I-SPIE Blog

CDS Featured On Library Webpage

February 5, 2016

CDS ILL is the Featured Faculty & Staff for February on its main library page. Check us out:

http://library.sdsu.edu/featured/gathering-your-worldwide-resources

http://library.sdsu.edu/ (you will have to scroll down a bit to see us!)

2016 I-SPIE Conference

February 1, 2016

Mark your calendars! The 2016 I-SPIE Conference will be held July 13th- 15th at CSU Fresno!

This year’s keynote speaker is Mark Sullivan, Executive Director of the IDS Project of New York.

Stay tuned for more information about the conference theme, agenda, registration, hotels, events and more.

Fresno State's 388-acre main campus and its 1,011-acre University Farm are located at the northeast edge of Fresno, California, at the foot of the majestic Sierra Nevada mountain range. The surrounding San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, and Fresno is the fifth largest city in California

Welcome Leslie Botsford!

January 27, 2016

Hello Fellow ILLers:

CSU Chico is very happy to announce that we will have a new staff member beginning February 1^st. Interlibrary Services combined with Circulation and Reserve three and a half years ago. In November 2014 we had our Reserve person move to Texas on short notice. The position was never filled and as we all know, Jo Ann retired in December. A four person department became three, and then two! Leslie Botsford is coming to us with six years of Butte County Library experience at the local Chico branch. She has performed a wide variety of

A Tribute to Jo Ann Bradley

December 9, 2015

As most of you know by now, our good friend and colleague Jo Ann Bradley will be retiring this month. This is sad news for us, but glad news for Jo Ann! After working at Chico State for 25 years, she is starting a new, exciting chapter in her life!

Jo Ann began her career at IBM, where she worked for 8 years. She was hired at Chico State as a temporary clerical in the Library, but moved to ILL after one year, and worked her way up to become ILL Department Head. Switching from a corporate to an academic environment

Purchase On Demand In The ULMS

November 16, 2015

Well, that does take a little of the fun out of it. I was thinking we could respond directly. I also put out a few ideas via email that might be valuable topics to get some opinions on. I won’t recreate the email here, but one of my favorites is Purchase on Demand. I know several of you are already doing some sort of purchase on demand in your library. Chances are it is not as free- wheeling as I’d like to see in the future. Along with Alma I believe we could incorporate ILL budgets and standards so we

ISPIE Conference 2015- World Cafe Outcome Notes

November 10, 2015

Hello everyone,

I thought that everyone in CSU ILL Land might enjoy reading through the outcome notes from this year's ISPIE Conference World Café discussion activity. I culled the notes after studying several whiteboards of drawings and ideas everyone contributed. Thanks again for all of you who gave of your time, energy, and honesty.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6z3QgdJmoAzTEVjTUp5RDJNRkE/view This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.

For those of you who weren't able to attend, you can get an idea of what we talked about on Day One:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B6z3QgdJmoAzWHV3OXVIX2RSbU0 This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.

and, on Day Two:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6z3QgdJmoAzZHJRMmw0eWpXYUU/view?usp=sharing This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.

Please feel free to let me know if I missed anything and I will add it! Let me know if these links don't work, too.

Lina

Lina Carro, Lending Coordinator, http://lina.carro@humboldt.edu This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.

Humboldt State University (CHU)

Saving Money With Reprints Desk

November 2, 2015

There are a few universals in this world. We know everyone can count on death, taxes, and not having quite enough money in the budget to do all the things we want to do. It is because of this third point that it is very important to find ways to save money in your department. One way we have been able to cut costs at Cal Poly SLO is to use Reprints Desk as a means of lowering copyright cost.

As you know copyright payments can be very expensive, often costing thousands of dollars a year for each Resource Sharing

A New Interface!

August 21, 2015

Hello I-SPIE! This is the new I-SPIE website. The web committee felt that the old website did not have enough functionality and was not very user friendly. This new site, powered by Wordpress, will have all the old content from the previous websites and will have new features such as comments and a community blog to provide a steady stream of content. We want the website to be more than just a place to drop off statistics, we want it to be a place to continue the conversations started at the yearly conference.

With the new blogging feature we hope everyone