Join us in Albany, March 14-15, 2016, for the 5th Annual NELLCO Symposium!

Registration is open to ALL NELLCO Full, Affiliate and International Affiliate members, as well as MALLCO and LIPA members. Registration includes all materials, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks during the conference, and the Mon. evening reception. Register by Feb. 19 for the best rate!

 

AGENDA (subject to change)

Mon. March 14, 2016

• 8:30 - Breakfast
• 9:00 - Welcome and Introductions - Exhibitor remarks
• 9:30 - NELLCO Membership Updates
•  10:00 - Break 
• 10:30 - John F. Helmer, Executive Director, Orbis-Cascade Alliance - Leadership and Bold Collaboration in Academic Libraries.

John draws on a career with the Orbis Cascade Alliance and experiences with the International Coalition of Library Consortia to suggest the prerequisites for deep collaboration among academic libraries. Key elements include the role of consortia, membership composition, scale, organizational culture, ambition, personal relationships, entrepreneurial spirit, the buy-in of leadership, pursuit of bold initiatives, and the implementation of shared tools.

• 12:00 - Lunch
•  1:00 - Law Library Benchmarking Project - Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library

Teresa will present the Law Library Benchmarking Project that Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Cornell and U Michigan have been developing since 2014. At the Fall 2015 NELLCO Board of Directors meeting, the Board voted to partner with these institutions to create a benchmarking tool that could have widespread impact on the ways in which law libraries collect and manage operational data. That project has been named ALLStAR: Academic Law Libraries: Statistics, Analytics and Reports.

• 2:00 - Break
• 2:30 - Concurrent Sessions

  (A) - Reference Interest Group Working Session - Lee Sims (Rutgers) Chair  

  • Working session on the reference part of the Law Library Benchmarking Project
  • Choosing one or two collaborative projects for the Reference IG to work on in the year ahead
  • Discussion on the usefulness of the Symposium
    1. Utility of the current format 
    2. Changing/settling on a future format
    3. Determining what kind of reference-oriented programing the IG should engage with
  • General discussion of current topics
    1. innovative reference tools
    2. ABA standards and teaching, etc.
    3. TBD as time allows and the IG determines
  • Call for a successor Head of the Reference IG

(B) - Unconference session - Cards Against NELLCO - Merle Slyhoff (UPenn Law) facilitating

• 4:30 - Adjourn
• 5:00 - 7:00 pm - Reception with the Exhibitors
•  7:30- Dutch Treat dinners at local restaurants (transportation provided)

Tues. March 15, 2016 

• 8:30 - Breakfast
• 9:00 - Acquisitions and Collection Development Interest Group Working Session – Karen Green (New England Law|Boston) and Gilda Chiu (Brooklyn Law School) – Co-Chairs   

• 11:00 - Break
• 11:30 - Plenary
• 12:30 - Lunch
• 1:30 - Concurrent Sessions

  (A) - ILL Interest Group Working Session - Merle Slyhoff (University of Pennsylvania) Chair

•  Introductions

• Update on benchmarking project

• Update since last meeting

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  • Survey

1.  
   1.  
      1. What questions would you like on survey
      2. OCLC group designatio

• Program:  Cooperative ILL – what could we as NELLCO be doing?
  • Who participates in ILL – full members or all?
    1. Background
    2. Current Status
  • NELLCO ILL Code – review/revise as necessary
  • “Borrow Direct” model
  • Other ideas?
• Round Robin – what’s new in your ILL department?

(B) - Unconference session - Preservation - Margie Maes (LIPA) facilitating

• 3:30 – Closing plenary session
• 4:30 - Adjourn 

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Accommodations - NELLCO Conference Group Rate - $129.00/night A room block has been established for attendees at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center under the Group ID #12G201. Please use this group ID when making your reservation. You must reserve your room by the cutoff date of Feb. 29, 2016. Call - 800-448-3500 (toll-free) or 518-869-8100 (local). Online - Click here (attendee code is 9417, if needed)

 

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