The Minitex Delivery Unit tries to balance getting materials shipped efficiently while paying attention to how we pack items so they are not damaged in transit.
Resource Sharing & Delivery News
During a recent interlibrary loan meeting held in Wisconsin, Christine Barth, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, revealed some interesting pet peeves shared by libraries throughout the state. Do you see any of your pet peeves on the list?
If you attended a fall library conference, we hope you had a chance to talk to Minitex Resource Sharing staff or to stop by the Minitex booth. Several Resource Sharing staff members presented sessions at the North Dakota Library Association and the Minnesota Library Association conferences this year.
OCLC is looking for volunteers to participate in usability testing for the new OCLC ILL product. We are looking for participants familiar with ILL processing in environments with a high volume of requests, patron requesting, and copyright tracking. Both librarians and student workers are requested for this usability test.
Josh Steans, from UW-Stout interlibrary loan attended the 25th Annual Minitex Interlibrary Loan Conference as a “GoodWiLS Ambassador.” WiLS, our library network neighbor to the east, sponsors a WiLS library staff member to attend an event and make a report back to the WiLS community on what they learned.
Are you new to interlibrary loan and hoping to attend the 2017 ALA Conference in Chicago?
Katie Birch, OCLC Executive Director, Resource Sharing, Global Product Management, has released some new information on OCLC's new ILL product which is intended to move ILLiad users from the client/server environment to the cloud.
Our rock & roll icons can seem other-worldly, so I am not too surprised Griffin and Dev, the aliens in "Dating an Alien Popstar," would choose to pretend to be British pop musicians.
If you are headed to The Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference or the North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference, check out the presentations by Minitex Resource Sharing staff.
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