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Storage Policies & Practices Round Table (Nov 2, 2007)

Storage Policies and Practices Round Table

 November 2, 2007

 Attendees:

Lisa Lister-Colorado College; Betty Meagher & PeggyKeeran-DU; Pam Blome-School of Mines; Joan Lamborn-UNC; Sandy Barstow-UW; RoseNelson & Alan Charnes-Alliance

Introductions and whatbrought us here:

Spanish Services Round Table (Oct 5, 2007)

Minutes prepared by Christina Martinez

Spanish LanguageRoundtable      October 5, 2007

Present: Ellen Metter ,Auraria; Peggy Keeran ; DU, Mike Eitner , DPL; Christina Martinez , UCCS; RoseNelson, Alliance; Alan Charnes , Alliance.

ADR to play key role in DPL's IMLS-funded "Creating Communities" project!

The Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) , a Federal agency, recently announced the following grant award:

Denver Public Library - Denver, CO
Award Amount: $778,509; Matching Amount: $1,546,261 Grant Category: Building Digital Resources

Contact: Mr. James Kroll
Manager, Western History/Geneaology Dept 720-865-1820; jkroll@denver.lib.co.us

Project Title: "Creating Communities: Digitizing Denver's Historic Neighborhoods"

Access Services Round Table

On Friday September 7th Alliance staff and representatives from 9 of the Alliance libraries participated in the first of a series of topical discussions.  This discussion was centered on issues Access Services.  Some of the topics included user trends in reference and relationship to circulation, circulation staff training, gaining user feedback through surveys, scanning and paging services, fines, the decline of circulation statistics and increase in usage of e-resources.

ADR in the [Repository] News!

Read about the Alliance Digital Repositories in the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories' (APSR) monthly newsletter, "Sustaining Repositories."

RFP for Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) User Interface Development

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (The Alliance) seeks proposals for the development and design of user interface(s) for the Alliance Digital Repository.

RFP available here.
 
A proposed timeline is included within the RFP. Please address all questions to jessica[at]coalliance.org by August 20th, 2007.

Alliance Website Downtime

On Saturday, May 19th the Alliance website will be unavailable beginning at approximately 12:00PM while we move the site to a new web server.  The downtime is expected to last 30 minutes.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Three New Enhancements to Gold Rush Released

News Release
December 15, 2006


Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Releases Three New Enhancements to Gold Rush

The Colorado Alliance has just released three new enhancements to Gold Rush.  The first enhancement provides a more precise list of results when searching.  The second enhancement is an improvement to the new upload a title/title list feature, and the third allows sites to add their own database descriptors. 
Display Resources with Unverified Dates

Alliance Services Unavailable December 14th

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries will be upgrading to a new firewall on Thursday, December 14th starting at 5pm (MST). All Alliance services and systems will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours. The services that will be unavailable during this period include:

Prospector
Gold Rush
Alliance email
All Alliance Websites
Listservs
Cgi scripts for logging into OCLC FirstSearch
Catalyst (Colorado School of Mines)

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