November 2009

CONTENTS

Events
Resource Sharing News
OCLC for ILL
Reference Service News

Past Issues

    WiLS Office is closed for Thanksgiving and Furlough Days.

What are the non-referral days for WorldCat Resource Sharing?
OCLC treats the following as non-referral days: Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day.

I'm very happy to announce that Angela Milock has accepted a position in WiLS as our newest ILL Services librarian. Angela has been working for us for some time as our ILL intern. Angela will be responsible for several areas within WiLS ILL and will continue to work closely with the rest of the WiLS staff on our Community Manager efforts. Her day-to-day duties will include overseeing our scanning operations, overdues/invoicing, and helping to market ILL services to our members. Prior to coming to WiLS, Angela worked at UW-Madison's Digital Collection Center (UWDCC) and for the Wisconsin Holocaust Survivor project. Both of these experiences have provided her with expertise in metadata standards and digital project workflows. She has published several articles in Library Journal and continues to be involved in professional associations like the WAAL planning committee.

Angela graduated from SLIS at UW-Madison in May '08 with a focus on academic librarianship. She is a true Wisconsinite having lived in Kenosha for most of her life. In the near future she is planning on complete world domination, but has found work within ILL too rewarding to put much effort into her domination work. In her free time she has become a moss gardener (yes they do exist) and is hoping get a new dog in the near future. Please help us welcome our newest librarian — Angela Milock. You can reach Angela at: amilock@wils.wisc.edu or 608-890-2918

- Eric Robinson
WiLS ILL Coordinator

The Resource Sharing Round Table, a unit of WLA, sponsored three well-attended programs at WLA's annual conference in Appleton in October.  Dorothea Salo, digital repository  librarian at UW-Madison, provided a fascinating look at the public digital domain in a talk entitled Canoe the Open Content Rapids — her presentation can be found at www.slideshare.net/cavlec/canoe-the-open-content-rapids.   Peter Hamon, past president of WLA, kept the audience amused with his talk Resource Sharing: Past, Present and Future.  Finally Eric Robinson (WiLS), Heather Weltin (UW-Madison), Beth Price (Madison Public Library), Sarah Hartman (Middleton Public Library), and Lee Konrad (UW-Madison Memorial Library) discussed trends in collaboration between interlibrary loan and collection development.

Programming is already under way for next year's spring conferences — WAAL and WAPL.  If you have ideas for topics you would like to see presented (or would like to present yourself), please contact Vick Lenz, 2010 chair of RSRT, at vlenz@apl.org.

- Bob Shaw

When processing requests recently I noticed that some WiLS member libraries are confused about how to access libraries in the Minitex (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota) network so I thought I would reiterate how the system works. A major advantage of the relationship Wisconsin libraries have with Minitex is that you can use the statewide delivery network to send and receive materials.

Academic libraries send and receive requests from MINITEX via OCLC and pay by IFM using the current WILS referral credit rate ($6.40 in 2009-2010). Public libraries send and receive via OCLC on a reciprocal basis. Wiscat libaries have access to Minitex libraries through Wiscat Agent.

Sending OCLC Requests to MINITEX:
We recommend that you clear Wisconsin libraries before sending requests to Minitex. You can get all the Minitex accessible locations at: www.minitex.umn.edu/docdel/locations (Note that the number of times that you include MII in the lender string determines how far into the network they will go to fill your request). Use this information to create custom holding groups for Minitex and incorporate these groups into your custom holding paths.

Use the symbol "MII" on your lending string for OCLC Worldcat Resource Sharing. The number of times you enter the MII symbol will determine whether or not MINITEX can refer that request to other MINITEX locations beyond the University Twin Cities Campus.

For instance, if you list the symbol once, MINITEX will be able to fill at MNU, MNP, MLL and UMM. If you list the symbol more than once, more referral locations will be accessed as time allows.

You can also indicate the exact libraries that you want MINITEX to refer to by indicating in the "verified" field either "MII-Campus Only," or "Directed Referral to ... (and listing 3 letter codes of your selected libraries)."

For example: Verified: Directed referral OCLC 12345 MNU, MNP, MPI, MAC
Verified: Campus Only OCLC 1212122

You can select a lender string that includes WiLS and MINITEX—for example, you can have WiLS search the UW-Madison campus and then have the request go on to MINITEX to search that network:

GZM MII BRI (this would allow a search of the Madison campus, the Minnesota campus and the British Library Document Supply Service)

or
GZO GZE GZM MII MII (this would allow a search of several libraries in the state, then the UW-Madison campus, then MINITEX)

Receiving OCLC Requests from MINITEX
Requests will have MII in the Lender field and at least $6.40 in the Max cost.

If you are able to fill, academic libraries should charge $6.40 IFM.

Ship items to MINITEX via the SCLS delivery system as you always have.

Using OCLC IFM
ILL Fee Management (IFM) allows you to pay and receive payments automatically as credits and debits to your OCLC account.

It is optional and determined on a request by request basis. The Borrowing library enters a dollar amount in the Max Cost Box and checks the IFM Box. Dollar amounts with no other text should be entered: .95, 10.00, $10, 10.

The lender accepts the offer to use IFM by entering the same or less than the dollar amount that the Borrower indicated.

The OCLC system matches the Max cost and the Lender charges and activates IFM when the Borrower updates the request to Received. (see tutorial)

Questions, contact Bob Shaw — 608-263-4981 reshaw@wils.wisc.edu

WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online course (see details)

This course covers the basics of using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing system for Interlibrary Loan. The course in online format will be delivered over 2 days consisting of two hour long sessions as a lecture demo with hands on homework exercises of about another 1 hour per day. There is a supporting website included.

