the future is now!
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Interlibrary LoanThe Future is Now!
Russell Palmer, LYRASIS
Reflecting on the future
• Very important• However, let’s wallow around in the
here and now for awhile…• Why?
– Lots of new technologies to process– Tough economic times – Strength through collaboration
Challenges in resource sharing
• Still plenty of techno-challenges--– Discovery– Delivery– Access
• More intellectual challenges--– ©– Effectively sharing
e-resources/Advocacy– Impact of resource sharing on collection
development
Ideas & Insights: Resource Sharing/Technology
• Which tools help the most?• What innovations have you made?• How will collaboration help?• Ongoing discussion: • http://seflinfutureisnow.tumblr.com/
Copyright
• Not a ton of options• Contact the publisher directly
– Worthwhile, but time consuming
• CCC– Good, but per transaction price is expensive
• ILLiad helps– Manages and automates copyright compliance
• New options/reports in OCLC WRS added– Copyright Compliance Payment Report
e-resources• Digitization
– LYRASIS Mass Digitization Project• “Googlization”
– Google Magazines• Open access
– Directory of Open Access Journals
e-resources
• OCLC WorldCat ™ Knowledge Base • OCLC Document Sharing site• Negotiating open relationships with
vendors and publishers which allow libraries to share
• Reading the fine print• Advocacy
Collections
• Buy vs. borrow? Patron driven collection development
• Creative/collaborative “management from the middle” in order to surface good ideas to leadership
• Make sharing potential acquisitions part of a routine workflow (ex-set up ILL stats report to auto e-mail)
• Sharing staff/cross training
All comes down to…cost
• Cheaper to:– Buy or borrow?– Access through a document supplier or
borrow and pay/manage/agonize over copyright later?
– Borrow from a partner in a resource sharing group
– Share systems and people
Here and now…Innovators
• I&I Innovators—using existing technology, creativity, collaboration and hard work to make things happen in the areas we’ve discussed: – The IDS Project – Douglas County (CO) Libraries– Kansas State Library
The IDS Project
• New York State (though others are experimenting)
• Created tools to improve all phases of resource sharing workflow
• Share tools openly with others
Available IDS Project tools
ALIAS:Allows ILLiad to perform unmediated article request
processing using the Article License Information Availability Service
GIST (Getting It System Toolkit): Simplifies just-in-time acquisitions and gift/de-
selection management TPAM (Transaction Performance Analysis Module):A resource sharing transaction analysis module
IDS Tools
IDS Search: uses APIs from Worldcat, Google Books, and Yahoo
spell check, as well as various scripts to check the availability in your local catalog. IDS Search is a cooperative project led by Mike Curtis, SUNY Upstate Medical University, as part of the IDS Project Technology Advisory Group.
IDS Workflow Toolkit: A repository of best practices for ILLiad* users
*Not an ILLiad user?—Tool kit has great tools for creating custom holdings
Douglas County Libraries (CO)
• Innovation in sharing e-books• Agreement with Colorado
Independent Publisher’s Association• “CIPA agrees to facilitate the sale
(not the rental) of e-books to the library for checkout through the library. That is, the library owns and manages the files on its own servers.”
Douglas County Libraries
Kansas State Library
• Innovation through advocacy and attention to the fine print!
• State librarian asserted ownership of $568,000 of e-books
• New contract would raise costs 700% by 2014
• Asserted clause in existing contract allowed transfer of e-books to another platform if contract terminated
» http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891052-264/kansas__state_librarian_argues.html.csp
More notable innovators
• Unique things, accomplished in unique ways
• COKAMO Delivery System (CO)– Used baggage space on Greyhound buses to link
delivery systems• PALCI E-Zborrow (PA)
– Facilitates unmediated sharing across 50 libraries in PA and surrounding states
• Samaritan Health Services ResearchRaven™ (OR)– Created a database to aggregate
conference/publishing/funding opportunities for health care professionals
Before you move on to the future…become a star!
• Evaluate—do you still have some work to do?
• Rethinking Resource Sharing Star checklist:
• http://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/checklist.html
Final reflections on the future
• Working smarter, as opposed to insane hours
• Users more involved in the process of resource sharing– Unmediated requests– Contributions to collections
• When the economy improves, where will libraries stand?
More information: keeping up
• Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative• The IDS Project • Moving Mountains Project• What’s been digitized?
– Columbia University, Archive and Manuscript Collections on the Internet
• What’s available via open access? – Directory of Open Access Journals
Thank you!
