News archive: list of news items from all committees, VALE news, spotlight, and individual member news by posting date.
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the planning committee, we want to thank all who attended the Thirteenth Annual VALE Users'/NJ-ACRL/NJLA-CUS Conference on Thursday, January 5 and to ask you to please complete a brief online evaluation survey. The survey form is available at:
Please note that the registration deadline was December 12, 2011. Late registrants will be wait-listed.
At the end of September 2011, a call went out seeking submissions from the NJ academic community for entries to the 2012 VALE Cover Design Competition. Paul Glassman of Felician College and Cynthia Coulter of HCCC, from the 2012 VALE User's Conference Planning Subcommittee, oversaw the cover design competition.
We were very impressed and pleased with the submissions we received. We would like to thank the students who participated and thank the faculty for their willingness to take on this responsibility.
The Implementation Team is currently working on the specifications for an OLS server.
Each of the five alpha libraries has contributed 10,000 MARC records for a database to be used to test discovery software. The College of New Jersey has already used the database to test VUFind (Villanova University), and Drew University will shortly be using it to test XC (University of Rochester).
Taras Pavlovsky and Kurt Wagner are taking the VALE OLE project to a national audience. They have created a session for the KUALI federation’s annual conference in Indianapolis, November 14-16. The title: Going It Together: VALE's Plan to Implement Kuali OLE in a Consortial Environment.
Their abstract for the program book:
A call for volunteers was put out for VALE members to serve on the Editorial Board putting together the next Report (covering the fiscal years 2009 – 2011). Paul Glassman has graciously volunteered to be the chair of the Board.
The Board is beginning the process of putting the Report together. They are looking for photographs and good quotes to consider for inclusion in the Report.
Please help them by sending such items to Paul Glassman -- glassmanp at felician.edu.
Congratulations to Sharon Yang of VOSC for her new Library Hi-Tech article with Melissa Hofmann of Rider U. They also did a poster session entitled "How "Next Generation" Are We? A Snapshot of the Current State of OPACs in North American Academic Libraries" at the ACRL 2011 Conference in Philadelphia. Here is the citation and abstract for the article:
Offers from 23 vendors/distributors for licensing or purchasing streaming video content.
Kuali OLE development is off and running! OLE's first release, code-named Eno (for the river that runs near OLE partner North Carolina State), is due the end of June 2011. Eno will be a non-public release intended to demonstrate due progress to the Mellon Foundation and our interested constituents. OLE's first public demonstration is scheduled for April 5, 2011 at the CNI Conference in San Diego. This demonstration will illustrate OLE's ability to ingest records from a publishing vendor, generate a requisition, create a purchase order, and send that purchase order to the vendor.
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