Tulsa City-County Library has announced their move to a different Interlibrary Loan consortium. They will no longer be a participant in Oklahoma’s WorldCat Resource Sharing Group. We would like to thank them for their many years of partnership with Oklahoma libraries in statewide resource sharing. You will want to return materials borrowed from them so they can clear records from OCLC.

We have a new code prepared  by the Interlibrary Loan Committee, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 1994, revised 2001. Revised by the Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee, Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) 2008 and 2015. Approved by RUSA Board January 11, 2016.

Please take time and look this important document over.

The .PDF can be found here:

http://www.ala.org/rusa/sites/ala.org.rusa/files/content/sections/stars/resources/ILL_Code_with_Supplement.pdf

If you haven’t made a link/bookmark to these lists do it now!

I don’t want to be the last one on the block to read/hear/see the latest.  Now with these lists, I’m not.  Give it a try.

New Arrivals

See Oklahoma Authors/Topics, Staff Picks, and Librarian’s Professional Development lists too.

Holiday Mail Stop
December 4, 2015 – January 4, 2016     

The Oklahoma Department of Libraries Interlibrary Loan Department will stop taking requests for things we do NOT own on November 7.  We will continue processing and mailing items we own until December 4, 2015.  All interlibrary loan activity will cease December 4 and resume January 4, 2016.  Interlibrary loan requests will NOT be filled or referred between the above dates.  Interlibrary loan resumes on January 4, 2016.

Chickasaw Regional (Public) Library System is offering the following reference collections FREE to any interested library:

• Contemporary Authors V 1-281
• Something About the Authors V 1-200
• Contemporary Literary Criticism V 1-267
• Current Biography 1940-2011

These books are all in excellent condition and are free to any library or person who would like them. They may picked up at the Chickasaw Regional Library System’s library headquarters in Ardmore, or can be shipped if the receiving party will pay the shipping costs. For more information, please contact the Chickasaw Regional Library System by email or phone (580-223-3164).

Due to the construction at the capitol, our law branch has moved to the 18th and Walnut location.  Please welcome Christine,  and Doug who will answer your legal reference questions.

Look into our NOLO and Nutshell collections.  Great books to use for a first step.(Click photos to read spines.)