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March 2009
Upcoming Events
ILL staff at WiLS will be presenting at WAAL and WAPL this spring.
Wednesday, April 22 from 9:00-10:15 a.m. (program)
At WAAL's conference at the Heidel House Resort in Green Lake, Eric Robinson of WiLS and Laura Rizzo, a SLIS student who also works at WiLS, will present a program titled Digitization on Demand: ILL Operations Participating in Institutional Digitization.
The abstract for the program reads: “Wisconsin Library Services is re-defining the tradition role of interlibrary loan services by changing to a service philosophy that crosses traditional departmental lines. WiLS ILL is introducing methods of getting materials that are rare or institutionally exclusive works to patrons around the world. 'Digitization on Demand' is a service philosophy that opens up the amazing network of ILL communication globally to all patrons regardless of institutional affiliation and allows them to access the works that would never leave campus. The service philosophy was expanded to incorporate the Wisconsin Idea--these previously 'untouchable' materials are not only opened up to one individual, but they are also digitized, cataloged, and stored for further use by patrons not only here in the state but around the world. Simply stated: Digitization on Demand is a means of taking works that are used at least once, and creating a digital copy that could be put at the finger tips of everyone in the world now and in the future.” Go to conference registration>>>
Friday, May 8 from 9:00-10:15 a.m. (program)
Two weeks later at WAPL at Glacier Canyon Lodge in Wisconsin Dells, Bob Shaw from WiLS, Michelle Rosenberg from Winnefox Library System, and Martha Berninger from Wisconsin Reference & Loan Library will give a program on Tracking Down Problem Requests.
The abstract for this program reads: “You can find it even if Sherlock Holmes couldn't! At your reference desk or interlibrary loan office, do your patrons sometimes give you requests for material that is hard to find or do they give you problem citations? Three experts will provide tips and resources that they have utilized over the years in tracking down these difficult requests. They will also provide advice on how to get these items in the most timely and cost effective manner.” Go to conference registration>>>
-Bob Shaw
The Computers in Libraries, March 30-April 1, 2009
The Computers in Libraries 2009 in Arlington, VA, (Flyer and Registration Form)
MLNC (Missouri Library Network Corporation) is pleased to be able to coordinate registrations for WiLS members! The cost is $234 for the full CIL 2009 conference program. This is more than 50% off the regular price, a savings of up to $250! Registrations must be received at MLNC no later than Friday, February 20, 2009, with a check for the conference fees made payable to Information Today, Inc., the conference sponsor. If using a credit card, please fill out the information on the registration form and fax your registration form to the MLNC office at 314-918-7222. (See CIL conference overview)
The Fourth Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative Forum, May 13-14
The Fourth Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative Forum will be held on May 13-14, 2009 at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin Ohio.
Join the movement to rethink information resource sharing, participate in working group discussions,
and hear speakers who will inspire us to find new, more efficient and effective ways to connect people and information.
Anticipated Speakers:
Ed Rothman, University of Michigan, Professor of Statistics and Director of CSCAR - Use Deming techniques to implement and manage changes in resource sharing.
Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, University Librarian - Explore open source software for libraries and open access initiatives taken at UPEI.
Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Director, Web and New Media Strategy - Learn about the changing digital strategy of the Smithsonian Institution and ideas for the future of information sharing in museums and libraries.
Katie Birch, OCLC Delivery Services Portfolio Manager - Consider global issues for resource sharing.
For more information on the agenda, as well as registration and hotel details, see Rethinking Resource Sharing. Early Bird Registration-$130 before April 1; Standard Registration-$150 from April 1 to April 30; Late Registration-$175 after May 1.
Beth Posner
Head of Interlibrary Loan Services
Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
Resource Sharing News
Midwest ILLiad user group
WiLS has begun to spearhead a new resource sharing group for ILLiad users. The Midwest ILLiad user group (midwestilliad.pbwiki.com) is meant to act as a network of training opportunities for new users of ILLiad who are unfamiliar with resource sharing and for the long time users of ILLiad who are trying to use this request management system to create sophisticated services. The site will maintain an up-to-date listing of ILLiad user contacts in your area, a list of enhancement requests that site users may submit to, and localized user group meetings. Over time, monthly WiLS ILLiad "Best Practice" webinar recordings will be hosted at the site to maintain a database of continued education opportunities for ILLiad users.
If you or a colleague could use a new ILLiad support group — please think of the Midwest ILLiad user group.
