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This article explores the experiences, successes, challenges, research, and opinions related to interlibrary loan services. It provides valuable insights and practical advice for those looking to improve their service and better serve library users.
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Writing about Interlibrary Loan Services: Sharing What We Think and Know https://pixabay.com/en/writing-writer-notes-pen-notebook-923882/ IDS Project Conference 2018Seeing Our Future: We Make it Happen! Beth Posner Head of Library Resource Sharing The Graduate Center, CUNY bposner@gc.cuny.edu
So…what do we think and know?! • Experience(s) • Successes • Challenges • Point of view • Research • Opinion • How I did it? • Argument https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=240382&picture=idea
Sources of “call for papers library” • Dolores' List of CFPs • http://sites.psu.edu/doloreslistofcfps/2018/06/19/deconstructing-service-in-libraries-intersections-of-identities-and-expectations/ • Library Juice • http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?cat=19 • A Library Writer's Blog • http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/
Why should someone read this? • It answers a question or contributes to it • Provokes thought, discussion • New idea • Old idea but better explained • Helps people do their job/serve library users https://pixabay.com/en/so-what-yellow-sticker-note-1462746/
Choose your medium • Articles • Solo • Collaborate • Books • Write • Edit Collection • Blog Posts • Social Media • Twitter • Instagram • Facebook • Presentations (maybe before writing it up, or maybe after) • Solo • Collaborate • Panel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_Mediums_commonly_used_for_Art_Therapy.JPG
Articles Single Author or Collaborating https://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstubs/384864783
Blog Postshttps://pixabay.com/en/blogging-text-writing-author-3094920/
SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter Facebook Instagram
BOOKS:Editingor Writing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading-books.jpg
Presentations(solo or group) https://pixabay.com/en/presenter-unluckily-show-3502290/
Steps Call Authors OA/IRs Deadlines Editing Copy Editing Proof Pages Index Marketing/Publicity
Lessons learned • Make it your own • Find the right people • Negotiate • Leave room • Leave time • Go back and forth • Go slowly and carefully • Ask for help and support