June 5, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler Friday, June 5th at 1:00 PM. A meeting invitation is attached.
See the notesfrom the May 22, 2020 Watercooler here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQCfAltidgkzc9URxkLwf-FXq55v5P3eftcQpwDdKqs/edit

Board of Regents Issues Reopening Guidelines

On June 4^th The Louisiana Board of Regents hosted a Louisiana Higher Education Safe Reopening Webinar. See the slides and guidelines for more information.

https://regents.la.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Higher-Ed-Reopneing-Safely-Webinar-060320-607pm3-Read-Only.pdf

https://regents.la.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Higher-Education-Reopening-Safely-Handout-060420-1032am.pdf

A New ILL Community-Sourced Map: Learn Lending Status and When to Return ILL Items

Recently, ILL professionals banded together to facilitate the safe return of nearly 400,000 WorldShare ILL items that were on loan to 5,674 libraries when COVID-19 swept across the globe. They shared their library’s status via a crowd-sourced list. With the information provided by the ILL community, a Physical ILL Return and Lending map was created that offers the ability to visualize and interact with this information using search and filtering tools.

Learn if, and when, to send physical ILL items home. Launched on May 8, this community-sourced initiative quickly grew to include more than 1,200 libraries. If your library has not yet signed up, please add your library to the map at: oc.lc/mailform. This will allow other libraries to know if, and when, to safely send items home. If items are mailed to libraries that are not open and able to receive them, there is a high probability they will be lost or damaged, or libraries will incur additional fees because items are undeliverable.

Learn which libraries are lending physical materials. Even in the midst of the crisis, thousands of WorldShare ILL libraries continued to supply article and ebook requests from electronic holdings. That valuable work continues apace, and as this map shows, nearly 200 libraries are already reopening lending of physical material through interlibrary loan. Your library can keep its status up to date by using links within the email confirmation or by clicking on the map’s Add/Update ILL Status button.
COVID-19 resources. Here at OCLC, we are committed to helping you and your library through these challenging times. Check out the Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums Information Hub and the COVID-19 Information and Resources page for access to all of our initiatives.

May 22, 2020

LOUIS Phased Reopening Guide for Libraries: Report and Recommendations

The Reopening Work Group has created a guide that outlines four phases of reopening. Within each phase they have documented the critical questions that must be addressed and provided recommendations on actions that may be taken. Our hope is that this document will lend credibility to difficult conversations that each library may need have with their administration as well as serve as a resource to help libraries identify issues that they might not have considered. It is not meant to be prescriptive. As the authors state, “It is recommended to be used as a template for addressing logistical concerns when reopening, based on safety of both employees and the public.”

The following group should be commended for getting this done in short order for the benefit of our community.

Angie Estes, Southeastern Louisiana University (CHAIR)
Adrienne Webber, Grambling State University
Elizabeth Batte, Nicholls State University
Janie Branham, Southeastern Louisiana University
Jodi Duet, Fletcher Technical & Community College
Johannah White, Baton Rouge Community College
Megan Lowe, University of Louisiana Monroe
Patricia Brown, Northwestern State University

Read the plan here: https://louislibraries.org/phased_reopening

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler Friday, May 22nd at 1:00 PM. A meeting invitation is attached.
On the agenda for today:

EDS Beta update
Training updates
Board actions
Reopening updates:

guide and news from the field

Notes from the May 15th Watercooler are available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wUe0UYluAhwWcGVI0nFuTbcVmcpiqOBadLRiAvDeRx8/edit

Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus

Jack Grove | Inside Higher Education | May 15, 2020
The unrestricted sharing of scientific papers during the coronavirus pandemic may have hastened the shift toward more open-access publishing, scientists believe, as several leading journals move to make content publicly available.

Last month, Britain’s Biochemical Society became the latest organization to make all of its published content free to view, citing the “extraordinary times with the current Covid-19 pandemic” as its reason for lifting paywalls on its Portland Press imprint until further notice.

Librarian Volunteers Help WHO Make Sense of COVID Information

Mahnaz Dar | Library Journal | May 11, 2020
Librarians are bringing their information triage, vetting, and organization skills to bear on the current crisis in new ways. Among them, a group of volunteers are indexing vast volumes of information on COVID-19.

The effort began with Dr. Lina Moses, an epidemiologist and disease ecologist at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (TUSPHTM), New Orleans. In February, she was deployed by the school to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Geneva headquarters to help respond to COVID-19, as part of the WHO’s Global Outreach Alert & Response Network (GOARN). GOARN leverages the resources of its 250-plus member organizations—public health agencies, research institutes, and academic institutions such as TUSPHTM—to respond to outbreaks. GOARN-Research was developed to handle the findings of those studying and treating outbreaks in the field.

Research Libraries Redeploy Loaner Laptops to Aid Students during COVID-19 Closures

Amy Yeager | Assoc. of Research Libraries | May 18, 2020
In a hurry to leave campus in March before the start of online classes, Cornell University doctoral student Amanda Domingues packed up suitcases full of clothes, boxes of books, her dog, and her computer—which, she later discovered, was broken.

“When I logged in to Zoom, I found out my audio wasn’t working,” she said.
But thanks to a laptop loan program run by Cornell University Library, Domingues was soon able to use a reliable computer for her virtual courses in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, her graduate student group discussions, and her teaching assistant duties for an undergraduate class on ethics and the environment.

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, May 8th at 1:00 PM

A meeting invitation is being emailed to the LOUIS Discussion List.

Notes from the May 1st Watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_lTX3VG3_0GCaPMafDvMazBD8uTdIzNTZ3t1vrweUg/edit?usp=sharing

Reopening Guidelines and Reading

Missouri State Library Reopening Guidelines

Reopening: Not “When?” But “How?”: Libraries consider the realities of a post-pandemic world

Australian Libraries: Checklist for Reopening

Preparing for Reopening after COVID-19 Symphony

What Will Our Libraries Look Like When We Return?

LSUHSC Shreveport Library Limited Reopening

Professional Development Opportunity: 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, June 9-11, 2020

The NASIG Executive Board is pleased to announce that we will hold the 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, June 9-11, 2020. We are even more pleased to announce that the conference will be free to all attendees, thanks to the generous contributions of our sponsors.

The synchronous online conference will include an opening session featuring vision speaker Janetta Waterhouse, along with 14 sessions originally scheduled for the in-person conference. The full program can be found at https://nasig2020.sched.com/.

In addition to our synchronous event, many of our other presenters will be recording their talks for on-demand viewing. We will encourage discussion of these events on the NASIG blog. The entire conference program will be made freely available on YouTube after the live event.

Attendees can register for the synchronous conference here: https://forms.gle/CWP8UXrSsZsiudXX8

The Board also wishes to thank the members of our Program Planning, Conference Planning, Continuing Education, and Communications committees, all of whom have come together to make this event happen on a very short timeline.

Vendor Provided Professional Development: ILLiad - Automate your Request Process

This session featured details on creating and editing automations to help you save time and improve turnaround time for borrowers.

Do you have any follow-up questions from the session or want to learn even more about Automations? Please post your questions to this discussion thread and register today for the upcoming Office Hour on Friday May 15 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT

In case you missed parts 1 and 2 of the series, “Fine-tune your Policies and Deflections,” the recordings and session materials are available on the Community Events page.

May 1, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, May 1st at 1:00 PM

A meeting invitation is attached.

Notes from the April 24th Watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e3tEcZr7P6wgL_sqG5hdIS3C04SR_mFkjXUwG8keXGQ/edit?usp=sharing

How Children’s Museums are Fostering Imagination, Learning, and Creativity at Home

Physical museum buildings may be temporarily closed, but that doesn’t mean that learning, imagination, and discovery are on hold.

The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), for example, recognizes that healthy habits begin at home and that families play a crucial role in forming children’s healthy habits. The museum also understands that getting kids to eat nutritious food and get enough sleep and exercise are some of the struggles facing parents.

That’s why in 2009, with assistance from a National Leadership Grant from IMLS, the EatPlayGrow™ curriculum was designed to help children ages 2 to 5 years old living in New York’s low-income communities learn about nutrition and physical activity. Focus on this age group grew out of the CMOM and National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity & Nutrition)® program’s recognition of the importance of early childhood health education.

LOUIS Professional Development Opportunities

Maletta Payne - HBCU Affordable Learning Summit

Earlier this year, Maletta Payne, Emerging Technologies Librarian at Southern University and A & M College, participated in an HBCU Affordable Learning Summit. Hosted at South Carolina State University, the Summit promoted college affordability by training participants to be advocates of Open Education Resources initiatives at their respective institutions. Join Maletta for a discussion of this experience, including Summit activity, takeaways, and next steps.

The invitation to this session is being sent to the LOUIS list.

Recordings Available:

Open and Affordable Spring Learning Series: Dr. Damian Hinojosa – Promoting Student Savings from OER: https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360047349433-Open-and-Affordable-Spring-Learning-Series-Dr-Damian-Hinojosa-Promoting-Student-Savings-from-OER

SymphonyWeb with Mike Waugh:

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360046751294-Learning-with-LOUIS-SymphonyWeb

New Resource Sharing Requesting Service to Support Libraries in COVID-19

The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee wishes to inform you about a new initiative that the Committee is launching to facilitate international resource sharing activities during the time of COVID-19.

The global pandemic has resulted in many library buildings being closed and services moving fully online. Because of the current situation, resource sharing activities have become either impossible or very difficult to perform for many libraries. Yet, our users’ information needs remain the same or, in many cases, have increased because of the situation.

Thus, with the help of committee members and volunteering librarians worldwide, the committee has created a simple way for the libraries around the world to request the materials their users need from other libraries who can provide the materials.

