The Maine Policy Review’s Libraries and Information Edition featuring a sidebar article on MSCS is now available electronically on digital commons.
Category Archives: MSCS news
MSCS libraries agree to join HathiTrust!
Exciting news for MSCS & HathiTrust! At the May 23 Maine Shared Collections Strategy Directors Council meeting the partner libraries agreed to become consortial members of the HathiTrust. This is a first for a couple of reasons: MSCS libraries will be the first in Maine to join and we are the first public libraries of this size to join. The consortium will be know as the ‘Maine Shared Collections Cooperative’.
MSCS to feature in Library Journal Data Series Webcast
MSCS Program Manager Matthew Revitt will be a panelist on the June 6th Library Journal’s Webcast Data-Driven Libraries Part 1: Analyzing Data to Manage Print Collections.
MSCS features in Bowdoin College’s Daily Sun
Bowdoin College’s Daily Sun publishes article titled “Maine Libraries Lend Each Other a Hand” which discusses MSCS and Bowdoin’s contribution as a partner library.
MSCS features in ACRL environmental scan
MSCS features in the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Environmental Scan section “Radical Collaboration in Large Regional Print Repositories”.
MSCS features in LJ Kudos for Print Archiving Editorial
MSCS gets a mention from Library Journal Editor-In-Chief Mike Kelley in his editorial piece titled ‘Kudos for Print Archiving’ which includes some of the many collaborative projects happening in the library world. The article also makes references to the article LJ published on MSCS in March.
MSCS features in Library Journal Hotline
Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) is the first story in the March 25th edition of the Library Journal publication Library Hotline, breaking news for library and information decision makers.
MSCS features in Digital Public Library of America Digest
The March 21st Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Digest features an extract from the Library Journal article published on MSCS.
MSCS features in Collaborative Librarianship News
Those of who you who subscribe to Collaborative Librarianship News may have seen their post on successful collaboration in collections development which included a link to the Library Journal article on MSCS.
MSCS features in American Libraries ALA news
American Libraries have announced in their ALA news that MSCS representatives Matthew Revitt, Clem Guthro and Sara Amato will be presenting on June 27th in Chicago at the ALA ALCTS pre-conference event titled “Shared Print Monographs: Making It Work”.