Ah, librarians love acronyms. If you speak MARC, ALA and ILL, then you speak library talk. One part of my job is to represent my schools at meetings of the larger library community. The Capital District Library Council is a regional organization that looks out for the interests of all kinds of libraries in the area, school, public, academic and special. This past Wednesday I represented school librarians at the COIL meeting – Committee on Interlibrary Loan. The group meets monthly. The burning issue at this meeting was whether or not the committee should expand the vision and change the name of the group to the Committee on Resource Sharing (CORS).
There was a WOW! moment at this meeting. Greg Kiel from the library at SUNY Cobleskill did a demo for us on an ongoing trial with an electronic ILL program called ILLIAD. This is being tested in a few of the academic libraries right now and we talked about the possibility of this system working embedded in SIRSI/DYNIX. Electronic ILL has long been a goal and we’ve not seen too many programs that actuallly make it work. This one shows great promise. WOW!
You know all those acronyms, right?
