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April 2009
Upcoming Events
WiLS at WAAL
Wednesday, April 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. (program)
The New WiLS
New services, new directions and a new relationship with OCLC: what does all mean for your library? WiLS staff will be on hand to explain it all. Find out about it at poster session on Wednesday, April 22,
Wednesday, April 22 from 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Digitization on Demand: ILL Operations Participating in Institutional Digitization
Eric Robinson and Laura Rizzo, WiLS
Wednesday, April 22 from 5:00-6:00 pm
Wisconsin ILLiad User Group meeting — Mitchell's Glen Room
-Bob Shaw
2009 ILLiad International Conference
Once again, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2009
ILLiad International Conference, March 19-20, in
Virginia Beach, VA. It was a great conference.
Virginia Beach, the home of Atlas Systems, is a beautifull
city. The conference was located in the
Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront right on the beach.
The conference was very well run and the facilities
at the Hilton were excellent. Copies of all of the
presentation materials have been posted on the Atlas
website.
I attended conference sessions titled "Introduction to ILLiad 8",
"OpenURL Behind the Scenes","Making Data Dance: Excel 2007 features
you're not using - how you can and why you should",
"IDS Workflow Toolkit", and "Creating Tutorials for ILLiad Users".
There were many other sessions that I would have very much
liked to attend, but as there were usually 5-6 simultaneous
session tracks, it was often difficult to choose the session
to attend.
Of special interest during the meeting was the impending
release of ILLiad 7.4 and its relation to ILLiad 8.0.
ILLiad 7.4 is available now, and a number of ILLiad sites
have already upgraded to it. The ILLiad 7.4 Release Notes
and Documentation can be found at:
prometheus.atlas-sys.com/display/ILLiad/ILLiad+7.4+Release+Notes. The main new feature of ILLiad 7.4 involves Rapid Manager,
which now supports both borrowing and lending functions. Beyond
that, ILLiad 7.4 pretty much just fixes a number of bugs and
does some database changes in preparation for ILLiad 8.0.
ILLiad 8.0 is due to come out sometime during the summer of 2009.
This version of ILLiad incorporates a MAJOR redesign of the ILLiad
Client. The primary feature of the ILLiad 8.0 Client involves the
use of ribbons. Quoting from the ILLiad 8.0 documentation: Instead of actions being spread out across a form or within
small text-based menus opening on several pages, ILLiad 8
locates all actions at the top of the form in one or more
ribbons. These ribbons can contain buttons to perform actions,
drop downs to choose options, or toggle buttons to activate or
deactivate options.
Because of the new ribbon interface, ILLiad Client users will no
longer need to close out one form before going opening up another
one. For example, an ILLiad Client user could have different requests
or forms open in Borrowing, Lending, Doc Del, and Address Maintenance
all simultaneously, accessible via tabs. In addition, the ILLiad
Client will be highly configurable, with queues being configured to
be at any desired point in the queue list, or within custom categories.
In addition, the "Barometer Pane" of the Client can contain any
number of items from a variety of web reports, the Request Barometer,
etc... The configuration of the Client is by User, but templates
can be created to share desired configurations.
Other features of the new ILLiad Client involves the ability to
switch users of the Client without having to exit entirely.
Printing as well has been enhanced. With ILLiad 8.0, the printing
of Labels, Pick Slips, etc... will now be totally in the background.
There will no longer be any need for ILLiad Client Users to have
to manually merge documents, and close out the Word documents after
printing has completed. Note that with ILLiad 8.0, the data source
for word merge documents will change from .dbf to Excel data files.
ILLiad Staff will probably need to change the data source on all
of their Word Merge documents after upgrading to ILLiad 8.0
One very cool transitional feature that has been built in is that once
a site has upgraded to ILLiad 7.4, the ILLiad 8.0 Client can
be used interchangably with the ILLiad 7.4 Client. This feature
will give the ILL staff at your institution a chance to become familiar
with all of the ILLiad 8.0 design changes and features, while still
being able to use the more familiar ILLiad 7.4 Client for their
production workflow.
