Agenda

9th ILL Workshop
October 9, 2009
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
DoubleTree Inn, Austin, TX

8:00 – 9:00 am........................................Check-In and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am........................................Welcome – Peggy Rudd

9:15 - 10:30 am.....................................Change: The Good, The Bad, and...You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

Change is all around us. We are being asked to “do more with less”, and do it faster. We are asked to let go of the things we know before we have a clear understanding of what’s coming next. In today’s turbulent times.... how can we stay energized and productive? This session will explore the current reality of change in today’s organization and how we can help ourselves, and those around us, quickly recalibrate expectations and perform effectively in tough times. Some things we’ll talk about....

• Common “patterns” of change
• Why people resist change
• Simple change principles that promote accountability and resilience
• Explore ineffective behaviors, self-defeating beliefs, assumptions and actions in tough times.

10:30 – 10:45 am...................................Break

10:45 – 11:30 am.................................. OCLC Update

11:30 – 12:30 pm................ ..................Lunch

12:30 – 1:00 pm.................................... ILL Library Awards / Door Prize Giveaways

1:00 - 2:15 pm....................................... Policies for Resource Sharing: Why they Matter and How to Rethink Them

Why should we have policies for resource sharing? What’s going on in our environment that suggests we should create our reexamine our policies? What is the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative? What strategies might be used to Rethink Resource Sharing policies? The answers to these questions will be discussed.

Anne Beaubien is immediate past chair of the Steering Committee for Rethinking Resource Sharing. She has held a variety of positions at the University of Michigan since 1971 and is currently Director of Cooperative Access Services and Grants Officer for the University Library. Anne was the recipient of the Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award, (2007), Distinguished Alumnus Award, School of Information & Library Studies, University of Michigan (1987) and was President of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) l991-1992. Anne helped create STARS (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section) of Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), was chair of STARS 2005-2006, and is a member of the ASCLA 2010 Preconference Planning Committee on Rethinking Resource Sharing.

2:15 – 2:30 pm...................................... Break

2:30 - 3:00 pm.......................................TExpress Courier Update

3:00 - 3:45 pm.......................................Texas Interlibrary Loan Update
Members of the ILL Task Force will provide an update of the changes to ILL in Texas. As many of you know, changes in how interlibrary loan in the State of Texas will be happening in the next few years. An ILL Task Force was formed in April 2008 to examine the results of the ILL Study Completed by Bibliographical Center for Research. The ILL Task Force has investigated several options that were laid out in the ILL study to see which will work best for the State of Texas. Based on feedback from the Library community and recommendations from the ILL Task Force, a Request for Proposal was released in August. A recommendation for a new ILL system for Texas will be submitted to the Commission on October 12, 2009.

3:45 - 4:00 pm....................................... Door Prize Giveaways