Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR)

FAQ: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR)

 

1. What is SILLVR? 

Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR), spearheaded by Auraria Library, is a collaborative pilot project among selected Alliance member libraries, the CO Alliance office and streaming video providers, currently Swank Digital Campus and Alexander Street. The pilot, which began in 2020 and has been extended each year since then, allows Alliance member libraries to share streaming videos through Prospector. All library patrons can request Alexander Street videos. The Swank license agreement limits requesting to academic patrons in Prospector and MOBIUS only. 

2. What do I do if I receive a SILLVR request for one of my patrons? 

The lending library will check the item out to the borrowing library and back in so the transaction is counted in the system.  The borrowing library will receive an email from the lending library that contains the requesting patron’s name and the link to access the video.  The staff member from the borrowing library, will send an email to the patron which includes a link to the video.  This completes the process for the borrowing library.   After 21 days (or contract  specified length of access)  the video will expire.  If the patron needs additional time with the video they can re-request it through Prospector as renewals are not allowed.

3. What will a typical SILLVR request look like?

Here is a typical email

Dear X Library Patron

One of your patrons has requested an item through the Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) program now available through Prospector.   Here is the information you will need to fulfill this request to your patron:

Title: Little Women

Requesting Institution: Jeffco Public

Patron name: XXXXX 

URL: URL of the streaming video

Expiration Date/Time: 1/27/2020 (After this date, the video is no longer available to view)

**Please note: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) is a new pilot program made available through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Prospector service.  If you have any difficulties, questions, or just would like more information about this program please contact me using the information below

Will include Lending library's contact information.

Feel free to add any other custom language to the email you forward onto your patron. 

5. How can I find a list of SILLVR items in Prospector?

Simply enter "SILLVR" in the Prospector search box.  Here's a short clip. 

6. What are the borrowing policies on SILLVR items?

All Colorado and Wyoming card holders may request  Alexander Street SILLVR items.  Only academic library patrons can request Swank items due to license restrictions.

7. What are the checkout parameters on SILLVR items? 

SILLVR items can be checked out for 21 days with no renewals.  The link will expire after 21 days.  No need to return these items since they will just vanish from the account. 

8 Which libraries are lenders in the SILLVR pilot project?

Auraria and University of Wyoming, CU Boulder, and Colorado Mesa University.  However, other libraries may be added over time. 

9. Are there public performance rights for SILLVR items

Swank videos do not include public performance rights. For example, a patron couldn't check out a Swank video and have a public showing of it.  Alexander Street videos do provide public performance rights.  

10.  How many titles are included in the SILLVR pilot project? 

Alexander Street has about 5,000 titles.  Most content is educational or documentary. 

Swank has approximately 800 titles.  These tend to be more popular block buster titles. 

11. Are there limitations on file size for these streaming videos?

No.  The email that is passed onto the patron only contains a link to the video.  

12. Which type of devices support streaming videos? 

Streaming videos are viewable on all modern technological devices including IOS, Android, E-readers, tablets and computers.  

13: Can I watch a streaming video on my smart tv? 

If viewers want to access the videos on their TVs,  they would have to use their TV’s built in web browser and navigate to the URL. In most cases this should work. However this is not a "supported" way to view the videos and the vendor can't provide technical assistance for this. Viewers can also access the video through a smart phone and screen-cast it to the TV (using Airplay for Apple or Chromecast for Android) and these technologies usually work fine.

Document Delivery Committee Minutes

Prospector Resource Sharing Committee Minutes

 

FAQ: Gold Rush® Linker

Gold Rush® Linker FAQ

What is Gold Rush® Linker?

Gold Rush Linker is a reference linking tool that is compliant with NISO versions 1.0 and 0.1. It will receive and respond to OpenURL 1.0 and 0.1 compliant queries, providing links to Gold Rush resources held by your library. In addition, if it has recieved enough information from the query, Gold Rush Linker can send a query to CrossRef, providing your patrons with a DOI compliant link to the full text provided by the publisher.

Is Gold Rush® Linker OpenURL compliant?

Yes, Gold Rush Linker is compliant with NISO versions 1.0 and 0.1 of the OpenURL standard.

Does Gold Rush® Linker work with CrossRef?

Yes, Gold Rush Linker does work with CrossRef, provided your site has a valid Crossref username and password, and provided your copy of Gold Rush Linker is configured to use CrossRef. If both of these conditions are met, and if Gold Rush Linker does not recieve a DOI in a request, Gold Rush Linker will then call CrossRef in an attempt to find a DOI for the current citation.  If a DOI is received from CrossRef and if your library subscribes to that particuclar journal (through proper configuration of your holdings in Gold Rush), then the Gold Rush Linker results screen will provide a link back to the publisher-based full-text of an article.

