SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
Report to SUNY Librarians Association
John Schumacher (john.schumacher@suny.edu)
November 20, 2013
SUNYConnect LMS and Related Activities
• Thanks to participants at the regional meetings to review the One Bib/Shared catalog project (New Paltz-10/30, Hudson Valley-11/8, Potsdam-11/13, FIT-11/15, Alfred-11/20); upcoming – Suffolk-11/12, Buffalo-12/6, Syracuse;
• Topics for these regional meetings include project update, discussion and questions, review of workflow/policy/procedure documents; thanks to the SUNY Council of Library Directors (SCLD) for their support of the meetings.
EBSCO Discovery Service
• Phase 1 campuses have begun the process of implementing EDS;
• Please remember to provide needed information as listed in the “Policy-Data Extracts for EDS Implementations” document as part of Footprints request for Aleph catalog extracts;
• The SUNY Digital Repository will be a part of the EDS index/search system; other campuses that are implementing EDS and wish to have their digital repository included are urged to contact the vendor asap;
• Serials Solutions has provided a blanket a-ok for SUNY institutions to send 360 data extracts to EBSCO for A-to-Z and LinkSource implementation;
• Work is underway to include the following as part of EDS/LinkSource implementations: the SUNY ScienceDirect Titles (holdings information), ebrary (Academic Complete and Community College collections) titles;
• Please be aware that EBSCO is in the midst of upgrading and re-branding their A-to-Z/LinkSource software; Pubfinder (ca. November 2013) and Fulltext Finder (ca. January 2014).
Electronic Resources
• A handful of SUNYs have made use of a two-years-for-your-Opposing-Viewpoints-price database offer from Gale;
• New York Times site license offer: vendor has agreed to consider SUNY as a single entity in regard to determining bulk discount pricing;
• A couple of campuses made use of the recent ScienceDirect “title swap” option.
Open SUNY and Related Activities
• SCLD is sponsoring a December 5, 2013 “summit on Open SUNY and SUNY libraries” in Albany; discussion and actions will focus on SCLD taskforce’s report/recommendations;
• Provide your feedback, comments, questions regarding Open SUNY
• See details/notes from the many Open SUNY regional meetings that occurred in the past few months;
• Karen Gardner-Athey and Laura Murray have been participating in Instructional Design training.
SUNYConnect Information / Resources
• For additional information about SUNYConnect
http://www.SUNYConnect.suny.edu/ http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/sunyergy• OLIS’ Footprints Service Request System
http://service.sunyconnect.suny.edu/footprints/help.html • OLIS Support Portal
http://wiki.sunyconnect.suny.edu/display/OLIS/Support+Portal • SUNYConnect union catalog
http://search.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ Links (in this document)
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http://wiki.sunyconnect.suny.edu/download/attachments/18416096/Ebsco_spreadsheet_campus_questionnaire_by_phase_ns_20130822.xlsx •
http://wiki.sunyconnect.suny.edu/download/attachments/18416096/Policy_Data_Extracts_for_EDS_Implementations.docx •
http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ •
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10FdqSU9xsFsSfQfABIlGTwMYFsm-d3bT-2QInR5fmlc/edit•
http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny/feedback/ •
http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny•
http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny/ontour/ 
