Interlibrary Loan Records Retention

Lynn Bierma, interlibrary loan coordinator for the Illinois State Library advises:

CONTU (National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright Works) specifies filled requests of articles should be retained for the current year, plus the previous three (3) years’ records.  Electronic request records should be purged on the same schedule. For filled requests for books, the rule of thumb is the same. 

The requesting entity shall maintain records of all requests made by it for copies or phono­records of any materials to which these guidelines apply and shall maintain records of the fulfill­ment of such requests, which records shall be retained until the end of the third complete calendar year after the end of the calendar year in which the respective request shall have been made. [Final Report of the National Commission on New Technology Uses of Copyrighted Works, Chapter 4 – Machine Reproduction – Photocopying, CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements, http://digital-law-online.info/CONTU/contu24.html#sec7]

Your library, if associated with a company, or state, city, or federal institution, should also be aware of the record retention policies of its governing body.

Try-It! Illinois Database Trial Begins October 1

The Ilinois State Library is pleased to announce that twenty-five vendors have agreed to participate in Try-It! Illinois, the tenth annual statewide database trial. Try-It! Illinois offers ILLINET member libraries' staff and users the opportunity to survey and evaluate a wide variety of electronic resources. Thanks to partnerships between the Illinois State Library and the participating electronic resource vendors, there is no charge for accessing these databases during Try-It! Illinois.

The trial runs from October 1 - November 30. The login and password will be provided in a memorandum to the regional library systems and will be available October 1 in order to ensure the integrity of the trial. [Update: The TryIt! login and password were distributed to DLS member libraries on Oct. 1 in DLS Memo #09-296E.] Please contact Gwen Harrison (gharrison@ilsos.net or 217/785-7334) if you have questions.

The following vendors are participating in this year's Try-It! Illinois: Auralog, BioOne, CABI, Capstone Publishers, H.W. Wilson, Encyclopedia Britannica, EBSCO, GALE/CENGAGE, Greenwood & ABC-CLIO (merged), MangoLanguages, Marshall Cavendish Digital, Morningstar, OCLC, Plunkett Research, ProQuest, Questia School, Rand McNally, ReferenceUSA, Rosen Publishers, Standard and Poors, Taylor and Francis, The World and I, TumbleBook Library, ValueLine, World Book.

Information provided by the Illinois State Library.

Wilson Select Plus Offer for 2009-2010: Still Available for a Limited Time

It's not too late for libraries to take advantage of competitive pricing for Wilson Select Plus for 2009-2010. This offer from Illinois Library Systems and OCLC is available for both new and continuing subscriptions.

Wilson Select Plus provides access to full-text articles from a a wide range of high-quality periodicals. It is updated weekly and has coverage from 1994 to the present. There are over 1.5 million records from 2,393 sources. For many libraries, the Wilson Select Plus database is the only access patrons have had to full-text articles, making this resource vital to the people of Illinois in meeting their information needs.

For further information, visit the Illinois Library Systems website, or contact Amanda McKay, Special Projects Coordinator, Illinois Library Systems, 618/656-3216 x143, amandamckay@lcls.org. Interested libraries should complete and sign the agreement prior to Friday, October 9, 2009 to ensure uninterrupted access to this resource.

Library Partnership Trust Offers

Discount offers on Gale Virtual Reference Library and LexisNexis Library Express are available for Illinois libraries from Library Partnership Trust.

LexisNexis® Library Express: A Smart Investment

With over 9,500 premium news, business, and legal sources, LexisNexis Library Express is one of the richest and most comprehensive resources for your library. When making collection management decisions, Library Express is a smart investment choice. Illinois public libraries may order a discounted subscription to LexisNexis Library Express through the Library Partnership Trust. Visit the Library Partnership Trust website for offer details, a free trial, a no-obligation quote, and to place your order.

Savings on 2009 Gale Virtual Reference Library Titles

Public libraries and high schools can save thousands of dollars on Gale Virtual Reference Library titles to be released in 2009, when they purchase through the Library Partnership Trust. Update your current Gale Virtual Reference Library collection or start your collection at a price you can afford. Deliver the eBook content and usability that your patrons have come to expect. See the complete offer details, browse the collection, and place your order by visiting one of the following web pages:

• 2009 Titles - Gale Virtual Reference Library (Public)
• 2009 Titles - Gale Virtual Reference Library (High School)

If you have any questions, please contact:

Dale Ann Lawrence, Treasurer, dlawrence@nsls.info, 847/459-1300 x7122
Kristine Dieter, Partnership Liaison, kdieter@nsls.info, 847/459-1300 x7190

Information received from Library Partnership Trust. Discussion of products and/or services is for informational purposes only and does not imply suitability for your library.

