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It's not too late to register for the Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference to be held at Loras College in Dubuque on Friday, April 9. This event, held every two years, provides an opportunity to meet your colleagues from neighboring states. Wisconsin is well represented in the programs with the following presentations.

Rod Lysenko, ILL and Reference Librarian at Edgewood College in Madison, will give a talk titled The Custom Holdings Advantage where he describes how he uses OCLC's custom holdings to make the process more efficient with an emphasis on cost and delivery time. He reports that 95% of Edgewood's requests were filled through custom holdings with 84% of the requests coming from free lenders in the Midwest.

Heather Weltin and Stephanie Harris from UW-Madison are featured in a presentation entitled Interlibrary Loan on a Shoestring: Sharing Responsibilities Across Departments. Heather and Stephanie are responsible for ILL borrowing on the UW-Madison campus and their program will show how they have incorporated staff from other library departments to improve service with fewer staff.

The last Wisconsin presenter is John Leonard Berg, Coordinator of Public Services from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville, who will speak on Successful ILL Practices for Distance Education Students. He will describe his institution's policy of providing parallel service to distance education and on-campus students.

Dave Paulson, Resource Sharing Manager at Minitex, also has an intriguing program titled Mainstreaming ILL in Minnesota: Minitex Desktop Delivery and the MnLINK Gateway where he describes two services: MnLINK Gateway and Minitex Electronic Document Delivery (MEDD) that have changed how interlibrary loan works in Minnesota.

A complete list of all the programs along with registration information can be found at Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference.

- Bob Shaw

WAAL 2010 in Milwaukee is quickly approaching! The conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, Milwaukee April 20-23, 2010. Advance registration is open until Friday, April 9th. Keynote speakers include: Bob Greenstreet, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, John Gurda, and Rachel Singer Gordon. Highlights will also include a Lakefront Brewery Tour, Poster session and a dessert reception at UW Milwaukee!! Scholarships and volunteer opportunities abound! Please see the website for more information on programming, scholarships and volunteering.

- Angela Milock

At this year's Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) annual conference in Sheboygan being held from April 28-April 30, WLA's Resource Sharing Roundtable (RSRT) is sponsoring a program titled A Look at Interlibrary Loan in Wisconsins Public Libraries.

Martha Berninger, WISCAT Interlibrary Loan Supervisor at the Reference and Loan Library, and Bob Shaw, ILL Services Librarian at WiLS, will initially do an overview of how interlibrary loan is done in Wisconsin's public library systems. Each of Wisconsin's seventeen library systems is autonomous and each of those systems has developed different methods in dealing with resource sharing. Through the use of maps and charts they will compare and contrast methods used — e.g., WISCAT vs. OCLC, centralized vs. decentralized processing, patron-initiated requesting, etc. Following this overview, a representative from a Wiscat system, Charles Clemence, Resource Consultant, Winding Rivers Library System, and a representative from an OCLC system, Beth Price, ILL Librarian, Madison Public Library, will provide a more specific view on how interlibrary loan is done in their respective library systems.

In a couple of weeks, a questionnaire will be sent to the ILL coordinators for each of the seventeen library systems. The answers will be massaged and analyzed in preparation for the program. If you have any questions that you would like to be included in the questionnaire, please send them to Bob Shaw at reshaw@wils.wisc.edu.

Registration is now open for the WAPL conference.

- Bob Shaw

March 16-18th, 2010 — cancelled
ILLiad Custom Reports with Microsoft Office will be rescheduled this summer.

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

One of the things that WiLS staff has learned during its site visits over the last few months is that there seems to be confusion about how interlibrary loan works on the UW-Madison campus so I thought I would try to summarize in a few paragraphs.

WiLS only does the lending for the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society library. Most of the holdings in OCLC are under the GZM symbol; however some of the UW-Madison libraries have their holdings under their own symbol: GZH (Ebling Medical Library), GZI (Merit Library), GZL (Law Library), WID (Library School Library, WIY (Primate Library). If you see any of those symbols in OCLC holdings, you should substitute GZM in the lending string. WiLS has a separate ILLiad license for WIH (Wisconsin Historical Society Library) so OCLC requests can be sent directly to WIH. The gzi symbol is lower case in OCLC which usually means non-supplier, but in this case all of their collection is available by putting GZM in the lending string. So a quick and dirty policy—anything you want from a UW-Madison library should be sent either to GZM or WIH.

WiLS does not do the borrowing for campus libraries. So if you ever see the symbols GZM, GZH, GZI, GZL, WID, and WIY where those libraries are trying to borrow from you, those requests are not generated by WiLS but rather by the ILL borrowing shop at the respective UW-Madison library.

How much does GZM charge as a lender? If you are a Level 1 or a Level 2 member, our charge is $6.40 per loan or article. That amount is deducted from your deposit account.

However for the University of Wisconsin campuses (both 2-year and 4-year), the cost is covered by the UW System "Intra System Lending" (aka Net Lender project) fund, not your particular campus.

Requests received from public libraries to WiLS via Wiscat are also paid by money in the state contract. And OCLC public libraries have money in the state contract for them.

Wisconsin libraries might see GZY (WiLS) as the borrower. WiLS has a referral system for libraries in the state without access to OCLC and we do occasionally borrow under the GZY symbol. If your library fills a request for GZY, your deposit account will be a $6.40 credit.

All of this information can also be found on the WiLS ILL web page.

If you have any questions regarding WiLS and interlibrary loan, please contact me at reshaw@wils.wisc.edu.

