The University of Maine/Fogler Library is now officially a partner of the HathiTrust digital library. Patrons of the University of Maine will be able to download full PDF versions of most public domain titles in the HathiTrust, conduct full-text searches (including for in-copyright material), have access to material covered under Section 108 of the Copyright Act, and print disability access to materials the University of Maine own (or owned).

The Print-On-Demand service has been taken offline in MaineCat. This is because the IMLS grant funds used to test the service have been exhausted. However, the MSCS Project Team are currently investigating different options to bring it back online. Click here to check out photos and video of the penultimate book being bound by the UMaine Printing and Mailing Services.

MSCS retention commitments statement from Step 1 are beginning to be loaded into OCLC. So far approx. 265,000 statements have been loaded for MEUSP. MSCS are the first shared print project to have monograph commitments disclosed in OCLC. Eventually all 1.4 million MSCS commitments will be loaded into OCLC. Thanks go out to the MSCS Systems Librarian Sara Amato and OCLC Batchloading Services for their hard work on this.

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!

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/record=b11956901~S0. These records link to electronic copies of public domain titles made available by HathiTrust and Google Books. The records are part of Maine Shared Collection Strategy’s efforts to provide Electronic-on-demand and Print-on-demand services to the wider Maine community.

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/updates/e-book-on-demand-eod-print-on-demand-pod-service-guidelines/