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<\/a><\/p>\nThe keynote, \u201cIs Your Library Visible?,\u201d was given by Eric Miller, from Zepheira<\/a>, who is leading efforts to apply advanced Web architecture and linked data principles to help libraries organize disparate materials in order to solve real-world problems.\u00a0 He recently founded Libhub<\/a>, an initiative that focuses on raising the visibility of libraries on the Web.<\/p>\n There were many conference sessions to choose from.\u00a0 Leadership in Resource Sharing<\/em> focused on using data to demonstrate our impact, exposing gaps, and expanding the kind of information we offer that can be useful to others in an organization.\u00a0 Attendees of this presentation were interested to learn of our recent experience with Tableau.<\/p>\n Textbooks and ILL<\/em> related one institution\u2019s experience with moving from \u201cno textbooks\u201d to \u201cany textbook.\u201d\u00a0 This new service philosophy significantly impacted the way patrons viewed the library, and their process became much less mediated.<\/p>\n There was an update meeting led by OCLC and Atlas Systems that related what\u2019s new in this summer\u2019s ILLiad update.\u00a0 Exciting to those in resource sharing: an Addon to place British Library requests that includes real time availability, new options in \u201cdays to respond,\u201d improvement in the IFM process, and more.\u00a0 This was followed by an open floor discussion of the upcoming changes and attendees were offered an invaluable opportunity to ask questions and provide comments and feedback before official implementation.<\/p>\n There was a lot of fun to be had in What Would *You* Do? \u00a0ILL Best Practices for Worst-Case Scenarios<\/em>.\u00a0 From the traditional \u201cmy cat ate it,\u201d and \u201cwe have bedbugs\u201d to \u201cI left my book on a mountain in Tibet, can I have another copy?\u201d and \u201cthey burned the book we mailed back to your country at the border,\u201d everyone had a story.<\/p>\n One session\u00a0previewed a new ILL cost calculator that is coming soon, building upon a cost study that we participated in several years ago with folks from Kansas and Las Vegas.\u00a0 We will be an early adopter of the study which will allow us to enter and compare costs in real time.\u00a0 This project is being led by OCLC Research in collaboration with SHARES partner institutions.\u00a0 We will be able to enter data yearly, compare our costs with other institutions, track changes, simulate changes we might make in joining a consortium or acquiring a piece of equipment, run reports, and so on.<\/p>\n Let’s Play Nice: Shared Server 101<\/em> offered detailed information about the ILLiad Customization Manager settings and provided caution regarding partner site settings in a shared ILLiad environment. The information will be very pertinent in regard to potential changes to UConn Health\u2019s adoption of ILLiad as a satellite to Storrs.<\/p>\n We took advantage of having representatives from Atlas and OCLC to discuss various transitions we\u2019re going through right now, as well as to talk about potential enhancement requests with ILLiad WebCirc. \u00a0Also significant to our unit, I\u00a0met with Yale’s Associate Director for Resource Sharing and Reserves and we came to an agreement of reciprocity.<\/p>\n It was all this and more.\u00a0 This was my first time to this particular conference, and I\u2019m still having conversations that were begun there.\u00a0 There\u2019s a world of information and possibility in this gem of a conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year Atlas Systems sponsors the International ILLiad Conference in Virginia Beach. This year there were close to 400 attendees from six countries, including Egypt, Japan, the UK, Canada, and Singapore.\u00a0 Representatives from Atlas, OCLC, Reprints, and the Copyright Clearance … Continue reading Bucknell gave a talk ILLiad, GIST, and EBL: How Bucknell University\u2019s PDA + DDA Collection Development Model Gives Patrons What They Want, While Saving the Library Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars a Year<\/em>. \u00a0They cancelled their print approval plan and automatic shipments and moved to a completely patron-driven acquisitions monograph collection development policy.\u00a0 GIST is free and open source, and merges and streamlines Acquisitions and ILL request workflows using ILLiad, leveraging systems to do more work while reducing the staff time necessary to make informed decisions and process materials.\u00a0 Originally part of New York\u2019s IDS project, the toolkit is now in use at institutions all over the country, such as Maryland, Michigan, Oregon, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, etc. \u00a0Here\u2019s a link to their paper<\/a>.\u00a0 More information on GIST can be found here: http:\/\/www.gistlibrary.org\/illiad\/#.VRBYrvnF98E<\/a>.<\/h4>\n
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