Transcript Steve Spohn, Resource Sharing Director,

STRONGER TOGETHER
Resource Sharing Frontiers
Massachusetts Library System
ALA 2015 – San Francisco
STRONGER TOGETHER
Massachusetts Library System
About Us
• State-funded
• Nonprofit organization
Stronger Together
• 1600+ member libraries
• Multi-type
STRONGER TOGETHER
Resource Sharing Programs
Commonwealth
eBook Collections
• Statewide eBook program
• 400+
Delivery
MassCat
• Statewide courier service
• 500+
• Small, multi-type library
network
• 70+
Mediated ILL
Statewide Databases
• ILL processing center
• 500+
• 1600+
STRONGER TOGETHER
Two Big Initiatives
Commonwealth eBook
Collections
Interstate Delivery
STRONGER TOGETHER
Collections
Partners
Library Networks
Participating Libraries
STRONGER TOGETHER
FY 2016 Goals
User Experience
• Product enhancements
• eBook discovery
Building Program
Value
• Comicon
• School Library Curriculum
• SELF-e
Library Training and
Engagement
• More training – face to
face and virtual
Publisher Connections
• More than content
• Strategic meetings
STRONGER TOGETHER
Partners: Optima Shipping ~ Automated Resource Sharing Networks
STRONGER TOGETHER
In the works…
• Regional Resource Sharing Symposium, February 2015
• NEXT: Interstate Pilot, 2016
• NIBBLES: CT, ME, NY, RI