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.
Resource Sharing & Delivery News
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.
Check out Nicole Masika's "Interlibrary Loan Titles of the Week, August 5-11, 2016."
Have you ever heard the phrase “You don’t know what you don’t know?” Sometimes we just need a little push, a bit of inspiration, and some concrete ideas to spark useful change. If you aren’t sure what you are looking for, or want to improve something specific, try enrolling with Library Juice Academy.
In light of our own inter-office work regarding primary source packets spearheaded by Jennifer Hootman and Greta Bahnemann, I thought it fitting to share the many ways in which librarians seek to tie historical instances and materials with very present and timely conversations. After the Philando Castile shooting, the librarians at Gale Family Library at the Minnesota Historical Society put together the following press briefing and shared it on Facebook.
Obinnaya Oji shares information he learned in a session ALA in Orlando about the future of interlibrary loan.
At ALA in Orlando this year, Agnes Lee attended OCLC's Symposium on Disney's Approach to Quality Service. She shares some of what she learned.

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