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RUSA’s STARS section names winners of 2015 achievement awards for ILL practitionersRUSA’s STARS section names winners of 2015 achievement awards for ILL practitioners

The Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) has selected the winners of its two achievement awards honoring librarians providing exceptional service in the fields of interlibrary loan (ILL), resource sharing and document delivery.

The Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award, sponsored by OCLC, offers $2,000 and a citation to a librarian showing outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to interlibrary loan and document delivery. Lars Leon, resource sharing librarian and head of organizational development, University of Kansas Libraries, was named as this year’s winner for his impressive breadth and depth of knowledge about interlibrary loan, his enthusiasm about mentoring new practitioners and advocating with upper-level library administrators to recognize the importance of resource sharing in their organizations.

The Atlas Systems Mentoring Award, sponsored by Atlas Systems, Inc., offers $1,250 to a library practitioner new to the field of ILL and resource sharing to fund travel expenses to ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. Karen Thomas, access services librarian at Krauskopf Library, Delaware Valley College, was named as this year’s recipient as she has demonstrated a passion and need for professional development, networking, education and service to her local community.

“The STARS awards provide our section the opportunity to recognize current and future leaders in the field of resource sharing. The Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award is the crowning achievement in the career of an ILL Librarian and recognizes outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to ILL and document delivery, while the STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award allows someone new to the field to attend the ALA Annual Conference and gain valuable experience and mentoring through their connection to STARS,” said Tina Baich, section chair of STARS. “I offer my heartfelt congratulations to this year’s winners, Lars Leon and Karen Thomas, and look forward to celebrating with them at the RUSA Achievement Awards Reception to be held at the ALA Annual Conference. I would also like to thank the STARS Awards Committees for their service and thoughtful deliberation as well as our generous sponsors, OCLC and Atlas Systems, for their continued support of these awards.”

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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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Join ALA’s virtual town hall on ebook lending

Calling all RUSA members who offer ebooks:

If you work with Ebooks, you may be interested in the American Library Association’s Virtual Town Hall on Ebooks, an interactive online session that will take place from 11 a.m.- noon Central time, Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

ALA leaders will discuss the present state of ebooks and libraries and directions for the future. Click here to register.

For more information on e-books and Libraries, an FAQ is available from ALA’s Transforming Libraries website:
http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/frequently-asked-questions-e-books-us-libraries

Alesia McManus
RUSA Representative to the ALA Legislative Assembly