SUNY OLIS: You're welcome.
SUNY OLIS: Sorry it took so long.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright, everybody. Hi, thank you. Welcome for joining us today. We're gonna be talking today about Suny's consortial illuna membership, which is relatively new.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Sunni library services, holds a consortial membership to Alluna, and that covers everyone under the Sunni umbrella, and I will say that, you know, based on my personal experiences, you be involved in a user group
Maureen Clements (SUNY): is a great way to really sort of improve your engagement and your satisfaction with systems, and no matter how small or tangential, that you're really gonna be able to get some benefits.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): You get to know people more in the community, better understanding what's happening
Maureen Clements (SUNY): in. There are several schools and several Sunni soonians. As I've started calling people who are very, very involved in our ex libous, you know, user group. And we've asked them to join us today to talk about their experiences, gonna introduce everybody, and then I'm gonna yup, that's okay and then alright. So today we are joined by David Schuster.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): He is our Senior Director for library technology and digital strategies at Binghamton University.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We're also joined by Nancy Batt, who is the discovery services librarian for the University of Buffalo.
We're also joined by Christie Lee, who's the head of library technology at New Paltz, and our very own Michelle Eichlberger, who is the E resources and discovery program manager.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. So what are we gonna cover today? What is Alun? We're covering the governance. We're covering strategic issues. We're covering the benefits of a luna and what things that you could take advantage of. We're gonna talk a little bit about some of the working groups. Michelle and Nancy will talk about their experiences. David will talk about his experience
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and then we'll talk a little bit about Enug, and then we will get to some questions.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so just a quick update this session is part of a larger series of events that I'm working on, which is celebration of our 5 year anniversary of Sue on this implementation. So we're gonna be focusing heavily on Alma this year, resetting re expectations, allowing you to sort of evaluate how things are going and and getting more involved. We're gonna have a benchmarking session with Sleebrists on February eighth.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We're also designing health surveys these Mini health surveys. That ex libress had originally designed for. Go live. But it's a great way to sort of measure your own health. So we're gonna be sending them out periodically throughout the year. And as well, we'll be planning some site visits, so there'll be more to come during our oldest update in February.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And I am going to now turn it over to David Schuster, who's going to be talking about all things. And, Luna.
David Schuster - Bing: thank you, David. Thanks, Maureen. So Alun, as it says, here on the screen, is the exleverse users of North America.
David Schuster - Bing: this is a nonprofit advocacy and educational membership group. We do the annual conference every year in May. They have started the Illuna Learn series which will talk a little bit more in a few minutes about we have over 1,300 institutions across the United States, Canada, Central America. And we actually have members that are from the European Union
David Schuster - Bing: as part of membership as well, so that they have access to the Illuna pieces. There is a sister organization to Aluna, called igloo, which is the international users and they are based more in the Uk and Asia Pacific.
David Schuster - Bing: And then the members of aluna primarily are academic public government, corporate and other consortias
David Schuster - Bing: The majority of the membership currently are academic libraries, mainly because that is the product that Alma Falls under voyager is also part of the Alluna Conference
David Schuster - Bing: grouping. All of also was an illuna part of the congregation. Congregation of of products that are under the Illuna umbrella.
David Schuster - Bing: So you want to go to the next slide?
David Schuster - Bing: We're a totally volunteer organization. There's no staff we do not have an executive director. So this is very much like Sunni law, as far as how the operations are run
David Schuster - Bing: 100% volunteer based. There are working groups that you can be involved with, that you'll hear a little bit more about in a minute. There's communities of practice groups of people who get together and talk about different parts of Alma or other
David Schuster - Bing: products. And then there's advisory groups which are which are just starting most of these particular groups that you
David Schuster - Bing: might want to participate with. You have to self, select or nominate yourself to be part of those those groups I ran for steering committee last year and was elected. So I have a 3 year stint on the board the steering committee for the Illuna organization
David Schuster - Bing: next slide. So this is the current membership of the steering committee.
