October 2011 Update
LAND Delivery and ConnectNY
A New York State task force has recently been established to evaluate the existing LAND delivery service and to make recommendations for a new service that will build on the current LAND system. The New York State 3R’s Association will be leading this effort and Gary Thompson (Director at Siena College) will be representing ConnectNY on this task force. The immediate goal is have a consultant work with the task force to examine the current system and develop options for improvement of service. For further information, visit ny3rs.org.
CNY E-book Project Update
As was reported in June, a working group has been established and is working on developing criteria for vendors and training protocols for record loading and matching for this project. The working group has selected an initial group of vendors for entertaining both proposals and demonstration purposes. For more information, email Shirley Bower at RIT and/or Pat Hults at RPI. You can also visit our 2011-12 Initiatives page.
RapidILL and CNY Statistic
New RapidILL stats have recently been posted on the CNY Website.
Visit our Statistics page for the most recent CNY statistics (including the RapidILL statistics).
Update on Voyager Implementation Project
CNY recently accepted the memberships of Hamilton College, Skidmore College, and Hobart & William Smith Colleges. The plan is to test the new DCB clients for handling Voyager library bib records in the fall, provide for training of the Voyager staff, and then set forward a “soft launch” soon thereafter. As CNY gets closer to a launch of the system, we will notify CNY libraries and communicate with regard to potential system impacts.
Discussion of June 2011 CNY Working Group Recommendations & Process for Moving Forward
The CNY Council will be discussing the recommendations of the RapidILL Working Group and the Union Catalog Working Group at the fall meeting of the CNY Council, which will take place at LeMoyne College on November 10 - 11, 2011.
Jean Berard @ III is Primary Contact for Technical Issues for ConnectNY
If you find any problems and/or issues with the operation of the INN-Reach system, please email Jean Berard at jberard@iii.com.
ConnectNY Adds Hamilton, Hobart, and Skidmore
ConnectNY, Inc., a non-profit organization for academic libraries dedicated to collaborative resource sharing and collection building, has accepted three new academic libraries from the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium as members, effective July 2011. The new member libraries are at Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Skidmore College. In adding the New York Six libraries, ConnectNY will deploy Innovative Interface, Inc.’s DCB (Direct Consortial Borrowing) platform to allow libraries that utilize other integrated library systems to participate in the Inn-Reach advanced resource sharing system. Details
Bart Harloe Appointed Executive Director of ConnectNY
ConnectNY, Inc., a non-profit library organization that includes 18 academic libraries dedicated to collaborative resource sharing and collection building, has appointed Bart Harloe as Executive Director, effective August 1, 2011. Harloe brings to the consortium over 25 years of academic library experience in California, New Mexico, and New York State. Before his appointment to this position, Harloe served as University Librarian at St. Lawrence University for 16 years. Harloe commented, “I look forward to working with a very dynamic group of libraries as we seek to leverage the 9 million print books that we share together even as we begin to actively build a digital collection for the 21st century.” Details
