Text Box: protected page underwent a complete overhaul including name (SCILS Only), design (visual matching style of home page), and links ( Updated: procedures and meeting minutes format. New: properties and policies with screenshots.)   Text Box: With the extra help of an assistant completing routine tasks, the SCILS System Librarian, Mary Daubenspeck was able to do the first major revision of the SCILS Web site since it was created in fall of 2004. The redesign made the Web site a  more visually appealing marketing tool for SCILS while also incorporating functionality. New or updated features of the  SCILS pages: Þ Pictures from each school Þ 3 month calendar of events and the SCILS Librarian schedule Þ Addition of SCILS 5 year goals and historical timeline Text Box: Þ SCILS contact distribution lists by job function Þ SCILS new and revised Technical policies Þ Professional Development page completely overhauled The “Members’Only” password Text Box: SCILS gets a new part-time employee Text Box: The Board approved hiring a part-time assistant for the SCILS System Librarian at the November 15, 2007 meeting. The decision was made to ensure that the SCILS members were receiving a high level of service. Mary Daubenspeck, Jennie Redmond, and Margaret Green worked together to create a job description. The job was posted in December 2007 and over 100 people applied. Six promising Text Box: candidates were interviewed. Lori Hetrick showed herself head and shoulders above the competition with a MLIS, experience with Sirsi, training, and technical writing. Lori started on February 25,2008 with skills that enabled her to soon start to do the PASCAL record loading, revise the SCILS Sirsi procedures for the JAVA client, and pull together the SCILS monthly reports. Text Box: The addition of a part-time employee has proved to be a value asset to improving services. Text Box: HighLights for JUly 2007 — June 2008 Text Box: Mary Daubenspeck SCILS System Librarian Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box: Members of Consortium · Central Carolina Technical College · Greenville Technical College · Horry-Georgetown Technical College · Northeastern Technical College · Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College · Piedmont Technical College · Spartanburg Community College · Technical College of the Low- Country · Tri-County Technical College · Williamsburg Technical College · York Technical College

Text Box: SCILS had remarkable improvement in most key figures. 2007/2008 Statistics ·   11 Technical/community colleges ·   87,090 Checkouts ·   24,924 In-house use ·   112,014 Total Circulation ·    19,568 Total items added Text Box: ·   376,947 Total physical items ·   30,941 Full time equivalents (FTE) Highlights for the year: 12.64% increase in   checkouts (9776 more)   than the previous year 1.84% increase in total   Items (5909 more) than 2   years ago Text Box:  6.66% increase in Full   Time Equivalents (1333   more) than 2 years ago  8.16% increase in In-   House Use (2034 more)   than previous year For full access to annual statistics, go to the SCILS home page under “Annual Reports” or click on the direct link:  http://library.sccsc.edu/scils/annual.htm   Text Box: · 355,301 items which was 3.22 % of the total items (11,046,519) in the PASCAL Delivers Catalog Key SCILS events with PASCAL in 2007/2008 7/17   CCTC fully implemented 7/26   YTC and NETC trained 8/27   WTC fully implemented 8/31   YTC fully implemented 10/9   GTC and TCTC trained 12/3   TCTC fully implemented 12/10 GTC fully implemented 4/01 NETC fully implemented Text Box: PASCAL Delivers was fully implemented for all the SCILS colleges in 2007/08. The statistics are phenomenal considering that there was only 3-months of  full participation. Key Figures for 2007/2008 · SCILS Libraries loaned 2053 items which was nearly 8% of the total loaned (25,663) · SCILS users received 2604 items which was over 10% of the total borrowed (25,663) · SCILS Libraries contributed Text Box: *HGTC, OCTC, PTC, SCC & TCLC fully implemented in 2006/2007 Due to a 90% funding cut in the 2008/09 SC State budget, SCILS colleges and their students, faculty, and staff are endanger of losing the resources that are provide through PASCAL. This program gives cost-effective access to over 11 million items— which saves the colleges money without diminishing the quality of resources available.   Text Box: Facts and Statistics for SCILS Consortium for 2007-2008 Text Box: PASCAL Delivers Program is Fully Implemented Text Box: Online class created for SCILS training Text Box: loging pretest giving Mary valuable information about training needs. Starting in March, Sirsi Workflows circulation procedure documents were created or updated and then uploaded to the SCILS online class to start the basis of circulation training module.  Eighteen circulation documents are now available in the SCILS online class. In May, Mary tackled creating  an acquisitions module in the online class when an in- Text Box: person training for acquisition had to be scrapped due to budget cuts. Mary created 3 introductory videos and 18 Camtasia videos about getting started with Sirsi acquisitions as a new library or new employee, setting up properties, creating vendors, funds, orders, and invoices for acquisitions. Now that the Blackboard class exists, more online modules are in the works for serials and other topics. Text Box: In January, a shell online class was created for the SCILS Consortium in Blackboard. Within a few weeks, a cataloging pretest was designed and released in preparation for the in-person cataloging training class taught by the SCILS System Librarian, Mary Daubenspeck at Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College on February 20, 2008. Twenty-one people from all eleven schools took the cata Text Box: SCILS Survey Results 95% of members completing the 1st SCILS annual survey rated either agreed or strongly agreed that they were pleased with services provided by the SCILS office.   Full results are available on the SCILS Web site under “Survey Results.” Text Box: Page 2 Text Box: 2007/08 PASCAL statistic for SCILS Consortium.

 

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Text Box: SCILS website is completely revised and reformatted Text Box: SCILS Administrative Specialist Lori Hetrick Text Box: Mary Daubenspeck SCILS Systems Librarian Spartanburg Community College Library PO Box 4386 Spartanburg, SC 29305  Phone: 864-592-4943 Fax: 864-592-4762 Email: daubenspeckm@sccsc.edu   Text Box: The South Carolina Information and Library Services (SCILS) Consortium is made up of 11 technical and community colleges. It was formed in 1994 with 4 original members to facilitate collaboration, to share expertise, expenses, and information resources, and to offer better quality services to students, faculty and their broader communities. Important Facts:   Text Box: SCILS ConSortium OFFICE Text Box: à Improved exchange between peers through implementation of email/phone lists grouped by job function for employees of SCILS libraries. à Revised  and posted procedural documentation for the JAVA Workflows software created by the SCILS office with the assistance of some members. à Revised existing and created new Standards and Policies for im Text Box: Some of the notable gains in 2007/2008: à Purchased 7th eBook Collection as a group at a savings of $4846.75. à Provided all SCILS members with access and support to PASCAL  services including PASCAL Delivers program. à Offered SCILS-created training in the form of in-person cataloging training, online catalog test, and acquisition online videos with accompanying documentations. Text Box: à proved services for students for Academic Reserves, Cataloging, Circulation-Patron, ILL, and Reports.  Will soon complete Acquisitions, Serial and Circulation-Items policies. à Facilitate better communication between members and the SCILS Systems Office with the reintroduction of the SCILS Monthly Report in April of 2008. à Improved service for issues and problems submitted to the SCILS Text Box:  SCILS Consortium-Membership has its Advantages Text Box: Text Box: Þ 34 of the 46 South Carolina counties are served by SCILS libraries Þ 2,515,780  population of the communities served by SCILS libraries (US Census Bureau, 2000) Þ  48,545 total headcount for the SCILS Colleges for Fall 2007( SC CHE, 2008 Statistic Abstract)

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