Best Practices Webinar: WorldCat Resource Sharing Assessment Tools
Looking for ways to better manage your interlibrary loan partnerships, analyze your resource sharing workflow, or share meaningful data with your collection development staff or funding bodies? Join guest speaker Lynn Bierma, Illinois State Library for an OCLC webinar and learn how to get the most from WorldCat Resource Sharing Assessment Tools, including:
- ILL Reciprocity Report — evaluate your reciprocal relationships
- Lender String Report — identify your best lenders
- eSerials Requests by Journal Title —track most-often-requested journals
- Global Information System (GIS) report — manage your ILL operations
Webinar details:
Date and time: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 1:00 Central Time; Register>>
More information
Visit the web for more information on the reports available with WorldCat Resource Sharing.
- Tony Melvyn
OCLC
RL&LL Resource Sharing Update
Most of you are aware that Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning (RL&LL) has opened a discussion with all types of Wisconsin libraries regarding the revision of the 2005 Resource Sharing Guidelines.
This discussion has involved presentations and debate on the current issues facing interlibrary loan at WAPL, RL&LL/WiLS Fall Meeting and most recently, at WLA. The goal is to encourage libraries to lend as freely as possible, within specified Best Practice Guidelines.
The previous survey addressed the Guidelines trial at RL&LL as a primary default lender for many Wisconsin libraries. During this test period, we have not been manually referring out-of-state* for the following classifications of items:
- AV
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Current year titles
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In constant demand titles
*"Out-of-state" is defined as outside the boundaries of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
We chose these categories, because requests for these items are often returned unfilled due to the lenders' policies and/or local demand. Although to date, there has been no clear consensus on all three criteria, we have decided to resume out-of-state referrals.
As of Monday, December 19, we will once again begin referring out of state for any request, regardless of format, publication date or current demand.
Finally, the last survey we conducted indicated that an "in constant demand" list, such as the one used by Minitex, would be helpful. (The survey results are attached.) RL&LL would create and maintain such a list. Reviewing this "in constant demand" list before submitting a request would be considered a best practice. This document would be available on the web for easy consultation by front desk staff when creating ILL requests.
RL&LL will begin compiling this list. We hope to have it available for your use in mid-January.
As always, please contact us with any questions or concerns.
ILL Team
888.542.5543 ext. 4
dpirllill@dpi.wi.gov
Vickie Long
608.224.5394
vickie.long@dpi.wi.gov
Christine Barth
608.224.6171
10 ways to create a more productive work environment via
Lifehacker10. Use unusual items to better organize your workspace.
9. Implement the reproducible elements of the locations where you're most productive.
8. Put together a work friendly playlist.
7. Organize your daily communication.
6. Organize office drawers by importance for quick access to essential items.
5. Reduce eye strain when staring at a screen all day long (I've been using F.lux for a day or two; I'll update in the next issue about the results)
4. Creatively conceal (or display) your cables.
3. Keep your work files in sync everywhere you go.
2. Automate the opening and closing of your computer apps to remove the waiting time from your workflow. (I'd like to try this on the scanning computers to see if it improves start-up time).
1. Ergonomically optimize your workspace.
You can view the OCLC webinar recording that explains the above features.
- Angela Milock
Fourth Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference!
Friday April 13, 2012, hosted at Loras College, Dubuque, IA sponsored by DALINC (Dubuque Area Library Information Consortium)
Call for Proposals
If you're looking for an opportunity to share what you've accomplished in interlibrary loan or how you've accomplished it, please share your knowledge with others!
The fourth Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference Committee is seeking proposals for 40-45 minute presentations (50 minute session will include 5-10 minutes for questions). The presentations can be about any aspect of interlibrary loan including:
- Work flow issues
- State-wide systems
- OCLC
- Audiovisual lending
- ARIEL
- ILLiad
- Copyright
- Auto-deflection
- IFM
- Policy directory maintenance
- Rising mailing costs
- ILL policies
- Customizing web pages
- Purchase on demand
- ILL Blogs
- Personnel management
- Alternatives to OCLC
- Distance learners
- Document Delivery
- Statistics and record-keeping
- Direct requests/ unmediated requests
- Custom Holdings
- Customer Service
Information about the conference including specific information for presenters is available at: www.dalinc.org/midwestill/present.html. Fill out the proposal form and submit to joyce.meldrem@loras.edu by Friday, January 20, 2012, for consideration. The proposals will be blind-peer reviewed and you will be notified of your status by February 10, 2012.