Why does Gold Rush® Linker sometimes fail to display any information at the top of the screen where the citation normally displays?

Gold Rush Linker builds it's display based on the information it receives from an incoming OpenURL HTTP request. Gold Rush Linker can only display as much information as it recieves in the request. So, if the system you're coming from does not provide a particular piece of information, Gold Rush Linker won't have that information either. For example, if the originating system does not include an author's name, Gold Rush Linker won't be able to display an author in the citation.

Why doesn't Gold Rush® Linker provide a link to service X?

Gold Rush Linker can provide links to a number of different resources.  We have configured about a dozen targets, ahead of time, for your convenience.  However, you must select these targets and enable them to make them active for your site.

Gold Rush also supports the ability to build your own targets to virtually any electronic resource.  The Gold Rush Staff Toolbox provides a powerful toolkit of features to enable a subscribing library to build outbound links to most publishes, databases or services.  In addition to being able to build your own targets to send queries into remote systems, a site can also send bibliographic metadata into Web-based forms to support interlibrary loan (e.g. OCLC Illiad, Clio, WebZap) or commercial document delivery services.

Does Gold Rush® Linker provide article-level links?

Yes, Gold Rush Linker can create article-level links into services which provide full text, interlibrary loan, and document delivery. Article level links are preconfigured for a variety of services.  However, Gold Rush has a toolkit that will allow a libary to create outbound article links to virtually any target using OpenURL variables.
Please see Gold Rush documentation for the details.

When do article-level links show up in Gold Rush® Linker?

A number of conditions have to be met before Gold Rush Linker can produce article-level links. First, the resource in question must be included in your library's full-text holdings in the Gold Rush database. Second, the link you clicked on to access Gold Rush Linker must have included enough information to produce a useful article-level link. Which pieces of information are necessary depends on the service, but ISSN, Volume, Issue, and starting page number are often required. Some services also require the date or other information. Finally, your site has to be configured to display article-level links. Gold Rush Linker configuration allows your library to select the services you want linked on an individual basis.

Why do article level links sometimes fail?

Article level links provided by Gold Rush Linker will sometimes fail for a number of different reasons. Sometimes, the system that provided the link to Gold Rush Linker included incorrect or corrupt data. Since Gold Rush Linker uses the data it receives to build links, if that data is bad, the links may be bad as well.

Another reason that article level links can fail is incomplete or incorrect configuration. In order to make article level links work, your librarians have to do a lot of work configuring the services that provide links to Gold Rush Linker, configuring Gold Rush Linker itself, configuring the database service the article level link points to, and often, configuring the library's proxy server or authentication server. If this work has not been done, or has been done incorrectly, article level links may fail.

Finally, good article level links require at least three systems to be available and working.

    the system which provides the link to Gold Rush Linker
    Gold Rush Linker itself
    the system that the article level link points to
    a proxy server or authentication server (in some cases)

If any one of these systems is experiencing temporary outages or other problems, article level links may fail.

Does Gold Rush® Linker help me find items other than articles and journals, like books or conference proceedings?

Gold Rush Linker was primarily built to locate the full text of articles in serial publications. OpenURL genre types other than "article" or "journal" will produce links to resources appropriate for that genre.  As such, Gold Rush can act as a bridge between a source and many different targets.

How do I configure Gold Rush® Linker for my library?

Gold Rush Linker configuration is handled in the Gold Rush Staff Toolbox. So, begin by pointing your browser to your Gold Rush Staff Toolbox, click on the "Settings" button, then click on the "Manage Gold Rush Linker" menu item.

For detailed instructions on managing your Gold Rush Linker configuration,please see the Gold Rush Linker documentation.

Can I configure my Gold Rush® Linker results screen?

Yes, Gold Rush offers libraries almost complete control over their Gold Rush Linker results screens. You can access the HTML and cascading stylesheets to control the look and feel of the output.

Gold Rush Product Descriptions

 

Gold Rush Decision Support

This feature option allows library staff to compare title lists from over 1,500 aggregators, publishers, and indexing/abstracting services that have been loaded into Gold Rush®. It allows comparison of the content within packages even if the library does not subscribe to them.