- Bob Shaw

ILLiad 8.0 Starter Kit ILLiad 8 is a very different tool then what most long time ILLiad users are accustomed to. To provide background information to help you better understand what is under the hood and how to set it up, WiLS ILL provided a webinar about 8.0 this past week. This instructional webinar covered technical setup, workflow shortcuts, navigation changes and pitfalls to avoid when getting started with implementing ILLiad 8.0. If you were unable to attend but are interested in getting more information about 8.0, please listen to our recording. If at any time you have questions or concerns about the use of 8.0, please feel free to contact Eric Robinson (erobinson@wils.wisc.edu).

- Eric Robinson

March 15 and 17, 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.

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

On-site workshops
April 12, 2010; 9:30am — 3:30pm
WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics — Alverno College, Milwaukee (see details)
This course of WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics consists of a full-day in computer lab. There is a supporting web site included.

April 13, 2010; 9:30am— 3:30pm
WorldCat Resource Sharing Tricks — Alverno College, Milwaukee (see details)
This course will improve staff's efficiency using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing system for ILL. Emphasis is on advanced techniques, new features and upcoming enhancement.

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

Databases recently added to the library website:

Encyclopedia of Human Rights
This 5-volume encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. It provides situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement from 1945 to the present, historical cases of abuse, key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, health, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice. Includes an extensive bibliography.

Vetmed Resource
Providing access to over 1 million research records (derived from CAB Abstracts), more than 25,500 full text documents, and 842 datasheets covering diseases and pathogens of animals, VetMed Resource is a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of veterinary medicine. Included within VetMed Resource is the Animal Health and Production Compendium - an encyclopaedic resource on health and production of food animals.

Compact Memory
Free. The Internet Archive of Jewish Periodicals offers the full text of German-language, Jewish periodicals published mainly in Germany, beginning in 1806 and ending in 1938, with some limited coverage in the 18th century.

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The following new resources were recently added to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections:

Harold E. Scheub Collection
Our first addition to the African Studies Collection comes from Dr. Harold Scheub, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature and one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore. The collection contains /South African Voices/, a three volume work that contains audio, images, and text, as well as over 1,000 images from Scheub's research in South Africa. The image collection will be added to in the coming year.

Digital Library of Decorative Arts and Material Culture
An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United States/ Jan Nieuhof (Dutch, 1618-1672) visited China in 1655 on a trade mission to the court of the Chinese Emperor. His account of the trip and description of China were initially published in Amsterdam in 1665, accompanied by illustrations based on first-hand observations. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China... (1673), the second English edition, has been digitized here.

EAST ASIAN COLLECTION
Ainu Komonjo (18th & 19th century records) -- Ohnuki Collection This collection of books represents the earliest depictions of the Ainu by the Japanese. The Ainu, who lived on Sakhalin, Hokkaido and the Kuriles are earliest known occupants of these islands. The books are extremely rare and are either hand-written, with illustrations hand-drawn, or are wood block prints. Since these authors were sent by the Japanese government which for the first time began to be concerned with territorial expansions and boundaries, these documents often include a number of detailed maps, including the topography and Ainu place names.

Foreign Relations of the United States
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The newest additions include General index to the published volumes of the diplomatic correspondence and foreign relations of the United States, 1861-1899 (1902), /Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, with the annual message of the president transmitted to Congress December 3, 1894/ and /Foreign relations of the United States, 1958-1960. Berlin Crisis, 1958-1959.

Mills Music Library Sheet Music
The Mills Music Library Special Collection contains several sheet music databases. We have just added 1,113 images to the Wisconsin Sheet Music Database. The collection contains music written by Wisconsin composers, published by Wisconsin publishers, and pieces whose subject matter is Wisconsin. More images will be added to the index throughout the coming year.

UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection
The UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists photographic images of steamboats on the inland waterways of the United States. The photos depict steamboats in every phase of their life span, in every aspect of their daily operations from the 1850s to the present, and in all sorts of settings as they went about their everyday business of hauling freight and passengers and towing barges and rafts. The digitized collection now has nearly 13,500 images online.

Parallel Press Publications
The Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, publishes print and digital publications featuring new works of scholars, researchers, and poets. Parallel Press also makes important and out-of-print scholarly research available for study in both print and digital formats. New digital content includes several poetry Chapbooks and books with such wide ranging titles as The Healing Landscape: Therapeutic Outdoor Environments and Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON COLLECTION
Since 1948 the University Communications Library has served the research needs of University Communications staff by maintaining a collection of university-related newspaper and magazine clippings, collecting university publications, providing information to answer queries about the university's history, and preserving materials to be transferred to the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management Service. This batch of materials includes material about Bucky Badger, James Graaskamp and more.

University of Wisconsin Madison Class Albums
From at least 1872 until the early 1890s, when the Badger yearbook seemed on pretty firm footing, most classes at the University of Wisconsin created a class album. All of the albums have photographs of students, and sometimes faculty members. Many of the albums also have autobiographical essays, and some include a history of the class, usually written by the class historian. These albums are invaluable sources for the early history of students on campus. This batch of material completes this project.

Wisconsin Badger Yearbooks
The first yearbook of the University of Wisconsin was published in April 1884 and called the Trochos, which is a Greek word for badger. This publication is the record of note for student life and campus events as well as a fantastic resource for learning more about local, state and world events and their impact on the UW Madison. We have just added yearbooks for 1977-2009, bringing our collection completely up to date.

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
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