Flickertale Newsletter 1975

St ■■. ; . ■ l_. LOAN COPY Hoi lh i■;'!.■: la Si;; to Library Biimiirck, ti 0 !i:^C)l FUG £ ^TiemAidten^ A PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION Bismarck, North Dakota 5850.1 j:CHARD J. WOLFERT, Director Telephone - 224-2490 Volume 7, Number 6 April 1. 197:") MINNESOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA LIBRARY ANDJLNEORMATION NETWORKS TO EXCHANGE SERVICES The St-ntf--4 Library Commission has signed a one-year agreement with the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide North Dakota, residents, through their Local, libraries, improved library and information services. The Agreement provides for MINITEX (which is operated by the; Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Connvission) to provide access to Minnesota library and information I'esou rces via. the North Dakota State Library Comnission. This access includes Loan of lxx)ks and documents, and photocopies of periodical articles. Three North Dakota Iibrari.es have; boon designated as access )>oi.nfs to MINITEX: The State Library, Bismarck; The Chester Fritz Li brary. University of North Dakota; Tin? Liln/avy. North Dakota State University. A]] other North Dakota libraries wil 1 channel their requests for service through the State Liivrary unless special, arrangements have been made with University of North Dakota or North Dakota State University. The agreement requires that North Dakota library resources must first bo exhausted befoj'o contacting MINITEX. Thus, a 1.1. requests for txx>ks must bo cleared through the State Lib?-ary Union Catalog no 1.x; sure that the material is noi. available in North Dakota. Periodica! requests must bo filled within the state whenever possible befoix) referring to MINITEX. Access libraries will bo using TWX to transmit. MINITEX requests in a. designated format and verified in accepted bib 1. i < igraphic tool s. The agreement also provides for Minnesota access to North Dakota., resources via. the State Library Comnission. The entire cost of the one-year agreement is paid by the State Library Commission with federal. Library Services and Construction Act funds. No Local, library assessment charge's are made- to parti.cipf.ite in the service-). However, after the one-year period has ended, unless additional funds are made available to the State I library Coniriission for the continuation of this .service, Local. library assessment fees will., by necessity, he charged. These assessed fees will, probably bo based U]K>n usage. The Slate Library Comnission requires that Local libraries indicate whether a MINITEX referral, is desired at the time a request is made for a l*x5k loan or phofo- i.'&mUtiii I'i'' I'v;:*':1