- Eric Robinson
Top Ten Ways to Hire and Keep Good Students
The 25-30 student employees that WILS employs each semester, a mixture of graduate and mostly undergraduate students, are essential in helping us run one of the largest interlibrary loan lending operations in the country. Over the years, we have come up with quite a few ways to hire and keep great students on staff; here are a few tips and tricks that you may find helpful as well!:
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10. When you are getting ready to hire, place your job posting where many students will see it, such as the online student job center on your campus. Have an online application available that prospective employees can complete.
9. When seeking applicants to interview, look for individuals who have previous work experience and have held a job for a long time, at least one year.
8. Interview twice as many people as you need to hire. When you make hiring decisions, you will feel all the more confident about the choices you are making.
7. Make sure their hourly wage matches the level of responsibility assigned to them.
6. When training a new employee, introduce them to big picture issues in addition to their assigned tasks. This will help them understand the importance of their role in the library as a whole.
5. Take advantage of their intelligence and abilities and promote them to more advanced tasks as soon as they are ready.
4. Treat them to lunch or coffee on occasion.
3. Reward them for excellent performance as often as possible. Tell them, orally and in writing, "You are doing such a great job!". Give them regular raises to recognize a job well done. Periodically issue a "Super Student Award" to recognize an especially outstanding student employee (we do this at the end of every semester).
2. Take time to get to know them, their interests, their aspirations, and what they are studying in school. If they seem especially well suited to library work, encourage them to seek librarianship as a career.
1. Make your workplace a fun place to be and give them food; lots and lots and lots and lots of food!
- Joy Pohlman
Working in WiLS ILL
Before joining the WiLS team in November I was only mildly aware of interlibrary loan. I had a basic idea of the role WiLS played on campus, but I had no idea the reach extended across the state and internationally. It is really awesome to be part of an organization that reaches so many institutions and patrons, filling very specific needs. I am still amazed at the scope of WiLS ILL. We have amazing students who work really hard to get the material, scan it and deliver it electronically. Staff members genuinely care about patron satisfaction and supplying material.
One of many aspects I really enjoy at WiLS is how adaptable the environment is. When there is an issue that needs resolving or we need to put more effort into one aspect of the ILL process it can be easily done with relatively no repercussions. Being part of such a specific workflow I am now aware of issues early on in the process. Two months ago it would take me a day or two to realize there was an issue and determine the cause and solution. I enjoy coming to work everyday because I know I will be challenged and that it will be a completely different day than the one before it.
Blogs of interest: http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/, http://lisnews.org/, http://www.boingboing.net/, http://www.lessig.org/blog/
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Reference Service News
Greetings Reference Folk,
Here are just a few of our latest available resources through UW:
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NEW ON THE LIBRARY WEBSITE:
Atelier Bovary
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:00 AM
The Atelier Bovary (a French-language database) is a genetic dossier of
various stages in the development of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary
through to its last, auctorially approved edition in 1873. In it one can not
only read and search that text as one would any electronic edition but also
compare previous versions of individual passages. The foundation for all this
is the collection of Flaubert's own manuscripts deposited in the Bibliothque
municipale de Rouen in 1914.
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NEW IN THE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT:
Grants Information Collection
Is your museum grant ready?
AM122 B76 2005
Reference Stacks:
Dictionary of the Bible
BS440 M36 1995
Encyclopedia of counseling
BF636.54 E53 2008
4 volumes.
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NEW ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:
The ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) just had a major new addition
of materials to the site. The blurb says:
In addition to over 46,000 new works and 6 million pages of material based on
the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO II also provides your institution with
a new user interface with a number of new enhancements, some of which are
listed below:
• Research Guide section with contextual essays and chronology to serve as a starting point for beginning researchers
• Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents section
• Citation generator and bibliographic citation export functionality
• Expanded download and email features
• Keyword in Context feature from within the results list
• For customers of ProQuest’s Early English Books Online, the option to Cross-search EEBO from within ECCO.
The English Poetry database has updated to the 2nd edition. Other resources
added to the library website are:
ABZU: a Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:25 AM
Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Includes core texts: The civilizations of the ancient Near East produced the world's earliest written texts in hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and alphabets with which they described the first empires, recorded the first legal codifications, preserved the first love songs, and registered the first contracts, among states or individuals. Not surprisingly, these cultures elicited broad curiosity among later civilizations, our own not excepted, resulting in a flood of evaluation, scholarly or otherwise. While the discovery of new texts always leads to new evaluation, it is remarkable how assessments arrived at decades ago continue to be of much value, not only because they often carry editions of original documents, but because they contain insights minted freshly after first exposure to major documents.
