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: Wendy Urciuoli
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 libraries that 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: https://duckduckgo.com/,
https://search.motherpipe.com/, http://www.philb.com/webse.htm (Phil 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: https://library.uchc.edu/depart/hnet. 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, hnet@uchc.edu)
Genealogical resources for libraries: Thomas Kemp
The Genealogical Society 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. https://familysearch.org
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 https://familysearch.org 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
https://familysearch.org.
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Key genealogical sources :
Family Search: https://familysearch.org
Internet archive: https://archive.org/index.php
Google Books: https://books.google.com/
Family Search – Books: https://books.familysearch.org
Images: Internet Archive Book Images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/ The book images site
indexes images of people in books, buildings, etchings, online that are easily retrievable.
Find a Grave: http://www.findagrave.com. 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 the Godfrey would have more than all the 10
largest collections in CT public libraries.
Everything that is on ancestry.com is 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,
Thomas.J.Kemp@gmail.com.
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
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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:
o Invest in an e-platform
o Increase Library funding
o 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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:
http://evanced.info/cslib/evanced/eventcalendar.asp. 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 catalog page, which currently entails
searching 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
pre 1999, 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’s FulfILLment. Here’s a short video overview of FulfILLment done by Grace
Dunbar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lI3Pxm4EIw
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:
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What to do with any outstanding requests? To make sure you don’t lose anything
either PRINT THEM OUT or use your Circulation system to track them.
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Statistics can be grabbed up to June 30. Start working on statistics now so you only
have to quickly run June stats near the end of the June.
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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. His wife 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 1December 2015. This applies to any materials in the general circulating collections at
Stirling, the Social Science, Medical, Law and Divinity Libraries. Their loan period is an
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***