 April 22, 2014
Register Today for the Minitex ILL ConferenceDate & LocationTuesday, May 6, 2014 Continuing Education & Conference Center Registration DetailsFee: $40.00 – Register Now! Registration closes on Tuesday, April 29. Keynote Presentation – Phil Simon, “Big Data: Too Big to Ignore”Phil Simon is a keynote speaker, recognized technology expert, and the award-winning author of six management books, most recently The Visual Organization. He consults organizations on matters related to strategy, data, and technology. His contributions have been featured on NBC, CNBC, Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, The New York Times, ReadWriteWeb, and many other sites. Ryan Litsey & Joni Blake, “The Occam’s Reader Ebook/ILL Project”Occam’s Reader is a software program that allows interlibrary loan of electronic books. Occam’s Reader is a collaboration between Texas Tech University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the Greater Western Library Alliance. Currently Occam’s Reader works with the ILLiad software to allow the document delivery staff to lend electronic books seamlessly between libraries. The software currently works with .PDF documents, but there are plans to support other formats of electronic books and to develop a standalone, web-based version of the system. This session will focus on current and planned functionality as well as the discussions with ebook publishers. Ryan Litsey is the Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Assistant Librarian in the Texas Tech University Library. He earned a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science as well as a Master of Arts in Political Science from California State University Northridge. He also holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Sciences from Florida State University. Joni Blake is the Executive Director of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Literature from Cornell College, a Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of Missouri – Columbia, and her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration. Valerie Horton, “Deep Collaboration”“Libraries have a choice, we can collaborate or die.” This sentiment was expressed by William Jordan, and captures the new thinking sweeping through libraries. The days of casual cooperation are long gone as a new era of deep collaboration is unfolding. Deep collaboration requires more courage, more resources, and more commitment to mutual agreed upon goals. Drawing from her work as co-general editor of Collaborative Librarianship, Valerie will look at how deep collaboration works in the Minitex region, and examines how projects like DPLA, HathiTrust, and Kuali Ole have been transforming our profession. Valerie Horton started as Director of Minitex, a three-state library consortium, in December 2012. Prior to that, she was the first Executive Director of the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) from November 2004. Valerie was also Library Director for Mesa State College, Head of Systems for New Mexico State University Libraries, and a Systems Librarian at Brown University. In 1993, she received an ALA International Fellowship to help automate the public, school, and government libraries for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Valerie has a book coming out from ALA Edition in 2014 on library consortia. In 2009, Valerie published Moving Materials: Physical Delivery in Libraries, and she is co-general editor for the online journal, Collaborative Librarianship. Katie Birch, “Life after WorldCat Resource Sharing: the future of ILL”During this session, Katie will provide an in-depth look at the migration of more than 5,000 libraries to WorldShare ILL and how this new service is transforming fulfillment options for interlibrary loan staff. Katie will also talk about OCLC’s new WorldCat Discovery platform and the future of VDX. Katie Birch is Portfolio Director for Delivery Services at OCLC. In this capacity, Katie oversees WorldCat Resource Sharing, including the WorldCat policies directory and IFM, as well as ILLiad, VDX, and WorldCat Navigator. Katie is a librarian with 10 years experience in resource sharing and document delivery. Before joining OCLC in 2005, Katie was project manager and business development manager at Talis. Learn MoreGet the full conference agenda, speaker bios, and registration forms at the conference website.
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Upcoming "Librarians" Series on TNT
How exciting, a new series where librarians are dedicated protectors of library artifacts! According to the Hollywood Reporter, “…TNT has ordered 10 episodes of the scripted drama The Librarians and tapped Rebecca Romijn to star as a skilled counter-terrorism agent. Noah Wyle, who starred in the TNT movie trilogy, will reprise his role as Flynn Carsen. The new series, which will debut in late 2014, will center on four people who are enlisted to assist Flynn as “Librarians,” members of an ancient organization hidden beneath the Metropolitan Public Library.”
I see viewing party possibilities all over this one, don’t you?
Read more about it at….Greenlight for The Librarians series on TNT
Top Ten Frequently Challenged Books of 2013
The Office for Intellectual Freedom creates a report each year on book challenges from librarians, teachers, concerned individuals, and press reports. Before you look at the list, can you guess which book series has been challenged in multiple years for “offensive language,” “unsuited to age group,” and “violence”, and is in the #1 spot again in the new list for 2013?
Challenged Books List of 2013
Out of 307 challenges as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom…
- Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group - Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group - The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group - A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit - Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group - Bless Me Ultima, by RudolfoAnaya
Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit - Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence
Click here to see the detailed lists from 2001 through 2013. (Scroll down on the page!)
Do you have policies in place for dealing with book challenges? For additional definitions and resources to assist you in this area, go to http://www.ala.org/bbooks/challengedmaterials. First you will see definitions, then scroll to the bottom to gather additional resources including information on how to report a book challenge.
Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to Library Materials
DCL eBook April Report
If you have never looked at one of these reports, it is good to remind ourselves of a few things. First, you can readily see which eBooks are currently most popular for a given month. But the main point of the report is to pay close attention to the difference in pricing of eBooks for Libraries versus eBook pricing for Consumers. James LaRue makes a couple of good points: “First, self-published works don’t always make it onto this type of list, even if they are wildly successful, when they lack an ISBN. Second, DCL staff couldn’t get into Bilbary despite repeated attempts, so that column has been removed.”…
Go to DCL ebook report, April
The PDF file is also available for the pricing comparisons.
Most consumers, legislators, and even administrators do not understand the pricing disparities that libraries are experiencing for eBooks. We can be part of the solution by paying attention and sharing this information more broadly.
"Libraries are Beautiful" Contest Winners
Gale, part of Cengage Learning , has announced the winners of its Libraries Are Beautiful: Inside and Out photo contest. The contest was launched in celebration of National Library Week, and the winners represent big cities, small towns, and all types of libraries across the nation. There were over 800 submissions, with over 30,000 votes cast. The top five per category were chosen by experts in art, architecture, and design. From the 25 finalists, winners were chosen by popular vote. Our own James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, MN won in the Greatest Historical Treasure category. If you have never seen it, it is worth the trip to St. Paul.
Simply breathtaking…..but see for yourself….the winners are listed at http://tinyurl.com/lk5uey7