David Schuster - Bing: As you can see, there's the, you know. The majority of them are
David Schuster - Bing: academic libraries. There are products associated with each of these individuals, because each of us on the steering committee takes on responsibility to oversee some of the products in the working groups that are within those areas. So I, for example, we do not have a spluro, but I am the liaison to the explorer group. We don't have Almadi, but I'm also the liaison to that particular group.
David Schuster - Bing: We do have Rosetta. So I am the liaison to that group. But, as you can see, most of the products are actually listed here that are part of the the umbrella of the Illuna Steering Committee and the Illinois organization itself.
David Schuster - Bing: Next slide. Thanks. And so these are the act acting working groups. Currently Alma, Alma D is just getting started. Actually, we're doing a call for members for the working group. It's gonna have its own listserv as well. That will be going out shortly after February first. So we'll be forming that particular group.
David Schuster - Bing: All of these particular working groups have some kind of
David Schuster - Bing: voting process for enhancements which we'll talk about a little bit. And they're called ners. That's actually the system that they've been using for voting way back
David Schuster - Bing: prior to all of even. And that system is going to be going away so that we're in the process of migrating to a new voting system for the enhancements
David Schuster - Bing: next slide, please.
David Schuster - Bing: So we do have advisory groups. So these don't necessarily have any particular enhancement process, but they add, actually advise the steering committee on particular topics. Things that come up. We might
David Schuster - Bing: create an advisory group to give the steering committee kind of a focused area of interest, and if there are certain topics that need to be discussed between the steering committee and then also back to exile. The steering committee. Actually.
David Schuster - Bing: we meet every month, and then the Executive Board for igloo, and the steering committee meets with ex libus every other week. So they have a direct voice to the leadership within X Libress and talk to them about particular problems that the clients within Aluna are seeing and the concerns that we have as a U as a users group
David Schuster - Bing: and those are brought forward to the X levers.
David Schuster - Bing: higher ups.
David Schuster - Bing: We just started the support advisory group. That is a a mixture of about 12 individuals 6 of them are Luna. I believe 6 of them are igloo. And then there are within that group there are consortial members and other products there that are represented within that advisory group. The clients of Aluna have had concern about tickets within the Xlebris ticketing system, and how they're being handled.
David Schuster - Bing: And so we are trying to get a a better idea of the from the community of what the needs are with that particular group. But, as you can see, there are communities of practice. There's a linked open data group, and they meet on a regular basis. And they actually have our liaison back to exile that they can work with and help guide Xlivers on ideas, on how to use open and linked data
David Schuster - Bing: next slide.
David Schuster - Bing: Some of the strategic issues, you know, how do we interact with igloo? And especially the innovative users. Group innovative was bought by X libress and proquest prior to the clarivate move.
David Schuster - Bing: Innovative users.
David Schuster - Bing: There are some academic libraries, but within that product they also have several public library products. So it's kind of an interesting mix. Their users group is a little
David Schuster - Bing: handled differently. They do run conferences, but it's more run by the company of innovative is how it had been in the past. So we're looking at how the 2 groups might merge at some point. But that is pretty far down the road. One of the biggest problems we have is the conference programming, because we have to.
David Schuster - Bing: Usually we get about 1,000 people that come to the conference, and when you add another 800 to another 1,000 people to a conference. Your hotel blocks start drying up as to where you can actually hold a conference. So those are some of the challenges that we're exploring right now within the group?
David Schuster - Bing: And then, what are the interactions and programs that we might have synergy wise between the 2 different users, groups within the United States specifically.
David Schuster - Bing: The Illuna learn series here. You used to have to pay $25 for each of the Illuna's Learn series. The board decided that with our dues this year that we would include the Illuna Learn series. So all Illuna members now have access to the Illuna Learn series, and as consortial members, you all will have access to that content as well.
David Schuster - Bing: so Cdi, which is part of the Olma which is managing your electronic resources? There's a specific enhancement process that they're going through. Rialto is also another users group. That is a product that is going through an enhancement process. Espero for the first time is going through enhancement processes as well. So there's lots of activity going on and trying to improve some of the processes that are available.
