Connecting to Collections

NH libraries will soon be recieving (by email) invitations to participate in the NH Connecting to Collections Survey. Here is some background on this project:

The NH Connecting to Collections initiative is now seeking information from New Hampshire libraries and over 1,000 other New Hampshire cultural organizations about important special collections. This unique survey is in response to a national conservation call to action funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The purpose of this project is to help raise public awareness, inspire action and encourage private sector support for New Hampshire’s cultural assets.

The New Hampshire State Library was awarded a $40,000 National Leadership Grant during 2009 from IMLS to create a statewide portal and database of cultural collections housed in New Hampshire’s libraries, museums, archives, religious organizations, historic sites and other culture collecting organizations. This project will bring together information about collections from all participating organizations,
allowing anyone with internet access to find collections that are important to New Hampshire’s culture and history. It builds on the paper resource entitled NH Collections: A guide to our Cultural Heritage, which was a 1992 collaborative initiative between the NH Historical Society and the NH State Library that included 625 collections held by 125 institutions. It was the first testimony to the willingness of NH organizations to take stewardship responsibilities seriously and to share their resources with a larger public. Our 2010 project seeks to update the 1992 data in a comprehensive manner utilizing current technology to conduct the survey and to aggregate the collections data received from respondents through an online portal at: http://www.findnhhistory.org/

In the next weeks, you will receive an email invitation and link to complete this online survey about special collections in your organization. Your response is instrumental to our state’s Connecting to Collections initiative administered by the New Hampshire State Library. The survey will only remain active for the period of time specified in your invitation, so don't delay. There is a sample survey available if you want a preview of the questions being asked. We estimate the survey will take
approximately 15 minutes or less to complete depending on how many special collections you report. Please complete this worthwhile survey. Your response is very important to us! Your participation is the key to the project’s success. Thank you in advance for your participation!


The NH Connecting to Collections Partners are:

New Hampshire State Library
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
New Hampshire Division of Historic Resources
New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Management
New Hampshire Historical Society

LOST BOOKS - July 2010

Here is a list of items that have gone missing while traveling from library to library on the NHSL van. Please check your shelves! List is also available at http://nhaislostbooks.pbworks.com/ where you can sign in to add, delete, or edit items on the list. Questions about the lost book list should be directed to Mary Cronin at Madison Library.

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Missing DVD set - Religions of the world BL80.2 .R455 2003
Fiske Free Library returned the DVD set by van, but it never arrived here at Saint Anselm College. It was due at the beginning of June, but I don’t know when they actually returned it. This is an important DVD set for our collection. Could everyone “please” check your shelves, shipping rooms, etc. to see if it mistakenly ended up at your library?
Thank you everyone for your help!
Sincerely, Sue

Susan E. Gagnon
Interlibrary Loan Specialist
Geisel Library - ILL
Saint Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Drive
Manchester, NH 03102
sgagnon@anselm.edu
Tel: 603-641-7303
Fax: 603-641-7345
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We had three books accidentally returned to the wrong library and they have gone missing.
Emily Dickinson singular poet by Carol Dommermuth-Costa; Emily Dickinson by Bonita E. Thayer and Lizzie by Frank Spiering. If anyone sees these items could you sent them back to the Rye Public Library. Thanks Pam Woods

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Did anyone receive Lane Memorial Library's copy of "Guns, Germs and Steel" by mistake? The Hampton Falls Free Library sent it back to Hampton in early May and it didn't arrive. Thanks for checking! Please let us know if it turned up in your Library by mistake.
-Carol SanbornHampton Falls Free Library7 Drinkwater RoadHampton Falls, NH 03844603-926-3682 p603-926-0170 fwww.hamptonfallslibrary.org
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What parents need to know about ODD
by James Sutton
call # 618.92
Owned by Enfield Public Library

Thank you,
Jane
Abbie Greenleaf Library
Franconia
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Hi Folks, We are trying to track down a CD by Jon Krakauer entitled "Into The Wild." It is listed as leaving Newmarket on the 13th. and hopefully heading to Griffin Lib. in Auburn. So far it hasn't arrived so if it is hiding in the bottom of someone’s bin please send it on. It's on someone's summer reading list and you know how these kids are.!
Thanks for looking, Edie.Cummings-Griffin Lib./Auburn
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Hello All:
Would you all please check your shelves for an audio book on CD that seems to have lost its' way home.
The title is: Spock vs. Q by Cecelia Fannon and left our library on the June 26, 2010 van headed for the Rodgers Memorial Library in Hudson.
If it's found, would you please send it on to Hudson and let me know.
Thank you all very much for your help.
Enjoy your day.
Patience
ILL Librarian
Goodwin PL
Farmington

Brief searching outage 8/19

Thursday, August 19: NHU-PAC searching will be disabled for a few minutes starting at 7:35 a.m. to allow installation of an updated index. Searching service should be restored in about 5 minutes.

NHU-PAC Downtime Survey

There were 102 responses to my question about NHU-PAC downtime. Clearly morning is better than afternoon and Tuesday is a little better than other days. Thanks for your input. We will work out a schedule to run this quarterly backup on Tuesdays. A system message will be posted, as usual, in advance of the scheduled downtime.

Here are the results:

There are several days/times that NHU-PAC might be brought down so the backup process can be run. Which of these times is the least disruptive for your library?

