Hits to Resource Sharing Question:
In the age of budget cuts and increasing resource costs, we are
investigating partnerships between public and school libraries OR school
and university libraries sharing the costs of databases. If you have
such an intergovernmental program or have advice/thoughts, please share.
I will post hits. Geralyn Haan, Maine West High School, Des Plaines,
IL 60018
HITS
1. The state of Utah has a fantastic partnership where school, public,
and government (state) all have a partnership at uen.org. Click on
Pioneer Library. We share access to such resources as World Book
Online, EBSCO, Sirs Deluxe, and other wonderful databases. The state
funding provides it. Saves us tons of money and students even have home
access. You could e-mail uen and ask them about it.
Kathy Minson
Joel P. Jensen Middle School
West Jordan, Utah
"Kathy Minson" <kathryn.minson@jordan.k12.ut.us>
2. Arlington County public libraries and school libraries have a
shared
database. The schools are considered branches of the public library.
So
our library collections are shared. We also have EBSCOhost, Grolier,
Proquest. The state gives all libraries SIRS. The schools tend to buy
the
elementary programs. We all also have links to the public library's
databases, through the public library with patron card.
Debra Balsam
Taylor Elementary
ARlington, VA
dbalsam@pen.k12.va.us
3. The Library of VA based in Richmond, VA has something set up with
SIRS
so that public and school libraries can use the database. I'm not
sure
of the details, but LVA would be the ones to contact.
"Shelley Stietzel" <STIETZSR@pwcs.edu>
4. In Nevada, the state legislature has funded a state-wide database
that
is available to both public schools and public libraries. The cost
has been around $500,000 a year. The first few years we had SIRS (all
three components), EBSCO with a few extras thrown in, and Groliers
Encyclopedias from an LSTA grant. Now we have EBSCO, some of the
Gale databases, CQ Researcher, and Groliers encyclopedias.
In our school district, all the secondary schools pooled some
special funds each school received to purchase: ABC-CLIO (4 dbs), Roth
Litfinder, Facts on File Science Online, CultureGrams, Gale Opposing
Viewpoints.
We are worried that the funding won't be renewed by the state.
Lee D. Gordon
Librarian
Sierra Vista High School
8100 W. Robindale Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89113
(702) 799-6820 x229
FAX (702) 799-6847
lgordon@lvcm.com
5. Geralyn, one that we've done is a membership with the Missouri
Library Network
Consortium. This is available to Illinois libraries with a $40 annual
membership fee, and, through it, I was able to purchase Grove
Dictionary of Art
and McGraw-Hill Access Science at greatly reduced prices. I'm looking
closely
at their eBook collection this year; the collection looks great and
might be
where my little bit of money in this area goes this year. These
databases are
just three of the many they offer through their consortium -- look
at "Electronic Resources" on their website, http://www.mlnc.org, where
you can
also print out the required membership application.
They have had some great offerings over the years for good prices for
us
libraries.
Elizabeth Letterly (Libby), District Librarian
Williamsville CUSD #15
Williamsville IL USA 62693
http://www.wcusd15.org/library
6. While we do not have a formal agreement, we stay in contact with
each
other and do not duplicate databases. Because the public library has
electronic resources that we don't have, we actively promote use of
the
public library site. We have a link to the public library on our LRC
home page and actually take all freshman & junior students to the site.
We demonstrate online access and interlibrary loan.
Daniel Russo, LRC Director
Batavia High School
1200 West Wilson Street
Batavia, Illinois 60510
Phone (630) 879-4600 x4812
Fax (630) 879-4698
www.bps101.net/bhs/lrc
7. Sharing the costs of databases between intergovernmental agencies
is a great idea. In Iowa the State Library subscribes to several
databases that can be used by the citizens of Iowa in their homes.
Databases that have been provided are Electric Library, EBSCO, AP Photo,
and next year we will have World Book Online. The Area Edcuation
Agencies in Iowa have also provided subscriptions to online databases
for the schools within their areas. The contracts from our AEA allow
students to access the databases from their homes as well as from school
computers.
Kathy Geronzin
District Librarian
Northeast Community School District
3690 Hwy # 136
Goose Lake, IA 52750
Phone 563-577-2249
FAX 563-577-2248
8. In NH, the State Library bought a license for EbscoHost, that is
for all
Public, and K-12 schools. I don't think it includes Academic
libraries.
Gail Shea Grainger
Librarian, Chesterfield School, Chesterfield, NH
K-12 Web site cataloged by Dewey Decimal Classification
http://www.deweybrowse.org ggrainger@deweybrowse.org
9. We are fortunate in Connecticut to have (although we hold our
collective
breaths each year) *The Connecticut Digital Library* -
www.iconn.org
Perhaps if you contacted William Sullivan there might be a way to
preview.
wsullivan@cslib.org
Julie Hulten, Library Media Specialist
Mark T. Sheehan H.S.
142 Hope Hill Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
203-294-5940 - phone
203-294-5983 - fax
jhulten@wallingford.k12.ct.us
10. You need to check Pennsylvania's state-wide program, AccessPA. In
it,
most of the state's school, public, university and special libraries
list the contents of card catalogs. Members email requests to each
other to borrow materials. You can find us on the web at
www.accesspa.state.pa.us if you would like to examine our catalog.
We all pay a yearly fee to help cover costs, and the state also gives
us
some money to help pay for costs. As a side bonus, we also get
several
databases, including Ebscohost, Groves's dictionaries, AccuNet AP
Multimedia Archive, Poem Finder, Searchasaurus, Contemporary Authors,
Scribner Writer Series, SIRS and Big Chalk. It's really a terrific
program for us, especially those of us who have small school and
public
libraries and little or no access to university libraries.
Betty Hardes
Smethport Area High School Library
Smethport, PA 16749
11. Here in Buffalo, the public library has several
on-line databases available to all library card
holders - they need to enter card number to access. I
have students write their card number in their plan
books so that they can use them from school. This is
OK with the public library. We also provide other
on-line databases as does the state of New York.
Jill Brown, LMS
Nardin Academy
Buffalo, NY
buflib@yahoo
Geralyn B. Haan, Lead Librarian
Maine West High School LRC
1755 South Wolf Road
Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S. 60018
ghaan@maine207west.k12.il.us
(847) 827-6176, or (847) 803-5782
FAX (847) 296-4916
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