David Schuster - Bing: Maureen, is there anything in particular on this slide that you want to talk about? Or Michelle?
Maureen Clements (SUNY): No, I just think that it's great that there's a lot of things that y'all are trying to tackle right? You know that especially. You know that. Thank you so much. First of all, David, for serving and being involved in all of that. I mean, it's a lot of work.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): but it's also very worrying, as I said, and you get to know what's happening and how the development is going. So I think these are a lot of really great strategic issues that almost taking on
David Schuster - Bing: and with clarivate being, you know, a large bibliographic tool of their own. There's lots of question about how their content could actually flow into the Cdi easier. Since that is, they have more products than proquest had. So now it's a matter of you know what are the synergies that we might be able to gather into the Cdi to help make the Cdi stronger.
David Schuster - Bing: So
David Schuster - Bing: next slide
David Schuster - Bing: as we talked about some of the benefits the Alma lists serve. There's a primo listserv
David Schuster - Bing: there's an illuna announce where lots of job posts things are put and also information about upcoming conferences. Anybody can really post to those particular groups, and you have a question. You can post it there, and people will respond throughout the community. You don't necessarily have to be an illuna member to be part of any of those lists. Serve groups.
David Schuster - Bing: So that's just open. We do support the regional users groups. They can ask for support, and usually the aloo aluna will support them financially in conferencing. We also will host their presentations into the document repository, which you know as part of the do's. That's what we use that dues to run the document repository and the listservs and the other expenses for the website.
David Schuster - Bing: Those types of particular items.
David Schuster - Bing: with that dues there is a discount to the annual conference, and the Illuna Learn series is now part of that membership. As we noted earlier
David Schuster - Bing: as an individual campus member, we have the opportunity to vote when enhancements come up. And so there's a hundred points per campus, and that is usually per product. So like, there's a primal product list. There's an Alma product list explorer will have a product list.
David Schuster - Bing: so you would have a hundred points for each of those different products to cast your votes as to what you feel is important related to the product. Now, that's with membership, and that's similar to consortial membership.
David Schuster - Bing: But the consortial membership you still only get a hundred points.
David Schuster - Bing: So next slide.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And and this, too, I just wanna you know, expand upon what David was saying in terms of the 100 points for the consortia. So I think, and I and I wasn't here during this this this time. But, like what we've decided is because we have a consortial membership, and we really only have a hundred points.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The the effort. The level of effort would be to sort of gather input and feedback from all the different schools in terms of how we would allocate those points. Really, I think the return on investment of those points would. That's not necessarily the best, the best use of our time. So we thought, you know, amongst ourselves amongst the sls team will review the different nerves voting. We do have a great handle on all the different requests and things that are going on, and what people are
Maureen Clements (SUNY): are asking about, and the pain points for almost things like should be improved because we are doing extend support for almost 20 campuses. So we do have a good idea. And then we're in communication. And so, of course, too, we would. You know, we've even amongst this group amongst ourselves. Talked a little bit about, you know, just letting you know. We'll let everybody know what we decide for the nurse voting. But we did wanna let people know. That's how we are going to handle the consortial voting.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And I absolutely wanted to say that I think it's really important. If you have an individual membership, I think it would. It's great to keep that individual membership precisely because you do get additional benefits with the members and the nerves, and you have different interests. So all of our schools have different interests, and what they might want to be gaining out of all.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So back to the consortial benefits we do so. You will be able to a attend any. Alluna learns sessions going forward from 2020 24 on. You won't have access to the library be prior to 2024. I believe that is still password protected, based on what you've paid for. This is just content going forward for 2024 on
Maureen Clements (SUNY): password issues. If you have any password, we we we tested this. You can just put in your name and say that you're part of a consortial benefit, you should be able to a access that if you can't just reach out to us and we will assist you on that and I'm gonna put a little link in here in the chat, too. We created a Sunni Olis Lib Guide Page. That has information about our Luna. So you can access this page to sort of see. And if you have.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): if you have a question, if you need a password, there's also the document repository password that you might want to have. You can just reach out to us, and we can share that with you.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The Luna. Consortial benefits also include discounts on the conference attendance. So, you are eligible to attend any conferences. Be part of the working groups, whatever you decide. If that's something you're interested in. So you can do. Do any of the serving. They the consortial group.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): It covers you on that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright, I think I got everything
alright. Next slide
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright, I was gonna turn it over to Michelle, who will be talking about the working group and her experiences. And as Nancy Tubes. Okay.
