The summary of the February 24 Directors’ Council meeting is now available.
February 24 Directors’ Council meeting summary now available
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MSCS involvement at OCLC Regional Shared Print Event
Clem Guthro Director of Colby College Libraries and MSCS PI will be part of a panel discussion at OCLC’s Regional Print Management: Right-scaling Solutions Symposium which is being held March 27-28 at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin, Ohio. For more information see.
Gallery of Print On Demand books
Check these examples of books that have been printed as part of the Maine Shared Collections Strategy’s Print On Demand service in MaineCat.
CBB go live with retention statement
Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) partner libraries Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges have added the display of the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative (MSCC) retention message in their new merged catalog. Way to go!
Print-On-Demand & Ebook-On-Demand services now available in ME
MSCS are pleased to announce that Print-On-Demand & Ebook-On-Demand services are now available in the union catalog MaineCat. Approximately 1.3 million records have been loaded into MaineCat that look like this: http://mainecat.maine.edu/
The purpose of these services is to provide a choice between print and electronic book delivery when both are possible, and to provide access to many titles previously unavailable in Maine library catalogs.
For more information about the services please see: http://maineinfonet.org/mscs/
Registration is now open for “Looking to the Future of Shared Print”
Register here for the 2014 ALA Annual Conference session “Looking to the Future of Shared Print” which the Maine Shared Collections Strategy and Center for Research Libraries are co-sponsoring. The session is free and will take place at 10 am on Friday 27 June, 2014 (following Print Archive Network Forum) in Las Vegas. The exact location is still to be confirmed. MSCS will be sending out further announcements about the session.
MSCS’s IMLS Performance Report is now available
The performance report which MSCS submitted to IMLS for its year 2 activities is now available.
MSCS hits 1 million milestone for retention statements in local catalogs
MSCS are pleased to announce that we have hit the 1 million milestone for retention commitment statements actually made in our local catalogs. Thanks goes out to the MSCS systems librarian Sara Amato and MSCS library technical services staff for their hard work on this.
MSCS mentioned in IFLA presentation
MSCS were includes as an example of shared print projects in an presentation paper titled “Rethinking Library Resource Sharing: New Models for Collaboration”. The paper was written by Brenda Bailey-Hainer (American Theological Library Association), Anne Beaubien (University of Michigan), Beth Posner (CUNY Graduate Center) & Evan Simpson (Tufts University) and was presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore.
Retention commitment note now displayed in the URSUS OPAC
MSCS is pleased to announce that retention commitments made by MSCS partners who are members of URSUS (University of Maine, Univerity of Southern Maine, Maine State Library and Bangor Public library) are now flagged by a “MSCC” note in the URSUS OPAC. The note indicates that the item has been committed to retain for at least the next 15 years. Here is an example.
The text “MSCC” links to a description on the Maine Shared Collections Strategy website of MSCC Retention Copies. The label is abbreviated to MSCC for “Maine Shared Collections Cooperative” which will be the post-grant name for the project.
The purpose of the note is to allow libraries to use the retention commitments made by MSCS libraries as a guide when making their own retention decisions.
