  • ILL “Karma” exists. There is a collective “Good Will” for ILL staff and relationshipsLet it go! Accept that there is an inevitability that things will go wrong at some time. An item might get damaged or lost.
  • Help demolish barriers. What are your major reasons for saying “NO” to a request? Are they unfounded? Steeped in fear?
  • E-Resources—License trumps law!!!

The end of reQuest and transition period:

Steve brought Ken’s memo, dated April 16, Carl DeMilia’s memo, dated April 21 and Steve’s memo with dates and locations for reQuest transition meetings.

Dates, Times, and Locations:

  • Tuesday, June 9; 9:30 am refreshments, meeting from 10 am to noon; Middletown Library Service Center
  • Monday, June 15; 1 pm refreshments, meeting from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm; Groton Public Library
  • Tuesday, June 16; 9:30 am refreshments, meeting from 10 am to noon; Willimantic Library Service Center
  • Wednesday, June 17; 9:30 am refreshments, meeting from 10 am to noon; Goshen Public Library
  • Thursday, June 18; 9:30 am refreshments, meeting from 10 am to noon; Weston Public Library

To register for one of these sessions, please visit the Connecticut State Library’s Continuing Education Calendar at:

Navigate to the date of the meeting you’d like to attend, click the name of the session, and complete the online form.

Steve’s basic focus as of May 7 was how to bringing down reQuest in the cleanest manner possible. In the meantime, he is strategizing ideas for the interim and then the last piece will be bringing the new system live. So this will be a three step process and won’t all happen at once.

When the news broke, Steve immediately started a catalogpage, which currently entailssearching individual catalogs for now. We have to plan for the worst and pray that we don’t end of having it happen. And we have to go back to thinking about what it was like pre1999, with paper and file boxes. Carl DeMilia says that Bibliomation will not be creating a state ILS, only on an ILL system.

As of May 7, there has only been one conference call. Steve is already thinking about a steering committee for ILL to help with the transition. The new system will be based on Bibliomation’sFulfILLment. Here’s a short video overview of FulfILLment done by Grace Dunbar.

They do not know yet if the reQuest name will stay or not. The catalog ends on June 30. The iConn. org page will change, the authentication will change on or about July 1. Once they have the new site announced, check it out.

Ideas:

  • What to do with any outstanding requests? To make sure you don’t lose anything either PRINT THEM OUTor use your Circulation system to track them.
  • Statistics can be grabbed up to June 30. Start working on statistics now so you only have to quickly run Junestats near the end of the June.
  • Look at the LOST and Not Received

reQuest will be starting with a daily message tomorrow.

Tom Bruno from Stirling Library at Yale came and spoke. Hiswife is librarian at Monroe Public Library. After talking this over, Yale has decided that for the interim of the reQuest changeover to not charge CT Libraries for LOANS. This is for the duration of July 1-December 2015. This applies to any materials in the general circulating collections at Stirling, the Social Science, Medical, Law and Divinity Libraries. Their loan period isan eight week loan, with an eight week renewal.

Meeting dates: 2015-2016

EAST:

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 – Waterford Public Library

Tuesday, December 1, 2015- Groton Public Library

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (snow date March 22) – Booth Dimock, Coventry * afternoon meeting)

WEST:

Thursday September 17, 2015 –Gateway Community College, New Haven

Thursday November 19, 2015 – Darien Public Library

Thursday March 10, 2016 - Easton Public Library ? (snow date March 24, 2016)

COMBINED:

DATE and LOCATION CHANGE:

***Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (combined meeting) – Russell Library, Middletown***

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