Hello.
OLIS report here (and attached).
John
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SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
Report to SUNYLA Executive Board/Council
John Schumacher (john.schumacher@suny.edu)
September 10, 2010
Strategic Planning – SUNY Libraries
• Recordings, presentations and other related material for the The Power of Tuesday webinar series available at
http://www.sunyla.org/Power-of-Tuesday/schedule SUNYConnect LMS and Related Activities
• Union Catalog –
SUNYCatalog, a union catalog replacement system using the WorldCat API is available at
http://search.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ • Aleph System Changes, etc.
Service Pack 2222 has been installed on all hosted systems;
• Upgrade to Aleph version 20 (tentative dates) -
~Planning, analysis, development and testing - (2010)
~Campus upgrade schedule - (announced February 2011)
~Production sites upgraded - (June - August 2011)
• Reclamation (phase 2)
OLIS is beginning to work with other IDS campuses on shared servers that have not gone through the OCLC Reclamation process.
Electronic Resources
• ebrary – A dozen or so SUNY libraries are utilizing an introductory offer from ebrary for their Academic Complete ebook subscription; some current SUNY ebrary customers will also see cost savings from the offer.
Nylink and Related Activities
• OCLC has begun the process of obtaining a New York State contract for their services;
• The New York State Library is taking the lead on determining details related to extension of the LAND delivery service;
• SUNY and OLIS are working on contract vehicles for large expenditure items across all of SUNY (Serials Solutions, Project Muse, Lexis-Nexis);
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http://nylink.org/ResourceProvidersNylink5_18_10.pdf provides a helpful chart of alternative product and service providers.
NOVEL
• Resources now available from the New York State Library’s NOVEL program are listed at -
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gate/newdb.htm ;
• Contact Stacey Knibloe, stacey.knibloe@cengage.com or 1-800-877-4253 x1919 for information about webinars detailing these resources as well as changes to the “Resource Center” interface
SUNYergy and Open Access Week
• The October issue of SUNYergy will focus on open access and related trends as part of the international Open Access Week (October 18-24, 2010
http://www.openaccessweek.org/ )
SUNYConnect Information / Resources
• For additional information about SUNYConnect
http://www.SUNYConnect.suny.edu/http://sefer.SUNYConnect.suny.edu/olis/sunyergy/default.htm• OLIS’ Footprints Service Request System
http://service.sunyconnect.suny.edu/footprints/help.html • OLIS Support Portal
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/support/• SUNYConnect union catalog
http://union.sunyconnect.suny.edu:8080/F• OLIS Documents Area
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/olisdocs/ • The OLIS web log -
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/blog/ 
