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Tuesday, October 5, 2010: 8:30-3:30 — Pyle Center, Madison

Meeting Theme: The Future of Resource Sharing
WiLS is again partnering with the staff at Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning (RL&LL) to present a fall interlibrary loan meeting in Madison on Tuesday, October 5.

Keynote by Lars Leon: What Will We (Resource Sharing) Be Doing in Three Years?
Lars Leon is the head of Resource Sharing and Delivery Services at the University of Kansas Libraries.

What will our services look like? What will staff be doing? What training and development should we be doing now to prepare for the services of the future? The ILL community has many layered connections between different types of libraries, size of libraries, geographic locations, economics, and more and in his presentation, Lars will be exploring these connections.

As part of providing more audience involvement in the keynote, please take 5 minutes to fill out this idea building survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/ILLTrainingNeeded

Round table Session—The Ever Changing Formats of Information
and its Effects on Resource Sharing
Mark Beatty, WiLS,
Jeff Brunner, UW-Green Bay
Steph Morrill, South Central Library System

Round table Session The ever changing formats of information and its affects on ILL...Is this the start of a new beginning or the end of a service? The panelists will explore questions and ideas about the nature of ILL and how it is changing as a result of mobile devices, mobile content, copyright, and patron expectations.

Resource Sharing Challenges: Managing Operations, Changing Budgets, and Higher Expectations
Heather Weltin, UW-Madison
David Sleasman, RL&LL

Shrinking budgets and higher expectations continue to be major drivers of innovations and creative solutions to managing ILL operations. Heather and David will discuss challenges at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning and how each has been working to do more with less (and the unexpected bumps in the road along the way)

Speed Dating: Three 20-minute presentations

1. UW Forward: Over 8 million UW-System library items. Choose your school. Get searching. 
   Eric Larson, UW-Madison
   
   Forward is a Resource Discovery experiment that builds a unified search interface for library data. Today Forward is 100% of the UW System Library catalogs and two UW digital collections. The project also experiments with additional search contextualization by using web service APIs.
   
   
2. Federal Broadband for Wisconsin
   Bob Bocher, WI Deptartment of Public Instruction
   
   Recently it was announced that Wisconsin will receive $65,214,896 in loan and grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Broadband Initiatives Program. These funds will be used to create broadband infrastructure to provide rural communities in Wisconsin with access to high speed internet service.
   
   
3. Purchase on Demand: Patron-Initiated Collection Development
   Beth Price, Madison Public Library
   
   Purchase on Demand has been gaining in the journals and book market for some time. Libraries often weigh costs associated with a journal subscription and book purchase against usage/demand, considering what it may cost to purchase a few articles patrons may request when needed.

For more information on programs and registration, see 2010 Annual ILL Meeting.

This scholarship is to help defray the cost of attending the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference.

Criteria:
The scholarship is available to library staff who are:

• Currently employed in a library or information agency in Wisconsin
• Able to communicate to fellow RSRT members the knowledge gained, especially how this knowledge can be applied to resource sharing activities
• Currently a member of the Resource Sharing Roundtable (RSRT)

Application process:
Applicants must complete the scholarship application form and a one page document explaining their reasons for wanting to attend this particular conference (refer to the 2010 WLA conference web site to review conference programs.) Each application also requires a one page letter of recommendation in support of the applicant.

• Application form
• Attach a one page document explaining reasons for wanting to attend the conference
• Letter of Recommendation

Selection:
Applicants will be evaluated by the Resource Sharing Roundtable Board based on:

• Need and desire for the scholarship
• Leadership potential

Application deadline:
Applications must be postmarked or emailed by September 15, 2010.

Notification and Payment:
The scholarship recipient will be notified prior to the conference. The scholarship check will be available in the recipient's conference registration packet.

Scholarship description:
The scholarship consists of a $150 stipend to be used toward conference expenses (registration, lodging, meals, or mileage)?

Other requirements:
Scholarship winners will be expected to:

• Attend the entire WLA conference
• Submit a newsletter article to be published in the RSRT newsletter, sharing what you gained from the conference
• Attend RSRT meetings and sessions during the conference

Send scholarship application to:

Bob Shaw WiLS
728 State Street, Room B106b
Madison WI 53706
reshaw@wils.wisc.edu

In the institutional view screen of the OCLC Policy Directory, you can edit the record to become a non-supplier. However, unlike previous renditions of the policy directory, you cannot enter the dates you want to be a non-supplier.

However, if you click on the tab "Schedule" at the top, you go to that page and then to the "Closure" entry where you can enter the dates you want to be a non-supplier.

- Bob Shaw

Learning team has worked with the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) to help fill the Wisconsin newspaper gap in BadgerLink. Through this new partnership, WNA's Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research Site will provide access to its 235 daily and weekly member-newspapers. Newspaper content is available from April 2005 with a two month embargo period. Each addition is covered cover to cover in a PDF, searchable format.

This service is available onsite in libraries of all types (except for corporate libraries) and through entry of a library card number. It is not available statewide through IP address authentication as are other BadgerLink resources. Users will be able to access the WNA website through the BadgerLink website by clicking on Newspapers under Resources by Type.

The first year of access to the WNA newspaper database is being provided as a pilot project. The Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning hopes to gain information on needs for Wisconsin newspaper access and to obtain ongoing funding as a part of the BadgerLink program.

Training for both of these new resources will be made available through the fall BadgerLunch series and through scheduled vendor training sessions. Watch for a complete webinar schedule soon!

For questions regarding either of these resources contact DPIbadgerli@dpi.wi.gov.

-David Sleasman of RL&LL

Reference Service News

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON COLLECTION
Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
Primary publications from the Selden Society, including its annual series containing law reports dating back to the Middle Ages, and year books from the Ames Foundation. Also includes other digests, abridgments, and modern encyclopedias that formed the foundation of English law.

LearningExpress Library
Each of several Learning Centers (elementary to college and graduate school level) offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and e-books for learners of all ages to improve test preparation and test-taking skills. Includes sections on prep for GED, U.S. citizenship, job search & workplace skills, courses for Spanish speakers, and other job market skill-building tools.

C-Span Video Library
Videos and transcripts of C-Span programs; includes public affairs programming, Congressional proceedings, news conferences, BookTV non-fiction author talks and interviews, and more. Contains every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours.

Encyclopedia of Modern China
This encyclopedia covers all aspects of the history and culture of China since 1800, including the people, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature. The encyclopedia is the work of an international body of 500 prominent scholars, who offer accessible, original, and authoritative analysis of almost 1000 articles. Includes hundreds of color photos, maps, tables, and graphs.

Healthcare Research and Consulting from Frost & Sullivan
Through Frost & Sullivan's Healthcare Growth Partnership Services program, clients receive a continuous flow of actionable market, technical, and econometric research, along with applications for growth (our TEAM methodology). Our global team of industry experts continuously monitors the following Healthcare market sectors: pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, drug discovery technologies, clinical diagnostics, healthcare IT, medical imaging, and medical devices, and provides local expertise along with a global perspective.

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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