Michelle Eichelberger: yeah, Nancy, if you wanna go first and then I'll chime in. If there's anything I wanted to add.
Nancy Babb: Okay, so David gave a a really great introduction to the different groups that are a part of illumina. They're part of this community, and I think that being part of a community of customers is
Nancy Babb: one of the advantages of being an ex lea customer. The community is really strong, and it's I think there's a lot of support for research and development and providing feedback to ex sleepers in their research and development. And I find that really unique among systems that I've worked with over the years. So I really like that. We have the opportunity to be involved.
Nancy Babb: and I'm really pleased that Suny now has a consortial membership. So everybody has has these opportunities open to them.
Nancy Babb: I've been a member of the primal working group for a couple of years now, and during this time I've also participated in some other groups. Right now, I'm also the liaison to the Content Working group
Nancy Babb: erez Agmoni and I'm on the Cdi Advisory group, which is just becoming a little bit active again, we were active previously in providing some advisement and working out pain points in the Cdi with X libous. And now we're really focusing on getting a Cdi
Nancy Babb: new enhancement requests. That's what ner stands for. New enhancement request getting a voting process together for Cdi.
Nancy Babb: specifically separate from primo, separate from Alma, because traditionally, those issues related to Cdi had been under either Primo or Alma, depending on where we would see the effect of them.
Nancy Babb: But so why would II want to take the time to be involved in these groups, I think, for a couple of reasons. One is that I think it's really valuable to be able to give input and to represent my campus and also represent Sooni and be sure that the interest of my campus and the interest of Suny have a voice and things and I think there's always
Nancy Babb: the desire at the level of sleepers and the community to ensure that all the voices have representation and are heard, but
Nancy Babb: being able to make sure that happens is is great.
Nancy Babb: and then.
Nancy Babb: more selfishly. I guess it's really interesting and really helpful to have the opportunity to kind of look beneath the the lid and find out how things are actually working and what's going on, and to kind of get and early. Look at developments and have a chance to look under the hood. For example. I'm one of the
Nancy Babb: co-coordinators for the nerves process for Primo, which means I get to see all of the proposals that are coming through. I'm part of the group that reviews all of the proposals which Michelle is as well. So we get to see in a in a very.
Nancy Babb: I guess, intimate way what folks throughout the community care about what's important to people through the system. And yes, we see that when we're looking at a valid and placing votes. But I think when you're actually voting on something, you are necessarily
Nancy Babb: concerned about what you want. But seeing what others want and what's important, I think is really really super significant. And you get to make those connections with folks at all the different institutions, plus the opportunity to work more closely with exile personnel.
Nancy Babb: So I think all of those things are are really helpful, and for me it all dovetails really nicely with my jobs. Because if I'm doing something in primo anyways, why not do it also? In conjunction with Sunni, and then large more largely in conjunction with
Nancy Babb: Aluna. Those.
Nancy Babb: II think, all of that just works together and make sense in terms of a time, commitment or level of work. I think it really depends on what
Nancy Babb: committee or group you're involved with, with something like the primo working group as as a substantial working group.
Nancy Babb: Sometimes of the year. There is a fair amount
Nancy Babb: of time that is required when you're we're doing the nerves review. Obviously, we're we're taking the time to go through the ballots and look at things. But I'd say it's not more work than say, if you've ever been on an Awards Committee or reviewing
Nancy Babb: Cds on a on a search committee, I'd say it's less of a time committee time commitment than something like that. And that's kind of things I thought of sharing. I'll I'll turn to Michelle and and ask for?
