September 2009

CONTENTS

Events
Resource Sharing News
OCLC for ILL
Reference Service News

Past Issues

Registration is now open for the WiLS/Reference & Loan Fall ILL Meeting to be held at the Pyle Center in Madison on Tuesday, October 6. In the past, WiLS and Reference and Loan have held separate fall ILL meetings but we are experimenting this year by combining the two meetings into one.

A detailed description of the programs can be found at www.wils.wisc.edu/events/ill09 and you can register at www.wils.wisc.edu/events/multireg.html.

The theme of this year's meeting is: Today's User Services and Needs which will be addressed in the two morning sessions. The keynote entitled Offer a Library Service That Will Win Users' Hearts! will be given by Lan Yang, a tenured professor at Texas A&M and Head of Direct Services. Her recent publications have focused on user satisfaction of the interlibrary loan/document delivery services. Following her talk will be a panel discussion titled A User's Perspective: Getting Out from the Back Room by two academic librarians, Todd Bruns and Kelli Keclik of UW-Madison and two public librarians, Laurie Freund of Waukesha County Federated Library System and Karen Probst of Appleton Public Library.

After a buffet lunch at the Pyle Center, the afternoon sessions will be divided into separate tracks.

In the first track, David Sleasman and Martha Farley Berninger of Reference and Loan will meet with the Wiscat folks in two sessions: a WISCAT Update with a Question/Answer Session followed by BadgerLink and the Wisconsin Digital Archive.

The first session of the other track will feature Mark Beatty of WiLS talking about what's new, different, and old in OCLC. For the second session in this track, you will have two options: either a preview of ILLiad 8.0 by Eric Robinson of WiLS and Leigh Dorsey of UW-Milwaukee or a session with three mini-programs: Bob Shaw of WiLS discussing the resources available from CRL, Cynthia Bachhuber of Globe University telling how she set up a brand new library, and Jeff Brunner of UW-Green Bay talking about his summer project of revising UW-Green Bay's OCLC custom holdings.

If you have any questions about the meeting, you can contact any of the WiLS staff (Eric Robinson, Bob Shaw, Joy Pohlman, Angela Milock, or Fran Metcalf) or the Reference and Loan staff (David Sleasman or Martha Farley Berninger).

The registration fee is $36 which includes lunch and a break.

Hope to see you in Madison next month.

- Bob Shaw

It costs more than ever to put gas in your car, eat a meal in a restaurant, or stay in a hotel.  But chances are you still want and need to attend professional development activities, including Wisconsin's own WLA Annual Conference.  Did you know that financial help is available?

I am pleased to announce that the Resource Sharing Roundtable (RSRT) of WLA is offering, for the second year, a $150 scholarship to help defray the cost of attending the WLA 2009 Annual Conference, October 20-23 at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton. 

You must be a member of RSRT to apply, but individuals may join WLA and RSRT in order to apply.  Individuals who are members of WLA but not RSRT can join RSRT by contacting the WLA office.  

All the information you need to apply is available on the RSRT website. The deadline for application is September 15, 2009.

I look forward to RSRT awarding this $150 to a worthy individual, making it possible for them to attend the Conference.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

- Cheryl Becker
608-246-7973

We have some new and exciting ways to not only to stay connected to WiLS. This could be a way to become familiar with these social networking tools and try them out. If you have any other tools you would like us to explore please contact us!

Twitter: the WiLS Twitter profile can be found at: twitter.com/WiLSill. We plan on tweeting from events and updating with new tools, tricks, articles we come across and other ideas for libraries and beyond. We will gladly follow you as well!

Facebook: a group called Wisconsin Library Services WiLS has been created. The group is another way to keep up to speed on WiLS activities and events; also a great way to contact us.

GoodReads: For those of you interested in ways to discover books and see what others are reading a group has been created on Goodreads. The group is called WiLSReaders.

IM: A few of us use instant messaging. If you have a quick question for us please drop a line: Angela Milock: aangela1010; Eric Robinson: ericatwils

There are a few free tools to help you manage your IM accounts if you have more than one (www.meebo.com).

If you have any ideas for other interesting social tools or if you have any questions please contact WiLS staff in myriad ways!

- Angela Milock

Maintaining Local Holdings Records (LHR) provides information about your item-specific holdings as well as lending and reproduction policies. Lending and reproduction policy data in local holdings records (field 008, bytes 20 and 21) can be used to deflect WorldCat Resource Sharing requests for items you cannot loan and/or copy. Deflection occurs after the request is placed. Edited individual LHRs will override any related Policies Directory policy and can be created for any bibliographic record in any format.

Below is a condensed tutorial on how to create an LHR affecting ILL policy only (not how to add detailed holdings for issues, volumes, etc.)

Scenario: You have a particular DVD set, cataloged as a single item, that you want to mark as non-circulating for ILL. You don't want to block requests for all DVDs.

1. Call up the record *using the Connexion browser*
2. Under the Action button, choose Create Local Holdings
3. Refer to the documentation to fill in other fields according to your library standards: (www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/localholdings/quickref)
   Some fields are mandatory: Leader:
   -- single item (for this example)
   -- encoding level 2 (without detailed holdings) 008
   -- completeness: Not applicable
   --Under byte 20's dropdown list, choose: Do Not Lend
   --Under byte 21's dropdown list, choose the reproduction policy as appropriate
4. Hit Apply
5. Delete the contents of the remaining fields: 853, 863, 866
6. BE SURE to go back to the Action button and choose ADD RECORD Creating an LHR will also add institutional holdings to the bib

See this short Jing video illustrating the process above.

- Jane Richard

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):
October 13 and 16, 2009
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

Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes
Renaissance titles from various European libraries.

CCH IntelliConnect
Full-text federal, state, and international tax information and materials. Includes legislation, reporters (Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Guide, U.S. Tax Treaties Reporter, state tax reporters, etc.), journals, treatises, and more. Also includes business and finance materials such as Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, FERC Reporter and more. This resource replaces CCH Tax Research Network and CCH Internet Research Network.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world's oldest disciplines. Its 150 entries, written by leading scholars, bring together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion. The Encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication.

American Rhetoric: the Power of Oratory in the United States
This resource is dedicated to public communication and rhetoric of all kinds and includes a speech bank, movie speeches, audio figures of speech, the top 100 American political speeches of the 20th century, the rhetoric of 9-11 and links to communication associations and journals.

INIS: International Nuclear Information System
INIS is a leading open access reference database for scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It contains over 3 million bibliographic citations and abstracts with almost 200,000 full-text documents.

Please let us know if we can be of service.
Thank you,

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