Hi everyone

The Winter 2009 issue of the Letter of the LAA that featured a photo and article on the AACL's anniversary is now freely available online at:

http://www.laa.ca/Newsletter/2009/NL161.pdf

The article is at the end of the issue

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this piece - your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Cari

Carol Nicks, Library Director at Canadian University is retiring.  Help us make a memory book for her to celebrate  and honour her many contributions in the profession over the years.  Write a letter,  tell a story, share good wishes  or share whatever you would like and email it to me, Sheila Clark at sclark@cauc.ca by June 3.  If you prefer to express your creativity in hard copy to include artwork or whatever , feel free.  The size of the paper does need to be 8 ½ x 11.  The snail mail address is Canadian University College Library 5410 Ramona  College  Ave.Lacombe, AB T4L 2B7 We will bind all the contributions into a book to present to Carol at her retirement party.  The  party will be in the Chan Shun Science Building on the Canadian University Campus on Tuesday, June 9 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.   All are invited to attend.   

Does anyone know who indexesThe Journal on Excellence in College Teaching  or any institution that could send me a copy of an article?

As promised, here is the web address for the LibGuides presentation from the Spring meeting:
LibGuides: A Rough Guide
http://rdc.libguides.com/roughguide
Nadine and I will be adding more content to this guide over the next few days, to address the questions that came out of the presentation.
If you have any questions, or want more information, please contact us!
Thanks,
Sona & Nadine

Hello all,

As promised, I am attaching the Powerpoint slides from Rob Tiessen's workshop presentation on copyright and e-reserves, which includes links to the University of Calgary's copyright policies and faculty resources.

Alice

Early reminder: spring meeting at SAIT in Calgary on April 16th, 2009. Agenda and workshop details to follow.
Send any agenda items to me.
Thanks,
Geoff

Alberta Association of College Librarians

Fall 2008 Newsletter

Contents: Executive Reports, Meeting Minutes, Workshop Summary, News @ Your Library, Ampersand (&)

Hello library colleagues,

I am wondering if you might be able to answer a few questions relating to Circulation services at your library, or forward this message to the appropriate person.

We are currently investigating whether to institute a limited number of renewals on faculty loans here at Mount Royal College, and are interested in how other libraries handle this issue. Currently, we have a large number of items that are on loan to faculty, some of which have been on loan to individual faculty members for years, with repeated renewals on term loans.

Our reason for revisiting this practice is that not having seen these items for such a long time, we wonder if faculty members know the whereabouts of the items they have signed out. Also, we are concerned about the way in which indefinite loans like this affect the access other users have to library materials.

I would be very interested in know if your library has policy or procedure relating to long-term faculty loans, and would be grateful if you had the time to answer a few questions:

-What is the loan period for faculty borrowers at your library?

-Do you allow renewals on faculty loans? Do you have a limit on the number of times a faculty member may renew an item?

-If you don't have a limit on number of renewals, do you ever require the faculty member to physically bring the item into the library?

-Do you charge fines for faculty overdues?

-Do you charge faculty fines for recalls, if they don't return their recalled item in a timely fashion?

Any other information you had time to share would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much,
Alice Swabey
MRC

Hi All,

I have a question for the group: Last year 12 libraries out of 30 submitted their salary information. With less than half participating in this section of the survey, should we continue? I am wondering why some institutions have opted-out? Both small and large, public and private colleges have opted not to share.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Joan at NorQuest