Michelle Eichelberger: Yeah, I would agree with everything that Nancy said. I am new to this committee. Nancy has been on it for longer than I have. It's a 2 year appointment, and what's nice is they stagger it. So you're not starting out fresh with everybody. Bring brand new. So
Michelle Eichelberger: you know they they stagger the the appointments. So I'm also serving on the Ux Committee for the new discovery experience, which is great, you know, like Nancy said, it's really good. You get like an inside view of what's coming, you get to have some input in how things are going to be developed. You get to collaborate with other
Michelle Eichelberger: members of the community, and also the exile staff. So I've really found it to be a rewarding experience so far. So that's was there anything else, Maureen, that you thought we should mention
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so. One question that I was thinking about is when you talked about the commitment. Most of these meetings are virtual. Is that correct? Okay, so and that really the only in person responsibility you might have and would be the conference. And is that a requirement to be involved in the working committee. No, okay, no. So monthly meetings via zoom.
David Schuster - Bing: You know our teams, or whatever it is that your particular committee is using but there's no II think they like it. If you go to the conference, and then you can meet up with people in person. But there's no requirement to do. That. Conference is a great networking opportunity to meet those people that you've been chatting with online or visiting with Via Zoom. But it's not a requirement
Maureen Clements (SUNY): that's that's good to know. Because, you know, sometimes I think maybe that potential barrier to access or someone might think I don't have the travel funds. I don't, you know. But you you can get involved. So you don't. You don't have to travel
Maureen Clements (SUNY): even though you're right, David. It is a lot of it is a lot of fun, and this has. It's in Minneapolis this year, right? And I was just thinking when you mentioned the in the Iug, the user group. I actually was a member of that. And they had an incredible conference in Minneapolis. And I was thinking about the incredible Indian
Maureen Clements (SUNY): restaurant that was across the street dreaming about going back there one day. But yeah, the Iog is run. Really well, interesting that, you know. I think that that but I've not been to an illuna yet, so I can't really compare the 2. But II do look forward to that at some point soon.
Michelle Eichelberger: Maybe if it's ever in New York, I know that would be cool. So just say, you know, if you see a request come through for membership in one of these groups, and you're interested. I would highly recommend involvement. And if you do get voted onto a committee, let us know, cause we like to kind of be aware of of who's doing what throughout soony cause. It's really a great way for us to collaborate.
David Schuster - Bing: And if you're new to Aluna. I just also wanna say that there is a scholarship every year that they give out to someone who is interested in library automation, and that coming to a conference. So you're encouraged to apply for that scholarship as well.
Nancy Babb: and with some of the groups they are elected positions where you need to apply and and put together a statement. The primo and Alma working groups are are like at the steering committee is like that, but that there are also the advisory groups, and some of the other groups are ones where basically a call is put out, and you just let
Nancy Babb: whomever is leading it. Know that you're interested. And then it's it's a selective process where I think they're often looking for
Nancy Babb: folks who might work in different types of institutions, folks who might be representing a part of the country that might not get as much representation right so, or someone who hasn't had the opportunity to be involved with things before. So I would say, especially
Nancy Babb: if you're from a more specialized institution if you were from a smaller institution. don't. They could be really, really valuable. What you have to contribute to some of the team. So don't think that no one would be interested in in
Nancy Babb: what you have to say, or your particular experience there. It really what you have to contribute is very valuable, and chances are, it would be thought very valuable and and would be appreciated.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay. should we hop to the next slide?
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay, Christy is also with us. And Christy's gonna be talking about the regional user group. Enug.
Kristy Lee: Hi, I just wanted to put on top of what Nancy and Michelle and David and Maureen's talk about the working group for the Illuna. And I'm actually a member of the analytics community of practice that used to be a working group, but because
Kristy Lee: there are so many different products and different variety of issues and and things, and happen. So then it evolved a working group evolve into a community of practice. So even you're from a small community college or a very small Sunni campus. As soon as you mentioned that, you are part of the Sunni Consortium.
Kristy Lee: they want you because you will have a specific input to the process and to certain of the pro.
the product development and the enhancement
Kristy Lee: because they always needed someone to give this kind of feedback. So don't think of because we are so small, and it doesn't really matter. But it does matter, because all the product is, non is not perfect 100, and they keep improving it to make it better. And I think that's the reason that I get involved with this user group.
