CARLI News

CARLI News

As it is the season of annual statistics, many of you are likely wrestling with different reporting forms from ACRL, IPEDS, or other organizations. CARLI will soon require some of this data for the Alma migration as well.

In recent years, stat surveys have moved the emphasis from volume counts to title counts. Getting details on just the title level, while also accounting for format and location, can be a challenge in most library collections. Here are some tips on how to incorporate some deduplication into your reports.

February 18, 2019
By: Ted Schwitzner

State Library Annual Online Library System Certification 

The annual online certification process started January 2, 2019. Certification is required of all library system members (including all CARLI libraries) in order to qualify for continuing system services and grants programs from the Illinois State Library. The window for certification will close March 31, 2019. Certify online. 

January 30, 2019
By: Michelle Haake

CARLI and ILDS Holiday Information

The CARLI office will be closed from Monday, December 24 through Tuesday, January 1. Regular hours will resume on Wednesday, January 2.  

The following is the list of days that ILDS will not provide service this year:

November 29, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

Thank you to all of the staff at our member libraries who were able to travel to Champaign for the CARLI Annual Meeting on Friday, November 2. 
 
The presentations and pdf files from the meeting, including the CARLI Annual Report, CARLI Counts information and application as well as the I-Share Next Update, and Committee Projects and Task Force Reports, are now linked from the agenda.

November 6, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

CARLI Selects Ex Libris Alma Library Services Platform

Ex Libris Alma has been chosen for our next I-Share platform! Alma will replace Voyager and SFX in 2020 for the 91 institutions that are part of CARLI’s I-Share resource sharing system. We look forward to Alma helping CARLI extend and expand the resource sharing and collaborative programs that our consortium has offered our members for almost 40 years.
 

October 30, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

Please plan to join us on Friday, November 2, 10:00-3:00 pm, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign for the 2018 CARLI Annual Meeting. The morning meeting will also feature a report from CARLI Senior Director Anne Craig, a presentation from Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe about CARLI Counts, and an I-Share Next Update. In the afternoon CARLI Committees/Task Forces will present their annual projects from FY 2018 with an open discussion of the projects to wrap up our day.
 

October 23, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

It is with great pleasure that we make the following announcement:

Ex Libris Alma has been chosen for our next I-Share platform! Alma will replace Voyager and SFX in 2020 for the 91 institutions that are part of CARLI’s I-Share resource sharing system. We look forward to Alma helping CARLI extend and expand the resource sharing and collaborative programs that our consortium has offered our members for almost 40 years.

October 17, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

Register Now for the CARLI Annual Meeting and Directors′ Meeting

Registration is open for the 2018 CARLI Annual Meeting to be held Friday, November 2 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend.

Space is limited. Register by Thursday, October 25.

October 11, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

Registration is open for the 2018 CARLI Annual Meeting to be held Friday, November 2 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend.

Space is limited. Register by Thursday, October 25 if you would like to attend.

September 17, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

CARLI Receives Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant

We are pleased to announce CARLI′s selection as a recipient of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, in the amount of $243,885. "CARLI Counts: Analytics and Advocacy for Service Development," is a three-year project beginning October 1, 2018. This proposal is one of only 14 funded during this cycle.

August 29, 2018
By: Michelle Haake

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