2024 OCLC Group Services registration

Montana State Library sent this bulletin at 06/07/2023 09:19 AM MDT

Hello everyone,

 

You are receiving this message because you are listed as the Library Director and/or the primary fiscal contact for your library, and because it is time to send in FY 2024 Group Services enrollment to OCLC. As a reminder, OCLC Group Services is a required subscription for Montana Shared Catalog members and it provides unlimited access to tools which facilitate interlibrary loan and cataloging. Our subscription runs on the state fiscal year (FY), which is July 1 - June 30. FY 2024 begins on July 1. 

 

This year your annual invoice will increase by three percent from last year, as is consistent with our contract renewal cost. Your library's subscription is subsidized with federal and state funds as approved by the State Library Commission (and we presume that they will approve this budget recommendation at their June meeting).

 

My request for you today is to please visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-OuZCtrGThALc7xlgUMyGxlVvgZoO-RyB1mLua8anqo/edit?usp=sharing  and review the following fields for your library and any branches:

 

  • Column E: ILL Referral Center. This indicates whether or not your library's interlibrary loan requests are (at least, nominally) managed through the State Library. This option is only for very low-volume ILL users. Please open a ticket if you have questions.
  • Columns G,H: Fiscal Contact, Title. Please make sure that the person at your library who should receive the invoice is listed here.
  • Columns I,L: Fiscal Address, Zip. This probably hasn't changed for most of you, but please double-check it anyway. I'm going to be bold and presume that your library's city and state have not changed since last year.
  • Column M: Email. Your fiscal contact's email address where OCLC will send the invoice.
  • Column N: ILL option. This is how your interlibrary loan management will be set or maintained by OCLC. Please open a ticket if you have questions.

Any misspelled names or inaccurate information that you find here are errors on my part, and no offense was intended. Thanks for making corrections.

Once you have reviewed your library's information and made any necessary changes, please enter an "x" (or letter of your choice) in the light blue Column O, "Reviewed by library."

 

Please take a couple of minutes to finish this request by Friday, June 16 so that we can send our FY 2024 enrollment to OCLC for processing.

 

Thank you for all you're doing each day to make life better in your communities,

 

Cara