June 2010

CONTENTS

Events
Resource Sharing News
OCLC for ILL
Reference News


Past Issues

 

 WiLSWorld Conference 2010

Join us July 21-22, 2010 for the WiLSWorld Conference. Our first-day keynote speaker is Tim Spalding, who founded LibraryThing, a social cataloging and social networking site for book lovers around the world. Eric Lease Morgan, Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department, University of Notre Dame, will give the second-day keynote session. For more information on programs and registration, see WiLSWorld.

Heather Weltin, the co-head of Access Services at UW-Madison's Memorial library, is the next chair of STARS for RUSA (Reference and User Services Association). Heather will be leading this national group during 2010-2011. The group helps to provide continuing education, best practices, acts as a liaison with ALA, and produces guidelines to meet ILL users needs nationally. Join us in congratulating Heather on this prestigious achievement.

- Eric Robinson

Two long-time members of the Wisconsin interlibary loan community, Randy Hoelzen from UW-LaCrosse and Erin Czech from UW-Oshkosh, have recently retired. I have dealt with both of them over the years and have been impressed by their dedication to providing the best possible service to their patrons. They will be missed.

Randy began his career at UW-LaCrosse twenty-two years ago working in library instruction. At his retirement he was both head of reference and also supervisor of interlibrary loan. Being a long-time fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals, his retirement gift from the staff was a Cardinals Jersey bearing the words "22-Hoelzen". Randy's replacement will be Bill Doering, Systems, Catalog & Digital Initiatives Librarian at UW-LaCrosse.

Erin Czech has been in charge of interlibrary loan since she began working at UW-Oshkosh's Polk Library in 1977. Erin has two children, a daughter and a son, who are graduates of UW-Eau Claire. Besides visiting her children more often, Erin and her husband plan on doing a lot of camping. Erin's replacement will be Sara Stichert.

Happy retirement!

- Bob Shaw

2010 Calendar

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 so 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.

October 5, 2010 — WiLS Annual ILL Meeting
Mark your calendars for the fall annual ILL meeting. Details to follow in late summer.

 

You can access a list of UW-Madison library collections and materials that do not circulate from WiLS ILL web from the UW-Madison Non-circulating List.

The Reference and Loan Library has a new name! The Reference and Loan Library changed its name with the launch of a new website describing its services. The new name is Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning or RL&LL for short.

The name change reflects the overall shift in priorities and services. Over the last decade, the emphasis on use of technology to provide online statewide resources and services has required a larger portion of staff time and resources.

The home page features the primary online resources/projects from RL&LL. These resources are available to all Wisconsin library staff and users and can be accessed by residents from any computer with web access. Primary online resources include AskAway, BadgerLink, WISCAT and Wisconsin Government Documents. The website will provide guidance on finding information and seeking help in using online resources and identifying core materials in the print and audiovisual collections.

RL&LL staff invites you to try out the new website.

If there is other information you wish had been included in the re-design, please contact Sally Drew at sally.drew@dpi.wi.gov or by phone at 608-224-6161.

- David Sleasman, RL&LL DPI

In late May, WiLS worked with UW-Milwaukee to pilot the new ILL Assessment service. This pilot began with a simple need to look at ILL services staffing, workflow, and financial health. WiLS staff has developed an efficient service that will provide a clear assessment, not only about the current structure of your ILL service, but about the state of your ILL infrastructure and whether it can sustain predicted changes in the future.

In a matter of weeks WiLS ILL staff organized the pilot with Milwaukee. We began by setting up a detailed "goals and expectations" document that both groups agreed upon as the basis of an assessment. From there UW-Milwaukee completed a pre-site visit survey about the basic structure of Milwaukee's ILL service. WiLS ILL staff then visited UW-Milwaukee to discuss the follow topics: staffing, ILL budget, software and automation, use of consortial borrowing and document delivery services, copyright and licensing, patron service priorities, and future service possibilities. A formal report will be presented to the UW-Milwaukee staff and administration in a few weeks.

We hope that our Level One members will make use of this new service in the coming year since we feel it will not only shed light on the pros and cons of your current service, but it will provide excellent data about possibilities for your service in the future.

