| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Registration and Refreshments |
| 9:30 am – 11:05 am | Welcome and Updates – Ivy Tech Community College – Kurt Messick Academic Libraries of Indiana – Roger Peters Indiana State Library – Jake Speer Indiana Share, InfoExpress, and Evergreen Indiana – Leigh Anne Johnson NOW Courier – Christina Pacheco OCLC – Tony Melvyn |
| 11:05 am – 11:15 am | Break |
| 11:15 am – 12:05 pm | Breakout Session 1 |
| ILL 101: ILL Basics and Panel Q & A | |
| Moving Beyond ‘Service’ | |
| Genealogy and the Law | |
| 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:25 pm – 2:15 pm | Breakout Session 2 |
| A Comparative Analysis of ILL Systems | |
| Enhancing Department Manuals with AI | |
| Talking Book and Braille Library | |
| 2:15 pm – 2:25 pm | Break |
| 2:25 pm – 3:15 pm | Breakout Session 3 |
| E-Resource Sharing | |
| Lightning Sessions: Thinking Outside the Stacks Why Did We Buy This? | |
| The BIG Collection: Resource Sharing and Beyond | |
| 3:15 pm | Closing & Drawing for Door Prizes |
Updates from: The Indiana State Library, the Academic Libraries of Indiana, Now Courier, and OCLC.
Breakout sessions will include:
ILL 101: ILL Basics and Panel Q & A: Presentation of the basics of ILL services, including borrowing, lending, document delivery, on demand and international issues. Plus a 20 minute panel Q & A with 3 ILL professionals who have a total of 55 years of experience. Maureen Kennedy, Indiana University South Bend; Cetoria Tomberlin, Indiana University- Indianapolis; Holli Moseman, Indiana State University.
Moving Beyond ‘Service’: Reconceptualizing Interlibrary Loan to Create a Co-Curricular Model of Student Learning: Federal Work-Study students at Indiana University Southeast Library provide the first level of service to library patrons within a co-curricular model, allowing them to both learn and teach information literacy knowledge and skills. We will discuss how we are incorporating Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services into our co-curricular framework to enhance the IU Southeast General Education curriculum through fostering advanced information literacy in our graduates. Christopher Proctor and Alex Stepp, Indiana University Southeast.
Genealogy and the Law: How Librarians Can Help Genealogy Patrons Find Legal Resources: This program will help librarians to assist genealogy patrons with inquiries regarding legal sources. Topics include the fascinating world of legal resources – how they’re created and the wealth of family records they can hold. This presentation will unveil surprising examples of family information tucked away in these legal documents. Tamara L. Rogers, Indiana University; Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Ruth Lilly Law Library.
A Comparative Analysis of ILL Systems: This session will investigate interlibrary loan (ILL) systems currently available in the marketplace. The assessment will look at how comprehensive each software is as well as its reporting functions, request management, necessary technical requirements, available technical support, software cost, and the strengths and weaknesses of each system. Meg Atwater-Singer, University of Evansville; Roger Peters, Concordia Theological Seminary.
Enhancing Department Manuals with AI: From Chaos to Clarity: This session will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can revamp outdated and incomplete department manual management by offering structured organization, summarizing content, improving language clarity, and ensuring accessibility. Garrett Griffith, Indiana University Bloomington.
Talking Book and Braille Library: Helping the Visual, Physical and Reading Disabled Hoosier: In this presentation, you will learn about the talking book library: Who they are, what they do, who they serve, and the programs and services they provide. Abby Chumin, Indiana State Library.
E-Resource Sharing: Understanding the Whole eBook ILL Thing: This presentation will discuss whole eBook borrowing and lending through ILL. It will review the history of ILL and electronic resources in general. Navigating licenses plays a large role in preventing libraries from even attempting the lending or borrowing of eBooks. This presentation will discuss these obstacles and share how some libraries and consortiums have secured agreements with vendors to allow for whole eBook lending. Sarah Damery, Butler University Libraries.
Thinking Outside the Stacks: Using Dynamic Shelving to Increase Collection Usage (Even in an Academic Library!): In this presentation I will demonstrate my process of transforming Marian University’s leisure reading collection using a dynamic shelving model, and how that contributed to a 46% increase in circulation stats for that collection. I will detail the subsections used, successes, and lessons learned. Caitlin Balgeman, Marian University.
Why Did We Buy This? Assessing Automated Purchasing via Interlibrary Requests: A recent assessment the IU Indianapolis University library completed of our integrated purchase on demand (POD) program within our ILL workflow will be discussed. I will briefly outline how the POD program functions, provide examples of criteria we use to determine purchase decisions, and then move on to examine the findings of our assessment of the last five years of program data, which includes materials and labor expenses, circulation rates, and future concerns. Cetoria Tomberlin, IU Indianapolis University Library.
The BIG Collection: Resource Sharing and Beyond: The libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have made a bold commitment to unifying their separate collections into one cohesive collection, known as the “BIG Collection”, which is shared and fully networked. Much work is needed to realize this vision, but early work has focused on examining and harmonizing resource sharing policies to reduce barriers and promote equitable access, testing and using systems to improve the sharing of information, and evaluating how to build and manage a distributed, shared collection of diverse resources. Sherri Michaels and Rachael Cohen, Indiana University Bloomington.