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:15 AM
ETANA is envisioned to include the permanent archiving, dissemination and generation of scholarly knowledge (such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain), a portal to Ancient Near Eastern Archival Web resources, an electronic commons where scholars in the field can share data and images, and eventually an electronic publishing effort for born digital publications. ETANA will also collect and/or develop software required for the production of the Internet site in core areas identified by the planning committees and outlined herewith. Vanderbilt's library will serve as
the host technical site and grant administrator.
Wisconsin Eye
Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:15 AM
Wisconsin Eye is a statewide multimedia public affairs network with a mission to present an independent, statewide view of civic life and public policy discussion. The network covers floor sessions of the state Senate and Assembly, oral arguments in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and events in the Governor's and Attorney General's conference rooms. The network also covers political and cultural events around the state, as well as public policy discussions. Regular series include profiles of businesses and legislatures, factory tours, and roundtable discussions with reporters. All broadcasts are available from the "Archives" section of the website.
Discovering American Women's History Online
Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:15 AM
This database provides access to hundreds of digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. The database is keyword searchable and is browsable by subject, time period, source type, collection, and U.S. States. The collections themselves have been mounted by libraries, archives, and other
institutions and are freely available on the Internet.
Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek
Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:15 AM
This cooperative project of Cologne University, Cologne University and Municipal Library, and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, has as its aim the digitalization of incunables, representing both collections. In order to cover the widest possible range of incunable production possible and to avoid any overlapping, pre-1485 editions were digitized in Cologne, and the post-1485 ones in Wolfenbuttel. In total, approximately 1,000 incunable editions are now available in the database, some 500 from each library.
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:10 AM
The ICSD contains an almost exhaustive list of known inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including their atomic coordinates. In particular, the database provides information on: structural data of pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds structural descriptors (Pearson symbol, ANX formula, Wyckoff sequences) bibliographic data synthesis conditions All crystal structures contained in the database have been carefully evaluated and checked for quality by our expert editorial team. We continuously extract and abstract the original data from over 80 leading scientific journals and additional 1,900 scientific journals. ICSD is updated twice a year, each time adding approximately 3,000 new records. As the size of the ICSD has grown over time, we have continuously enhanced the quality of our data. At present, the ICSD contains 600 crystal structures of the elements 15,000 records for binary compounds 33,000 records for ternary compounds 35,000 records for quaternary and quintenary compounds Detailed information on the ICSD may be found in the scientific manual.
HeritageQuest Online
Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:00 AM
Covers ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 25,000+ family and local history books, every word searchable. Every page of each book is presented and can be easily downloaded or copied. Few genealogical collections in the country have this many titles. Now even the smallest library can instantly begin to offer the information power of a large research library. More titles are added every week. These titles have been digitized from ProQuest's microfilm collection, Genealogy & Local History, which has assembled genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials including material from all 50 states and Canada. Titles are included from libraries
nationwide including the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Widener Library (Harvard University), the New York Public Library, the Sutro Library, the University of Illinois at Urbana, and others.
English Poetry, 2nd Edition
English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented. The entire text of each poem has been included. Any accompanying text written by the poet and forming an integral part of the poem, such as dedications, notes, arguments and epigraphs, is also generally included. The main bibliographic source for English Poetry, Second Edition is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 196972). The database aims to encompass the complete published corpus by all poets listed in NCBEL who were active between 1100 and 1900.
Ancestry Library Edition
Monday, January 26, 2009 2:00 AM
Ancestry Library Edition is a searchable text and image database containing United State, Canadian, and UK census data; immigration records; selected court, land, and probate records; Canadian genealogy records; German emigration records, United States border crossing information, and United States military and draft records. NOTE: This resource is licensed for on-campus use only and will not be proxied for off-campus use.
--Fran Metcalf, fmetcalf at wils.wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.4981
Fax: 608.263.3684
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An irregular publication with writing contributions by Fran Metcalf, Angela Milock, Joy Pohlman, Eric Robinson, Bob Shaw, Al Wenzel, Mary Williamson, and Sheila Zillner.
Edited by Bob Shaw and Joy Pohlman.
Layout, graphics by S. C. Zillner.
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