45 2013
January 2013. CLIC’s Year of Assessment mini-workshops began on January 18 with presentations by Andrea Koeppe and Ginny Heinrich on the ACRL Immersion Workshop.
Additional mini-workshops were scheduled throughout 2013, and the final assessment conference was scheduled for June 4, 2013.
Dukelow gathered ebook information from each CLIC library’s ebook contact and met with ebook vendors at ALA Midwinter.
Mark Ehlert presented a workshop on RDA.
Amy Sheehan (Hamline) and Emily Asch (St. Catherine) joined the CLIC Board .
The CLIC Board reconvened the ILS Task Force to look at selection of a next-gen ILS in mid-2013 and migration in 2014. The Task Force met on January 11 and put together a “request for input” which was emailed to all Committees/COIs with a deadline of March 31. They also drafted a rough timeline for selection of a next-gen system. The Board directed the Task Force to make a ranked recommendation of available systems, including lists of pros and cons of each, and to meet with the Board to discuss the vendor responses to the RFI/Q to decide which companies will be brought in to do demos. Dukelow met with systems vendor representatives at ALA Midwinter.
February 2013. Dukelow presented an all-day licensing workshop for CLIC’s EResources COI and other member library staff on February 15. Dukelow convened the CLIC ebooks contacts for a meeting with a representative from Palgrave Macmillan to discuss a shared ebooks collections.
Fitzgerald arranged switching CLIC’s checking account and credit cards from Merrill Lynch to Bremer Bank, with the result of higher interest and more accurate monthly reports.
The ILS Task Force met with systems vendors Ex Libris, OCLC, and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III).
March 2013. Dukelow and Sue Davidsen of Walden University co-presented a session at the LibTech Conference on providing library services to students in online courses.
Minitex Director Valerie Horton met with the CLIC Board to discuss her plans for working with academic libraries, including hosting CALD meetings and facilitating ebook collection development.
The ILS Task Force met via webinar with system vendor Proquest Intota.
April 2013. The April 3 mini-workshop was held at Concordia for an audience of about 30.
The ILS Task Force released an RFI/Q and received responses from Ex Libris, III, Proquest Intota, and OCLC. After a joint meeting of the CLIC Board and the ILS Task Force, invitations for in-person demos were offered to Ex Libris and OCLC, and invitations for webinars to III and Proquest.
May 2013. The final mini-workshop was held on May 1, with presentations by Amy Sheehan, Hamline University; Lyndi Fabbrini, Verena Getahun, Will Keillor, and Michael Mitchell, Bethel University; Lisa Raymond, Walden University; and Ginny Moran Heinrich, Macalester College.
CLIC provided a co-sponsorship donation to support the University of Minnesota’s Digital Humanities/Scholarship Symposium.
The ILS Task Force hosted four Ex Libris demos