Online course dates (1- 3 pm Central Time each day):
November 16 and 18, 2009
December 14 and 16, 2009

WorldCat Resource Sharing Tricks Online course (see details)

The on-line webinar version will be delivered over 2 days consisting of two hour long sessions as a lecture demo with hands on homework exercises of about another 1 hour per day. There is a supporting web site included.

Online course dates:
December 21 and 22, 2009 1:00 - 3:00 PM Central Time each day

Fees
$100 Non-Level 1 WiLS Members (register)19
$50 Level 1 WiLS Members (register)

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

As of Sunday, November 8, users of WorldCat Resource Sharing now have three new categories in their Request Manager screen that will help track outstanding requests as borrowers or lenders.

Borrower Categories
On the borrower side of the screen, there are informational categories of Received and Returned. The Received category consists of all the requests that a library has borrowed from other institutions and the Returned category provides a record on the borrower side of all materials that are awaiting completion by the lender. This will help a library keep track of all their live transactions. These categories are purely informational, to facilitate tracking of outstanding requests.

• Once a request is Received it will move from Shipped to the Received category.
• Once an item is Returned, it will move into the corresponding Returned category.
• Once the request is Completed by the lender, it will disappear from the borrower's Returned category.

Lender Category
Similarly, on the lender side of the transaction, there is a new informational category, Shipped. This category consists of all the requests that a library has loaned out to other institutions. As with the borrower categories, these categories are purely informational, to facilitate tracking of outstanding requests.
•     Once a request is Shipped to the borrower, it will move into the lender's Shipped category.


While these categories are only currently visible for libraries that are using WorldCat Resource Sharing as their user interface, we'll work with Atlas Systems to incorporate this into ILLiad following the release of ILLiad 8.0.

If you encounter any problems using these categories or have questions, please contact OCLC Customer Support at support@oclc.org or 1-800-848-5800 or 1-614-793-8682.

Christa Starck (Weiker)
OCLC Delivery Services

The following Reference Books have arrived recently. See if you think any might answer your puzzlers: PE1630 A985 2007 A century of new words PA53 D53 2006 Ancient Greek scholarship : a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period DS596 O58 2009 Historical dictionary of Malaysia

JC596.2 U5 E53 2007 Encyclopedia of privacy (2 vol. set, only v.1 on new book cart)

HQ1075.5 D44 G48 1998 Gender training : the source book.

D802 F82 D475 2009 Paris dans la collaboration

GV877 O54 2009 Bilingual baseball dictionary = Diccionario bilingüe del béisbol : English-Spanish/español-inglés

HQ796 C8154 2006 Contemporary youth culture : an international encyclopedia (2 vol. set, only v.1 on new book cart)

PL4646 P765 2008 Prof. L.S.S.'s Subhas English-English-Kannada dictionary

PL8025 M346 2008 The Bantu bibliography

E184 A1 E573 2007 Encyclopedia of American race riots (2 vol. set, only v.1 on new book cart)

KF2979 I427 2007 Intellectual property and information wealth : issues and practices in the digital age (4 vol. set, only v.1 on new book cart)

HQ21 S4716 2006 Sex and sexuality (3 vol. set, only v.1 on new book cart)

PM6306 R67 2009 Diccionario enciclopédico quechua-castellano del mundo andino

GN17.3 B5 S93 2008 Diccionario de la antropología boliviana

PE1628 O945 2009 Compact Oxford dictionary and thesaurus

DS35.53 C36 2009 Encyclopedia of Islam

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New Databases on the Library Website

Latin American Newspapers (1800s - early 1900s)
A uniquely comprehensive collection spanning five continents. Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive will advance research and offer opportunities for fresh insight across wide-ranging academic disciplines. This expanding online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositoriesand includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions. At tjhis moment World Newspaper Archive only includes historical newspapers from Latin America.


Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online:
The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is an extensive resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia, originally published 1997-2001.

Lexicool: Online Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries:
(Free site.) This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/keyword. Search results provide the number of entries and links to the online dictionaries. The site also provides a directory of translation and interpreting courses, a listing of translator and interpreter associations worldwide, language resources, freeware to download and links to sites for currency conversion, text analysis and language identification. Language-related software and products may be purchased at the website.

BBC Country Profiles:
(Free site.) This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides information on the press, television, radio, news agencies, and number of Internet users. Links provided on the side of the profile connect to the latest news and key stories, BBC links, background articles, related Internet sites and video and audio clips from the BBC archives. Additional features include timelines, recent news links, background articles, Internet sites, and BBC archive video and audio clips. Information on over 20 key international organizations is also included.

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NEW RESOURCES AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
The following new resources were recently added to the Univer- sity of Wisconsin Digital Collections. UWDC Web

Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids
The Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the institutions across the state. The finding aids serve as a searchable access point to the archival holdings described. Archival holdings can include a variety of materials such as correspondence, diaries, maps, government records, film, photographs, and audio recordings. The most recent additions include 41 contributions from the Wisconsin Historical Society

ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COLLECTION
United States Water Survey maps
These thirteen Lake Survey maps document waterborne transportation on the Great Lakes in the late nineteenth century. These highly accurate nautical charts reveal the inherent dangers posed by rocky shorelines and narrow passages. The maps were provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society and described by Wisconsin's Water Library.

U.S. Forest Products Lab Centennial Oral History Project
Established in 1910 the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, located in Madison, Wisconsin, became the first research facility of its kind focusing principally on the study and research into the physical properties and resource utilization of wood. 48 past and present employees were interviewed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Oral History Program in cooperation with the Forest Products Laboratory, to document the Forest Products Laboratory's history.

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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