August 2016 - Did You Know These 3 Things?

Aug.

2016

ISSUE

No. 7|8

DID YOU KNOW. . .

#1 . . . Registration is Open for NELLCO Symposium 2017 on Long Island?

March 9-10, 2017 - Open Access and Legal information

In the wake of the sale of SSRN/LSN to Elsevier, what is the future of open access for legal scholarship? How can law libraries collaborate to facilitate and support open access? Is there a role for NELLCO? Join your colleagues as we explore the OA landscape for legal information. A complete schedule is forthcoming.

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Please join us in Garden City, NY at the Garden City Hotel, March 9-10, 2017. Great location! Just steps to Long Island Railroad station (Hempstead Branch). Easy access by train from Kennedy and La Guardia airports. From New England, consider ferry from Bridgeport, CT to Port Jefferson. Stay for the weekend and visit the city!

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Your registration includes:

conference fee, most meals, and 2 nights lodging! NYC proximity without the NYC price!

Register by 8/31 for these earlybird rates!

Single occupancy-$500.00
Double occupancy -$400.00
No accommodations required - $250.00

POST-SYMPOSIUM ALLSTAR WORKSHOP - Plans are underway for a half-day, hands-on workshop on Sat. following the Symposium. Participants will work with existing ALLStAR data for their institution and others to learn techniques and best practices for assessment and benchmarking. Facilitated by ACRL assessment guru and author Robert Dugan, Dean of Libraries at University of West Florida, this preconference workshop will give participants the skills they need to use their data in meaningful ways.

There will be a separate registration and fee for this workshop. Details will be posted soon! Watch the Symposium page on the NELLCO website.

#2 . . . The ALLStAR Benchmarking project has launched?

Academic Law Libraries: Statistics, Analytics and Reports - This is an exciting and groundbreaking project supported by the Yale Law Library and the NELLCO Law Library Consortium. Are you frustrated with the minimally useful takeoffs and pdf reports that you receive from 3rd parties? Do you want to be able to mine the data and extract data points of use to you in real time? ALLStAR has the potential to be your library's go to tool for internal analysis and benchmarking, as well as all of your data gathering and reporting requirements (ABA, ARL, USNWR, IPEDS, etc.).

We are using Counting Opinions' LibPAS as the platform for our custom interface. LibPAS is a unique and comprehensive performance data management solution for libraries. Working with Counting Opinions, we have been able to pre-populate the ALLStAR database with some of your existing ABA and ARL data, and it is ready for you to explore.

The cost to develop and implement ALLStAR is being underwritten in year one by NELLCO and the Yale Law Library. We invite and encourage all academic law libraries to participate AT NO COST in the first year. After year one, those participating libraries that opt to continue will share the cost of the system. Although the cost will depend on the level of participation, our goal is that it not exceed $1,000/year per library.

How to participate

Participation is open to any interested academic law library. Membership in NELLCO is not required to participate. Each library will manage their own access to ALLStAR. An e-mail was sent out to all of the U.S. academic law library directors following the AALL Annual Meeting which contains the login information and credentials for your library. Please check with your library director.

Informational Webinars

In July and Aug. a series of webinars was held to provide information about ALLStAR. If you were unable to attend, you can access each of the recorded sessions here.

ALLStAR - Introduction
ALLStAR - Reporting Features

Questions? Please ask us!

#3. . . We have some new offers for you?

NELLCO currently has license agreements for more than 80 e-resources, and we're always considering new offers.

New offers - visit the NELLCO website for all of the details on these and other offers.

Global Regulation - The World's Most Comprehensive Global Law Search Engine.
Murdoch's Irish Legal Companion - A one-stop legal research tool which contains all of the core Irish legal research resources.

Forthcoming - Trials on these products will be posted in the coming weeks.

Linex Systems - Our content automation platform gives you back control by enabling you to manage all your sources of information in one place.
BMI Research - For more than 30 years, our forecasts, data and analyses have been used by multinationals, governments and financial institutions to guide critical strategic, tactical and investment decisions. Clients include a majority of Global Fortune 500 companies.

Watch your in box for these and other new offers for NELLCO and MALLCO members. Please let us know if these or other providers are of particular interest to you!

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