We call this initiative “Resource Sharing in the Times of COVID-19 (acronym: RSCVD)” and wish to urge you to use the service. We are offering several fulfillment options:

An Open Access search tool from Open Access Button to help you find Open Access, full-text content available immediately
An article request form*
A book chapter request form*

*All requests will be fulfilled electronically, so no physical loan request is needed.

Link to Request Service: http://rscvd.org/

Link to FAQ: https://rscvd.org/faq

Upon your request, volunteering committee members and librarians will, first, verify your affiliation and make sure that the request is coming from a library, not an individual. Then, several volunteering librarians will check their collections and provide the materials through the OCLC Article Exchange Service. We cannot guarantee that all requests can be fulfilled, but most of them will be obtainable from the vast digital collections of volunteering libraries.

As a requesting library, you will receive an email notification when the item is ready and the notification will include the link and password to receive the materials. For more information on this service please see the FAQ.

If you have any questions about this initiative, please contact ifladdrs@gmail.com

Special thanks to Joe McArthur at Open Access Button for assistance creating the web pages and search interface.

Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee

Strada Education Network: Education & Labor Policy Response Webinar

Strada Education Network for the “Education & Labor Policy Response to COVID-19” Webinar. We are grateful to our panelists—Mr. John Pallasch, Dr. Casey Sacks, and Dr. Kim Hunter Reed—for joining us and appreciate Alison Griffin for moderating the discussion.

Watch the recording here.

Vendor Resources: Join Our New "COVID-19 Responses for Libraries" Basecamp Group

SirsiDynix is honored to be working with you, our global library customers, during this unprecedented time. We are witnessing great resilience and innovation of service as we all seek best practices in our evolving reality. To provide a central repository for best practices in addressing ongoing challenges and creative ways to serve communities, we want to offer a possibility that might help facilitate intra-library communications around COVID-19 responses.

SirsiDynix has created an opt-in, ILS agnostic Basecamp group for global library staff to use as a discussion hub. This space is open to current SirsiDynix customers, as well as any additional libraries who want to join. Our hope is that this space becomes a vibrant community of ideas and sharing. We are happy to provide this space where users can share questions, information, links, documents, videos, etc.

To join the "COVID-19 Responses for Libraries" group, please send an email to spp@sirsidynix.com(link sends e-mail) with the email addresses of individuals you would like us to enroll. To make the discussion richer and more complete, please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues who may not be customers of SirsiDynix.

Vendor Provided Professional Development: COVID-19—We’re in this together: Continuing to manage your ILL service

Over the last few weeks, everyone’s had to make many adjustments—to both our work and home lives. We truly appreciate your commitment to serving your patrons and your suggestions on ways to continue ILL services at a time when physical collections are less accessible, or perhaps not at all.

Your engagement and partnership have resulted in several initiatives, which are summarized below. Please keep the ideas coming by reaching out via the OCLC Community Center, ILL-L listserv, and OCLC Support.

Managing your library’s ILL services during the COVID-19 crisis

This session offered useful information to help your ILL department navigate these challenging times. Meg Atwater-Singer (University of Evansville) and Meg Massey (Penn State University Libraries) joined us to share the adjustments their libraries were making.

Recording (90 minutes)
Slides
Notes for Slides 70-81

Reason for No (RFN) = Preferred Delivery Time Not Possible

Many of you suggested the community use a consistent RFN for tracking and reporting the number of requests impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. This News post describes the use of Preferred Delivery Time Not Possible for materials you’re currently unable to supply.

Profiled Groups ACOV and BCOV and Days-To-Respond indicators

Two new profiled groups help you identify libraries that can supply electronic documents (ACOV) and whole e-books (BCOV). Setting your library’s Days to Respond for loans provides a visual cue to other libraries about what you are able to supply: 16 days indicates you can supply copies from both print and electronic holdings; 20 days indicates you can provide copies from your electronic collections.

Video tutorial (40 minutes), slides – Demonstrates two workflows for using ACOV and BCOV profiled groups, setting Days To Respond, and adjusting Deflections.

Office hour, slides – Q&A on ACOV and BCOV and Mikki Butcher (James Madison University’s Director of ILL) provides information about supplying whole e-books.
To add or remove your library from ACOV or BCOV, complete this short form.

ILL professional development: Recorded webinars and on-demand training

Some of us may have extra time to devote to learning and professional development. This News post lists the most popular ILL sessions from the past year. Also, OCLC training materials are freely available.

COVID-19—We’re in this together

OCLC continues to monitor the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on libraries worldwide. We will update members, staff, and partners as developments unfold. Our COVID-19 page offers timely information and relevant resources libraries can use to serve their users during this pandemic.

COVID-19 and OCLC Services Service Configuration cheat sheet
COVID-19 and Libraries discussion board within the OCLC Community Center
OCLC Virtual Town Hall: Libraries and the COVID-19 Crisis – Join us on Monday, April 13 at 3:00 PM ET. This live event will feature Skip Prichard, President and CEO of OCLC; staff from OCLC WebJunction and the OCLC Research Library Partnership program; and guest panelists from public, academic, special, and school libraries who will share their recent experiences about how libraries are moving services, programming, and learning online.

Note: All WorldShare ILL, Tipasa, and ILLiad users have access to the Resource Sharing Research page and the COVID-19 and Libraries discussion board in the OCLC Community Center. If you are not sure of your WorldShare credentials, click here.

Your OCLC Resource Sharing Team

Vendor Provided Professional Development: ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures

The recording of ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures--Part 1 from April 16 is now available:

https://training.atlas-sys.com/Course/ShowEmbeddedVideo?videoid=15913

The Q&A transcript is available here:

https://support.atlas-sys.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043620674-ILLiad-Projects-during-Coronavirus-Closures

The recording of ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures--Part 2 from April 21 is now available:

https://training.atlas-sys.com/Course/ShowEmbeddedVideo?videoid=15914

The Q&A transcript is available here:

https://support.atlas-sys.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043620674-ILLiad-Projects-during-Coronavirus-Closures

Vendor Professional Development: Part 3 of the Workshop Series: Automate Your Request Process on May 5

Register today for this third workshop in our virtual workshop series is “Automate your request process.” If one of the following describes you, this workshop is for you.

I’ve never used Direct Request or Automated Request Manager… and automations can be a little scary
My library has basic loan and copy automations… but I’m curious what else my library could easily automate
I’ve been a power user since the beginning of Direct Request… but I’d like to see what’s new

In this session, you’ll learn about ways to streamline your workflows to enable you to focus on ILL requests that require more time and attention. We’ll discuss:

Key types of automations for saving staff time – like building lender strings or applying constant data
How to set up basic automations – including how to specify whether requests are placed in your review queue or submitted to lenders
Recent enhancements that help improve the automation process – you define the criteria and the system applies the logic for you

We’ll encourage you to try out what you learned and then join us for an office-hour session the following week, when you can ask questions specific to your library and get more tips.

Register today!
Tuesday, May 5 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST

Mark your calendar for the Office Hour for Part 3 on Friday, May 15 at 1p.m. EDT [UTC -4]

April 22, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, April 24th at 1:00 PM

Meeting invitations were sent on Monday to the LOUIS discussion list. If you didn't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Watercooler notes from April 17th: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NQSfJppsoI7Al2Zpv_lWmeHDn5F39dK2057LuYn5_aA/edit?usp=sharing

LOUIS Lagniappe - Please share your experience

If you feel inclined to share some of your experiences we would love to share them with the rest of the membership in the upcoming edition of the Lagniappe. This is a series of prompts. You can answer as many or few as you like. Please submit your responses before the end of the week on April 24th.

https://louis.libwizard.com/f/April_2020_Lagniappe

If you have any other contributions for the Lagniappe, please submit that here: https://louis.libwizard.com/f/lagniappe

LOUIS Professional Development Opportunities

Tomorrow at 10AM: Open and Affordable Spring Learning Series: Dr. Connie Walton – Transforming Organic Chemistry Courses

Dr. Connie Walton, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chemistry faculty at Grambling State University, received funding from LOUIS and the Board of Regents through the first round of the course transformation program. With this funding, she redesigned Organic Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry II to use exclusively open materials. In this talk, she’ll share the approach to open course transformation and how impacts are being explored.

Meeting invitations were sent on Monday to the LOUIS discussion list. If you didn't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Recordings Available:

SymphonyWeb (still need to add)

COVID-19 Electronic Resources Resource Offers

LOUIS has received and distributed many offers from vendors to open or expand access to collections. To organize those offers we have added them all to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet indicates:

Publisher Name
EDS Package Name
Expiration Date
MARC Records Availability
Product Link
Access Enabled Status

For each offer please note that some have already been enabled for all sites and some are offers that don't require IP access. This has been indicated next to each site name with either "Already Enabled" or "Not Applicable." Some have been left blank so the Electronic Resource Administrator can choose whether or not to request that LOUIS work with the vendor to enable your IP range for that offer.

Electronic Resource Administrators are reviewing the list and making decisions about activating offers on their campus: https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360047125113-COVID-19-Electronic-Resource-Offers

Vendor Offered Professional Development: Supporting Open Research Workflows and Digital Collaboration

When researchers do not have a platform to create and share code, data and methods, the institution loses ‘stewardship’ over the totality of research output as well as the ability for researchers to leverage current and past work. Hence, reproducibility and re-use are at the core of open science and a focus of research institutions and institutes. Join us for a conversation with researchers to discuss tools like Code Ocean and protocols.io and their key components that improve the research process for both the researcher and institution.

Click here to register.