For additional information, check out the conference web site at www.dalinc.org/midwestill
Daniel Boice
dboice@dwci.edu
Divine Word College, Iowa
563.876.3353
ILLiad Conference 2012—March 21-23, 2012
The deadline for the call for proposals has passed, but you can still submit proposals for posters until January 9th! www.atlas-sys.com/conference
Call for Programs—2012 Colorado Interlibrary Loan conference
2012 Colorado Interlibrary Loan conference
via Resource Sharing-Group: ILLiad Libraries by Don Pawl on 11/9/11
The 43rd annual Colorado ILL conference will take place April 26-27th, 2012 at the Colorado State University-Fort Collins campus at the Lory Student Center.
The CO ILL Conference Planning committee has begun to organize the 2012 ILL conference. We are lining up an interesting array of programs and would also like to hear from you. Do you have an idea, process or technique that you have developed locally that supports resource sharing? Is there a topic in resource sharing that you have lots of knowledge or interest in that you would like to share with others? We are looking for enthusiastic presenters who can inspire, teach or inform us about some aspect of resource sharing which we may not have known about.
If you are interested in presenting at this conference, complete the call for programs form.
Visit the conference website at: coill.cvlsites.org
Minitex Training Schedule
For course descriptions and registration, go to the
Minitex Upcoming Training Sessions
If you have questions about this training, or other issues related to Local
Holdings, please feel free to contact: David Linton,
Minitex — MULS unit
Minneapolis, MN
linto001@umn.edu
612-624-3360 / 800-462-5348
OCLC Resource Sharing News
OCLC introduces OCLC WorldShare for better library cooperation and innovation at Webscale
OCLC, together with OCLC Global Council and members, is taking the cooperative's ongoing strategy to help libraries operate and innovate at Webscale to a much broader level with the introduction of OCLC WorldShare, a new platform and a new brand that signals OCLC's commitment to greater collaboration in library service delivery.
collaboration and app-sharing across the library community, so that libraries can combine library-built applications, partner-built applications and OCLC-built applications.
WorldCat Resource Sharing will move to the WorldShare Platform in 2012, and it will be renamed WorldShare Interlibrary Loan. Beta testing of the new service is beginning soon, with general release targeted for mid-2012. Libraries will have at least one year to move from the current FirstSearch interface for resource sharing to the WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service.
The first services built on this new technical infrastructure are Webscale Management Services, which have been rebranded as OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and include circulation, acquisitions and license management applications. Over time, OCLC will bring together additional OCLC services and applications under the OCLC WorldShare name, including resource sharing, consortial borrowing, metadata management and additional applications.
WorldCat will continue to serve as the name for shared data, including registries and the knowledge base, as well as discovery services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.
OCLC is committed to working with libraries to expand the scope and type of partnerships that will be critical for libraries to achieve Webscale.
For more information:
Our Next Steps—OCLC WorldShare
To realize the potential of these opportunities, we are announcing three critical components of our strategy for cooperating at Webscale: the introduction of OCLC WorldShare, our commitment to radical collaboration in library service delivery; the OCLC WorldShare Platform, where libraries can collectively innovate and create library services; and the implementation of data centers that will support OCLC services around the world.
Today we are launching the OCLC WorldShare Platform, a shared technical infrastructure that will support a growing number of OCLC services and applications. This platform will enable library developers, partners and other organizations to create, configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users.
The OCLC WorldShare Platform facilitates collaboration and app-sharing across the library community so that libraries can combine library-built applications, partner-built applications and OCLC-built applications. This enables the benefits of each single solution to be shared broadly throughout the library community.
In the coming weeks, participants from platform pilot libraries will work with members of the OCLC Developer Network to help create and build new applications to populate the new OCLC WorldShare App Gallery, where users will be able to see available apps and install them into current work environments. Developers can showcase their creativity, partners can create add-on functionality and library staff can find practical, everyday solutions to streamline and enhance their workflows.
The first services built on this new technical infrastructure are Webscale Management Services, which have been rebranded as OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and include circulation, acquisitions and license management applications. Today, more than 30 libraries are already using OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and more than 150 libraries worldwide have committed to the new service since September 2010.
Over time, we will bring together additional OCLC services and applications under the OCLC WorldShare name, including resource sharing, consortial borrowing, metadata management and other applications. OCLC's currently deployed library management solutions will continue to be maintained and enhanced in line with our libraries' ongoing requirements under their current brand names.
WorldCat will continue to serve as the name for shared data, including registries and the knowledge base, as well as discovery services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.
Finally, we are taking the first steps in a migration to cloud computing for service delivery. OCLC currently operates data centers located in the United States. The first data center outside the United States will be available in the United Kingdom this week. Additional data centers will be deployed in continental Europe, Australia and Canada in the coming year. Data centers around the world will support performance, reliability and scalability in our increasingly global Cooperative.
A monthly publication with writing contributions by Angela Milock, Joy Pohlman, Jane Richard, Eric Robinson, Bob Shaw, Al Wenzel, and Sheila Zillner.
Edited by Angela Milock.
Layout, graphics by S. C. Zillner.
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