- Eric Robinson

ILLiad 8 still seems to be a daunting, little used application nationally. WiLS' ILL staff have been one of the reluctant ones to fully adopt it — until now. The light bulb that recently turned on for us about why it is an amazing ILL tool was the addition of what is called "addons".

"Addons", a term used in the gaming world, is an application that is produced by a community of software users to provide a customized enhancement for their own use of the software. This means that those of us who have been using ILLiad 8 for some time now have started to create tabs within the software to automatically search requests against our own OPAC, Google, Amazon, and future resources like Forward for the UW System.

ILLiad 8 "addons" automate a very time intensive step in the ILLiad workflow. To give you a sense of how this looks within ILLiad 8, please see this very short video. (There is no sound to it)

Please let us know if you would like us to help you develop addons for your institution.

- Eric Robinson

The following table lists the changes in ILL fees for FY 2010-2011, which will be effective July 1, 2010. For other WiLS member fees please consult WiLS' Member Fees 2010-11.

WiLS ILL	FY10	FY 11
Basic ILL	$ 6.40	$ 6.55
Referral Request	$ 16.65	$ 16.80
Refer Credit	$ (6.40)	$ (6.55)

June 14 and 16, 2010 (1- 3 pm Central Time each day)
WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics Online course
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.

June 21 and 23, 2010 (1- 3 pm Central Time each day)
WorldCat Resource Sharing Tricks Online course
This two-day course goes beyond the basics of using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing system for Interlibrary Loan. In online format, the course consists of two-hour sessions as a lecture demo with hands on homework exercises of about another 1 hour per day. There is a supporting website included.

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

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

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON COLLECTION
Databases recently added to the library website:

EconPapers: Economics at your Fingertips
EconPapers provides access to the a collection of over 800,000 online Economics working papers and journal articles from over 1100 archives operated by research organizations, academic departments and publishers worldwide. The majority of the full text files are freely available. It is one view of the data included in RePEc.

Russian State Library Digital Library
Collections from the Russian State Library, in four parts. Universal Collection: printed editions that published since 1830. It provides the wide range of sources on culture and history of Russia and on the development of Russian statehood. In many languages. Early printed books: early Slavonic printed editions of 15-16th centuries—1830. In many languages. Dissertations: full texts of doctoral and postdoctoral dissertation synopses and dissertations defended in Russia and USSR in all academic fields (about 365,000 in March 2010) "Digital Leninka" digital copies of all items books, periodicals, maps, music, images, that have ever been scanned in Russian State Library either within specific projects or to preserve and safeguard an original. It also contains audio files and web e-texts.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
The all-new International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences contains nearly 3,000 new articles contributed by thousands of international scholars and several Nobel Prize winners, including Roger B. Myerson, 2007 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. This new edition is essential to research and study in the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, and other fields.

RSP Funding for Graduate Students
RSP (Reference Service Press) Funding for Graduate Students contains up-to-date information on thousands of financial aid programs open to graduate students. The database describes various program types, including fellowships, loans, grants, dissertation/thesis support, internships, and awards. It also goes into detail regarding specific eligibility requirements such as gender, ethnicity, military affiliation, disabilities, student rank, financial need, student status, applicant characteristics, heritage, special skills, and student/parent/spouse affiliation.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Resource now covers 1975-2009 and is not updated. It is no longer a subscription database and is now free for everyone.

Korean Studies Database
Korean Studies provide 9 databases, including Koreanstudies Information Service System (KISS).

Botanicus
Botanical books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Many of these titles are also in Memorial Library Special Collections.

National Archeological Database
The National Archeological Database Reports Module is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This gray literature represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S. Bibliographic records have been contributed by many partners, particularly State Historic Preservation Offices and federal agencies. The Archeology Program of the NPS coordinates the regular update of the information in NADB-Reports using a number of cooperators, primarily the State Historic Preservation Offices. The Center For Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) hosts the NADB Online System under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service.

Please let me know if anything above would be of use to you.
Thanks for using the WiLS Reference Service.

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