Good morning,
Thank you for counting all your deliveries this week. I know it adds one more thing to you busy day.
As a reminder in case you lost it, here is the link to the survey.
http://bit.ly/ccar09

We’ll be keeping it up until November 6th to give you plenty of time to enter your data.
If we missed a delivery this week, just leave that day blank and record the numbers on the day you did receive your stuff.

Thanks again,  Sharon

Notice from Avant:

I just wanted to inform you that due to vehicle failure certain libraries may not receive their deliveries today, we will serviced them tomorrow. The following libraries are Greenwich Library, Ferguson Library, University of Stamford, Darien Public Library, New Canaan Library, Norwalk Library, Norwalk Community, Westport Public Library, Westport Public, Wilton Library, Weston Public, Bridgeport Public, Housatonic Com. Tec, University of Bridgeport, and Easton Public Lib.

Sharon

The following B libraries will not be serviced today. They have been rescheduled for Thursday 10/29/09.
B221 B220 B136 B136 B23 B59 B164 B64 B95 B85 AND B22.

Thank You
Walt

The Connecticut State Library will conduct a brief survey during the week of October 26th to determine the volume of items being shipped on Connecticar. For planning purposes we need to periodically get a sampling of the volume on Ccar and we haven’t done one since Oct 2007. This information will help us improve our service.

During the week of October 26th we will be asking you to count all incoming shipments on Ccar and enter the number of items you received in a brief form on Survey Monkey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=DTHBe0qde6jpqQw_2fb7Djhw_3d_3d

From Tom Newman, Connecticut State Library’s Data Coordinator:

This is a reminder that all public, academic, and special libraries that are reporting their Interlibrary Loan activity for the 2008-2009 Fiscal Year should do so by July 30.  The State Library compiles this information using this survey form:
http://tinyurl.com/6zlcnz , and reports the results here: http://ct.webjunction.org/ct/stats .

If your library has been submitting monthly ILL reports, please finish your monthly submissions for the year by July 30.

If your library has not submitted any monthly ILL reports for FY2009, you can still use the same report form (above) to submit a report for the entire year.

As always, the more libraries that report their ILL activity, the more accurate the ILL report that follows.  Thank you for your help.

From Walt at CCAR:

Due to illness and Vacations the following “B” CCar libraries will have their service changed for the next 3 weeks.Every library should expect service at least once during these 3 weeks on any day.. Our schedules will be adjusted daily.

B1, B2, B4, B6, B21, B24, B26, B30, B31, B33, B37, B38, B49, B62, B69, B70, B86, B92, B93, B94, B100, B113, B115, B116, B129, B131, B139, B144, B145, B153, B155, B165, B181, B190, B192, B211, B212, B213, B214, B216, B217, AND B225

From Walt at CCAR:

Due to driver illness the following “B” CCar libraries will not get deliveries today, Monday July 20th. Deliveries will resume on their next scheduled day.

B200 B224 B162 B20 B135 B169 B121 B35 B10 B134 AND B173

Attn: Libraries providing ILL services..

The following is from the Connecticut Library Consortium’s (CLC) newsletter:
The Donohue Group, Inc. (DGI), is pleased to announce that it will continue to provide OCLC ILL service to CLC members for 2009-2010. As of July 1, 2009, the price per request is $18.00. For more information contact The Donohue Group at 860.683.1647 or email ILL@dgiinc.com. Requests should be sent via email only. For complete information about this service, please visit www.ctlibrarians.org/services/ill.shtml

Regards,
Steve

From Sharon at the State Library:

Starting July 1st through August 31st, the delivery to academic libraries being served by Avant will be reduced according to the new schedule that has been posted on WebJunction.
http://ct.webjunction.org/510/articles/content/1090517

These reductions are being taken for budget reasons and because of the very low volume of work at academic libraries in the summer. I apologize for any inconvenience to you and your patrons.

Normal schedules will resume on September 1st. Libraries on Route B will not be affected.

Good Afternoon,
As a result of our shortened schedule this and next week the B list CCar libraries will be serviced on their normal schedules starting with Tuesdays schedule on May 26. I have instructed our drivers to use their judgement with overloads if any. With some luck we should be back to Normal before the end of the week.
Thank you
Walt