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Register Now for Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for ILL & Reference

RUSA is now offering a new Inter-Library Loan online course:“Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for ILL & Reference,” with Christina Baich & Collette Mak! This is a four week course taking place on Thursdays, Feb. 3-28, 2014, 1-2pm CST.

Description: Users expect the impossible. “Xtreme Bibliographic Searching” for reference and interlibrary loan will show you sources and techniques to make the impossible possible. Bad citations, international publications, unpublished works, extremely old and extremely new materials may not be lost causes for a skilled searcher with a few tricks and tools. This four-week class, taught by Christina Baich from IUPUI and Collette Mak from Notre Dame will take you from Mansel Pre 56 to Digital Repositories, DOAJ to Trove to HathiTrust. Don’t know those terms? This course is for you!

The Method: Lecture, demonstrations, homework with student presentations of solutions

The Need: increasingly ILL operations are run by clerks without formal training resulting in an over reliance on WorldCat and licensed content.

This course goes beyond the basic tools to creative problem solving—using traditional tools in untraditional ways to fill requests. Content covered:

•          Reading a MARC record

•          General MARC (which chunks describe the content, which describe the format, where the standard numbers are)

•          Searching Monographs

•          Monographic series

•          CIP

•          Articles cataloged as books

•          Conference proceedings

•          Dissertations

•          Chapter level information

•          Serials

•          Abbreviations

•          Title changes

•          Holding statements

•          Fixing citations

•          Google, publisher sites without passing the paywall

•          Untraditional tools, LinkedIn, academia.edu, PubMed, Google scholar Finding and communicating with authors

•          Linked in, Academia.edu, other sources

•          How to approach authors for best results Open Access Resources

•          Open Access journals

•          Open Access requirements in the US

•          Digital repositories Member sites for non-members

•          HaithiTrust

•          CRL Old school—NUC Locating international publications

Learning Outcomes

•          Ability to correct bad citations using Google scholar, PubMed, publisher web sites and other freely available web sites

•          Ability to search and use resources such as HathiTrust and CRL, even if the library is not a member, as bibliographic verification tools

•          Ability to use institutional repositories , Open Access resources, social network sites such as LinkedIn and academia.edu as bibliographic verification tools and fulfillment sources

Instructors

•          Tina Baich, interlibrary loan librarian, IUPUI University Library

•          Collette Mak, head of resource access and delivery, University of Notre Dame, and formerly resource sharing product manager at OCLC

Date

Feb. 3 – 28, 2014

Live sessions are on Thursdays from 1 to 2 p.m. CST.

Fee

•          $130 for RUSA members

•          $175 for ALA members

•          $210 for non-ALA members

•          $100 for student members and retired members

Course Format

ALA will use Moodle for all online educational courses. Learn more about Moodle at www.moodle.org.

The Moodle login instructions will be sent the Friday before the start date. The course site will remain open one week after the end date for students to complete any assignments and submit the course evaluation survey.

***The live sessions will be offered using Adobe Connect. Please ensure that you have Adobe Flash Player Version 10.1 or later on your computer. Audio for these sessions will be streamed over computer speakers and via a teleconference line. You will be able to ask questions and interact with the presenter and other webinar participants via chat.

 You can test your settings to verify that your computer is configured properly to participate in the live sessions.

You will receive access instructions from Andrea by Friday. If you registered after Friday morning, you should have the instructions by Monday morning.

How to Register

•          Online

•          By Fax: download, complete, and fax form (PDF format) to (312) 280-1538

•          By Mail: download, complete, and mail form (PDF format) to American Library Association, ATTN: MACS/Online CE Registration, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Contact

Questions about your registration should be directed to registration@ala.org. Technical questions about the webinar should be directed to Andrea Hill, RUSA Web Manager, at ahill@ala.org.

Thank you and we look forward to your participation!

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Party like a rockSTAR! Accepting nominations for Atlas Systems Mentoring Award

Are you new to resource sharing? Thanks to the generosity of Atlas Systems, RUSA STARS is able to offer a $1250 travel award to help an individual newly employed in interlibrary loan, electronic reserves, or resource sharing attend the 2014 ALA Annual conference in Las Vegas, NV. You’ll have a chance to meet fellow STARS members at our ALA programs and meetings, get helpful tips to make your work easier, share your ideas about the future of resource sharing, and party like a rock STAR at our section’s 10th anniversary bash! STARS will pair you with an experienced mentor to help you navigate the conference (and maybe the casinos).

