Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: Re: Webinar: Learn about sharing Special Collections items via ILL

[John Burger (jburger]

All:

As some of you have learned, OCLC is restricting participation in this webinar 
to Research Library Partnership (RLP, formerly RLG) member libraries only.  I 
was unaware of this restriction when I posted the original message yesterday; 
my apologies for the confusion.  

I have asked my counterparts at RLP to reconsider this decision.  So far, they 
are not budging.  

I have asked them to re-reconsider, making clear my displeasure with this 
policy.  I am not optimistic they will change their minds, so we will work to 
offer a similar session using our webinar system in the near future, which 
would be open to all (as is our SOP).  The OCLC webinar recording will 
eventually be available via the public OCLC website as well. 

Despite these frustrations, I was pleased to see the level of interest and 
engagement on this topic among our membership.  Definitely worth future 
explorations!  Please stay tuned on this developing issue, and let me know any 
other questions.

Thank you.

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
c/o Robert W. Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316
Atlanta, GA  30322

404-727-0137



-----Original Message-----
From: John Burger 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 2:28 PM
To: 'aserl-ill [at] aserl-lists.org' <aserl-ill [at] aserl-lists.org>; 
'kudzu-ops [at] aserl-lists.org' <kudzu-ops [at] aserl-lists.org>; 
'aserl-spec-collections [at] aserl-lists.org' <aserl-spec-collections [at] 
aserl-lists.org>; 'aserlcolldev [at] aserl-lists.org' <aserlcolldev [at] 
aserl-lists.org>; 'aserl-deans [at] aserl-lists.org' <aserl-deans [at] 
aserl-lists.org>; 'aserlscholcomm [at] aserl-lists.org' <aserlscholcomm [at] 
aserl-lists.org>
Subject: Webinar: Learn about sharing Special Collections items via ILL

ASERL Friends:

I've had conversations with some of you about the possibility of creating 
guidelines to encourage the sharing of Special Collections materials via 
standard resource sharing processes.  You may know that the Big Ten Academic 
Alliance (BTAA) recently published similar guidelines.   (See 
http://www.btaa.org/about/news-and-publications/news/2018/04/19/big-ten-libraries-create-framework-for-sharing-special-collections
 for information about BTAA's program.)

As a first step in exploring these options within ASERL, I encourage those of 
you who are interested in attend a webinar hosted by OCLC Research which will 
discuss BTAA's efforts as well as others.  See 
https://www.oclc.org/research/events/2018/05-30.html  for details about the 
webinar.

WEBINAR:  "Works in Progress: Sharing Special Collections Materials via 
Resource Sharing"
DATE / TIME:  May 30, 2018 | 11am ET / 10am Central Time
REGISTER:  https://www.oclc.org/research/events/2018/05-30.html 

As always, I welcome your feedback on this idea.  Thanks for your support of 
ASERL.


--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) c/o Robert W. Woodruff 
Library
540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316
Atlanta, GA  30322

404-727-0137