October 8th, 2008 CJILL Meeting

Hello All
Despite the shorter days and cooler nights it is still hard to grasp that fall is here and it has been three months since our last CJILL meeting. Well I hope you all enjoyed your summer and are back full of great ideas and lots of energy for us to tap into with regards to the world of interlibrary loan.

Thanks to the graciousness of Jeff and Betty at Georgian Court we will be getting a change of scenery for our upcoming meeting which will be held on the Georgian Court Campus in the S. Mary Joseph Cunningham Library. For those of you not familiar with the location the following link will provide you with directions. As usual the meeting will run from 10:00am to Noon. Connie will be attending and will catch us up on all the goings on in the region and although Scherlene has a prior engagement she has highlighted on some items to be mentioned at the meeting.

As always.....please send me whatever agenda items you would like to see discussed. Just to get the ball rolling in that direction, one of the things that is always on my mind with regards to interlibrary loan is how can we do things better. Our CJILL group is made up of a diverse group of libraries, all using different types of systems and frameworks to get our jobs done. I see this as a major strength and one that should be cultivated when attempting to evaluate best practices for ILL. So think about your ILL departments and practices that work for you and those that do not and perhaps we will come up with some areas for discussion. Another area we might look to is the current economic chaos going on both state and federal level. Though it is early days has it begun to affect how you are doing ILL business? Is it affecting services you can bring to you ILL patrons? Just some thoughts. Hope to see you all on the 8th. I will send out an email reminder or two and if you have any questions or comments with regards to the meeting or agenda items just give me a call.
Take Care
Linda