October 2009

CONTENTS

Events
Resource Sharing News
OCLC for ILL
Reference Service News

Past Issues

WiLS Hour: Community Managers' Panel (Register here) October 15, 2009 (2 p.m. CT) What can WiLS do to help your library better serve its patrons? This is the mantra that is the driving principle behind WiLS new Community Managers - library specialists focused on your library needs and what WiLS can do to help better serve your patrons. This panel session will elaborate on how the Community Managers are hoping to start a continuing dialog with its members to not only help them improve upon their libraries collections and services, but to collaborate on new member driven services. We hope that you will join us online to discuss how you can become a part of the Community Manager experience.

- Eric Robinson

The Resource Sharing Roundtable is sponsoring some great programs at the WLA Conference at the Radisson in Appleton this month.

UW-Madison Librarian Dorothea Salo, one of this year’s Library Journal Movers & Shakers, will be in the Hickory Room on Wednesday, October 21, at 4 p.m. She will discuss trends in Open Content (finding, using, and creating open-access resources). Her talk is called Canoe the Open Content Rapids.

Also on Wednesday, there will be a Resource Sharing Roundtable meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Kimberly Room. Come meet other members of the unit and share your ideas.

At 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, Eric Robinson (WiLS), Heather Weltin (UW-Madison), Beth Price (Madison Public Library), Sarah Hartman (Middleton Public Library), and Lee Konrad (UW-Madison Memorial Library) will discuss trends in collaboration between interlibrary loan and collection development.

Also on Thursday morning, retired library system director Peter Hamon will consider the strides we’ve made in resource sharing and the challenges we face. Join him in a lively discussion called Resource Sharing: Past, Present and Future at 10:45 in the Pippin Room.

Web Links
WLA
Resource Sharing Roundtable
WAAL website
WAPL website

Vicki Lenz

Over eighty resource sharing staff turned out on a rainy October day for the fall ILL meeting sponsored jointly by WiLS and Reference & Loan. The theme of this year's meeting was Todays' User Services and Needs. After introductory remarks by Sally Drew of Reference & Loan and Eric Robinson of WiLS, Lan Yang from Texas A&M gave a keynote talk entitled "Offer a Library Service That Will Win Users' Hearts!". Ms. Yang emphasized the ways her library is providing users' needs through faster turnaround time, convenient requesting, and electronic delivery.

The keynote was followed by a panel discussion featuring Todd Bruns and Kelli Keclik from UW-Madison, Laurie Freund from Waukesha County Federated Library System, Karen Probst from Appleton Public Library and moderated by Eric Robinson of WiLS. The panel provided a humorous look at ways libraries are providing for users' needs in this time of dwindling resources.

The afternoon was divided into multiple tracks. Wiscat folks led by Martha Berninger and Abby Swanton, were given updates on Wiscat, Badgerlink, and the Wisconsin Digital Archive. Mark Beatty gave the OCLC folk his usual OCLC roundup. ILLiad users got an advanced look at ILLiad 8.0 courtesy of Eric Robinson and Leigh Dorsey from UW-Milwaukee. Finally in the mini-program track, Jeff Brunner from UW-Green Bay gave us a look at the innovative way he has configured his custom groups and paths; Cynthia Bachhuber from Globe University shared her experiences in building a library from scratch, and Bob Shaw presented a roadmap to the Center for Research Library's collection.

Pictures from the meeting and Powerpoint presentations can be found at: www.wils.wisc.edu/events/ill09

- Bob Shaw

Maybe I'm the slow one to this blog, but very thoughtful ideas: dbl.lishost.org/blog

- Eric Robinson

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:
October 26 and 27, 2009 1:00 - 3:00 PM Central Time each day
December 21 and 22, 2009 1:00 - 3:00 PM Central Time each day

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

The following have arrived recently. See if you think any might answer your puzzlers:

Ancient Greek scholarship : a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period

Historical dictionary of Malaysia

Encyclopedia of privacy (2 vol. set)

Gender training : the source book.

Paris dans la collaboration

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

Contemporary youth culture : an international encyclopedia (2 vol. set)

Prof. L.S.S.'s Subhas English-English-Kannada dictionary

The Bantu bibliography

Encyclopedia of American race riots (2 vol. set)

Intellectual property and information wealth : issues and practices in the digital age (4 vol. set)

Sex and sexuality (3 vol. set)

Encyclopedia of Islam

Thank you,

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