April 16, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, April 17th at 1:00 PM

Watch your inbox for a meeting invitation. If you don't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Professional Development Opportunities with LOUIS

April 20th at 12:30PM: Mike Waugh - SymphonyWeb

April 22nd at 12:30PM: Electronic Resource Statistics for making decisions about cancellations and renewals with Lindsey Reno, UNO and Brian Sherman, LSUS

April 23rd at 10AM: Dr. Connie Walton – Transforming Organic Chemistry Courses

April 27th at 10AM: Fr. Damian Hinojosa – Promoting Student Savings from OER

Check out the calendar here: https://calendar.time.ly/4o0lme5t/stream

Check your email for connection information for all of these training opportunities. If you need an invitation, please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

LOUIS Lagniappe Contributions

Spring 2020 has so far been defined by the nation's response to COVID-19. Everyone has been impacted in some way. The Lagniappe newsletter has always been a place for LOUIS members to share their triumphs, challenges, and changes and the last 4 weeks have filled with all three. If you feel inclined to share some of your experiences we would love to share them with the rest of the membership in the upcoming edition of the Lagniappe. This is a series of prompts. You can answer as many or few as you like. Responses are due April 22nd.

https://louis.libwizard.com/f/April_2020_Lagniappe

If you have any other contributions for the Lagniappe, please submit that here: https://louis.libwizard.com/f/lagniappe

If you would like to be featured as a LOUIS Collaborator please submit that here: https://louis.libwizard.com/f/louis-collaborator

IPEDS Statistics with Brian Sherman, LSUE

The recording and slides for yesterday's webinar are now available here:

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360046293354-IPEDS-Statistics

Vendor Offered Professional Development: ILLiad

With limited services and access to materials, now might be a great time to work on clean-up and improvement projects. Please join us online as Heather Black reviews some options for you to improve and tidy-up your ILLiad workflows. Register at atlas-sys.eventbrite.com. You will receive login instructions on class day.

The sessions will be recorded and made available a few days later in the Atlas Systems’ Video Training Library at training.atlas-sys.com.

ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures - Part 1 of 2

Thu, Apr 16, 2020 2:00 PM eastern (approx. 90 minutes)

Registration ends on April 15th.

ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures Part 2 of 2

Tue, Apr 21, 2020 2:00 PM eastern (approx. 90 minutes)

Registration ends on April 20th.

Vendor Offered Professional Development: Global Webinar Series Session Spotlight: Coffee with EBSCO - A Roundtable Discussion with Your Colleagues

Join us for a conversation with your colleagues from around the globe to hear from panelists about how their institutions are dealing with the current situation. Have a discussion during this informal and informative webinar session designed to support you by addressing your most pressing questions. Topics may include:

Help with organizing or maintaining your electronic resources.
Tips on providing remote access.

Addressing questions about providing library services during these unsettling times.

Sessions will be tailored to include your questions and concerns, so submit a question today. Discussion questions and topics are being accepted through April 15, 2020. And, of course, we want you to join us live for the answers!

Speakers include:
Daniel Forsman, Library Director, Stockholm Public Library
Monica Crump, Head of Collections, National University of Ireland, Galway
Sierra Laddusaw, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Jennifer Hall, Research Skills Program Coordinator, Queensland University of Technology

Register for one or more of these sessions:
April 16, 6:00 a.m. EDT
April 16, 1:00 p.m. EDT
April 16, 8:00 p.m. EDT

While we'd love to see you at these sessions, we know it may not fit your schedule. Don't forget to check out all the upcoming sessions in our Global Webinar Series or you can view recordings for past sessions.

Vendor Resources: IEEE

At IEEE, we know many universities are suddenly being asked to adjust course curriculums for an online environment and libraries need to support the needs of remote learner patrons — needs that expanded rapidly overnight. It can be challenging to create additional resources that are effective and immediately available.

As you plan to adapt your eCurriculum and library resources to support a distance learning environment, we wanted to share that the IEEE Xplore eBooks collections can be a very useful resource to supplement class instruction.

To support current online learning and research, the IEEE Xplore Digital Library now provides online access to more than 4,000 high-quality, technical eBook titles across six unique libraries.

These peer-reviewed eBooks collections—authored by leaders in the field—cover both established and emerging technologies, providing essential information for both students and researchers.

With a one-time purchase, you can ensure your users will always have access to the latest content that drives today’s cutting-edge research and innovation. By clicking on the collection names below, you can access the latest frontlists.

Six essential collections to choose from:

IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library
Consists of approximately 980 titles with a focus on content areas that lead today’s cutting-edge technologies and help set standards for future advancements.

IEEE-Wiley Telecommunications eBooks Library
Provides approximately 395 titles focusing on telecommunications and related fields with concentrated content applicable for students, researchers, and practicing engineers.

MIT Press eBooks Library—Computing & Engineering Collection
Offers approximately 780 high-quality, peer-reviewed eBook titles with approximately 65% of titles in computing-related fields.

Morgan & Claypool Synthesis eBooks Library
(Territory restrictions apply in certain academic markets. Please contact your IEEE Account Manager for further details.)
Includes approximately 1,025 titles focusing on computer science and engineering innovations—authored by expert contributors in the field.

Now Publishers Foundations and Trends^® Technology eBooks Library
Comprises approximately 525 high-quality eBook titles that provide a quick, trustworthy introduction to emerging new topics in engineering and computer science.

SAE eBooks Library
Contains approximately 290 titles providing essential information about topics in transportation technologies, including automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicles.

Learn more about the eBooks collections available in IEEE Xplore, and discover which options best meet the needs of your organization.

April 8, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, April 17th at 1:00 PM

Watch your inbox for a meeting invitation. If you don't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Notes from the April 3rd watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHISjDLLI5eQ3WVKc2hxu2E9LJyZJJ-sIwlrnG_D0QM/edit?usp=sharing

ILL Statewide Delivery Service Update

Statewide Delivery service will not resume until May 1st because of the Governor's executive order that was extended to April 30th.

Copyright in a Crisis Guidelines

Provided by Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, openoregon.org

Please feel free to make a copy and adapt with your institution's info. Add your institution name in the footer and your attribution is done. I'll also re-share the other one-sheets that I've made - they're not fancy, but they're easy to adapt.

- Copyright in a Crisis Guidelines: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ale0alvLRGTjlpd999B1GTYnuxZIih5bLG3Qw_lHBs/edit?usp=sharing

- Pandemic One-Sheets for Faculty & Students: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nTtJZxeIgpcrG07o2e3yw0_87EXJh2vNGgyecJ-a8Z0/edit?usp=sharing

- Online Teaching Motto: “Less Work, More Learning” (peer-to-peer faculty advice): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkM189U-yvEWVucIK3uQixyPRNJBjH4u0WMVFO4fwmA/edit?usp=sharing

In creating the copyright handout, I made use of ACRL Presents: Copyright for Campus Closures, Public Statement: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research, and Rapidly shifting your course from in-person to online. I recommend these resources for folks who would like to dig deeper into this topic.

Professional Development: Electronic Resources Learning and Discussion Sessions

April 15^th @ 12:30– IPEDS Reporting with Brian Sherman of LSUS
April 22^nd @ 12:30– Electronic Resource Statistics for making decisions about cancellations and renewals with Lindsey Reno, UNO and Brian Sherman, LSUS

Connection information was sent via email. If you would like to receive a meeting invitation, please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Professional Development: Helping you navigate a changing education landscape

Last month we decided to move all of our Creator Fest workshops online and host them as webinars, open to the entire education community. Every webinar we have planned is designed to help you educate to empower, cultivate resources with purpose, and advocate for students always.

Beyond affordability: potential of OER - Wednesday, April 15 at 12 p.m. CDT
Modifying content to fit context with OER - Thursday, April 16 at 11 a.m. CDT
Defining ed tech features and value - Wednesday, April 22 at 12 p.m. CDT
Our ed tech journey - Friday, April 24 at 11 a.m. CDT
Aligning OER with campus priorities - Monday, April 27 at 12 p.m. CDT
Updates on textbook affordability - Wednesday, April 29 at 10:30 a.m. CDT

The webinars address questions and topics like how to navigate creative sustainability models, choose OER as academic freedom, and understand the anatomy of ed tech products. Take a look at the webinars and reserve your spot now!

Professional Development: ACRL Presents: Tips for Suddenly Switching to Online Reference and Access Services

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99a4TeppgM

Professional Development: copyright in this COVID-19 environment

https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/-ZRqDbWz8UZJHqPx2mDOYbQOPJj4T6a81iQW_qUOzx0mpApFc9iqUAaA91n3l0wy

Professional Development: Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference has transitioned to a fully online conference in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the transition, we will extend the registration deadline by one week until Friday, April 17. More details are available at http://manager.lib.usm.edu/smirc/ and the link to registration (which remains free) is available at http://manager.lib.usm.edu/smirc/irregister.html.

April 6, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler next Friday, April 17th at 1:00 PM

Watch your inbox for a meeting invitation. If you don't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Notes from the April 3rd watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHISjDLLI5eQ3WVKc2hxu2E9LJyZJJ-sIwlrnG_D0QM/edit?usp=sharing

Professional Development: Open and Affordable Spring Learning Series

Recordings of completed sessions are available here: https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/sections/360000798194-Learning-with-LOUIS-Webinars

View the calendar for upcoming events: https://www.louislibraries.org/alearningla/events

Professional Development: Electronic Resources Learning and Discussion Sessions

April 8^th @ 12:30– LOUIS Staff discuss vendor offers and LOUIS support
April 15^th @ 12:30– IPEDS Reporting with Brian Sherman of LSUS
April 22^nd @ 12:30– Electronic Resource Statistics for making decisions about cancellations and renewals with Lindsey Reno, UNO and Brian Sherman, LSUS

Invitations were sent via email. If you did not receive them and would like to, please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu.

Facing Challenge with Resilience: How Museums are Responding During COVID-19

Supporting Education: Museums have long been leaders in informal learning. Today, students can continue learning away from the classroom through hundreds of online resources that museums are offering. There’s no shortage of topics, from animal habitats and science to art history and wildlife biology and architecture.

Many museums also offer age-specific resources. Here are a few examples of museums, among hundreds, who have extended their physical experience to the digital world.

