RILINK Newsletter
December 2023
2024-2025 Budget Planning
In an effort to estimate RILINK costs for the 2024-2025 school year, we have reached out to all of our vendors. We have received quotes from the vendors RILINK pays directly. The products below are purchased for all members as they are funded by your RILINK dues. Dues for RILINK members will remain at $1.50 per student.
Springshare - LibGuides & LibWizard
ProQuest - CultureGrams
Exploring Nature
We have vendors with whom we negotiate prices for the consortium. For some vendors, such as Follett and OverDrive we bill members and pass the funds through to the vendor. Follett will not be increasing costs for next year. We do anticipate an increase of approximately 10% in OverDrive/Sora costs for the 2024-2025 school year. The additional funds will allow us to support additional copies, holds and new content in RISOCKS.
The vendors we have not yet received information from are -
Gale/Cengage
Infobase
TumbleBooks
Capstone/PebbleGo
If you do not purchase any additional databases the only changes in your bill will be if enrollment increases or decreases and a 10% increase for OverDrive/Sora if you participate. If you do purchase additional databases from one or more of these vendors, we recommend budgeting an additional 10% for those products to be on the safe side.
We will share more definitive pricing with you as it becomes available.
Professional Development Update
Thanks to those of you who completed our recent survey on Professional Development. Here are the suggestions we received for future sessions. If you any other suggestions, contact Jackie.
- RILINK Resources geared to grade level
- RILINK resources for English Learners/Multilingual Learners*
- Inventory, maybe how to spread through the year.
- Weeding (maybe tie to inventory)
- LibGuides/Collections - Pros and Cons
*If you have any tools/strategies for accessing text in other languages, please share that information.
RISOCKS - Collection Analysis
We asked OverDrive to perform a Collection Analysis including a Diversity Audit on the RISOCKS Collection.The team at OverDrive responded with that information and a whole lot more. Use this link to open the analysis. The Diversity Audit is on pages 11 & 12. The RISOCKS Selection Committee reviews suggested titles each month chosen by our Digital Content Librarian. There is an opening for a middle school member. Contact Anne McWilliams-Piraino at OverDrive for more information.
ILL/CDL Update
Holiday Break
Enjoy the December vacation. RILINK staff will be available on a limited basis from December 23 through January 1. If you are working on something and need assistance, please submit a Help Request.