The Maine Shared Collections Strategy is pleased to announce the release of their Shared Print Agreements for Monographs: A User’s Manual. The manual provides advice on shared print based on experiences at MSCS. We hope other projects will find it a useful resource.
The Maine Shared Collections Strategy have produced a policy and procedure to address situations when libraries identify on a limited title-by-title basis (i.e., not in large batches) titles which should have their retention commitment removed or transferred to another library. See Policy on Retention Commitment Changes and Procedure for the External Transfer of Retention Commitments.
The summary of the June 12th MSCS Project Team meeting is now available.
The summary of the May 28 MSCS Directors’ Council meeting is now available. This was the final Directors’ Council meeting.
The presentation delivered by MSCS representatives Deb Rollins and Matthew Revitt at this year’s New England Library Association conference was mentioned in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly Volume 52, no.3.
The May 2014 MSCS update report is now available. The report covers the last six months of MSCS activities and has been submitted to the MSCS Advisory Board as a our final report to them.
MSCS PI Clem Guthro (Director of Colby College Libraries) features in a whitepaper on shared print produced by Innovative.
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.