The Children’s Museum of Houston and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan have new daily virtual learning centers.
The New York Hall of Science is bringing its hands-on science educational resources to families for kids aged Pre-K through grade 12 and beyond.
Museum Computer Network (MCN) has created an exhaustive list of hundreds of other virtual resources from museums.

Promoting Culture and the Human Experience: Museums are offering many virtual engagement opportunities, such as tours, online art, and guided digital experiences.

The Smithsonian Institution is providing virtual gallery tours of its museums, educational resources, and webcasts. More than 1,000 other museums from across the world are also offering virtual tours.
The Philbrook Museum is sharing images of the museum and its collections and engaging its community with art related discussions and a concert series on social media.
The Cincinnati Zoo is producing daily home safari videos for people to get to know the animals that live there.
The New York Botanic Garden is sharing the beauty of spring in the garden through their NYBG at Home that includes virtual garden walks and a plant talk blog.
People aren’t the only ones getting to experience the wonder of museums. The Atlanta Humane Society brought puppies to see the underwater habitats of the Georgia Aquarium.

Giving Back to the Community: In addition to boosting online learning resources, such as story times, history activities, and audiovisual exhibits, many museums are supporting state emergency response efforts during this crisis. Take History Colorado and its member museums, for example:

El Pueblo History Museum is a Grab and Go lunch site for Pueblo City Schools. They are collecting donated supplies and delivering to community elders, in collaboration with Pueblo’s Catholic Charities.
Fort Garland Museum is a Community Access Site for San Luis Valley college students who need digital connection to attend college classes that have moved to remote learning.
Five of History Colorado’s museums across the state—History Colorado Center, El Pueblo, Trinidad, Fort Garland, and Ute Indian Museum—are working with the Colorado Department of Higher Education to serve as drop off sites for donated laptops for students who lack the tech equipment necessary for remote learning.
History Colorado is among the many institutions, such as the Chicago History Museum, donating masks and gloves in supplies for the medical effort.

Supporting Museum Staff:

The Michigan Museums Association has started weekly online Colleague Chats to keep the Michigan museum community connected.
The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is offering online presentations on a range of conservation and preservation topics.
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has a weekly email to inspire innovation during this difficult time, sharing ideas, recommending resources related to creative cultural programming, and providing quick links to self-care ideas.

You can search for more opportunities on social media with #museumsfromhome.

Resources

Our COVID-19 Resources for Museums and Libraries page provides additional resources compiled by some museum associations. You can find official government information from the CDC, OSHA, and the EPA, among others, on the main COVID-19 Updates page, which will also include the latest updates on IMLS funding related to coronavirus.

MICHELSON SPARK GRANTS COVID-19 RESPONSE ROUND LAUNCHES NEXT WEEK

With the COVID-19 crisis severely impacting the educational space, the Michelson 20MM Foundation is launching a new round of the Spark Grant program on April 6th.
Grants will be up to $25k for organizations doing work to support students and educators during the current crisis in the following areas:

Increasing access to and efficiency of emergency student aid programs
Decreasing the “digital divide” through ensuring students, faculty, and nonprofits have access to devices, high-speed internet, technology solutions, and IT support
Accelerating the growth and shift to online and remote education via support for students and faculty

We have also updated our RFP to make it easier for organizations to submit a proposal so time and energy can be spent on responding to the needs of the community as opposed to asking for funding.

Learn more

Vendor Resources: Sage Update

The Sage resource page has recently been updated with training guides and Reading Lists created by our SAGE Librarians and Field Editors.

Our Library Relations & Faculty Outreach team is here to provide consultations and to support your work with faculty on using these resources in their teaching. To set up a consultation with one of our SAGE Librarians or Field Editors, please write to us at trainingandsupport@sagepub.com.

April 1, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday, April 3rd at 1:00 PM

Watch your inbox for a meeting invitation. If you don't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Notes from the March 27th watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xcc4Je_-BUan0Qh707SuyF66Gno4-gheXw5vRnATiMI/edit?usp=sharing

Delgado Library LibGuide and Video for Online Course Reserves Using RedShelf

https://dcc.libguides.com/online/reserves

Deadline for the Faculty Cohort Program Extended

The proposal deadline is now May 4, 2020 at 11:59 PM Central.

The details can be found here: https://www.louislibraries.org/alearningla/projects/cohort

Learning with LOUIS - Open and Affordable Learning Series

Tomorrow! April 2nd at 10:00 AM

Paula Dupont - Adding and Editing Captions in YouTube

Check your email for connection details.

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure

From The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Aisha S. Ahmad March 27, 2020

Among my academic colleagues and friends, I have observed a common response to the continuing Covid-19 crisis. They are fighting valiantly for a sense of normalcy — hustling to move courses online, maintaining strict writing schedules, creating Montessori schools at their kitchen tables. They hope to buckle down for a short stint until things get back to normal. I wish anyone who pursues that path the very best of luck and health.

Read the article here: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Should-Ignore-All-That/248366?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_1b

Professional Development: Working with the MarcEditor

YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQu7jnnSek

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/reese_terry/working-with-the-marceditor

Professional Development: Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections

CDC’s guidance for community settings and environmental disinfection, and a discussion of how libraries, archives, and museums can help mitigate COVID-19 when working with paper-based, circulating, and other types of collections.

Recording now available: https://www.imls.gov/webinars/mitigating-covid-19-when-managing-paper-based-circulating-and-other-types-collections

Vendor Resources: EBSCO

To help you assist your students and faculty adjust to remote learning and researching, we are providing free resources as well as resources with extended access through our information partners. Some of the content includes Unlimited User access to EBSCO eBooks from 300+ publishers, free Unlimited User access to Harvard Business Review eBook Subscription Collection, access to test prep resources from EBSCO LearningExpress, a global webinar series for online research and learning, support for working remotely, and much more.

We hope you will find these resources helpful during this time of uncertainty:

March 30, 2020

A Message from the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)

Dear Librarian,

In response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, ICOLC, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, posted a statement requesting that information service providers work with consortia and libraries to get as much information as possible to the users who need it. The statement included a spreadsheet where vendor responses were posted by a variety of consortia and libraries. The ICOLC statement has now been translated into six different languages and use of the spreadsheet is spreading internationally.

ICOLC wants to maximize the information-gathering power through our new Expanded Access Specifics spreadsheet (EAS), which parses all the details from each provider. We built this spreadsheet with librarians in mind and to integrate into their workflow. It is divided into categories to help guide librarians to Courseware to help faculty move their classes online, COVID-19 Research to get the latest research and news on Coronavirus to researchers and clinicians, and General Content to provide electronic resources to help students and faculty finish out the semester.

In order to make the spreadsheet more comprehensive and streamline the submission process, we encourage you to add any missing resources via the Complimentary Expanded Access Specifics submission Form. This Form will allow standardization of ICOLC’s data collection and allow other librarians to benefit from our collective efforts.

This unprecedented time challenges us to seize new opportunities for collaborating on a large scale. Thank you for helping SCELC, ICOLC and other libraries provide a channel which can help address the hardship confronting us at this time.

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday, April 3rd at 1:00 PM

Watch your inbox for a meeting invitation. If you don't receive it please email laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Notes from the March 27th watercooler are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xcc4Je_-BUan0Qh707SuyF66Gno4-gheXw5vRnATiMI/edit?usp=sharing

ACRL Presents: Academic Librarianship in the Wake of the Coronavirus

ALA and ACRL are committed to supporting our members, staff, and all librarians and library workers during these uncertain times. Now more than ever, academic and research librarians and libraries are essential to a thriving global community of learners and scholars.

Upcoming COVID-19 Webinars

Webinars will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to registrants and shared online, along with the slides and chat transcript.

Evaluating Online Library Data - Wednesday, April 1, 1:00 p.m. Central
As many libraries shift to supporting patrons remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, how programs and services are evaluated also changes, but getting good data is still essential. Learn about how Project Outcome can help support your work and hear from public and academic librarians with lots of experience supporting online learning.

Quickly Implementing Accessibility Tools - Friday, April 3, 1:00 p.m. Central
Everyone is working and learning online right now. We need to ensure what we create and share is accessible to everyone. This presentation and Q&A will discuss the legal and ethical standards for making courses and learning objects accessible. We will also share some free tools for the generation of new material and retrofitting previously created content.

Managing Remote Workers - Tuesday, April 7, 1:00 p.m. Central
Join Martin House, Assistant Director for Public Services at Central Piedmont Community College and incoming chair of ACRL’s Community and Junior College Libraries Section, and Cinthya Ippoliti, University Librarian and Director of the Auraria Library at University of Colorado Denver and Director-at-Large on ACRL’s Board of Directors, for tips, strategies, and discussion on effective ways to manage a suddenly remote library workforce.

CopyTalk: Fair Use and Controlled Digital lending in the Age of Covid-19

Kyle Courtney (Harvard) and Brandy Karl (Penn State) will join us to share their expertise!

When? April 2, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Where? Join us online through Zoom (details below)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ala-events.zoom.us/j/302671438

Meeting ID: 302 671 438

Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections

Join us for a webinar on Monday, March 30, 2020, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET.

Please join Dr. David Berendes and Dr. Catherine Rasberry from the Centers for Disease Control for an overview of the CDC’s guidance for community settings and environmental disinfection, and a discussion of how libraries, archives, and museums can help mitigate COVID-19 when working with paper-based, circulating, and other types of collections. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.

Register here: https://www.imls.gov/webinars/mitigating-covid-19-when-managing-paper-based-circulating-and-other-types-collections

Safe Handling of Materials

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has provided recommendations on disinfecting circulating books in library collections.

http://www.ala.org/tools/sites/ala.org.tools/files/content/NEDCC%20recommendations%20for%20disinfecting%20books_Mar2020-converted.pdf

Copyright Clearance Center Launches Education Continuity License

March 24, 2020 – Danvers, MA. – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces its Education Continuity License to enable creative approaches to remote teaching and distance learning made necessary by the pandemic.

