Check out the February 13th Project Team meeting summary which includes: feedback from ALA Mid Winter & planning for SCS meeting.

On February 12th, 2013 the Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) proposal and sole source document were approved and signed off on by the University of Maine. Rick Lugg and Andy Breeding from SCS are coming to meet with the MSCS Project Team and Collection Development & Technical Services folks on Friday, February 15th at Colby College to prepare for the library data pull required for the collection analysis work.

The Project Team at their January 9th, 2013 meeting approved the SCS Proposal for collection analysis services. The proposal still needs to be approved by the University of Maine.

MSCS in December 2012 submitted their Year 1 Interim Performance Report to IMLS. The report compares actual accomplishments with goals established for the report period.

MSCS also submitted to IMLS a budget change justification document to seek approval for changes to its budget.

Deb, Matthew and Clem met with the Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) team at the Charleston Conference in October to discuss the possibility of contracting with SCS for collection analysis services. The Project Team received a proposal from SCS in November. Rick Lugg and Andy Breeding from Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) attended the December 12th Project Team to discuss their proposal further. Details of these discussion can be found in the Project Team meeting summary.

All of the materials from our Advisory Board’s visit on May 21, 2012 are now posted on our progress page. (This includes meeting summaries as well as a new project update.) In addition, we’ve also posted the slides and notes from their presentation during the Maine Libraries United conference.

On Monday (May 21st), as part of the Maine Libraries United conference the members of our Advisory Board will be giving attendees a national perspective on shared print initiatives. We are delighted that Lizanne Payne, Constance Malpas, and Bob Kieft are willing to share their knowledge with us, as they’ll discuss current shared print projects, research involving HathiTrust and libraries, and trends in collaborative collection development.

The presentation will be in Little Hall, Room 120 on the campus of the University of Maine at Orono.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

When the site first launched, our meeting summaries were posted as Google Docs, and therefore external content that could not be searched. We are now pleased to announce that all summaries have been converted to pages, and can be searched by the site’s search engine. We have no doubt that this will make things easier for all of us in the long run!

If you have suggestions for other site features, please let us know!

As some of the reclamation-related work is beginning to wind down, the collection analysis is gaining steam. The collection management subcommittee met on January 10th to begin to figure out how we’ll tackle the decision-making for so many titles without going title-by-title. The summary of that meeting is up on the Progress page.  Another meeting has been scheduled for the 31st, where we’ll be looking at a sample of ~200 titles and trying to place them in some broad categories.