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What Public LibrariesCan Do

For

Special Libraries

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Presenting an Overview of Services

By Cathy Balshone

Reference DepartmentNewton Free Library

330 Homer StreetNewton Massachusetts 02459

Presented at Congregation Beth Israel701 Farmington Avenue West Hartford, CT 06119

New England Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (NEAJL)June 19, 2009

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How the Public Library Can Help the Special Library

Ask a question! Call or e-mail the Reference Department.

Find out what resources are available. In the library Remotely accessible In other collections

Fill out forms for document delivery. Place requests for library materials.

Use MassAnswers anytime of the day or night from a public library or regional website.

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Public Librarians

Reference, Children’s, Audio-Visual, and Interlibrary Loan Departments Help track down an answer or referral Guide you to sources, find materials Offer readers advisory service Collect print and non-print materials for all ages Submit ILL requests; procure materials Consider purchase requests Help with electronic searches. Teach basic computer skills and classes on topics,

such as Genealogy; prepare handouts.

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Readers Advisory Book reviews Reading lists and guides for Jewish book clubs

AJL Book Club Reading Lists http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/resources/bookclub_lists.htm

Jewish Book Council http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/page.php?189

Books in a variety of formats and languages Books for adults, children, English learners Borrow a book outside of the library, network Books For You!: Online personalized booklists

based on a questionnaire. Bookletters: Online monthly topical book newsletter

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Foreign Languages

Dictionaries Books

Original language Translated into another language

Recorded Books: variety of formats Collections of Foreign Films Language Instruction ESL Program

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How to Find a LibraryHow to Share Resources

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is organized into regions and networks.

Find a library by region, network, city or town, zip code.

Libraries joining the public systems include public, academic, school and special libraries.

Regional membership totals are 1765 libraries Public 370 Academic 124 School 1023 Special 248

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Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC)

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MBLC www.mblc.state.ma.usRegional Membership

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Eligibility Requirements 605 CMR 7.02

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Massachusetts Regional Library Systems (MARLS)

6 Regions Boston (BRLS)

http://www.bpl.org/brls/about.html Metrowest (MMRLS) http://www.mmrls.org/ Northeast (NMRLS) http://www.nmrls.org/ Southeastern (SEMLS) http://www.semls.org/ Central (CMRLS) http://www.cmrls.org/ Western (WMRLS) http://www.wmrls.org/

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About Massachusetts Library Regional/Network Memberships

Shared Online Catalog Document Delivery Interlibrary Loan Materials Transfer Database Access Cooperative Purchasing Programs Workshops; Training Technical Assistance

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Resource Sharing with MassCat and the Virtual Catalog

Consider adding your records to MassCat Fees based upon holdings Shared cataloging system:

Match your holdings to records in the catalog Add new records from OCLC Use a web-based system and avoid

purchasing software Virtual Catalog transfers through the regions

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MassCat

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Online Library Catalogs for School and Special Libraries

MassCat for all regions except Boston Member school and special libraries Optional to participate State policies about loaning materials Fee to join MassCat based on holdings;

set-up fees; migration costs Will generate reports

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The Virtual Catalog

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Online Library Catalog for the Networks

Virtual Catalog http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/virtcat.htm

Holdings of the 9 networks Select and search one network Place reserves Pick items up at a member library

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More Benefits

1. Collaborative database purchasing

2. Coop membership for discounts on library supplies and materials.

3. Numerous workshops and training sessions at your regional office or at your library.

4. Free equipment & training: barcodes, scanner, computer with link to the Internet.

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The Networks

9 networks 1,700 libraries Searchable catalogs of more than 400

libraries Millions of full-text articles Hundreds of archives and manuscript

collections Digitized collections

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Search for libraries in your network

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Massachusetts Library Networks – Boston & West

Metro Boston Library Network (MBLN) http://catalog.mbln.org/#focus

Fenway Libraries Online (FLO)

http://flo.org/ Minuteman Library Network (MLN)

http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/ Central/Western Massachusetts Automated

Resources Sharing, Inc. (C/W MARS) http://www.cwmars.org/

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Massachusetts Library Networks – North & South

North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) http://www.noblenet.org/

Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) http://www.mvlc.org/

Old Colony Library Network (OCLN) http://ocln.org/wp-public/

Sails Library Network (SAILS) http://www.sailsinc.org/

Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing (CLAMS) http://www.clamsnet.org/

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Find an Article

Search periodicals databases for citations. E-mail to yourself when full text is available. Request document through Interlibrary Loan

Some articles may precede 1980 Gale databases or may not be in JSTOR.

Ask for an obituary from an old newspaper. Receive articles by fax, by e-mail, or pick up at

your region’s member library. Articles processed through the Boston Public

Library (BPL).

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Delivery Services

Books, chapters of books or missing pages, magazines, microfilm, microfiche, recorded books on CD or tape, music scores, music CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes

Delivery to your library or a nearby regional library

Interlibrary loan (ILL) training and services, e.g. Wellesley Public Library for Minuteman.

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Databases

See what databases are provided By your region By your network By your public library Through statewide database licensing

by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Massachusetts Statewide Database Licensing

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Databases Coded by Funding

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Try a Database Search Encyclopedia Judaica: Online subscription

database Jewishencyclopedia.com:

free website, based on edition published from 1901-1906

Try some searches: Where and what was the Pale of Settlement? What is the Zohar? Where can I read it? Which chronic genetic diseases afflict Jews?

Encyclopedia Judaica search; Change Databases & Cross-search selecting other databases

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Readers AdvisoryDatabase Searches

Literary criticism Author biographies Try finding this one author known by given and

pen name with multiple spellings: Mendele Moykher Sforim = Sholem Yankev

Abramovitsh = Shalom Jacob Abramovitz = Shalom Jacob Abramowitz Encyclopedia Judaica – and how to Change

Databases Biography Resource Center Gale Literature Resource Center


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