Over the past several days, educators across the U.S. have contacted CCC with questions about using copyrighted content and materials in innovative new ways to support distance learning. In response, CCC is coordinating with its community of rightsholders to authorize the use of their materials at no cost by educators as required by the pandemic during this time of emergency. CCC is not delivering educational materials or content to educators; it offers this new license to authorize U.S. school districts, educators, parents and others to make immediate additional uses of materials that they have previously lawfully acquired.

States Shielded from Copyright Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court said copyright owners can’t sue for damages when a state government pilfers their work, ruling against businesses in a case stemming from the wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship.

The justices on Monday unanimously said states are protected by sovereign immunity. The court threw out a 1990 federal law that attempted to authorize lawsuits, ruling that the measure went beyond Congress’ constitutional authority.

Vendor Resources: Rittenhouse Book Distributors

Offering a 60 day free trial access to all the eBooks on R2 Library to support your students and faculty during this time of need and demand.

https://www.rittenhouse.com/Rbd/Web/Default.aspx

Vendor Resources: JoVE - New Education Videos

JoVE has received an incredible response to our offer of free JoVE Education resources to support remote learning initiatives globally. Whether you have taken us up on this offer already or plan to, we wanted to make you aware of new and additional content available to you.

We have fast tracked our planned content releases to add even more videos to JoVE Education:

Additional JoVE Core Biology videos including Plant Biology - a new unit of 3 chapters focused on Plant Biology is being introduced alongside additional videos in Core Biology. Teach scientific fundamentals with this video library of simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations.*Available Now*ff

JoVE Core Social Psychology - isolate key concepts and bring the foundations of our social world to life. This video textbook can be used as a primary teaching resource or it can supplement other teaching materials. *Available Now*

Lab Manual Chemistry - bring the lab home with comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory chemistry lab courses. *Available March 30th*

To set yourself up with free access to JoVE Education through June 15th, please simply create an account and you’ll be on your way.

https://www.jove.com/

Vendor Resources: EBSCO COVID-19 Resources

EBSCO is making more and more resources freely available and expanding access to EBSCO and partner content. Check back here for a growing collection of content offers, webinars and other resources designed to help library staff provide their students, faculty, researchers and patrons with expanded access to online resources that are now in critical demand.

https://www.ebsco.com/covid-19-resources

March 25, 2020

Wifi Access Map Now Live

LOUIS worked with IMLS data, the state library, and public libraries across the state to build a master list of public library locations and details about their wifi access. Clicking on a pin will provide additional access details for each site. We are continuing to update the map as new information comes in. Please freely share this with students and faculty. The map is live here: https://bit.ly/publibwifi

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 27th at 1:00 PM

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/772135111

Meeting ID: 772 135 111

Meeting Notes from March 20th meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1as1alSGE7iTIzD6hLEshzgEwemvL9X-sit0aLHvkvIk/edit?usp=sharing

Internet Archives Announces a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist, ensuring that students will have access to assigned readings and library materials that the Internet Archive has digitized for the remainder of the US academic calendar, and that people who cannot physically access their local libraries because of closure or self-quarantine can continue to read and thrive during this time of crisis, keeping themselves and others safe.

Vendor Resources: EBSCO eBooks

As universities shift quickly to online instruction, librarians have a key role to play in supporting faculty and students. In order to help in these challenging times, EBSCO and Harvard Business Publishing are pleased to offer libraries free unlimited user access to the Harvard Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection until May 30, 2020.

This ground-breaking collection contains the complete catalog of Harvard Business Review e-books. With over 600 e-books that include 400+ monographs, newly published e-books, seminal works, and 150+ article compilations of the HBR Classics series, faculty will be available to quickly provide relevant digital materials for their students.

Gain immediate access for your students and faculty today by contacting your local EBSCO representative.

Request Access

Vendor Resources: SAGE

I am very excited to let you know that access is now live for all of your members. They will be able to access the content for 90 days:

SAGE Video: https://sk.sagepub.com/video
SAGE Research Methods Video: https://methods.sagepub.com/video
SAGE Knowledge: https://sk.sagepub.com/

To help you and your school’s instructors dive right into these resources, we have gathered links to user guides, tutorial videos, and email templates to help you get the word out to your faculty members. You can find all of those links here.

Contacts:

We want to make sure your experience is a favorable one, so please feel free to contact us anytime.

For account assistance, please feel free to reach out to me at tommy.stewart@sagepub.com
For technical assistance, please contact: onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk

We hope you find these resources helpful during this difficult time. SAGE is here to support you, so please reach out if you need help with these or any other SAGE resources.

Vendor Resources: ILL Updates

Atlas has compiled a list of tips, configuration options, and links to newly available addons to help with managing workflows during COVID-19.

This is a living document that is being edited as new options and information are available https://support.atlas-sys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044552474-Managing-ILLiad-Workflow-During-COVID-19-.

There is also a recording "Ask Me Anything" video reviewing the above information and answering questions available at https://training.atlas-sys.com/Course/Details/4341

Just fast forward to timestamp 18:40 to get right to the ILLiad portion. There is a compilation of the Q & A content available at https://support.atlas-sys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044930934.

ILLiad Training

You can review ILLiad topics and classes available at https://training.atlas-sys.com/Product/Details/3 or just browse by subject. Please note that all LOUIS sites already have access to the Video Training Library.

Atlas Survey

Atlas Systems has created a short survey to learn the status for your ILLiad institution and what challenges you’re facing. We want to help in whatever way makes the biggest impact for you.

The survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ILLiadCovid19

Vendor Resources: Free Self-Paced and Live Training Sessions for all SirsiDynix Libraries

In response to a challenging time for all libraries, we want to make sure that you have what you need. In response, we are making many training options free to all customers.

Available until April 30th is:

Our entire catalog of self-paced training. You can find this in Mentor, our self-paced learning catalog. To access Mentor directly, click the Mentor link on the home page of https://support.sirsidynix.com.
Select live instructor-led training. Classes include Cataloging, Circulation, Enterprise, Reports and much more for both Horizon and Symphony; all available through the SirsiDynix Support Center. Sessions will be held throughout the day to ensure libraries across all time zones have access to these live courses. https://www.sirsidynix.com/free-live-instructor-led-training/

SirsiDynix is grateful for all that you do. We know this can be a difficult time for your library. As many libraries are facing temporary closure and staff is adapting to a new work/life balance, we are dedicated to being your partner. We hope that these training options will be helpful and informative for you, your staff, and your library.

Please note: If you do not know your Mentor user credentials, please submit a ticket or email Laurie at laurie.blandino@laregents.edu

Vendor Resources: American Libraries Live

Your physical library may be closed, but you can still offer direct services to your patrons. With many resources available digitally, and with the ability to provide reference via phone, chat, and virtual meeting tools, your services do not have to halt at a time when they are more important than ever. Please join our expert panel on Thursday, March 26 at 1 p.m. Eastern as they offer practical insights on how to start using—or increase efficient use of—your virtual tools.

Panelists include:

Jason Griffey, director of strategic initiatives at NISO
Francisca Goldsmith, consultant at Library Ronin
David Lee King, digital services director at Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
Lindsey Gervais, digital pedagogy specialist at Gale

Tune in to this free 60-minute webcast at 1 p.m. Eastern on March 26. Don't miss out! Register now.

Vendor Resources: Duke University Press

In response to the current challenges that universities face as a result of the spread of COVID-19, Duke University Press would like to offer libraries additional support:

We are extending grace access through the end of May for customers with not-yet-renewed existing 2019 electronic holdings. (This extension applies to content hosted on both read.dukeupress.edu and projecteuclid.org.)

As institutions transition to online instruction, we can provide 90 days of complimentary electronic access to our book and journal content to support your online courses. If you would like to enable access for your institution, contact orders@dukeupress.edu.
We would like to share our reading lists, which offer free content (included is Navigating the Threat of Pandemic).
We are opening archival content for around 20 of our journals hosted on Project MUSE. Around five years of back content (1999 to 2004) will be freely available through June 30, 2020, for select titles. We are opening all available content for East Asian Science, Technology and Society.
For our e-books hosted by EBSCO, ProQuest, and Gardners (including Browns Books for Students and Askews & Holts), we are allowing multiuser access for all licenses through mid-June. Read ProQuest’s statement.
We provide remote access options on both of our content platforms. If you would like to set this up, please contact our Customer Relations team at orders@dukeupress.edu.
Processing of payments by check may be delayed. If you are planning on sending a payment and have not yet done so, please consider sending a wire or paying by credit card. Contact orders@dukeupress.edu for more information.

For more information and additional developments, please see our Response to COVID-19 webpage.

Please be in touch about your library’s needs. You can reach the library relations team directly at libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu.

Vendor Resources: Remote Access Options to Knovel, Engineering Village, and Geofacets

During the current COVID-19 outbreak, your organization may need alternative ways to access Knovel, Geofacets and/or Engineering Village remotely.

We are reaching out to ensure that you face limited disruptions as there are alternative options for accessing our solutions remotely.

If you already have remote access set-up for your organization, we have prepared some FAQs for you to remind and help your users access this service. If you do not have remote access set-up for your organization, we have prepared remote access guidelines for our solutions if needed. If you would like to discuss your authentication & access options, please feel free to contact me.

Elsevier has also prepared a novel coronavirus center, with free access to information and research pertaining to COVID-19.

Also, we are having upcoming webinars and we will have more for engineering specific subjects in the next weeks.