Gold Rush® A-Z Link Resolver

OpenURL link resolver with full compliance for NISO 1.0 and 0.1 standards. Control your own stylesheets and results page templates. The Public search interfaces offers not only A-Z browsing but full title, keyword and ISSN searching. Web 2.0 features with XML gateway to public interface.

Gold Rush® ERM

Subscriptions (ERM) is a system for monitoring contracts, pricing and the renewal process. Includes an incident tracker plus the ability to add your own fields.

Gold Rush® Complete

The Gold Rush® Complete level includes it all: Gold Rush® Decision Support, Subscriptions, plus a public interface (A-Z), staff interface and a link resolver.

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Prospector Director's Meeting

Prospector Director's Meeting

Prospector Annual Reports

Slides

 

Old Annual Reports 

 

Publications

Publications

Hosted/Supported Journals

Collaborative Librarianship
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/

Collaborative Librarianship is an open access journal which focuses on library collaboration and partnerships. It was founded in 2009 by Ivan Gaetz and originally hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries on OJS.  In 2016, Michael Levine-Clark and Jill Emery took over as Editors-in-Chief and the journal was migrated to the Digital Commons platform licensed through the University of Denver.

Charleston Advisor
http://www.charlestonco.com/

This peer-reviewed publication is the leading source of in-depth reviews of e-resources for libraries.  All member libraries of the Colorado Alliance have free access to this journal paid for by the consortium. The journal was originally published by The Charleston Company but was sold to Annual Reviews in June 2022. In the years 2017-May 2022 a sister database called ccAdvisor was available to Alliance members which offered a database-driven approach to all reviews in TCA. However, this partnership between ACRL and the Charleston Company ceased when the journal was sold to Annual Reviews.

 

 

 

Events

Events

2022

2021

2020

2019

Diversity & Inclusivity in Collection Building Workshop
July 11, 2019
Location: Anderson Commons at the University of Denver

FOLIO Meet-Up
June 4, 2019
Location: Anderson Commons at the University of Denver

ACRL Scholarly Communication RoadShow
May 24, 2019
Location: Auraria Campus, Denver, CO

2018

OER: From Vision to Action Conference
August 1 & 2, 2018
Location:  Auraria Campus, Denver, CO

2016

Library Assessments Workshop
November 18,2016
Location: Anderson Commons at the University of Denver

Alliance Shared Print Trust Workshop
September 12, 2016
Location: Anderson Commons at the University of Denver

The Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) Model for Print Books in Academic Libraries
February 25, 2016
Location: Morgan Library, Colorado State University

2014

Sharing Colorado's Unique Digital Collections
November 13, 2014
Location: Holiday Inn Cherry Creek, Denver, CO

CLiC Spring Workshop: Showcase of Colorado Alliance Services
March 3, 2014
Location: Two Rivers Convention Center, Grand Junction, CO

Next Generation Integrated Library Systems Conference
April 4, 2014
Location:  Holiday Inn, 455 South Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO

Featured Speakers:
Brad Wheeler, Indiana University, keynote
Innovative Interfaces, Sierra
Ex Libris, Alma
Kuali Foundation, OLE

Prospector Pre-Conference at the ILL Conference
April 17, 2014
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Resort

CLiC Spring Workshop: Showcase of Colorado Alliance Services
April 25, 2014
Location: Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, CO

2014 Copyright Conference at UCCS
June 10, 2014
Location: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Co-sponsored by the Alliance along with CLiC

Research Data Management Conference
July 11, 2014
Location: Holiday Inn, 455 South Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO

Digital Public Library of America
November 13, 2014 (New Date)
Location: Holiday Inn, 455 South Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO

2013

Mendeley/SWETS Program
September 30, 2013, Alliance Training Room

ADR Metadata Day
September 10, 2013, Alliance Training Room

Hosted Biblioboard presentation demo
May 20, 2013

Colorado ILL Conference 2013 (co-sponsor)
April 18-19, 2013

Hosted Credo Reference Literati demo
January 16, 2013

2012

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: A workshop for library directors & legal counsel
August 24, 2012

Prospector Users' Group meeting at the Colorado ILL conference 2012
April 2012

2011

Staying on TRAC: Digital Preservation Implications and Solutions for Cultural Heritage Institutions (co-sponsor)
July 7-8, 2011

Alliance eBook Conference
March 16, 2011

2010

Cyberinfrastructure 2010 in the Rockies – A Human Centered Approach
August 13, 2010 (co-sponsor with CSU)

