New York State Resource Sharing Summit

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New York State Resource Sharing Summit

• June 5 6, 2007
• Saratoga Springs, NY

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Purpose

• Explore successful resource sharing models and
  programs currently in use throughout NYS and
  beyond
• Explore what the future of resource sharing might
  look like
• Discuss how new systems can work to facilitate
  more effective resource sharing amongst all
  libraries
• Develop a plan of action or next steps for future
  collaborations

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Attendees

• Participants came from a variety of libraries
  including
• SUNY
• Private 4 Year
• 3 R Councils
• Public Libraries and Library Systems
• Museum/Special Libraries
• Participants held a variety of positions
  including
• Directors/Administrators
• ILL Librarians
• Collection Development

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Summit Program

• Designed to explore best practices and to allow
  for discussion and debate among attendees
• Included presentations, general sessions,
  roundtables and a general wrap-up session

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Summit Program

• The program consisted of
• Resonant Resource Sharing Transformation
  Strategies for Resource Sharing
• Cyril Oberlander, Director of Interlibrary
  Services, University of Virginia
• Directors Panel Resource Sharing in NYS,
  Challenges and Opportunities
• Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative
  Collection Services, OCLC

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Summit Program

• Resource Sharing Models
• The IDS Project
• ConnectNY
• Cornells Get It! Project
• Roundtables
• Delivery
• Performance Standards
• Directors

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Assessment

• Did we reach our goals?
• 100 gained useful information from presentations
  
• 92.5 met expectations
• How will you use the information gathered at the
  Summit?
• Share with my colleagues. Seek alternative ways
  of doing things
• Better perception on serving user in future
• To change some of our ILL practices to
  incorporate greater efficiencies in workflow. To
  educate/inform my director staff re Statewide
  efforts, future directions.

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Next Steps Action!

• Creation of the two working groups that will be
  coordinated by Nylink
• Delivery and Discovery
• Make Summit proceedings available

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Working Groups

• Each group will meet in person and then by
  monthly conference calls
• Each group will provide a report with any
  recommendations for the library community
• Members will represent a wide variety of library
  types
• Interested in participating? Please let me
  know!

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Working Groups

• Discovery Working group
• Will advise interested members of the New York
  library community on issues and challenges in
  providing a single statewide user-facing
  discovery tool that knows where a user is coming
  from and the content delivery/resource sharing
  options available to that person

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Discovery Working Group

• Research the feasibility of and need for a
  statewide discovery tool
• Inventory existing services
• Identify costs and timeline for implementation
• Provide recommendations for adoption of a
  discovery tool that provides options for
  different types of libraries and users

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Working Groups

• Delivery Working Group
• Will advise interested members of the NYS library
  community of the issues and challenges in
  developing a statewide delivery system that works
  for different types of libraries and groups, (may
  coordinate with existing systems), with a
  scalable pricing structure.

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Delivery Working Group

• Inventory existing delivery services
• Examine issues of linking services together
• Provide recommendations for implementing a
  coordinated system

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Summit Proceedings

• Creation of website that will contain notes from
  roundtables, presentations and evaluations
• Dynamic site where new information related to
  resource sharing in NYS will be posted

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When Shall We Meet Again?

• NYS Resource Summit 2008!
• Fall 2008 in Saratoga Springs
• More details to come!

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Contact Info

• Interested in participating on a working group?
  Questions or concerns?
• Contact info dowlingd_at_nylink.org