Who can apply? Library practitioners who have been working in the field of resource sharing for less than two years and who have daily, hands-on experience in the areas of ILL borrowing or lending, document delivery, electronic reserves, or material delivery. You do not need to have a library degree or be a member of ALA to apply. It’s OK if you have previous experience in other aspects of librarianship; if you’re new to resource sharing then you are eligible to apply for this award. Nominees do not need to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting to be considered for this award.

Can you nominate yourself? Absolutely! We encourage self-nominations.

For more information and to apply, please complete the form at http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/mentoring

Nominations must be received by 5 PM Eastern on December 15, 2013.

Questions? Please contact Amy Paulus at amy-fuls@uiowa.edu.

Thank you,

STARS-Atlas Systems Mentoring Award Committee
Naomi Chow, Paul Drake, Jennifer Jacobs, Amy Paulus (Chair), and Shirley Thomas

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Now accepting nominations for 2014 RUSA achievement awards, research and travel grants

‘Tis the season!

The nomination period is now open for the many achievement awards and conference travel and research grants offered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

RUSA, which represents librarians and information service professionals in reference, collection development, adult readers’ advisory, genealogy, resource sharing and user services, is accepting nominations for the following 2014 awards. The deadline for all nominations is December 15, 2013, with the exception of the BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award, which has a deadline of January 31, 2013. Award criteria, nomination forms and instructions for submissions are available at each of the award’s web pages below.

Professional Achievement Awards for Individuals and Groups

Travel Grants to ALA Annual Conference

Research Grants

More information about these awards, including nominating and submission instructions, can be found at the RUSA Awards Web page. Monetary award amounts are subject to change without notice and are contingent upon donor funding supplied at the time the award is presented. Questions about these awards should be directed to the committee chairperson or to Leighann Wood, RUSA awards program coordinator at lwood@ala.org.

RUSA is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials they need. Learn more about the association at www.ala.org/rusa.

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How and Why to Volunteer for RUSA

Dear RUSA Members,

I invite you to volunteer for one of RUSA’s and its sections’ committees.

If you are already a committee volunteer, thank you for your service: you are so much appreciated!  Because of your contributions, our division and sections accomplish much. RUSA, through its volunteers, has provided:

This is just a small sampling of what our volunteers plan and take part in, and what makes RUSA a terrific place for opportunities for service, your professional growth, and networking with colleagues.

If you are not yet a member of any of our committees, please join. All current members may volunteer here: http://www.ala.org/cfapps/committee/volunteerform (you will be asked to login using your ALA login).

Second, write to the vice-chair of the section who will appoint the committees for 2014.  Tell him or her about your experience and why you can be of help to these groups.  Contact them at:

Andy Spackman
andy_spackman@byu.edu   
RUSA BRASS Vice-Chair (Business Reference and Services Section)

Asia E. Gross 
agross@stchlibrary.org
RUSA CODES Vice-Chair (Collection Development and Evaluation Section)

Michelle M. Baildon   
baildon@mit.edu        
RUSA History Vice-Chair (History Section)

Samuel Rutherford Stormont
srstormont@widener.edu      
RUSA MARS Vice-Chair (MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference Section)

Ann K. G. Brown
agbrown@email.gwu.edu
RUSA RSS Vice-Chair (Reference Services Section)

Nora E. Dethloff
ndethloff@uh.edu
RUSA STARS Vice-Chair (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section)

In addition, please feel free to write to M. Kathleen Kern (katkern@illinois.edu), our current RUSA Vice President who is appointing to RUSA committees for her presidential term in 2014. 

A quick note to potential book lover volunteers: many members are interested in serving on the Notable Books Council, where three of the committee members for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction come from. The number of volunteers far outnumbers the slots for members on this committee. Don’t forget that we have many other committees for book lovers that are looking for members, too! Check out our Listen List, the Reading List, the Sophie Brody award, and all the others on our committee roster page. All provide excellent experience in book reviewing.

Thank you again to all our current, past and future volunteers – you are truly what makes RUSA such a wonderful place to be!

Best Wishes,

Susan Hornung

RUSA Executive Director

shornung@ala.org