31% Tuesday, before 10am
28% Wednesday, before 10am
15% Thursday, before 10am
10% Any of these times would be OK, none is better than another
9% Wednesday, after 3pm
5% Thursday, after 3pm
2% Tuesday, after 3pm

Lakes Region Van Delivery Route Cancellation

The Lakes Region Van Delivery route is being cancelled for today, Monday, August 16, 2010. The regular driver is ill today and there are no subs available. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Diana

NELA Conference is October 17-19, 2010

Learn how to work “Outside the Box” to meet today’s challenges for your library. The 2010 New England Library Association Annual Conference will be held October 17 – 19 at the Holiday Inn in Boxborough, Massachusetts. Join your colleagues from across the region for this exciting educational and networking event. You can save $30 (if you are a NELA member) by registering before October 9th.

The Sunday banquet program “The Joy of Censorship” is in reality an illuminating, satiric and at times disturbing examination of our most hotly debated First Amendment issues. Joe Raiolo, Senior Editor of MAD Magazine, sheds light on the endless arguments over banned books, movie ratings, the FCC, the Patriot Act, Internet filters, the true meaning of obscenity, and more. He also reviews some of MAD’s most controversial, thought-provoking and outrageous covers and articles.

Award-winning author Janet Taylor Lisle is the speaker for the Monday New England Roundtable of Teen and Children’s Librarian’s luncheon. Her books for children and teens address a wide variety of topics, from historical fiction to fantasy adventures. Among her best-known titles are Black Duck, Forest, Afternoon of the Elves and the recent Highway Cats.

At the Tuesday Author Luncheon Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book is Overdue and The Dead Beat, paints an admiring picture of the role of libraries and their staffs in an age of information overload. The USA Today review called This Book is Overdue “a humorous, unabashed love letter to the men and women who used to toil quietly in stacks but now circulate in cyberspace."

Here is a sample of the programs planned for the 2010 conference:

• Cheryl Bryan, author of Managing Facilities for Results will talk about Spaces for New Services at 3:30 on Sunday, 10/17. Ms. Bryan will also moderate a panel on Mentoring Magic at 8:30 on Monday, 10/18.
• Irene Herold, Dean of Mason Library at Keene State College and Mary Ann List, Director of Portsmouth Public Library will present Developing Relationships: Friendraising to Fundraising on Sunday 10/17 at 4pm.
• On Monday, 10/18 at 4pm there will be a program on Self Service in Libraries with Charles Matthews, Librarian, Nashua Public Library and Carol Verny & Catherine Page of the Haverhill (MA) Public Library.
• On Tuesday, 10/19 at 8:30 Claudia Mayer (Manchester City Library) and Sandy Whipple (Goffstown Public Library) will present More Than Home Delivery: Outreach Outside the Box.
• Steve Butzel, Assistant Director, Portsmouth Public Library, will present Online Newstand, a program about how his library uses its website to direct patrons to a wealth of licensed online content on Tuesday, 10/19 at 4pm

Brief searching outage 8/9

Monday, August 9: NHU-PAC searching will be disabled for a few minutes starting at 7:35 a.m. to allow installation of an updated index. Searching service should be restored in about 5 minutes.

A Clip from the Blogosphere

The current issue of OCLC's Above the Fold includes several interesting articles, including a piece on web sites for collaborative work.

I have a question ...

As I try to plan projects and deal with the various issues that arise for NHAIS occasionally there are questions that I would like to hear from the NHAIS libraries about to help me decide how best to appproach a particular issue.

This is the first in what will probably be semi-regular single question surveys from NHAIS Services. Please take a minute and tell me what you think.

Today's question is about the best time to take NHU-PAC offline. You have until August 9th to answer this question.

Van Delivery News August 2010

1) Daniel Webster College, Nashua, no longer receives interlibrary loan van delivery via the NH College and University Council (NHCUC) van. Please mail items to them.

2). The NH State Library will be closed on Monday, September 6, 2010 in observance of Labor Day. There will be NO VAN DELIVERY on that date. If you are a Monday only stop you may want to make other arrangements with your van driver for a delivery that week.

For a complete list of all of the holidays the State Library is closed, please visit http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/instructions.html (the van delivery instructions) and scroll down to "NO Van Service".

If for any other reason (e.g. bad weather) van service on a particular route(s) does not operate, libraries will be notified via an e-mail message. If your library does not receive van service on a particular day, please check your e-mail before calling the State Library.

Please remember to properly label each item which you are sending via the Van Delivery Service. This will help ensure these items make it to the correct destination in a timely manner.

If you need a refresher on how items should be marked for the van, please refer to the Van Delivery Service - Instructions, http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/instructions.html, and scroll down to number 3 of the guidelines, "Addressing material to be sent on the van".

To print a current van directory list arranged in alphabetical order by library, please use the PDF version which is available at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/documents/vandirectory.pdf

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this pdf file. If you do not have it installed on your machine, you may down load it for free from http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Due to the ever increasing load of materials transported by the New Hampshire State Library van delivery system, our vans can reach maximum capacity before the end of a van route, especially following long weekends and holidays. Our drivers can decline to accept materials if they feel they cannot fit them safely on their van. We are also asking libraries to please be aware of volume during times when there is likely to be a problem. You should prioritize your materials to be picked up, in case some items must be left until the next van pick up. That will allow us to immediately transport the most important items as quickly as possible.

If you have any questions you may contact Donna Gilbreth at 271-2060 or Diana DeCota at 271-2206.