SUNYergy, SUNY Libraries Working Together
April 2011
Volume 13, Number 2
Full graphics/links via web version @
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/sunyergy/default49.htm
Contents:
Focus on SUNY, SUNY Libraries and SUNY Librarians
Library Directors Meet in Cooperstown
Proposed SUNYConnect Timeline
Upcoming Evaluation of Electronic Resources
Binghamton Hosts Scholarship Conference
Additional SUNYConnect Updates
Linkable Links
FOCUS on SUNY, SUNY LIBRARIES and SUNY LIBRARIANS
[Editor's note: This is just a sampling of items of
note about our colleagues and their libraries;
SUNYergy editors will consider others that you send
in for inclusion in upcoming issues; Congrats! all]
Ed Rivenburgh Honored by ALA.
Congratulations are in order for Ed Rivenburgh (Project
Director, Information Delivery Services and recently
retired from SUNY Geneseo). Ed is the recently
announced winner of the 2011 Virginia Boucher/OCLC
Distinguished ILL Librarian Award (from ALA’s Reference
and User Services Division). The award “recognizes an
individual for outstanding professional achievement,
leadership and significant contributions to the fields
of interlibrary loan and document delivery”.
“Rivenburgh was selected for his excellent leadership
of the IDS Project, a resource sharing cooperative …
[that] is fundamentally changing how ILL processing
and resource sharing is done”.
http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2011/04/13/2011-boucherwinner/
Stephen B. Luce Library (Maritime) Honored.
The library at SUNY Maritime has been named one of
the “Great Libraries of the World”. The designation,
by American Libraries is in part for Stephen B. Luce
Library’s collection strengths in marine engineering,
naval architecture, marine transportation, nautical
charts, oceanography, transportation economics and
management, and meteorology.
The designation “showcases 250 libraries around the world
that are notable for their exquisite architecture,
historic collections, and innovative services.”
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_direct/02232011
SUNY Librarians Receive ACRL Award.
Michelle Costello and Kimberly Davies Hoffman (Geneseo) have
been designated as the 2011 Association of College and
Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS)
Innovation award winners. They are being honored for
their work on the Library Instruction Leadership Academy.
“LILAC is truly an innovative contribution to advancing
pedagogy in information literacy and instruction
librarianship.” Congratulations Michelle and Kim!
http://tinyurl.com/3wzvy3q
The winners also gave credit to their SUNY colleagues
involved in LILAC – Justina Elmore (Geneseo), Lisa
Forrest (Buffalo State), Nicki Lerczak (Genesee CC),
Jennifer Little (Brockport), Nicole Menarchem (Geneseo)
Logan Rath (Brockport), Alice Wilson (Monroe CC),
Barbara Kobritz (TC3), Dana Longley (Empire State),
Stephan Macaluso (New Paltz).
Citable Cite.
“Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated
Bibliography”
A. Ben Wagner (University at Buffalo)
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
Winter 2010
http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article2.html
RRLC’s Academic Library of the Year.
The Rochester Regional Library Council’s 2011 Academic
Library of the Year is LeRoy V. Good Library at Monroe
Community College. The statement, “this library has
been of great value in my academic pursuits”, was one
of the nominating statements RRLC received.
LIBRARY DIRECTORS MEET in COOPERSTOWN
“What you do for students, working one-on-one with them
is priceless”. SUNY Provost David Lavallee speaking at
the 2011 SUNY Council of Library Directors (SCLD) meeting
also commented on how his academic career at SUNY, New
Paltz and other institutions has included the positive
benefit of overseeing academic libraries. He urged the
directors to look at the totality of shared endeavors
across SUNY to then see the benefit of such collaborations
for their particular campus.
Indeed, the group adopted the “one vision, one voice”
Power of SUNY Libraries strategic plan during the April
meeting in Cooperstown. Prior to that, projects and
ideas for making the plan real were discussed in focus
groups on assessment, collections, governance/administration,
LMS/sytems and user services.
In addition, a reframing of the SUNYConnect Advisory
Council (S.A.C.) was approved. Subject to bylaw changes,
the “SUNYConnect Coordinating Committee” (SCC) will be a
standing committee reporting to the SCLD Executive
Board. The representative from that latter group will
be the SCC Convener and with SCC made up of SCLD members
representing each SUNY sector, SUNYLA, OLIS representatives
as well as ad hoc task force representation. SCC will
“coordinate, provide input and track progress of
SUNYConnect related activities”.
A SUNYConnect Financial Committee (SFC) structure was also
approved. Among other activities, this group would
address changes to the SUNYConnect financial plan. The
SFC will also report to the SCLD Executive Board and has
a proposed make-up similar to the SCC.
Final details on both of these groups await needed bylaw
changes.
Visit the SCLD web site for updates related to the
strategic plan, various working groups and upcoming
governance structure changes.
The following appointments to the SCLD Executive Board
(and related groups) were approved by the full
Council – Vice Chair/Chair Elect – Andrew White
(Stony Brook); Treasurer – Gail Wood (Cortland); NYSHEI
Representatives – Patrick Callahan (Purchase) and
Chui-Chun Lee (New Paltz); CUNY Liaison – N.J. Wolfe (FIT).