Promoting Electronic Resources to Library Users...for free!

Looking for ways to inform your library users about all those great online databases? Be sure to check your electronic resource vendors' websites to see if any free resources are available. Here are examples from two major vendors who provide free resources (posters, bookmarks, etc.) to help promote the use of databases:

• EBSCO http://support.ebsco.com/customer_success/promo.php

• GALE http://www.gale.cengage.com/power/request_materials.htm

Discussion of products and/or services is for informational purposes only and does not imply suitability for your library.

NoveList Order Form Now Available

The NoveList & NoveList K-8 and NoveList Plus & NoveList K-8 Plus order form is now available from the Illinois State Library. These services are available to ILLINET member academic, public, special, and high school library buildings, and to middle and elementary library buildings. The Illinois State Library pays 50% of each library building (location) fee.

NoveList and NoveList K-8 is an online readers' advisory service that helps librarians and readers find fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested. NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus is an online readers' advisory service that contains information on fiction and nonfiction titles for all ages which can be searched using subject headings.

Order forms received after October 30, 2009 will not be eligible for the Illinois State Library subsidy. Please direct any questions to Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217/785-7334.

Information received from the Illinois State Library.

Status of LSTA Grant Funding

As you know, the State of Illinois is facing a multi-billion dollar budget deficit. Cuts and shortfalls have become part of every Illinois constitutional officer's Fiscal Year 2010 (FY2010) budget package. The Office of the Secretary of State is no exception.

Secretary White's longstanding commitment to excellent service to the residents of our state remains a top priority. In fact, Secretary White's original FY10 budget request included an increase of approximately $1 million to the Illinois State Library. Unfortunately, the General Assembly's budget process resulted in substantive cuts to library programs such as the public library, school library, and library system per capita grants.

In order to minimize the impact of these cuts to long-standing library programs such as delivery and resource sharing, the Illinois State Library will be using the FY2010 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant funds from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to provide some relief to libraries. Therefore, for this fiscal year, LSTA grants will not be awarded. Instead, funds from IMLS will be used to lessen the effect of the cuts.

As seen in a August 12, 2009 email message from Anne Craig.

Keynote from Handheld Librarian Online Conference

Keynote speaker Gerry McKiernan of Iowa State University Library presented an overview entitled Current Mobile Trends in Libraries at the first ever Handheld Librarian Online Conference on July 30, 2009.  The PowerPoint slides for this presentation contain extensive information, and are available at:  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/M-Is-For-Service.ppt. Gerry's blog, Mobile Libraries, can be accessed at http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/.

Handheld Librarian Online Conference

More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide services on these devices as use increases. The first ever Handheld Librarian Online Conference, on July 30, 2009, is the place to learn about these and other topics related to using wireless and hand held devices in your library. The program, sponsored by Alliance Library System, LearningTimes and InfoQuest, will include a variety of ways to collaborate, network and learn from a great group of experts in the field.  Speakers include Gerry McKiernan from Iowa State University, Tom Peters of TAP Information Services, Joe Murphy from Yale University, Peg Burnette from the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, and many others! For more information and to register, check out the developing program at http://www.handheldlibrarian.org.  Registration for this conference is $49 per person or $89 per site for groups. 

Information received from Alliance Library System.

NoveList Select Offer

Because of the high level of interest among Illinois libraries for the NoveList/NoveList Plus online readers' advisory service, EBSCO is offering direct discounted pricing for the new NoveList Select product. [NoveList and NoveList Plus are available to Illinois libraries at a subsidized discount through the Illinois State Library E-RICH program, through October 30, 2009.]

NoveList Select delivers the high quality content from NoveList/NoveList Plus directly to library catalogs and helps users discover new books that meet their needs and are already on library shelves by showing them similar titles right in the catalog. NoveList Select helps avoid the dead end searches that occur when all copies of a book are checked out and provides readers with additional options for what to read next.

For more product information, you can visit the NoveList Select website, and view an animated demo of the product.

For pricing and additional information contact: Heidi van Gennep, Account Executive, EBSCO Publishing, HvanGennep@ebscohost.com, 800/653-2726 x2244, or Donald J. Myers, Resource Sharing Specialist, DuPage Library System, dmyers@dupagels.lib.il.us, 630/232-8457 x220.

Discussion of products and/or services is for informational purposes only and does not imply suitability for your library.