Hello all – lots of news to report on the OLIS/SLS front:
NOVELny: Governor Hochul appropriated $3 million in her FY25 executive budget to cover NOVELny. Next steps:
* Finish gathering impact statements
* Schedule meeting with NLYA to share talking points
SUNY/CUNY went live with peer-to-peer resource sharing via Alma yesterday. Huge kudos to Tim Jackson, SUNY’s Resource Sharing and Fulfillment Program Manager and Allie Verbovetskaya, the CUNY’s University Director of Library Systems for making this collaboration a reality.
The Library Leaders meeting for 2024 will be held in conjunction with CIT conference at U Buffalo.
OLIS created a new LibGuide rundown to accompany the quarterly updates. Please mark this page:
https://sunyolis.libguides.com/olis/bulletin.
The 2024 SUNY Digital Learning Conference Educating for Digital Citizenship. Will be held virtually on April 18-19, 2024 - Submissions due January 28th:
https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/24dlc/There is still time to sign up for two of the Library Leadership and Management courses for spring 2024. These courses will be held later in the spring:
* Change Management in Libraries - February 13, 2024 - March 25, 2024
* Library Strategic Planning - March 19, 2024 - April 29, 2024
We do plan to run the program again in Fall 2024
Sessions being held:
Spotlight on SUNY Libraries: Join Sue Slivan, Jennifer Parker, and Lisa Czirr from SUNY Cortland for the next Spotlight on SUNY Libraries: Creating a K-12 Fiction Cataloging Scheme That Works – Friday, January 26 at 12pm. Details and registration:
https://sunyolis.libcal.com/event/11673703Scholarly Communication Community of Practice - January 25, 10am - 11am. SUNY Press Director Marlene Pratt and Manager, Training, Development, and Services Jenn Bennett-Genthner will join us to talk about their goals, guidelines for publishing, how SUNY librarians can access their services and support the Press, and Open Access/Open Educational Resources.
ELUNA - OLIS purchased an ELUNA (ExLibris Users of North America) consortial membership for 2024. For more information, check out our new ELUNA LibGuide page. We're also planning a session to talk more about SUNY's involvement ELUNA on Thursday, January 25 at 2:00 pm.
Cataloging Town Hall: SLS is planning to host a Cataloging Town Hall on Wednesday, January 31 from 2-3:30. This will be an opportunity to hear the results from the two SUNY cataloging surveys, updates about the SUNY Metadata and Standards Committee (SMSP), future cataloging and metadata plans from SLS, and news from OCLC. All SUNY library staff are welcome to attend, raise issues, and ask questions.
ExLibris is working on internal benchmarking statistics to help schools assess how they use Alma. Join us for a session with Claudia Balby from ExLibris on February 8 at 10:00 am to learn more about the benchmarking process.
OCLC Record Manager training: Valerie Chase, Library Services Consultant at OCLC, will present an overview to all interested SUNY library staff on using Record Manager to search, export, and create bibliographic records in OCLC WorldCat. This will be especially useful for staff who rely on OCLC Connexion browser, which will reach end of life on April 30, 2024. This event will take place on Wednesday, February 14 from 10-11 and all staff are welcome.