PROPOSED SUNYCONNECT TIMELINE
A draft timeline of possible future SUNYConnect
developments has been presented to S.A.C. and to SCLD.
The goal is to sketch out efforts that are needed related
to electronic resources, a possible SUNYConnect discovery
system and a replacement for the current SUNYConnect
library management system.
While subject to change, the timeline is presented here
to provide information to the SUNYConnect community on
current thinking in regard to these inter-related
topics.
UPCOMING EVALUTION of ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
SUNYConnect is about to commence a review of electronic
resources. Specifically under review will be resources
acquired collectively with the exception of ScienceDirect.
The current agreement for EBSCO resources ends June 30,
2012. Prior to that, the SUNYConnect Electronic Resources
Team will be reviewing options and seeking to improve
information access across SUNYConnect.
The E_Res Team is
Shafeek Fazal – Maritime (Tech Sector representative);
Connie Holberg – Jefferson (Community College representative);
Mohamed Hussain – Downstate (Health Sciences representative);
Fritz Messere – Oswego (Faculty representative);
Katie Sacco – Fredonia (Comprehensive Colleges representative);
John Schumacher – OLIS;
Ed Shephard – Binghamton (University Center representative).
Get in touch with your sector representative on the team if
you’ve got a suggestion, comments or ideas regarding
SUNYConnect electronic resources.
BINGHAMTON HOSTS SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE
“Changes in the library world and in scholarly work
require fleet innovation as ideas emerge, change and become
routine”, with this Beth Brown, Scholarly Communication
Librarian, Binghamton University introduced the “Publishing,
Promoting and Preserving Scholarship @ SUNY” conference
April 7, 2011.
The conference (with funding from SUNY’s Conversations
in the Disciplines program) included an impressive array
of speakers and attendees from the library and research
communities. The keynote speech by Todd Carpenter (National
Information Standards Organization) began with a brief
history of standards in publishing and made the first
reference of the day to the “semantic web” as we move
towards more machine-mediated processing and the increasing
frequency of texts being read by machines. His suggestion
was to pay attention to changes occuring outside of the
academy via rapid developments in technology and software.
In regard to the National Science Foundation mandate for
data management plans, Carpenter said “I think libraries
have a great opportunity to provide a home to the data
created by our researchers”.
Andrew White (Interim Dean, Stony Brook/Stony Brook HSC)
presented the stark landscape of dwindling library budgets
and the challenges of licensing the research materials
needed. Representing the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC), Patricia Renfro (Columbia) gave
an update on open access publishing and archiving.
Open source software projects highlighted included
Mendeley and VIVO. Vendor presentations were made by
SUNY Press, JSTOR, JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
and Berkeley Electronic Press.
Thanks to Binghamton, SUNY CID and the conference presenters
for a good conference on important topics.
ADDITIONAL SUNYConnect UPDATES
Aleph Upgrade to Version 20.
OLIS and ITEC continue with the process of upgrading the
shared server systems to Aleph v. 20. Development regions
for 55 campuses are scheduled to be completed by the end
of May; production region upgrades for these SUNYConnect
campuses should be done in August 2011.
V.20 training materials and other information can be
found on the SUNYConnect Support Portal at
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/support/alephv20support.htm
OCLC Reclamation.
With the assistance of OLIS, 31 SUNY collections have
finished this process of syncing up with OCLC data; 4 more
are in process. And, an additional 19 library collections
will be processed in Phase 3 (Summer/Fall 2011).
SUNY Report Card.
As part of the SUNY strategic plan implementation, the initial
roll-out of the “SUNY Report Card” will be May 17, 2011.
Encompassing measurements from across the university system,
the report card also includes library details. Members of
OLIS have been putting together this component which includes
library circulation, inter-library loan transactions and
full-text download figures from the SUNYConnect electronic
resources.
Database and other Offers.
Credo Reference (group discount available);
Films on Demands (discounts available).
LINKABLE LINKS
Each issue of SUNYergy provides a select listing of internet
addresses that are either discussed in that issue or are
particularly relevant to current topics.
SUNYConnect
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/default.htm
SUNYConnect Support Portal
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/support
SUNY Union Catalog
http://search.sunyconnect.suny.edu/
SUNYConnect Web Log
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/blog/
OLIS Document Site
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/olisdocs/public/
SUNY Strategic Plan Site
http://www.suny.edu/powerOfSuny/
SUNY Council of Library Directors (& strategic plan)
http://scld.wordpress.com/
SUNYConnect LMS Upgrage Schedule
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/olisdocs/public/Aleph/Version_20_Upgrade_Calendar/
OLIS Aleph V.20 Upgrade Support
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/support/alephv20support.htm
IDS
http://www.idsproject.org/index.aspx
Library Journal Series on Next-gen Library Systems
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/889250-403/the_next_generation_of_discovery.html.csp
Binghamton University Scholarly Communication Site
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/services/scholarly/
National Science Foundation Data Management Mandate
http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp
Semantic Web Resources
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page
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