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Tuesday, October 5, 2010: 8:30-3:30 — Pyle Center, Madison

Meeting Theme: The Future of Resource Sharing
WiLS is again partnering with the staff at Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning (RL&LL) to present a fall interlibrary loan meeting in Madison on Tuesday, October 5.

Keynote by Lars Leon: What Will We (Resource Sharing) Be Doing in Three Years?
Lars Leon is the head of Resource Sharing and Delivery Services at the University of Kansas Libraries.

What will our services look like? What will staff be doing? What training and development should we be doing now to prepare for the services of the future? The ILL community has many layered connections between different types of libraries, size of libraries, geographic locations, economics, and more and in his presentation, Lars will be exploring these connections.

As part of providing more audience involvement in the keynote, please take 5 minutes to fill out this idea building survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/ILLTrainingNeeded

Round table Session—The Ever Changing Formats of Information
and its Effects on Resource Sharing
Mark Beatty, WiLS,
Jeff Brunner, UW-Green Bay
Steph Morrill, South Central Library System

Round table Session The ever changing formats of information and its affects on ILL...Is this the start of a new beginning or the end of a service? The panelists will explore questions and ideas about the nature of ILL and how it is changing as a result of mobile devices, mobile content, copyright, and patron expectations.

Resource Sharing Challenges: Managing Operations, Changing Budgets, and Higher Expectations
Heather Weltin, UW-Madison
David Sleasman, RL&LL

Shrinking budgets and higher expectations continue to be major drivers of innovations and creative solutions to managing ILL operations. Heather and David will discuss challenges at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning and how each has been working to do more with less (and the unexpected bumps in the road along the way)

Speed Dating: Three 20-minute presentations

1. UW Forward: Over 8 million UW-System library items. Choose your school. Get searching. 
   Eric Larson, UW-Madison
   
   Forward is a Resource Discovery experiment that builds a unified search interface for library data. Today Forward is 100% of the UW System Library catalogs and two UW digital collections. The project also experiments with additional search contextualization by using web service APIs.
   
   
2. Federal Broadband for Wisconsin
   Bob Bocher, WI Deptartment of Public Instruction
   
   Recently it was announced that Wisconsin will receive $65,214,896 in loan and grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Broadband Initiatives Program. These funds will be used to create broadband infrastructure to provide rural communities in Wisconsin with access to high speed internet service.
   
   
3. Purchase on Demand: Patron-Initiated Collection Development
   Beth Price, Madison Public Library
   
   Purchase on Demand has been gaining in the journals and book market for some time. Libraries often weigh costs associated with a journal subscription and book purchase against usage/demand, considering what it may cost to purchase a few articles patrons may request when needed.

For more information on programs and registration, see 2010 Annual ILL Meeting.

August 10, 11, 12, 2010 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. CT
ILLiad Custom Reports with Microsoft Office
WiLS is happy to announce that Atlas Systems will be providing the opportunity for ILLiad custom reports training this summer as many of you have requested. Atlas will be handling all the training sessions in a webinar format and will provide 3 months of archiving the sessions so that your institution will be able to access them at a later date if you are unable to attend the live sessions.

The three concurrent sessions will be $250 for all three sessions no matter your current WiLS service level. If at a later date you feel that you need supplemental training or you wish for WiLS to take on ILLiad reports for your institution, we can certainly work to achieve either of these goals of our service level one members. For more detailed information on the sessions, go to: Atlas's web page. A registration link should be available this summer.

This scholarship is to help defray the cost of attending the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference.

Criteria:
The scholarship is available to library staff who are:

• Currently employed in a library or information agency in Wisconsin
• Able to communicate to fellow RSRT members the knowledge gained, especially how this knowledge can be applied to resource sharing activities
• Currently a member of the Resource Sharing Roundtable (RSRT)

Application process:
Applicants must complete the scholarship application form and a one page document explaining their reasons for wanting to attend this particular conference (refer to the 2010 WLA conference web site to review conference programs.) Each application also requires a one page letter of recommendation in support of the applicant.

• Application form
• Attach a one page document explaining reasons for wanting to attend the conference
• Letter of Recommendation

Selection:
Applicants will be evaluated by the Resource Sharing Roundtable Board based on:

• Need and desire for the scholarship
• Leadership potential

Application deadline:
Applications must be postmarked or emailed by September 15, 2010.

Notification and Payment:
The scholarship recipient will be notified prior to the conference. The scholarship check will be available in the recipient's conference registration packet.

Scholarship description:
The scholarship consists of a $150 stipend to be used toward conference expenses (registration, lodging, meals, or mileage)?

Other requirements:
Scholarship winners will be expected to:

• Attend the entire WLA conference
• Submit a newsletter article to be published in the RSRT newsletter, sharing what you gained from the conference
• Attend RSRT meetings and sessions during the conference

Send scholarship application to:

Bob Shaw WiLS
728 State Street, Room B106b
Madison WI 53706
reshaw@wils.wisc.edu

Brandon Butler from ARL wrote this concise review of some of the urban myths surrounding copyright. Definitely worth the read. Although I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of Sec. 107, I have to admit that I get confused with the TEACH Act. Brandon's article helps to untangle some of my confusion. Read Urban Copyright Legends.

- Ed Van Gemert
Deputy Director
UW-Madison GLS

This report details the findings from an OCLC Research-sponsored study of the environmental impact of current interlibrary loan practices, as well as recommended practices for reducing the carbon footprint of resource sharing operations worldwide. See
www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-05-17.htm

Reference Service News

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON COLLECTION
Databases recently added to the library website:
Education Research Complete:
Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. A BadgerLink resource.

ChinaLawInfo:
A nearly comprehensive collection of laws and regulations from China in Chinese. Coverage for cases is more selective. Also includes secondary legal information such as judicial explanations, research articles of legal studies, and more. See also LawInfoChina - the English-language sister database to ChinaLawInfo.

World Bank E-Library:
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. As an e-Library subscriber you gain unlimited access to a wealth of knowledge and expertise on development issues throughout the years and across a wide range of subjects.

MekongInfo:
MekongInfo is an interactive system for sharing information and knowledge about participatory natural resource management (NRM) in the Lower Mekong Basin.

PsycCRITIQUES:
PsycCritiques is a book reviewing tool published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The text is in the English language and includes 20 reviews in psychology predominantly from the current copyright year.

Tests in Print:
Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test.

KRPIA:
Web database service which provides reference resources in history, culture & art, literature, natural science, and scientific technology, etc. of Korea in full text, image, and 3D.

Thesaurus of Old English:
This is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version of the second impression of A Thesaurus of Old English, first published by Kings College London in 1995.

Yiddish and Hebrew Texts:
A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books.

UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade):
Resource re-licensed. This web site provides access to information and data on International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) and the work of the International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section (IMTSS) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).

YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe:
Topics covered include arts, daily life, places, language, literature, history, politics, and religion. In addition to the encyclopedia articles, this site provides access to a collection of photographs, audio, video, digitized documents. Originally issued in print in 2008. Does not seem to include Greece.

Australasian Digital Theses Program (ADT):
A collaborative distributed database of theses produced at Australian and New Zealand universities. The searchable database links back to complete digitized versions of the theses.

Encyclopedia of Television:
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.

Scottish Legal History:
Official publications from the Stair Society including the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series and Supplementary Series discussing various aspects of Scots law.

Thanks for using the WiLS Reference Service.

- Fran Metcalf, fmetcalf at wils.wisc.edu
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