Kristy Lee: because I think it's liborous as the company before they were bought up by poquest bike. This company really value what the customer are talking about, and they take the feedback seriously, and they did really
Kristy Lee: put on the effort to make it happen to improve it rather than just hear the product. You take it or leave it, you just buying it, and you have no saying. But I think it's Liberals are really listening.
Kristy Lee: and I think it's a mutual benefit, because they get the free labor of people to testing out and trying out things like, you know, that save them a lot and lots like they can't get any
Kristy Lee: better feedback than this. So my involvement with Ena Ena is a sub group and I wonder if Maureen, or who's controlling the slice? Can you share the website of Ena, when you just type in Ela, Ena, you don't even need to to remember the address, because I think Google can remember it.
Kristy Lee: And one thing that when you see on the Enoch site.
Kristy Lee: don't panic when you see that it's not safe. The site is very safe, and it's very informational, especially when it comes to October, when we do our annual meeting. So on the top, when you see not secure, and you say, Oh, no.
Kristy Lee: The reason for that is, we do have the money to renew the server certificate. That's just a tiny little issues. What happened was, the server is hosted in a new school.
Kristy Lee: and because of all these eriteration and things like that, someone was being nice to us and volunteer to house and host the server. But the server needed constant maintenance, and I know Rebecca has been going back and forth, and also Alan Jones. Now he's the chair of the Illuna Steering Committee.
Kristy Lee: He's too busy to get involved into this tiny little things. The website is completely safe. It's just that that little Si signature the so the server
Kristy Lee: certificate that needed someone to do one little step. But we don't have someone to do it at this moment, and but we still can use it. And if you go to about Enug.
Kristy Lee: and the most
Kristy Lee: reason and most useful things for the belonging to this group, and, by the way, you don't need any membership. You don't even need to pay any dues to become
Kristy Lee: a enup member, and the list serve is the things that the illuna umbrella come provided us. If you click on it, you can log in, and I'm sure a lot of you guys are already member of the Eno list. Serve. It's not a very over busy group.
Kristy Lee: And I see the benefit people needed to post job postings. This is a free posting and a guarantee to rich certain number of users within the North East region.
Kristy Lee: and we do have. The annual conference is is a miniature conference is not as big as Illuna Illuna spent for 3, 4 days.
Kristy Lee: and Ena is really short and usually is regional within the north, east, and comparing to Illuna that we're talking about thousands of dollars you have to fly over. I'm not discouraging people. II
Kristy Lee: absolutely think that going to an in lunar is a great experience. You really get to meet the your colleagues in all over in North America, and even internationally. And if you get the proposal to present. That's a great opportunity also.
Kristy Lee: and especially with like Suny. And we got to meet other counterpart like other consortium.
Kristy Lee: and I know the California State. They are very active. Last year was very, very active when we come back to the in person meeting. The Ena in in itself is smaller because it's only a 2 days conference is technically it used to be one and a half days very reasonable registration and within the travel distance that you know
Kristy Lee: you really don't need to fly unless you are coming from Long Island going upstate. It's better to fly than to dry, and but
Kristy Lee: in like, in most of the sense that you still get to meet all the other people that use the same similar X labor's products.
Kristy Lee: And we are always rotating. The location of hosting. So annual meeting is not set in a specific place. We just find somewhere that is easy to get to, and we can find a place. So
Kristy Lee: this year, October, I think we already have decided we'll be in New Jersey, in New Brunswick
Kristy Lee: and Mary Beth. I can't remember her last name. She's the current co-chair. So the Co. Chair and the chair system in the email. Everybody can get involved, even
Kristy Lee: yeah. The list needed to be update, because a lot of people are staying on
Kristy Lee: Sometime they will come to the meeting. But usually there is like 4, 5 of us when it gets closer to the in a conference everybody is welcome to join us, and I know we have some new people aboard from Suny this year. I can't remember, I think. Was it, Mary, from Binghamton, that volunteer to to come
Kristy Lee: to the to serve on the planning committee, and we don't really have a set rules, and we don't really like
Kristy Lee: run very vigorous election like Illuna steering committee. And it's mostly volunteer basis like whatever time that you can provide. Most busy time is probably from June to to August, those 2 months in the summer time.
