Directors & Admin

RSA New Director PowerPoint

This is the slide presentation shared with new directors during our initial onboarding meeting. This is a great place to start for an overview of all the services RSA provides and to become familiar with the consortium.

Download the RSA New Director PowerPoint (PDF)

Essentials

This list was curated with RSA member recommendations.

The links below are a good place to begin for new and long-time directors. Know a new director? Please spread the word, and let them know about this page.

Do you know of a resource helpful to a new Director, but it is not mentioned on this page? Please contact the RSA Help Desk and tell us about it! We would be happy to add it to this page. 

RAILS and RSA Differences	State Library’s Online Calendar
L2 Library Events Calendar	RSA Contact List
RSA Bibliographic Database Standards	Central Illinois Networking Groups
RAILS Email Newsletters	RAILS Community Email Lists
Request an RSA Site Visit (or RAILS Site Visits)	User Cards Policy
Rural Director Links	Barcode Ordering and Equipment
RSA System Functionality and Governance Docs	Terms Used in Policies cheat sheet

Email Updates via RSA Listserv

RSA Email Groups and Listerv Sign Up

Reporting

Visit the Monthly Statistics page

Visit the System Generated Reports page

Visit the ILLINET and IPLAR Report Data page

BLUEcloud Analytics (BCA)

Go to the BLUEcloud Analytics Login Screen 🔗

Visit the BLUEcloud Analytics (BCA) page

BLUEcloud Analytics (BCA) Dashboards list

Cataloging

Cataloging At-A-Glance

Cataloging Parameters

Cataloging Policies

Cataloging Training

For more info beyond these topics, see the Cataloging Handbook.

About this page

This page combines useful topics that RSA members have recommended for other directors. If you have an idea of something to add to this page, please submit a help desk ticket with RSA Support Website in the subject.