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Tenn-Share seeks to provide leadership and support in all areas of resource sharing among the libraries and information agencies of all types and sizes in Tennessee. [more...]

Tenn-Share News

Recent Issues with Tenn-Share Email

Submitted by Melissa Brenneman on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 8:58am

Tenn-Share's webmaster recently discovered that there was a glitch with Tenn-Share's website host that affected the operation of outgoing email used to process form submissions and page subscriptions. According to the transaction logs, some user actions on the Tenn-Share website in September may have been trapped by this glitch, or an update notification from the site may not have been sent to subscribers. If you have not been able to register for a website login, please try again now.

On behalf of Tenn-Share, I apologize and I assure you that this incident is being investigated and the hosting technical support team is taking measures to be sure this doesn't happen again.

The Tenn-Share Board of Directors appreciates your interest in and support of Tenn-Share's resource sharing initiatives.

Melissa Brenneman
Tenn-Share President

Tenn-Share's Group Access Capability

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Tenn-Share's Group Access Capability (GAC) allows you to quickly find other Tenn-Share member libraries to borrow from on OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing platform. You can then use custom holdings to further narrow  down to the libraries nearest you, or other criteria (such as users of the same courier service that your library uses). The GAC also works with the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing deflection functionality.

The GAC symbol is TNSH. The group began with about 60 Tennessee libraries who participate in the Tenn-Share discount on FirstSearch. If your library is in the group you will see the group symbol in your institutional policy directory account as well as on the Lender Pending/In Process ILL request.

Interlibrary Loan

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In a 2011 Conference breakout session, Tony Melvyn of OCLC spoke about how you can start to offer interlibrary loan to your patrons using WorldCat Resource Sharing. Here are the slides of his presentation.

Limitless Libraries is recipient of the 2011 Tennessee Resource Sharing Award

Submitted by Penny Frere on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 2:11pm
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The recipient of the 2011 Tennessee Resource Sharing Award is Limitless Libraries, a unique partnership between Nashville Public Library (NPL) and Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) that combines the purchasing power and resources of both entities to facilitate students' access to library resources wherever they are in the city. Students can borrow resources from NPL to their school library; NPL has started purchasing resources for MNPS; and the two institutions have started buying e-resources together.

Accepting the award presented by Tricia Bengel, Tenn-Share President, at the Tenn-Share Conference on October 28, was Danielle Mezera, Director for the Mayor's Office of Youth and Children. Ms Mezera and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean conceived of the program; it was led by Ms Mezera.

 

DataFest, Conference, Collection Fair

Submitted by Penny Frere on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:04am
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Tenn-Share's annual fall events are fast approaching! The DataFest, Thursday, October 27, is free but requires registration. The Conference, Friday, October 28, requires registration and payment of a fee that can be paid by check of PayPal. The School Library Collection Fair, Thursday and Friday, October 27 and 28, is free also. All three events are open to librarians from all types of libraries.

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