March 23, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 27th at 1:00 PM

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/772135111

Meeting ID: 772 135 111

Meeting Notes from March 20th meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1as1alSGE7iTIzD6hLEshzgEwemvL9X-sit0aLHvkvIk/edit?usp=sharing

RedShelf: Locating Electronic Copies of Couse Reserves

LOUIS has worked to streamline the process of locating in-use physical reserves and textbooks in the newly opened RedShelf platform. The number of publishers that are allowing free short term eTextbook access is astounding.

Read on to learn what has already been completed, the next steps for additional assistance, and an FAQ.

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360044949414-RedShelf-Locating-Electronic-Copies-of-Course-Reserves

MARC Edit Webinars

From Natalie Palermo with LSU Law

Terry Reese, the creator of MarcEdit, will be doing a Zoom webinar each week while we all practice social distancing. Start times and details will be posted on Twitter. The first recording, MarcEdit: Making the Most of Tasks, is now available.

Compiled Lists of Open Content

ICOLC and ITHAKA are working on authoritative lists of all open content from publishers.

Vendor Resources: JSTOR Expanded Access to Journal Archives

As an immediate response, we are offering expanded access for any JSTOR participants who’ve had to close their physical campus. LOUIS members who’ve had to close their doors can get expanded access to our journal archives through June 30^th. All they need to do is complete this form. Please let me know if there is anything we can do to help get the word out to your members or if there questions about the access. We also have a landing page with details here.

My colleagues in ITHAKA S&R have also compiled a list of COVID-19 resources for Academic Libraries that your members might find helpful.

Jessica Wall, Manager, Participation Development / Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico

Vendor Resource: MIT Press eBooks

With the coronavirus outbreak disrupting campus activities around the globe, the MIT Press is offering libraries complimentary access to the MIT Press Direct collection of eBooks through the end of May 2020 to support faculty and students who are working and learning remotely.

To receive free access to more than 2,770 MIT Press eBooks via MIT Press Direct, librarians may complete this webform or reach out to Emily Farrell (efarre@mit.edu, North America) or Jessica Lawrence-Hurt (jclh@mit.edu, rest of world).

In addition, we are partnering with ProQuest and EBSCO to allow multi-user access through mid-June to our eBooks purchased on their platforms. We are also working with Project MUSE and University Press Scholarship Online to expand access to backlist eBooks available on their platforms.

We are gracing access for existing subscribers to content hosted on our journals, CogNet, and MIT Press Direct platforms through May 31, 2020.

Finally, we have gone through our journal backfile to select relevant articles from our collection that speak to issues related to pandemics, epidemiology, and other related topics. A list of freely available articles is being maintained and regularly updated on our blog.

Amy Brand, PhD, Director, The MIT Press

March 20, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 20th at 1:00PM

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/325186674

Meeting ID: 325 186 674

Collected List of Professional Development Opportunities:

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360044581774-COVID-19-Information-Resources-and-Updates#ProfDevOps

Online Professional Development from ER&L

We’re sending this message to our entire email list to share that the recent ER&L Conference Video Archive is available to you and your colleagues for no fee effective immediately. Read our blog post about this announcement.

Sign up for access:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-erl-conference-videos-tickets-99997507236?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=be7bf2fa60&mc_eid=bb13c2020c

University of Michigan Press COVID-19 Response

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, effective today access restrictions have been removed on all 1,150+ titles in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) until the end of April 2020. Librarians are encouraged to register to be alerted to any extensions of access and details of where title lists, MARC records, usage stats, etc. can be located. But registration is not necessary to access the content. It's globally free-to-read with no access restrictions.

The UMP EBC contains the Press' scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized. Strengths include political science and public (including health) policy, performing arts, classical and medieval studies, American studies, and Area studies (especially East Asian, African, and German studies). Over 200 titles in the collection are used in courses and there are almost 300 award-winners. The Press has a blog post highlighting the titles that are the most discussed, most used in classrooms, and most cited.

Vendor Resources: OCLC - Join us for “Managing your library’s ILL services during the COVID-19 crisis”

As we all continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19, your library may have closed, or may be facing closure or other reductions in service. You may be working from home while managing ILL requests from students and faculty that are moving to online courses.

Join us on Tuesday, March 24 for this ILL community webinar. Our goal is to offer useful information that helps you navigate your library’s ILL department through these challenging times. During this one-hour webinar, members from our Resource Sharing Team will review:

changes to WorldShare ILL and Tipasa configurations you may want to consider
how to maximize your e-content and easily lend digitally using the WorldCat knowledge base
use of RFN - Preferred Delivery Time Not Possible
thoughts on not enforcing due dates and granting all renewals
and more

Meg Atwater-Singer from the University of Evansville and Meg Massey from Penn State University Libraries will join us to share the adjustments their libraries are making and how their libraries are managing their ILL services.

We will also plan to answer your questions and have discussions.
Please register to join us live or to receive the recording. Tuesday, March 24 at 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT (UTC -4)

Vendor Resources: Annual Reviews Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Annual Reviews removed the paywall to all journals and volumes. Our aim here is to ensure continued access to our resources to those who need it, especially for anyone that may now be working, studying, and researching remotely.

The official press release is available here: https://annualreviewsnews.org/2020/03/13/annual-reviews-removes-access-control-in-response-to-covid-19-pandemic/. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Vendor Resources: For IEEE Subscribers - IEEE now offers access to elearning courses to universities in need of distance learning resources

To help your university with its immediate transition to distance learning, IEEE is now offering free 60-day access to our library of eLearning courses for a limited time. Explore the courses available and experience first-hand how the content can help you support your students.

Barry Holquist b.holquist@ieee.org

You’re Invited!
On Tuesday, 24 March, at 1pm ET join us for a free webinar for academic faculty covering ways to use eLearning content to support distance learning. Dr. Timothy Kurzweg, Director of the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Jennifer Fong, Director of Education Products at IEEE, will share techniques that can help you supplement your curriculum and keep students learning.
Register Today

March 19, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 20th at 1:00PM

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 325 186 674

Using ILLiad in the Remote Work Environment

Due to COVID-19, LOUIS institutions are transitioning to online-only instruction, with libraries having either reduced hours and services or staff working remotely. As you all plan to continue to fill requests from ejournals and scans of print resources, but cease shipment of all outgoing materials to both lending and borrowing libraries here are some suggestions and documents to help you in this process:

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360044705334-Using-ILLiad-in-the-Remote-Work-Environment

Additional Professional Development Webinars

http://bit.ly/FreeLibraryWebinars

NYTimes Coronavirus Coverage Paywall Lifted

https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/coronavirus

Vendor Resources: JSTOR

To support our institutions during this challenging time, JSTOR and our participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available to our participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19.

First, we are expediting the release of a new set of 26 journal archives in Public Health, making them openly accessible through June 30, 2020.

We also have an expanded set of content that is available to institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19 through June 30, 2020. If your institution would like to take advantage of any of the following, please contact JSTOR Support.

For participating academic institutions that currently license some, but not all, JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections, we will turn on access to all unlicensed collections at no cost.
We are working with publishers to make more than 20,000 books available at no charge for JSTOR-participating academic institutions and secondary schools that do not participate in our books program. The number of books available through this effort is growing daily as more publishers opt in.

Further details about this program, participating publishers, and links to other useful resources can be found at about.jstor.org/covid19/.

Like all of you, we are working around the clock to help ensure that in the face of unimaginable risk and anxiety, the important work of education and research can go on. We will continue to explore other ways to provide support and will keep you updated on progress via ongoing communications.

To learn more about ITHAKA's business continuity plans and resources for our community, please visit ITHAKA COVID-19 Response: Resources for our Community and Business Continuity.

Vendor Resources: OCLC Response to COVID-19

OCLC prepared a website in response to the Coronavirus https://www.oclc.org/en/news/announcements/2020/oclc-statement-coronavirus-covid-19.html.

March 18, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

See the notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bz36gxkH49aGxuvk6nYS8NAQm6wdX63ilInxbvqKDkY/edit?usp=sharing

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 20th at 1:00PM

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 325 186 674

LOUIS Member Libraries Share COVID-19 LibGuides & Website

Northwestern State University: https://libguides.nsula.edu/COVID-19

Central Lousiana Technical Community College: https://cltcclibrary.cltcc.edu/usethelibraryfromhome

University of Holy Cross: https://uhcno.libguides.com/coronavirus

University of Louisiana at Monroe: https://www.ulm.edu/library/covid19.html

Delgado Community College: http://dcc.libguides.com/COVID

University of Louisiana at Lafayette: https://louisiana.libguides.com/COVID-19

Archived Webinars for Library Staff Working Remotely

University Presses with Temporary Open Access

As shared with ICOLC by Sharla Lair, LYRASIS

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020. https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks; existing Cambridge Core customers can request free access to a collection of reference works for libraries during the same period, including all of the Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions, and Cambridge Elements. Existing customers should contact their regular library sales representative to make a request.

Duke University Press

Duke University Press is providing 90 days of complimentary electronic access to course materials (which includes their Duke eBook Collection). Contact orders@dukeupress.edu for more information.

MIT Press

The MIT Press is offering libraries complimentary access to its catalog of eBooks on MIT Press Direct through the end of May 2020 to support faculty and students who are working and learning remotely. To receive free access to more than 2,770 MIT Press eBooks via MIT Press Direct, librarians may complete this webform: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCLefaplCjng_6lHQVRigNvzjZCPMKaRHQqPqdE9A5T0WkoA/viewform?usp=sf_link or reach out to Emily Farrell, Library Sales Executive, efarre@mit.edu.

Ohio State University Press
For the duration of this crisis, all Ohio State University Press monographs, and the linguistics textbook language files, will be open and free to use through the Ohio State University Libraries’ Institutional Repository, The Knowledge Bank (https://kb.osu.edu/).

