August 2009

CONTENTS

Events
Resource Sharing News
OCLC for ILL
Reference Service News

Past Issues

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 6 – the date of the fall annual ILL meeting at the Pyle Center in Madison. WiLS staff will be teaming up with Reference & Loan to present the meeting. Speakers and programs will be finalized in the next couple of weeks so watch your email toward the end of the month for more details.

If you have suggestions for sessions, speakers, topics or issues that you would like addressed, please contact Bob Shaw at reshaw@wils.wisc.edu.

One of the advantages of being a WiLS ILL member is having access to the collections of the Center for Resource Libraries (CRL). CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.

According to their website CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates), some of the earliest African-American newspapers and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations.

Their holdings are in OCLC under the symbol CRL. If you were to go directly to them under their OCLC symbol, as a non-member the charge would be $175. However, WiLS can go to them through our affiliation with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the charge to you would be a referral charge of $16.65. If you want an item located at CRL, please send the request to GZM and put in the borrowing notes "refer to CRL".

If you have any questions about this, please contact Bob Shaw at reshaw at wils.wisc.edu.

-Bob Shaw

It costs more than ever to put gas in your car, eat a meal in a restaurant, or stay in a hotel.  But chances are you still want and need to attend professional development activities, including Wisconsin's own WLA Annual Conference.  Did you know that financial help is available?

I am pleased to announce that the Resource Sharing Roundtable (RSRT) of WLA is offering, for the second year, a $150 scholarship to help defray the cost of attending the WLA 2009 Annual Conference, October 20-23 at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton. 

You must be a member of RSRT to apply, but individuals may join WLA and RSRT in order to apply.  Individuals who are members of WLA but not RSRT can join RSRT by contacting the WLA office.  

All the information you need to apply is available on the RSRT website.   The deadline for application is September 15, 2009.

I look forward to RSRT awarding this $150 to a worthy individual, making it possible for them to attend the Conference.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

- Cheryl Becker
608-246-7973

I hope that many of you were fortunate enough to make the trip to Chicago for ALA this July. Several of the Resource Sharing staff of WiLS were able to attend the exhibits and the resource sharing committees. Below is brief summary of some of the resource sharing meetings that we were able to attend.

RapidILL User Group Meeting – This is a very dynamic group of resource sharing librarians who the WiLS staff participate with through the lending services that we provide to the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The main new function of this community, beyond submitting and filling of requests within 24 hours, is that they are developing a piece of software that will allow borrowers a means of selecting a preferred method of receiving their Rapid article requests. RapidX will allow the lender to scan an article in any software but be able to deliver articles to borrowers even if the lender does not share the same resource sharing software. For example, lenders will be able to scan and deliver to a borrower’s Ariel address even if the lender does not have Ariel.

STARS/RUSA All-Committee and ILL Discussion Group – STARS is the ALA subunit focused on Interlibrary Loan. This STARS meeting involved all the working groups of STARS: ILL Codes, Education and Training, International ILL, Legislation and Licensing, Membership, Research and Statistics, and Vendor Relations.  Eric Robinson, the WiLS ILL Coordinator, will be part of the International ILL working group of STARS this coming year. This particular group has conducted a national survey of current trends in International ILL. The findings of this survey will be presented in Hamburg, Germany in October.

OCLC WorldCat Navigator – Navigator is an OCLC product that is very focused on consortial resource sharing. The main principle of this product is to provide more seamless discovery to delivery via integrated resource sharing and circulation. Even though WorldCat Local will not be a requirement of the service, it feels very similar to the “one interface”  model of WorldCat Local. The Orbis/Cascade alliance, a group of libraries in the Washington/Oregon area and the beta tester of the service, talked about  their overall approval of the service, but it will take time to see if Navigator will work in more dynamic environments that have less homogeneous resource sharing and circulation systems.

Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee – The ‘Rethinking Resource Sharing’ is an international group pushing for innovation in Resource Sharing. They break themselves up into five subgroups: Policies, User needs, Interoperability, Delivery, and Marketing. The Policy group meeting that WiLS staff attended was focused on the creation of a ‘star’ checklist for Resource Sharing departments to go through to match themselves up to idealistic services. The checklist was reviewed and the mechanisms of distribution and marketing of the ‘stars’ checklist were discussed. The group feels that the list must not be U.S academic library focused, but it must be usable by public and international resource sharing librarians.

If you would like more details about participating in or information about ALA resource sharing groups – please contact Eric Robinson (erobinson at wils.wisc.edu).

