Excuse the cross posting…

Please join us for the *joint* meeting of the:

Interlibrary Loan Roundtable - East & West East Co-chairs: Kim Farrington, Elihu Burritt Library, Central CT State University and Gail Avino, Hall Memorial Library, Ellington West Co-chairs: Mark Gore, Housatonic CC and Liz Pisaretz, Norwalk CC

Middletown Library Service Center

Directions: http://www.cslib.org/facmlsc.htm Thursday, May 8, 2008 9:30 - Registration & networking 10:00 to Noon - Meeting Register online: http://ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Don’t miss the May meeting when east meets west! Mark your calendars for a joint roundtable on Thursday, May 8 at the Middletown Library Service Center. Find out what the other side is doing!

AGENDA

1.) NCIP and Circ ILL - Mary Jackson, Auto-Graphics

2.) East Hampton Public Library’s “Circ ILL” - Sue Berescik

3.) How about “Favorite ILL-related Websites”? We encourage everyone to bring along one or two of their favorite ILL Website. They can demo it and talk about it for, say, 5 or 10 minutes.

4.) Sonia Roman from Avant

Nelinet Annual Resource Sharing meeting: June 6, 2008, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH

2007-2008 Meeting dates: *To Be Announced*

Over the summer, don’t forget to check out CT ILL NEWS: http://ctill.blogspot.com/

Register online: http://ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Starting next Monday 04/14/08 the following libraries service schedules will be changed to accommodate the larger volume of work being experienced on that route.

B-129 The Coast Guard Acad and B-131 Connecticut College from Wednesdays to Thursdays.

B-94 Bill Ledyard from Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to Monday Wednesday and Friday.

Thank You

Walt

Reminder: the Ccar survey starts today, Monday, April 7, for items going out on Ccar.

For details see:
http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=19225
Thanks in advance for helping with this survey.

I just updated the Connecticut ILL Policy. The latest April 4, 2008 version is available at:
http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=18596
From this page, you can download a pdf version sorted by library name or by town and you can download the entire Excel file that also contains a worksheet with the raw data. The pdf versions are better for printing, while the Excel is better if you wish to do any further sorting.

The latest version includes the ILL policies of 128 libraries in Connecticut - 10 libraries have submitted their policies since the last version in February.

This is an ongoing project and I invite and encourage every library in Connecticut to submit their ILL policy. Simply visit the WebJunction page above and follow the link that takes you to the survey. The policy will be updated on the first Friday of the month.

Regards,
Steve Cauffman

Attn: Connecticut Libraries

Re: Connecticar Turnaround Study

Every library on Ccar should have received this letter, either at the two ILL Roundtable meetings or in a direct mailing.

With your help, the State Library will be conducting a survey to determine the average delivery time for items placed on the Connecticar service. The survey will be conducted during the week of April 7 - 11 when libraries will be asked to put special labels on a maximum of 10 outgoing items each day. Instructions for the survey are included
below. If you have any questions about the procedure, please contact Steve Cauffman at (860) 704-2223 or scauffman@cslib.org.

We appreciate your cooperation. The information from this survey will help us improve our service to your library. A summary of the results will be made available on CT.WebJunction.org. Both the link to the
actual online survey and an FAQ is located at:
http://tinyurl.com/ywd9eu

Connecticar Turnaround Survey, April 7 - 11, 2008 Instructions

The study will include only items sent during the week of April 7th -11th, 2008. The purpose of the study is to determine delivery times so we wish to discount “in library” processing times.

Sending Library
1. Use the special ORANGE Ccar slips included with this letter for up to 10 items per day for a maximum of 50 items per week. If you send out fewer items, or do fewer than 10 because of time constraints
that’s fine.
2. Fill in the routing number and library name as usual.
3. Fill in the date of the next scheduled Ccar pickup. For example: If it’s Monday afternoon and you driver already came in the morning? Enter Tuesday’s date. This date should be the next scheduled delivery, even if the service fails to pick-up that day.

Receiving Library
1. For every item you receive with an orange slip, record the date that your library received the item. If you don’t unpack on the same day you received the delivery, be careful to fill in the date the item
arrived. You may receive these items in the week after April 11th.
2. Go to the survey form at: http://tinyurl.com/ywd9eu to record this information. You may save all the slips and enter the data at the end of the survey or do a day at a time.
3. The online survey will ask you to enter:
Your library name
Your route number
Your name and email
For each item received with an orange slip you will be asked:
Shipping library route
Date shipped
Date Arrived

Thank you for your help!
_____________________________
Sharon Brettschneider
Director, Division of Library Development
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
860-757-6665
sbrett@cslib.org
ct.webjunction.org
Fax 860-757-6665

The CT State Library is conducting a C-CAR Survey Turnaround time Survey for next week April 7-April 11^th, 2008. If you did not attend either of the March ILL Roundtables, you may have received information and orange slips from Sharon Brettschneider.

The link to the podcast is at: http://library.ccsu.edu/about/podcasts/ill/CCar.mp3

The link to Sharon’s presentation is at: http://ct.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=19225

Attn: Libraries using reQuest ILL:

FYI - The following reQuest ILL Will Not Supply ‘reasons’ will guarantee that the same request does not come back to the lending library as a Retry:
* Lost
* Non-circulating
* Not Owned
In other words, if you don’t ever want to see that request again, you could use “Will Not Supply” and add one of those three reasons.

Also note that you can add a History Note to the ILL if you wish to give the library more information on why you are not filling the request.

Interlibrary Loan Roundtable - East
Co-chairs: Kim Farrington, CCSU and Gail Avino, Hall Memorial Library, Ellington

Acton Public Library, Old Saybrook
Directions: http://www.oldsaybrookct.org/Pages/OldSaybrookCT_Library/Map
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
12:30pm - Registration & networking
1:00pm - Meeting

Register online: http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Sharon Brettschneider will speak about the CCAR delivery study that will be taking place in April.

Mark your calendar:
Don’t miss the May meeting when east meets west! Mark your calendars for a joint roundtable on May 8 at the Middletown Library Service Center

Register online: http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Interlibrary Loan Roundtable - West
Co-chairs: Mark Gore, Housatonic Community College and Liz Pisaretz, Norwalk Community College

Easton Public Library
Directions: http://www.eastonlibrary.org/home/directions.html
Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:30 - Registration & networking
10:00 - Meeting

Register online: http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

Bring your ideas and suggestions when ILL-West meets next on Thursday, March
13 at the Easton Public Library (snow date: Thursday, March 20, 2008).
Sharon Brettschneider will speak about the CCAR delivery study that will be taking place in April.

Mark your calendar:
Don’t miss the May meeting when east meets west! Mark your calendars for a joint roundtable on May 8 at the Middletown Library Service Center

Register online: http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/register.html

The ILL-L listserv has had fun in the past few days writing ILL haikus.  For a giggle to relieve your stress, check out the link at Share-ILL.