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This year MHSLA 2001 annual education conference theme: "Soaring to New Heights" To be held October 10-12th at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort - Mount Pleasant, MI This year’s conference will offer:
Hotel reservations must be made by Sept 18th, Fax or Mail Only ! For hotel information Call: 1-877-2EAGLE2 Local Phone: 989-775-7777 Fax: 989-775-5383 Hotel charges will be $129.00 per day. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The agreed upon conference fees
Total conference cost is -- $20,731 The non-Member fees have been increased by $25. per Mike Simmon, Pres-elect, Conference planning Chair * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Joanie Emahiser and Doreen Bradley are co-chairing the local arrangements committee for the 2002 MHSLA conference. The site: Campus Inn, Ann Arbor Other Board Activity: MHSLA reviewed its membership count, developed a new logo, & working on updating their web site. The ATLAS group (Action Team for Library Advancement Statewide) has received an LSTA grant to explore the feasibility of creating a statewide resource sharing system for non-electronic materials. It would be a patron accessible, web based system. The total assets for the organization are over $38,004.18. The audit looks fine. Changes to the by-laws will be posted on the MHSLA web site. There were no changes to the education sessions for the upcoming MHSLA conference 10-12 October. Hotel charges will be $129.00 per day. The nominating committee reported Alexia Estabrook for President-Elect, Judy Barnes for Secretary, Christine Allen, Lois Huisman, Ken Nelson, Martha Studaker, Arlene Weismantel and Linda Winslow for the Nominating committee. Action resulting from May 15th Board meeting: From Harvey Brenneise, Technology Chair / Stat!Ref Proposal At the direction of the MHSLA Board, I am preparing an LSTA grant to support purchase of the Stat! Ref Library. Again, we're on a very short time schedule to do this (proposal due at the end of the month). The Library of Michigan has suggested that our best shot at getting this grant is to do it under the category where we contribute to the purchase rather than expecting a totally free lunch. As many of us subscribe to this product already or intend to in any case, it seems reasonable that we begin with pooling the resources that are already being used individually in the state for this purchase. I see several advantages to this, not the least being that we will be getting a deeper discount this way and pay less per seat (even without any LSTA money). It will also allow us to begin the development of a Michigan Digital Health Library that may be quite useful in the purchase of additional resources that will benefit us all. It will also allow us to experiment with funding models which are a combination of pooling member resources with state funding as a method to extend electronic resources beyond the primary group of users (in this case hospital and health libraries) to other groups that may have a lesser need for the product and yet whose users would benefit from higher-quality resources on an occasional basis. A group purchase also allows much more flexibility in determining the number of "seats" that an individual library may need/purchase than is allowed under the standard Stat!Ref contracts. Please let me know as soon as possible of your interest
in this. additional action resulting from the May meeting: Ariel Grant Proposal ( copy of email from Harvey Brenneise) Here is your chance to "get something for free." At the direction of the MHSLA board, I am writing an LSTA grant proposal to purchase these for hospital libraries in Michigan. I am hopeful that we can get at least 10, and I'm willing to go for more. I've only had two responses so far, but I'm sure there must be more of you out there who'd like one of these. We're on a tight deadline (proposal due by end of June). I have in my possession a copy of a similar proposal last year that was funded, which will help. The proposal would cover the software and hardware costs for a dedicated work station (as much as $5,000). Firewall issues remain a concern, but different hospital libraries have found ways to deal with these, and I plan to include in the proposal funds for technical assistance to resolve firewall issues for those libraries that run into them. (I also plan to have a serious conversation with RLG about this at ALA a bit later this month). The only costs that receiving libraries would bear are the installation costs. Please let me know ASAP if you're interested. Advantages of Ariel over fax is that they're free to send (no phone cost),have much higher graphics (which can be critical in some medical articles) and the fact that many other libraries are already using it, and respond quickly to requests that come via Ariel. Harvey Brenneise <HBrenne@MPHI.org > Regarding the NetLibrary issue The action has been suspended due to insufficient time for the Board to effectively respond to following proposal. {email sent to mhsla board} NetLibrary Proposal - motion to approve RE: RE: Medical Titles for the Library of Michigan eBook Collection on MHSLA Board, Voting members, while not all Board members have voiced an opinion on the new development of a deposit account and the 30-60 day extension on selection of books, everyone who has responded has been in favor of the revised proposal. At this time, given the deadline, I make a motion that the MHSLA Board approve an expenditure of $4000 to be spent on the purchase of medical/nursing/consumer health books from the NetLibrary, not currently owned by AccessMichigan, to be submitted to AccessMichigan in the name of the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association. Additionally, an ad hoc group (Article VII, Section 2 of the MHSLA Bylaws) be established to select from the list of currently not owned titles and be submitted to the MHSLA Board within the next 60 days for consideration of inclusion. The above stated amount must be approved, a check written, submitted and placed in deposit account with the NetLibrary by June 30th. I seek a second to this motion and ask for a vote of the MHSLA Board by no later than June 26, 2001. Thank you, Michael Simmons, MLIS, AHIP {email from Sandy Swanson regarding netLibrary} Some responses to Stephanie John's questions. (I've just been to the netLibrary training session in Lansing & will eventually be training librarians in netLibrary use.) 1. Will patrons use it ? Well, if they use your online catalog... If the hospital library's OPAC allows for live links, it is possible for the patron to link out from the OPAC to the online text. Takes some up-front planning & preparation at your site, but if your library/institution can be IP-validated to NetLibrary, this process will look seamless to the patron. (Click the link, there's the book.) Patrons can also sign up for passwords & use the books at any Internet-connected computer, even home or office. They can download the books (for 6 hours at a stretch) to reduce their connect time, or they can browse online. They can only print a page at a time, though. (They can print one page, click to the next page, print the next page, etc. --not so easy to violate the copyright law here.) 2. How long do we have access?: This is not an annual license, but a "permanent" one (as much as you can think of an online source as permanent). It's like buying hard copy. When a new edition comes out, we'd need to buy again if we chose to have the update; whether to allocate funding for updates or treat this as a one-time purchase is something for the board to consider. However, we would not be on the hook for an annual fee in any case. 3. Brandon titles ?: Maybe some. But consider that we wouldn't want to own just one copy statewide for a "core" title; if we identified something likely to have heavy use we would need to buy multiple copies of it. (One copy = 1 user at a time.) Frankly, I don't see those kinds of titles on the list. No Mosby, Saunders or Lippincott titles included, but Marcel Dekker, B.C. Decker, Mayo Foundation, Blackwell Science, John Wiley & Sons UK, Kluwer Academic, Health Administration Press, several university presses & other reputable publishers are included. 4. How are they searchable?: At the NetLibrary web site, the user can choose to search either the catalog record or the whole text; can search authors, title words, catalog subject headings or keywords (and be taken to the location of the keyword inside the text). The user can keyword searches an individual text, the entire MEL/AccessMichigan collection, or the entire NetLibrary collection whether owned by MEL or not. Images cannot be searched, though the description under the image/table usually can. Boolean searching and multiple-field searching (e.g., Jones in the author field plus emergency in the keyword field) can be done. Also, it's web-type searching -- easy to do, & regular web users should find it fairly comfortable. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In a telephone conservation with Harvey on Tuesday (7/10/2001), Harvey mention that another offer from netLibrary in future is most likely to come about. It is uncertain, however, if we'll get a 30% percent discount. Next MHSLA board meeting is schedule for July 17th at the MAC in Lansing
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