Kristy Lee: And because that's the planning for the full commit the 4 conference in October. And it's tiny little logistics and the local host usually provide most of the input for the planning part of it.
Kristy Lee: It's very rewarding, and especially for tenure faculty that you wanted to get like
Kristy Lee: services and presentation.
Kristy Lee: Enug is a really good bullet and a place that to help out the process. It's not just helping. The community is helping yourself as well.
Kristy Lee: So I'm pretty sure a lot of you guys have been to some of the enux, and we have been to Albany. It's been in new pauls and on all around.
Kristy Lee: So. Don't be shy. If you wanted to step up to help out and volunteer to host next year, feel free to contact me, or I will put you in touch with anybody, or you can just post it into the list like I said the Listservice. Really, not that busy.
Kristy Lee: and I think that's it. Anything else that you guys wanted to
Kristy Lee: chime in, or
Kristy Lee: I don't want to jump ahead of the schedule, Maureen. No, I think that's
Kristy Lee: you know the the last part was just basically questions. And
Maureen Clements (SUNY): thank you so much, Christie. I think Enug is a really great organization. It's it's it's not very expensive. It's easy to go. It's just one or 2 days you can. Next year, as you said, you get to come to New Jersey.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Good luck. I saw this video of these 2 Southern girls in their car had to had to drive to New Jersey, and the whole time they're just screaming. You have to make a ride to make a laugh, you know, cause you have all of these things. Did you gotta do that?
Kristy Lee: But this past one in Philadelphia was fun was really fun. Yes, in the Upen was really fun, and it's easy to get to, and I think we broke the record to have
Kristy Lee: more than 120 people register for us. Conference. So
Kristy Lee: yeah, that's like a real nuts and bolts. Conference, too, you know, like actual practical things that you can apply to your own system, and a lot of good session that we have, and a lot of this good session turn into the Illuna session as well. And so sometime they use Enna as a, you know, a testing ground and see the reaction.
Kristy Lee: and a lot of them propose it into the following year, or vice versa, you know, whichever one happened first.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Oh, that's great.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I did wanna address David's comment about Ohio link so there we more in terms of more consortium discussions one of the things that we are. we are part of the consortial discussions that happen. There is a group that meets quarterly to talk about issues that
Maureen Clements (SUNY): affecting consortia alma groups and California is on there. There's all kinds of Orgas cascade. There's Boston library consortium, all kinds of really interesting people out there. And they did just put together a new consortial group because it used to operate independently from Aluna, and now it operates. It is part of the Illuna umbrella. So now they're gonna put additional representation from the consortial groups onto the different organizations
Maureen Clements (SUNY): groups. So there will be someone out there. So we have. I can't remember. Her name is, we just went to a meeting the other day. But we have a representative for Alma. In the on the working group for the consortium.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Michelle, do you remember what her name was?
Maureen Clements (SUNY): No, I'm sorry. Yeah, I can't. I can't remember anything. Great Joe, thank you so much.
alright. So we'd love to open it up. Any questions anybody has about involvement or after
Maureen Clements (SUNY): how how things run
Maureen Clements (SUNY): one thing I did wanna mention before we end is that after we started planning this session. We thought, you know, it would be really great for us to periodically get together people who are involved in Luna. So if you are involved and you do get involved. Reach out, let us know, and maybe we'll form a little group where we can periodically meet and talk about things.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alluner related
Maureen Clements (SUNY): great. Well, thank you, everybody. Thank you so much for talking about your experiences today, and all the great work that you're doing on behalf of Suny and your schools. Really appreciate that. And we feels like some excellent hands are Sunni product there is, and representation on Aluna. So thank you. Everybody.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great. Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we need to stop the recording here.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay, let's see, is Yvonne here.