University of Michigan Press

University of Michigan Press will make all content in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) free-to-read for the remainder of the academic term. Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the UMP EBC until the end of April 2020. The UMP EBC contains the Press’s scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are digitized. Note they will be free-to-read, not to download, during this time. More information is here: https://blog.press.umich.edu/2020/03/ump-covid-19-free-access/

OpenAthens: Access Lab 2020 Online

After careful consideration, we have decided to move Access Lab 2020 to an online event.

Whilst we are disappointed our event is no longer taking place in London, we are confident that this is the appropriate decision to ensure the safety of our delegates and staff.

Our online programme is now free for anyone to attend. Please share the registration link to any colleagues or end-users that might be interested.

Vendor Resources: Unlimited-User Access to EBSCO eBooks

We understand the extraordinary demands on libraries to support online instruction during the COVID-19 outbreak and we are working with publishers to help wherever we can. EBSCO eBooks is partnering with publishers to waive simultaneous user limits wherever possible, ensuring unlimited access to e-books by:

Upgrading your existing holdings to Unlimited-User access until June 30 for a growing list of publishers.* This upgrade went live on Monday, March 16.
Discounting Unlimited-User access at One-User pricing for new e-book acquisitions
Providing around-the-clock assistance with authentication to help facilitate a smooth transition to remote teaching and learning

Click the button below to view the ever-increasing list of nearly 100 publishers participating in this limited-time offer.

Please know that we have made helpful information about COVID-19 and Coronavirus from our DynaMed^® medical product available to you to use and share. If there is anything else EBSCO can do to support you during this time, please let us know.

List of Publishers: https://go.ebsco.com/K00u1LN00HsM22T2v1js0Q0

Vendor Resources: Publishers Provide Scholarly Content Free on Project Muse During COVID-19 Crisis

In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.

Among the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books). We expect to announce additional participants and will continually update the list of publishers offering free access to content.
Read the full announcement here: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/

Vendor Resources: Elsevier Textbooks Freely Available on Multiple Platforms

ScienceDirect Textbooks: The 256 textbooks currently on ScienceDirect will be automatically entitled to all active ScienceDirect customers (including those journals customers who do not currently have books) for a period of 90 days. Users accessing ScienceDirect through IP or remote access will be able to use these books while campuses are closed. Access the title list here (expected to be updated by end of day Wednesday, March 18).

VitalSource and Elsevier Partner to Provide ebook Access to Students

To assist students at disrupted semester-calendar schools who are losing access to course materials due to COVID-19 campus closures, VitalSource has been joined by publishers and partners to offer free access to ebooks to students whose classes have moved online from March 16 through May 25, 2020. Students will be able to access the expansive catalog of ebooks from participating publishers through the VitalSource Bookshelf app effective immediately.

Elsevier Participates in ‘RedShelf Responds’ COVID-19 Initiative
Under the label of ‘RedShelf Responds’, RedShelf is collaborating with its publishing partners to offer free access to ebooks for the remainder of the semester for currently enrolled students impacted by recent campus closings. Semester-calendar schools of authorized programs will be allowed free access to ebooks from March 16 through May 25, 2020.

ProQuest and EBSCO Access

ProQuest Ebook Central and EBSCOHost customers impacted by COVID-19 will get automatic upgrades to unlimited concurrent access (from single user or 3U) to all owned Elsevier titles through mid-June.

March 17, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

See the notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bz36gxkH49aGxuvk6nYS8NAQm6wdX63ilInxbvqKDkY/edit?usp=sharing

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 20th at 1:00PM

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LYRASIS Offers Library Copyright Expert Office Hours

To support higher education librarians at college, research, community college, and special libraries who have questions about supporting the rapid shift from in-person instruction and research to remote, a group of library copyright experts are offering informational office hours via Zoom.

These experts will be available over the next week and have collected the following information:

Resource for Asynchronous Library Instruction

With the transition to remote instruction, our first year experience librarian has created a resource for asynchronous library instruction for the Comp I classroom. This particular design aligns with a specific assignment in the Comp I courses, but the instruction is fairly universal. Objectives are

Developing a concept map to identify search terms and create search strategies.
Evaluating information using infographics.
Using the Library Search/BOSS to locate sources for your assignment.

She has licensed it CC-BY-NC. We don't have a cover on it, and I haven't gone through to double check that the license is reflected throughout, but want to get it on out there for other librarians who might find it useful. The link is below.

https://open.library.okstate.edu/engl1213/

Thanks, and be well! Kathy Essmiller

EBSCO Subscription Services

This message is specific to our subscription services (print journals & magazines, e-journals and e-packages). We have in place a contingency plan that allows us to continue subscription service operations in case our on-site operations are interrupted by government-mandated quarantines or COVID-19 outbreaks in our primary service location. However, we need your help to facilitate this plan.

Receiving and Sending Renewals, Invoices & Other Information to EBSCO

Should we need to close our main operations facility for an extended period of time, employees will be able to work remotely. Due to the increased possibility that we may have to engage our remote work plan, we are asking all of our customers to consider electronic means of communication and of receiving and submitting documents such as invoices and renewal lists. If you are already doing this – thank you! If not, please keep reading for the options available to you.

E-mail and phone communication for day-to-day concerns should not be interrupted. Our Customer Service Team is prepared to work remotely. EBSCO also offers the option of using our Customer Service Portal in EBSCONET, which allows you to communicate directly with your assigned EBSCO representative.

For subscription renewals, customers have the following options:

Work your renewal online via EBSCONET. Your account must be set up for this functionality, but we can set you up quickly upon request – just ask your Customer Service Representative.
Receive your renewal list in PDF/Excel format rather than paper. This can also be requested via your Customer Service Representative.

If you are not already receiving invoices via email for your EBSCO subscriptions, you can request this change via your Accounts Receivable Representative or your Customer Service Representative. In the event that EBSCO’s on-site subscription operations are interrupted, and EBSCO moves to a contingency plan, the delivery of paper invoices may be delayed or interrupted.

Print Subscriptions & Library Closures

We recognize that some of our customers are closing facilities in response to local requests or mandates for “social distancing.” Most customers in this situation tell us they will have someone receiving mail during the closure, and storing that mail locally is likely your best option for having materials available when your patrons return. If you are not able to have someone receive mail, remember that EBSCO does not physically receive and ship your subscriptions, so we are not able to instantly redirect or hold this mail. However, we are committed to working with you. We are ready to assist you with contacting publishers to suspend daily or weekly publications. We will also communicate about any changes in publisher delivery policies, should we become aware of them. In addition:

EBSCO can assist with contacting publishers for temporary suspensions, as mentioned above. Please contact your EBSCO representative.
For colleges and universities, if your mail is handled by an on-campus facility, contact that facility first to understand how mail will be handled during a temporary shutdown.
If your magazines and journals are delivered to your location by your local post office, contact the post office. Post offices have varying levels of storage capacity and will hold mail up to 30 days. They may make exceptions for longer periods during this time.

If you have questions about other ways EBSCO can help, please contact your EBSCO representative.

We appreciate your help in making sure that your subscription services continue uninterrupted as we all deal with COVID-19. Please follow our blog, https://www.ebsco.com/blog/category/news, for more information on how we are addressing the situation.

Vendor Resources: Gale Launches COVID-19 Resource Center

To support librarians and educators as they navigate a rapid shift to virtual learning and across many communities, the physical closure of libraries, we have launched a COVID-19 resource center. Though this online hub is quickly evolving, you can immediately start using and sharing, for free:

Interdisciplinary, curriculum aligned resources to support online learning from pre-K through undergraduate
Live and on-demand training materials to help you optimize your existing resources
Professional development eBooks to help transition to and strengthen virtual learning
Authoritative Gale resources on health-related topics and global issues

Vendor Resources: McGraw-Hill Digital Learning Resources & Training

Outlined below are a few ways we can assist at no cost to your institution or to your students for the remainder of the spring term.

Digital Learning Resources:

eBooks
Connect, ALEKS, and SIMnet courseware which includes assignable resources such as:

Adaptive reading experiences – tailor readings to focus students on core learning objectives
Auto-graded assessments – conveniently facilitate and grade quizzes and exams
Videos assets and case studies – help convey key learning objectives
Tegrity lecture capture software – custom create your own video lectures to deliver via your LMS course shell
Application-Based Simulations – bring real world activities into your course for more student engagement
Remote Proctoring support via LockDown Browser and Respondus ^® Monitor in ALEKS (Free now through June 17th, 2020)
Many more discipline specific assets tailored to the unique needs of the specific course of study

Services:

Faculty training & course setup help
LMS course shell integration
Online tutorials, tips, and best practices

In addition, we are offering some upcoming virtual trainings for you to share with the appropriate parties on campus.

Join us for our Transitioning Your Course from On-Campus to Online webinar on Wednesday, March 18^th at 12pm ET.
Sign up for a Basics of Connect webinar for quick tips for your online course. Click here to register.
Visit our Support At Every Step site for self-service videos and guides on Connect.

Vendor Resources: The Chronicle is providing free access to our breaking-news updates

As the crisis deepens, The Chronicle is providing free access to our breaking-news updates.

We invite you to explore our complete coverage of the coronavirus, including other tools and resources you might find useful:

A collection of our best advice on teaching online during the pandemic, downloadable for free.
A private Facebook discussion group where more than 5,000 campus officials share questions and advice.
A running tracker of the latest developments, updated daily and sent directly to your inbox.

Vendor Resources: MAGNA Publications Teaching Online Course - Free

With many educators now needing to teach their courses online, we realize that this sudden change can be stressful and confusing. We're offering our Taking Your Teaching Online Program Collection at no cost to help teachers learn what works in the online environment.

Taking Your Teaching Online Program Collection is a collection of Magna Online Seminars and 20-Minute Mentor programs that focus on online teaching and learning. This program collection contains approximately seven hours of content. This is a quick-start collection that covers planning, teaching, engagement, and student success.

