SWAN Board:
We've just finished our last day of our two-day ILS Committee final scoring meeting. However, due to the inclement weather and our heater being out at Burr Ridge, our day one (yesterday) was cancelled, and we were not able to complete our scoring to come to a recommendation. The only day coming up that the committee could meet to complete scoring is next Friday, January 17th, which of course is the day of the SWAN Board meeting. Melissa was in attendance at today's ILS meeting, and after group discussion it was decided that it would be best for the committee to reach a consensus on scoring so that they could come to you with a recommendation before the negotiation takes place, currently scheduled for February 10th and 11th.
Therefore, it is necessary to cancel next Friday's Board meeting and reschedule a special Board meeting for later, but hold it prior to the negotiations. The week of February 3rd would be optimal. I've included a link to a Doodle poll below; when you get a moment, please respond to the poll with your availability for the days that week.
http://www.doodle.com/3z5evieqfg9cnwyy
Thank you so much for your understanding as we work around the weather issues to complete our recommendation! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Sorry, guys. I forgot to include you all in my response to Aaron. Being on
vacation fries your brain, I guess.
Rodger Brayden
Director, Forest Park Public Library
708-366-7171, Ext. 102
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From: Rodger Brayden <rbrayden(a)fppl.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SWANboard] Tribune Article on Orland Increases
To: Aaron Skog <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info>
Can you spell "selfish?" Or would "self absorbed" be better? Actually, this
sounds a lot like a library finding a dog to kick when things go badly. I
would think Orland would have a better appreciation of the meaning of
unjustified criticism than this article seems to indicate.
On the practical note, I think a letter from a "big library" director like
David would be very useful in counteracting the impression that only small
libraries can benefit from being in a consortium.
Rodger Brayden
Director, Forest Park Public Library
708-366-7171, Ext. 102
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Aaron Skog <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info
> wrote:
> SWAN Board:
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> In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with
> you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in
> circulation.
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> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
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> SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot
> resist that.
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> The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad
> light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of
> resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking
> that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any
> thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library
> director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public
> library joining SWAN.
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> Aaron Skog
> SWAN Executive Director
> 125 Tower Drive
> Burr Ridge, IL 60527
> Phone: 630.734.5122
> Fax: 630.734.5056
> aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info
> http://support.swanlibraries.net
>
SWAN Board:
In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in circulation.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot resist that.
The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public library joining SWAN.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi Aaron,
I saw the article and of course it had to bash Swan. I thought of what you said about EHS seeing a spike in circ at first and now seeing it drop.
I think a letter from Dee would be great and something from David about why it was important for OPS to rejoin the consortium would be the right way to go. Going negative against ORS would be fun, but wouldn't serve our purpose.
Just my thoughts.
Rich
Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:11 AM, "Aaron Skog" <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> SWAN Board:
>
> In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in circulation.
>
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
>
> SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot resist that.
>
> The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public library joining SWAN.
>
> Aaron Skog
> SWAN Executive Director
> 125 Tower Drive
> Burr Ridge, IL 60527
> Phone: 630.734.5122
> Fax: 630.734.5056
> aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
> http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello SWAN Board:
Rodger kindly noted that the audit document in the packet did not combine in Adobe properly, and some pages were left mostly blank. I am sending the document out attached to this email while I work to hopefully get it combined in its entirety and reposted to the SWAN site. Please use the copy attached for your review in the meantime.
Thank you,
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 12/13 meeting packet is now available for you - http://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2013-12-13/pac…
This packet is 95 pages long. We will have a quorum for the meeting, based upon your email responses. We are hopeful that this meeting will end before noon so that no lunch will need to be provided; however, based upon where we are at in early afternoon I can certainly order lunch if needed.
We look forward to seeing you Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board:
I have added Anne Kozak to the SWAN Board email list. Anne will not be able to attend our meeting on Friday, but we will see her in January.
Anne, all emails to the SWAN Board list are moderated, Brande or I will need to release them. Occasionally reply-all emails are allowed, but more often we have to moderate email conversations per OMA.
All board member individual email addresses are listed on this SWAN webpage, publicly available:
http://support.swanlibraries.net/content/swan-board-committees
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello SWAN Board,
This Friday 12/13 we have a Board meeting (packet to follow either this evening or tomorrow morning). I know that there are a few already that have stated they will not be able to attend; I just want to make sure that we will be able to have a quorum this week. Could you please respond to me separately to let me know if you will be in attendance or not?
Thank you so much,
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board,
Just a quick note: Mary Soucie, Library Director at Three Rivers who was involved in PrairieCat governance, is moving on to a new position in North Dakota. See below.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
From: Mary Soucie
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:54 AM
To: Director's Mailing List; Synergy List; Delegates list; SPLMI Alum list
Subject: New position
Hi everyone,
Please forgive any duplication as I'm sending this to a variety of lists. I have accepted the position of State Librarian for North Dakota. While I'm excited about my new position, I will very much miss the collegiality and networking in Illinois. I've made any friends over the years and am grateful for all of the assistance that I've been given over the years.
I will miss the Director's list of RAILS as it has been a wonderful resource. Maybe RAILS will consider letting former RAILS directors subscribe. (HInt, hint Mary and Dee lol.)
I'm happy that I'll be able to remain on the SPLMI-Alum and Synergy lists so I'll maintain at least some IL connections. Yay!
I'll be at my library until December 27th.
Best wishes,
Mary Soucie
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Mary J. Soucie
Executive Director
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon/Minooka IL
815-467-6200 x303<tel:815-467-6200%20x303>
Enrich, Educate, Entertain, Evolve
SWAN Board:
The storms that came through Illinois affected RSA. See the email below.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
From: Mary Witt
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 9:15 AM
To: rails.staff
Subject: News from RAILS East Peoria Service Center
Good morning everyone,
I've received questions about our East Peoria facility and the staff there. That area was particularly hard hit with yesterday's storm. Kendal Orrison has checked with the East Peoria staff, and while some staff have lost power, there was no major damage to anyone's home and everyone is OK. Our East Peoria building is currently without power and the only staff member there is Kendal. (The rest of the staff has gone home.) Kendal said power may not be restored at East Peoria until around 10 p.m. this evening.
RSA is down until further notice and members have been notified via the RSA mailing lists. Delivery is going out today since the vans were all packed and ready to go. Tomorrow there will only be pick-ups from libraries on the East Peoria routes since staff will not be able to sort materials today. We are going to put an alert on the RAILS website with this information.
I hope everyone is safe and that no one suffered serious damage from the storm. I will keep you posted if I learn anything further.
Thanks,
Mary
Mary Witt
Communications Director
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5124
Fax: 630.734.5050
mary.witt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:mary.witt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