An overview of the ILLiad 8.0 Client features have been made available
on the Atlas web site at:
prometheus.atlas-sys.com/display/illiad8/ILLiad+8.0+Home+Page
I highly recommend that all ILLiad Client users carefully study this
document. Once having transitioned to the ILLiad 8.0 Client, and
having become accustomed to the new design and features, I believe
that ILLiad Staff will come to really like it.
Lastly, there have been some other significant developments at
Atlas Systems in regards to ILLiad. Atlas has added Staff and
has put a further emphasis on documentation. Karal Gregory has
been hired at Atlas to redo all of the ILLiad documentation. Some
of her efforts can be seen at the ILLiad 7.4 URL listed above. The
documentation will now be grouped by ILLiad Version, and it will be
much easier to find what you need. Furthermore, it was announced that
the national ILLiad listserve (ILLiad-l) will be retired sometime
this summer, as well as the Atlas Community Portal and the Knowledge Base.
The Knowledge Base will be folded into the Atlas ILLiad documentation,
while the new OCLC WebJunction web-based community will replace the ILLiad listserve and Community Portal.
It was felt that this would give ILLiad Users fewer
places they needed to go for needed information, and less unnecessary
stuff they needed to wade through.
Overall, if you have anything to do with ILLiad, I highly
recommend this conference The ILLiad conference fee is
relatively low (and included some meals, transportation to/from
the Airport, a Pre-Conference Social / User Meeting Reception,
etc...). There is an abundance of great sessions to attend.
- Allen Wenzel
Resource Sharing News
Staying connected to WiLS
We have some new and exciting ways for those interested to stay connected to WiLS. This could be a way to become familiar with these social networking tools and try them out.
Twitter: the WiLS Twitter profile can be found at: twitter.com/WiLSill. We plan on tweeting from events and updating with new tool, tricks and ideas for libraries and beyond. We will gladly add you to our followers if you would like.
Facebook: a group called Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) has been created. The group is mainly used for communicating with our student employees about happenings in the office.
GoodReads: For those of you interested in ways to discover books and see what others are reading I have created a group on Goodreads. The group is called WiLSReaders.
IM: A few of us use instant messaging. If you have a quick question for us please drop a line.
Angela Milock: aangela1010
Eric Robinson: ericatwils
There are a few free tools to help you manage your IM accounts if you have more than one (www.meebo.com).
If you have any ideas for other interesting social tools or if you have any questions please contact me however best suits you!
- Angela Milock
Reference Service News
Greetings Reference Folk, Here are just a few of our latest available resources.
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NEW IN REFERENCE:
Grants:
HN49.C6 L633 2008
Local mission global vision : community foundations in the 21st century
Reference Stacks:
DT554.15 P39 2008
Historical dictionary of Mauritania
CT104 S53 2007
Leksikon ishim
F1466 H58 1994
Historia general de Guatemala (6 volumes, only vol. 1 is on the truck)
HA17 O34 2008
OECD glossary of statistical terms
HD62.4 D485 2008
Development and globalization : facts and figures
P29 N42 2007
Diccionario enciclopédico ilustrado de términos lingüísticos
PQ7471.3 D533 2007
Diccionario de la literatura centroamericana
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Electronic Resources:
The ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) just had a major new addition of materials to the site. The blurb says, In addition to over 46,000 new works and 6 million pages of material based on the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO II also provides your institution with a new user interface with a number of new enhancements, some of which are listed below:
• Research Guide section with contextual essays and chronology to serve as a starting point for beginning researchers
• Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents section
• Citation generator and bibliographic citation export functionality
• Expanded download and email features
• Keyword in Context feature from within the results list
• For customers of ProQuest's Early English Books Online, the option to
cross-search EEBO from within ECCO.
The English Poetry database has updated to the 2nd edition.
Other resources added to the library website are:
ABZU: a Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Includes core texts: The civilizations of the ancient Near East produced the world's earliest written texts in hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and alphabets with which they described the first empires, recorded the first legal codifications, preserved the first love songs, and registered the first contracts, among states or individuals. Not surprisingly, these cultures elicited broad curiosity among later civilizations, our own not excepted, resulting in a flood of evaluation, scholarly or otherwise. While the discovery of new texts always leads to new evaluation, it is remarkable howassessments arrived at decades ago continue to be of much value, not only because they often carry editions of original documents, but because they contain insights minted freshly after first exposure to major documents.