Alliance Round Table: Circulating Non-book Material and Equipment
April 9, 2010

All-Alliance Conference: Digital Repositories, Data Curation, and the Cloud
January 28, 2010 - Preconference on the Alliance Digital Repository
January 29, 2010 - All-Alliance Conference

2009

Alliance Round Table: The Future of Electronic Reserves
September 25, 2009

Alliance Round Table: Digital Audio
September 11, 2009

Alliance Round Table: Learning Objects
June 26, 2009

Alliance Round Table: Microfiche Scanning
February 19, 2009

Special Projects

Special Projects

SILLVR (Streaming Interlibrary Loan for Video Resources)

In January 2020, the Alliance in collaboration with Auraria Library began a pilot for lending streaming video resources from several vendors.  In 2020 this included SWANK who can only lend streaming videos to academic libraries and Films on Demand (FOD).  After the first year, FOD dropped out of the pilot and was replaced by Alexander Street for their AVON streaming videos.  More information is available from Rose Nelson (rose@coalliance.org) or George Machovec (george@coalliance.org).

Demand-Driven Acquisition of E-books

In May 2012, the Alliance launched a Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) e-book pilot with nine of its member libraries. This pilot project worked with three partner organizations: YBP, EBL, and ebrary. The goal of the pilot is to examine costs and usage after a year and determine whether to continue the DDA program, add more publishers, and expand or narrow the group of participating Alliance institutions.  Since the program began ProQuest has consolidated EBL and ebrary into their Ebook Central platform and is still operational as of 2021.

Beginning in fall 2021, ProQuest will began a one year pilot with the Alliance to test interlibrary loan for owned ebooks from six publishers in this program.  The Alliance is one of the participating consortia and will lend these ebooks through the Prospector union catalog.

For more information about the pilot program, contact George Machovec, Executive Director, at george@coalliance.org.

Selected Historical Projects Which Have Ceased

Heritage West Metadata in Omeka

Heritage West was a search interface that allows you to simultaneously search digital collections from cultural heritage institutions in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Originally produced as part of the Colorado Digitization Program (CDP), this historical database is now hosted by the Alliance using the Omeka software. Though no updates or changes are being made to the metadata currently in Heritage West, the Alliance is examining several possibilities for re-use of the Heritage West metadata in digital repositories or other metadata aggregation sites.

Archivists' Toolkit Sites for Alliance Members

 The Alliance is offering free hosting of Archivits' Toolkit for its members. Archivists' Toolkit is open-source software for archival description and other archival management tasks. If you are interested in the software, contact George Machovec, Executive Director, at george@coalliance.org.

Prospector FAQ knowledge base

https://prospectorkb.coalliance.org/kb/

In the summer of 2013 the CO Alliance launched the Prospector FAQ website which captures the in-depth knowledge and expertise from Document Delivery and Catalog Reference committees and presents it in a searchable easy to use knowledge base for library staff.  The knowledge base includes Prospector specific policies and practices for borrowing/lending, holds, paging slips, record loading and other relevant issues. Much of the content has been culled from the Prospector listservs, committee minutes and other knowledge that has been generated over the years. 

High Speed Microform Scanner

A high speed microform scanner has been acquired by a cluster of libraries in the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to provide the opportunity for library-initiated and scanning projects of library materials.  The scanner is currently housed at the University of Colorado at Boulder and can be used for the digitization of microfilm and microfiche for both single items as well as larger scale projects. This shared hardware and service provides improved patron access to microform materials through digitization. Historically libraries have made substantial investments in various microformats and this service brings new and improved use to these collections, many of which are not available in other formats. The project also opens the door for grant funding as libraries look to digitize important historical materials. This shared scanner ceased operation in 2019 as most member libraries now have their own equipment and the original high speed scanner is no longer operational

Microform scanner policies for the initiative were jointly developed by the Alliance and participating libraries. Please contact CU/Boulder for details on the initiative.

Events, Projects and Publications

Events, Projects and Publications

The Alliance works together with members to build products, services, and solutions for emerging library issues.

Projects

The Alliance assists its members with organizing and managing projects that might not be feasible at a single library. Many of these projects are experimental or pilot projects designed to test out new resources or solutions.

Events

The Alliance organizes workshops, one-day conferences, and other events for its membership, and sponsors regional library programs and events. Visit the Events page for information about past and upcoming events.

Publications

Learn more about the journals that the Alliance hosts or supports, and view recent publications about Alliance products and services including white papers and conference presentations.

Listservs

The Alliance hosts listservs for its various services and projects.  You will also find archives of all the lists.  You can subscribe or unsubscribe to an Alliance list here:

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