SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
Report to SUNY Librarians Association
Karen Gardner-Athey (karen.gardner-athey@suny.edu
November 02, 2018
SUNY Library Services Platform (LSP)
• Campuses and the LSP Implementation Team are busy with Alma configuration forms;
• Weekly meetings/calls are underway with campus representatives, project managers and Ex Libris;
• LSP kick-off meeting was July 10-11; thanks to Hudson Valley Community College for hosting;
• Initial Alma databases for all of SUNYConnect are being established after September 16, 2018;
• Latest LSP update webinar was on October 16;
• LSP FAQs are available;
Significant product documentation on Alma and Primo is available at the Ex Libris Knowledge Center (no logon necessary);
• Stay up to date on developments via LSP website and/or the new sunylsp email list;
Open Educational Resources
• September 1st Michael Daly begins working for SUNY OER Services;
• On August 15th, a SUNY OER Services webinar presented and discussed the OER Funding Applications for 2018-2019; the purpose of the webinar was to walk through the OER funding process for campus applications;
• On September 12th Lumen Waymaker seminar was held at Finger Lakes Community College at its Rochester extension site;
Open Access
• Symposia regarding open access and the SUNY Open Access Resolution were scheduled for Buffalo (October 15th) and Stony Brook (October 26th);
• An Open Access celebration was held at University at Albany on October 25th; OLIS staff were in attendance;
SUNY Libraries Consortium (SLC)
• SLC Fall Meeting will be held in Saratoga November 7- 8;
• SLC Board and Executive Director met August 28th;
• New SLC email list has been established initially using the SCLD-l subscriber list; get in touch if additional subscriptions are needed/desired;
• The Commercial Products Committee (CPC) is collecting/analyzing campus inventory responses regarding licensed electronic resources and license details;
• Be on the lookout for a survey from the Video Resources Working Group; primarily focused on libraries’ Kanopy licenses;
• A CPC sub-group has begun discussions about the ScienceDirect license, cost sharing analysis and next steps regarding possible ScienceDirect renewal/s
OLIS / SUNY News
• John Schumacher, long time OLIS staff member and OLIS SUNYLA delegate has retired, as of October 24th. We thank him for his dedication and service to OLIS, SUNYLA and UUP.
• Karen Gardner-Athey will take over as the OLIS delegate to the SUNYLA council; this report is the first one as Karen’s submission. It is based on John’s previous submission;
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SUNYConnect Information / Resources
• For additional information about SUNYConnect, see our web site -
http://www.SUNYConnect.suny.edu/• 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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