The results of the MSCS Cooperative Collection Management survey are now available.
Cooperative Collection Management Survey results released
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Project Updates
April 10 Project Team meeting summary now available
The summary of the April 10 MSCS Project Team meeting is now available.
April 7 Collection Development Committee summary now available
The summary of the April 7 Collection Development Committee meeting is now available.
Location confirmed for MSCS ALA Annual 2014 session
MSCS is pleased to announce that the ALA Annual Conference pre-conference session “Looking to the Future of Shared Print” will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center-N262 on Friday June 27, 2014 from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (following a PAN form update from 9:00 – 9:45 am). This session is co-sponsored by MSCS and the Center for Research Libraries. For more information about the session and the chance to register see here.
OCLC complete load of MSCS retention commitments
MSCS received the exciting news today that OCLC batchloading services has completed loading approx. 1 million retention commitments (made in Step One) into the Local Holding Records of MSCS libraries.
MSCS retention commitments loaded into MaineCat
Exciting news, MSCS retention statement are being loaded into our union catalog MaineCat (see example)!
MSCS slides from OCLC/CIC – Regional Print Management Symposium now available
Slides from MSCS PI Clem Guthro’s presentation “Selecting for Sustainability” Maine Shared Collections Strategy at the OCLC/CIC – Regional Print Management Symposium held on March 27, 2014 in Dublin, OH are available here.
MSCS retention statements loaded into OCLC
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 HathiTrust collection is live
The Maine HathiTrust collection is now live. MSCS PI Deb Rollins and Systems Librarian Sara Amato worked with Jeremy York from the HathiTrust to build this collection, which brings together Maine related items in the HathiTrust’s digital collection. Maine is the first state to have such a collection.
March 12 Project Team meeting summary now available
The summary of the March 12 Project Team meeting is now available.