                                    - Eric Robinson

A ballot has been presented to NISO Voting Members to approve a new work item on the Physical Delivery of Library Resources. This proposal, submitted by Valerie Horton, Executive Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and subsequently approved by NISO's Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, aims to develop a statement of best practices related to the delivery of library materials.

This project will build on the efforts of three recent projects: Moving Mountains, Rethinking Resource Sharing's Physical Delivery Committee, and the American Library Association's ASCLA ICANS' Physical Delivery Discussion Group. The proposal suggests recommendations be developed in the areas of packaging, shipping codes, labeling, acceptable turn-around time, lost or damaged materials handling, package tracking, ergonomic considerations, statistics, sorting, a set of elements to be used for comparison purposes to determine costs, linking of regional and local library carriers, and international delivery.

In order for this item to be approved so that a Working Group can be formed to pursue this work, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express interest in this new work item. A full list of NISO Voting Members can be found at NISO web roster. The full proposal can be viewed on the NISO website. Public comments are welcome. Assuming the project is approved, if you would like to be a member of the working group or join the affiliated interest group, please send a note to: Karen A. Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager at kwetzel at niso.org or use the NISO website comment form.

- Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant

WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics (see details)
The in-person hands on version of WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics will consist of a full-day in computer lab.  There is a supporting web site included.

Date: August 18th, 2009, 9:30am – 3:30pm, with a lunch break
Location: UW-Madison Memorial Library, Room 436, 728 State St.  Madison WI 53706

Fees
$100 Non-Level 1 WiLS Members
$50 Level 1 WiLS Members

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WorldCat Resource Sharing Tricks (see details)
The in-person hands on version will consist of a full day in computer lab of learning and doing.  There is a supporting web site included for after class reminders.

Date: August 19th, 2009, 9:30am – 3:30pm, with a lunch break
Location: UW-Madison Memorial Library, Room 436, 728 State St.  Madison WI 53706

Fees
$100 Non-Level 1 WiLS Members
$50 Level 1 WiLS Members

For more information contact Mark Beatty
608.265.5719
e-mail mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu

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NEW IN THE REFERENCE COLLECTION

Reference Stacks:
BP40 M835 2008
Muslim world almanac

F1406 E53 2008
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture (6 vols; only vol. 1 is on the new book cart)

F3021 A5 P47 2008
Norteamericanos en la Argentina

HQ1115 E54 2009
Encyclopedia of gender and society (2 vols)

JF511 F57 2009
The handbook of national legislatures : a global survey

JZ1242 A86 2009
Dictionnaire des relations internationales : de 1945 à nos jours

PC2640 D425 1991
French idioms

PC4689 C453 2008
Diccionario fraseológico del Siglo de Oro: fraseología o estilística castellana

PC4889 P37 S26 2006
Diccionario de la lengua pastusa

PM6306 L53 2008
Diccionario quechua-castellano, castellano-quechua

PQ9261 P417 Z459 2008
Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do modernismo português

PS374 S35 W63 2009
Women in science fiction and fantasy (2 vols; only vol. 1 is on the new book cart)

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NEW DATABASES ON THE WEBSITE:

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters:
A 3-volume reference work, pulling together all the key information in one source from the leading publisher in the field. Inland aquatic habitats occur worldwide at all scales from marshes, swamps and temporary puddles, to ponds, lakes and inland seas and from streams and creeks to rolling rivers. Vital for biological diversity and ecosystem function and as resources for human life, commerce and leisure, inland waters are a vital component of life on Earth. The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters describes and explains all the basic features of the subject, from water chemistry and physics, to the biology of aquatic creatures and the complex function and balance of aquatic ecosystems of varying size and complexity.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library:
HIDVL is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politicsbrings together in one place materials that have been available only in small, little-known archives that are inaccessible to scholars and that lack the resources to properly care for and provide access to these extraordinary cultural documents. Our trilingual Artist Profiles provide additional context to the videos and ensure wide accessibility to audiences around the Americas. HIDVL provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures and political landscapes of the Americas. There is a Profile for each artist or collection housed in HIDVL. These artist profiles, compiled with the collaboration of the artists themselves, aim to contextualize the video collections with photos, texts, interviews, programs, bibliographies and additional resources that viewers might find useful. Profiles
are written in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Alt HealthWatch:
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. Alt HealthWatch is available for all Wisconsin residents due to licensing by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, BadgerLink service.

Sustainability Science Abstracts
Covers all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management and conservation of natural resources. In addition to journal articles, the index icludes papers, reports, books, conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature.

Please let us know if we can be of service.
Thank you,

—Fran Metcalf, fmetcalf at wils.wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.4981
Fax: 608.263.3684
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