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
ETANA is envisioned to include the permanent archiving, dissemination and generation of scholarly knowledge (such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain), a portal to Ancient Near Eastern
Archival Web resources, an electronic commons where scholars in the field can share data and images, and eventually an electronic publishing effort for born digital publications. ETANA will also collect and/or develop software required for the production of the Internet site in core areas identified by the planning committees and outlined herewith. Vanderbilt's library will serve as
the host technical site and grant administrator.
Wisconsin Eye
Wisconsin Eye is a statewide multimedia public affairs network with a mission to present an independent, statewide view of civic life and public policy discussion. The network covers floor sessions of the state Senate and Assembly, oral arguments in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and events in the Governor's and Attorney General's conference rooms. The network also covers political and cultural events around the state, as well as public policy discussions. Regular series include profiles of businesses and legislatures, factory tours, and roundtable discussions with reporters. All broadcasts are available from the "Archives" section of the website.
Discovering American Women's History Online
This database provides access to hundreds of digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. The database is keyword searchable and is browsable by subject, time period, source type, collection, and U.S. States. The collections themselves have been mounted by libraries, archives, and other institutions and are freely available on the Internet.
Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek
This cooperative project of Cologne University, Cologne University and Municipal Library, and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, has as its aim the digitalization of incunables, representing both collections. In order to cover the widest possible range of incunable production possible and to avoid any overlapping, pre-1485 editions were digitized in Cologne, and the post-1485 ones in Wolfenbuttel. In total, approximately 1,000 incunable editions are now available in the database, some 500 from each library.
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
The ICSD contains an almost exhaustive list of known inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including their atomic coordinates. In particular, the database provides information on: structural data of pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds structural descriptors (Pearson symbol, ANX formula, Wyckoff sequences) bibliographic data synthesis conditions All crystal structures contained in the database have been carefully evaluated and checked for quality by our expert editorial team. We continuously extract and abstract the original data from over 80 leading scientific journals and additional 1,900 scientific journals. ICSD is updated twice a year, each time adding approximately 3,000 new records. As the size ofthe ICSD has grown over time, we have continuously enhanced the quality of our data. At present, the ICSD contains 600 crystal structures of the elements 15,000 records for binary compounds 33,000 records for ternary compounds 35,000 records for quarternary and quintenary compounds Detailed information on the ICSD may be found in the scientific manual.
HeritageQuest Online
Covers ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books, every word searchable. Every page of each book is presented and can be easily downloaded or copied. Few gene alogical collections in the country have this many titles. Now even the smallest library can instantly begin to offer the information power of a large research library. More titles are added every week. These titles have been digitized from ProQuest's microfilm collection, Genealogy & Local History, which has assembled genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials including material from all 50 states and Canada. Titles are included from libraries nationwide including the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Widener Library (Harvard University), the New York Public Library, the Sutro Library, the University of Illinois at Urbana, and others.
English Poetry, 2nd Edition
English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented. The entire text of each poem has been included. Any accompanying text written by the poet and forming an integral part of the poem, such as dedications, notes, arguments and epigraphs, is also generally included. The main bibliographic source for English Poetry, Second Edition is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 196972). The database aims to encompass the complete published corpus by all poets listed in NCBEL who were active between 1100 and 1900.
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition is a searchable text and image database containing United State, Canadian, and UK census data; immigration records; selected court, land, and probate records; Candian genealogy records; German emigration records, United States border crossing information, and United States military and draft records. NOTE: This resource is licensed for on-campus use only and will not be proxied for off-campus use.
Also see: new e-resources
--Fran Metcalf, fmetcalf at wils.wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.4981
Fax: 608.263.3684
Submit a reference request
An irregular publication with writing contributions by Fran Metcalf, Angela Milock, Joy Pohlman, Eric Robinson, Bob Shaw, Al Wenzel, Mary Williamson, and Sheila Zillner.
Edited by Bob Shaw and Joy Pohlman.
Layout, graphics by S. C. Zillner.
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