UALC Resource Sharing Committee
June 6, 2008
UALC Council Report
Resource Sharing Committee Charges (Goals and Discussion) for 2007-2008 and their status:
1. Expedite ILL: Give priority to requests from UALC institutions.
The Expediting Interlibrary Loan taskforce which consists of the following committee members:
Carol Kochan, USU
Laurie Hansen, Snow
Susan Brusik, UU-Marriott
This committee has prepared a document that updates Interlibrary Loan policies. It was formed from agreements that were set in the past and updated. It was voted on and approved by the Resource Sharing committee. The document was forwarded to the directors via email by Rita Reusch on March 27, 2008 for review. It is asked at this time if the new document will be approved .
It was also decided that a list will be made and posted on the UALC Resource Sharing Committee web page of the different schools and their document shipping preferences. Some schools would prefer that if an electronic copy cannot be sent that “no” is selected on OCLC. Committee members will send their preferences to Aimee Lauritsen so that this information can be posted as soon as possible. This is yet to be completed
2. Look at new technologies.
Nancy Alder from BYU is on a medical leave of absence and Phil Dillard from SUU has been moved to different committees by his director. The Resource Sharing Committee approved a new taskforce to look at technologies. It will consist of the following people:
Hiroko Hashitani - UU Marriott
Ellen Ouyang - UU Quinney
Phil Roche - SUU
Hiroko Hashitani shared information about a new resource they are currently using at the UU-Marriott Library. It is a free program called Doc Morph. She will send out email information to the members of this committee.
3. Resource Sharing Blog
Dianne Hirning from Dixie has set up a blog for the UALC Resource Sharing Committee. She set up a blog on e-blogger. The address is: http://ualc-resourcesharing.blogspot.com/. Dianne is the administrator on the site, but anyone from the committee who would like authorship permission can e-mail her and she will add them as an author. Members of the committee were encouraged to email Dianne to be added as authors of the blog. It was also asked that when new discussion items are added to the blog that an email reminder be sent to the committee members to look at the blog.
4. Reciprocal Borrowing Policy.
A taskforce was set up to take a look at the borrowing and billing policy for reciprocal borrowing. This taskforce will consist of the following members:
JoAnn Larson, BYU-Lee
Sandi Andrews, WSU
Jacques d'Emal, UVSC
All institutions were asked to type up their current procedures that they use and send them to the taskforce members.
5. Confirm date for next Meeting (July 11th).
Jacues d’Emal offered to host the next meeting at the new UVSC library in July. Aimee and Jacque will inform the committee as soon as specific arrangements have been made.
Submitted by Aimee L. Lauritsen, Chair of UALC Resource Sharing Committee