You can receive this collection for free when you use coupon code COLLECTION at checkout.

Vendor Resources: Free Access to JoVE Education and Community Support

As many colleges and universities are making the difficult decision to move to remote teaching and learning models, JoVE is happy to provide all of our Education video content free to use in STEM teaching efforts through June 15th.

https://www.jove.com/blog/educator-blog/jove-offers-free-access-to-extensive-stem-education-video-library-to-aid-remote-teaching-learning-as-covid-19-pandemic-shuts-down-classrooms-around-the-world/

March 16, 2020

Covid-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

See the notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bz36gxkH49aGxuvk6nYS8NAQm6wdX63ilInxbvqKDkY/edit?usp=sharing

Please join us for the next Watercooler this Friday March 20th at 1:00PM

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ILL - Statewide Delivery Service Suspended until March 30th

Due to the current status of our public libraries in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Statewide Delivery Service will be suspended to all libraries until March 30, 2020. If anything changes we will let you know. If you have any concerns please contact Kytara Gaudin at kgaudin@slol.lib.la.us.

Changing Due Dates in Symphony WorkFlows

SirsiDynix has provided some excellent guidelines with regards to closing a library suddenly due to COVID-19. Not everything described applies for every situation, but it has some good things to think about. https://louislibrarieshelp.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/360061868373/Preparing_for_COVID-19_Closure_SYMPHONY.pdf

https://task.louislibraries.org/hc/en-us/articles/360044570794-Changing-Due-Dates-in-WorkFlows

Remote Access to EBA & Perpetual Access Collections

As the educational community responds to COVID-19, I wanted to share some online resources that are free or affordable. Students may be experiencing greater financial stress than usual if they’re not able to work due to the coronavirus. These resources and tools will continue to be free to you and your students after the crisis is over.

Below are some places to start finding free and open resources. Feel free to contact me with your topic or learning objectives, and I will look for you!

LOUIS OER Commons: Search for openly-licensed free resources. Use the Advanced Search > Course Alignments to find resources aligned to the courses most commonly taught in LA.
Open Textbook Library. Read peer reviews and access open textbooks being used across the world.
Openstax. High-quality, peer-reviewed, open textbooks on introductory topics. Students can buy print copies. See their blog post on Teaching online with OpenStax to support emerging social distancing requirements. OpenStax has quiz banks, slides, and other ancillaries freely available for instructors who sign up with them. OpenStax Allies offer competitively-priced homework platforms that work with OpenStax books, and many of them are waiving costs right now.
Lumen Learning. Offers a wide array of open content that you can access for free. Their Waymaker and OHM modules are low-cost homework platforms that can be integrated with Moodle, Canvas , and other learning management systems.

The library also has a robust collection of e-books. All these collections allow for an unlimited number of simultaneous users and are DRM-free, meaning students can save for offline use:

JSTOR: ~32,500 titles are available.
ProjectMuse: ~6,200 titles are available for the social sciences and humanities.
IEEE Now Publishers Foundations and Trends® Technology eBooks Library: More than 475 titles on emerging topics in engineering and computer science
Duke University Press: 2,600+ titles published by Duke UP.

Emily Frank emily.frank@laregents.edu

ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 will get unlimited access to all owned titles

"ProQuest Ebook Central customers impacted by COVID-19 will get unlimited access to all owned titles from these publishers through mid-June. This means that all licenses – including single-user and three-user models – will automatically convert to unlimited access during that period, helping librarians bridge the gap for their patrons in this rapidly changing environment. The unlimited access also applies to additional titles purchased through mid-June."

You can read the details and see the list of participating publishers here: https://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2020/Coronavirus-Impacted-Libraries-Get-Unlimited-Access-to-Ebook-Central.html

No action is required on your part, the temporary expanded access will convert immediately.

ACRL Presents Webcasts Covering Topics Directly Related to Online Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic

ALA and ACRL are committed to supporting our members, staff, and all librarians and library workers during these uncertain times. Now more than ever, academic and research librarians and libraries are essential to a thriving global community of learners and scholars. Whether you are working on campus or supporting your community remotely, ACRL has a variety of easily accessible options for free online professional development to help you build your skills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join us this week for a series of three free ACRL Presents webcasts covering topics directly related to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sign up for each webcast at the links in the titles and recordings of all of these will be available on our YouTube channel and social media as soon as possible after the live events.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020: “Information Literacy at a (Social) Distance: Strategies for Moving Online.” – 3:00-4:00 pm Central.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020: “Pandemic Pedagogy: Resources for Library Instruction at a Distance” – 1:00 – 2:00 pm Central.

Friday, March 20, 2020: “Copyright for Campus Closures: Exploring the Copyright Issues around Moving Instruction and Reference Online” – 1:00 2:00 pm Central.

Louisiana Library Status Blog

The State Library of Louisiana is tracking the status of libraries in Louisiana. http://prepare.lib.la.us/blog/

List of Newly Opened Content

Provided by Erin Gallagher, Electronic Resources Librarian, George A. Smathers Libraries

I’ve compiled this list of Publisher/Vendor Support for Access to E-Resources in Response to COVID-19. I initially intended it for sharing at my institution only, but I believe there is a strong need to share this widely. It is organized into four sections:

Extended or temporary gratis access to e-resources (Kanopy, JoVE)
Publishers temporarily lifting access restrictions on content related to COVID-19 (bronze OA)
Freely available resources
Other sources of support—local and global (includes the “Vendor Love” document and the ICOLC statement)

The link I provided allows for editing, so please add other resources and links as you see fit. I will continue to update as more announcements are shared.

Covid-19/Corona Virus Resources

Tips & Tricks for a Remote World - SpringShare

https://blog.springshare.com/2020/03/16/tips-tricks-for-the-remote-first-world/

As more and more schools are closing, events are being canceled, buildings are shutting their doors, and people are remote-working where possible in order to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and flatten the curve… your organization is facing a critical and time-sensitive situation. How do you provide virtual services to your patrons?

Here at Springshare, we know you’re under a lot of pressure and we’re here to help you adjust quickly and ensure that your library can provide effective support to online learners and community members that cannot physically be in the library. But first things first, we want to assure you that your Springshare Service will continue uninterrupted during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

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June 5, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Board of Regents Issues Reopening Guidelines

A New ILL Community-Sourced Map: Learn Lending Status and When to Return ILL Items

May 22, 2020

LOUIS Phased Reopening Guide for Libraries: Report and Recommendations

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus

Librarian Volunteers Help WHO Make Sense of COVID Information

Research Libraries Redeploy Loaner Laptops to Aid Students during COVID-19 Closures

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

Reopening Guidelines and Reading

Professional Development Opportunity: 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, June 9-11, 2020

Vendor Provided Professional Development: ILLiad - Automate your Request Process

May 1, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

How Children’s Museums are Fostering Imagination, Learning, and Creativity at Home

LOUIS Professional Development Opportunities

New Resource Sharing Requesting Service to Support Libraries in COVID-19

Strada Education Network: Education & Labor Policy Response Webinar

Vendor Resources: Join Our New "COVID-19 Responses for Libraries" Basecamp Group

Vendor Provided Professional Development: COVID-19—We’re in this together: Continuing to manage your ILL service

Vendor Provided Professional Development: ILLiad Projects during Coronavirus Closures

Vendor Professional Development: Part 3 of the Workshop Series: Automate Your Request Process on May 5

April 22, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion

LOUIS Lagniappe - Please share your experience

LOUIS Professional Development Opportunities

Recordings Available:

Open and Affordable Spring Learning Series:

Electronic Resources Discussions and Training:

System Administration

COVID-19 Electronic Resources Resource Offers

Vendor Offered Professional Development: Supporting Open Research Workflows and Digital Collaboration

April 16, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Professional Development Opportunities with LOUIS

April 20th at 12:30PM: Mike Waugh - SymphonyWeb

April 22nd at 12:30PM: Electronic Resource Statistics for making decisions about cancellations and renewals with Lindsey Reno, UNO and Brian Sherman, LSUS

April 23rd at 10AM: Dr. Connie Walton – Transforming Organic Chemistry Courses

April 27th at 10AM: Fr. Damian Hinojosa – Promoting Student Savings from OER

LOUIS Lagniappe Contributions

IPEDS Statistics with Brian Sherman, LSUE

Vendor Offered Professional Development: ILLiad

Vendor Offered Professional Development: Global Webinar Series Session Spotlight: Coffee with EBSCO - A Roundtable Discussion with Your Colleagues

Vendor Resources: IEEE

April 8, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

ILL Statewide Delivery Service Update

Copyright in a Crisis Guidelines

Professional Development: Electronic Resources Learning and Discussion Sessions

Professional Development: Helping you navigate a changing education landscape

Professional Development: ACRL Presents: Tips for Suddenly Switching to Online Reference and Access Services

Professional Development: copyright in this COVID-19 environment

Professional Development: Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference

April 6, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Professional Development: Open and Affordable Spring Learning Series

Professional Development: Electronic Resources Learning and Discussion Sessions

Facing Challenge with Resilience: How Museums are Responding During COVID-19

MICHELSON SPARK GRANTS COVID-19 RESPONSE ROUND LAUNCHES NEXT WEEK

Vendor Resources: Sage Update

April 1, 2020

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

Delgado Library LibGuide and Video for Online Course Reserves Using RedShelf

Deadline for the Faculty Cohort Program Extended

Learning with LOUIS - Open and Affordable Learning Series

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure

Professional Development: Working with the MarcEditor

Professional Development: Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections

Vendor Resources: EBSCO

March 30, 2020

A Message from the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)

COVID-19 LOUIS Member Watercooler Discussion & Connection Info

ACRL Presents: Academic Librarianship in the Wake of the Coronavirus

CopyTalk: Fair Use and Controlled Digital lending in the Age of Covid-19

Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections

Safe Handling of Materials