April 2010

The March 2010 WiLS/OCLC Billing has been posted to the web and can be accessed by going to the My WiLS Account Login Page. There is one User ID (your OCLC Symbol) and case-sensitive Password per institution, so feel free to share them with anyone that needs to look at the billing detail for either your WiLS OCLC Deposit Account or Cooperative Purchasing Open Invoice Account. Please email WiLS via the Link you will find at the bottom of the WiLS My Account login page, if you forgot your User ID or Password, have a change to your WiLS OCLC Billing Contact or have any questions about your accounts.

Shirley Schenning

(Please Share with your Director, if appropriate)

As we enter the last quarter of Fiscal Year 2010, please take a minute to log into your WiLS My Account to check that the balance in your WiLS/OCLC deposit account reflects enough funds to cover charges for the last three months of the current fiscal year. If you are in need of a replenishment before the end of FY10, June 30, 2010, please either send a request through this highlighted link, or email or call Shirley Schenning.

OCLC has mailed the first wave of Core Services (Cataloging, WorldCat Resource Sharing (OCLC ILL) and Access) renewal quotes to Wisconsin libraries that are NOT part of the Wisconsin WorldCat/BadgerCat Group. The letters were directed to directors, OCLC billing contacts and in a few cases to ILL contacts.

OCLC has told WiLS that the renewal quotes for libraries in the Wisconsin WorldCat/BadgerCat Group will be sent out after all of the non-group mailings have been completed. As of this writing, WiLS has not received information about specific mailing dates from OCLC.

Shirley Schenning
schenning at wils.wisc.edu
WiLS OCLC Business Manager and Services Assistant

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28-30	WAPL Conference — Sheboygan
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12	NISO: It's in the Mail: Best Practices for Resource Sharing—for level one members
17 and 19	WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics — WiLS' online course
18	WiLS Peer Council Meeting

NISO & Open Solutions Webinars We have heard from a number of libraries that they are unhappy with the way WiLS has offered these events. Requiring a "package" registration and payment by credit card only is indeed a new approach for WiLS. Package pricing was designed to assure we covered our direct costs (For the Open Solutions series, the individual session registration option used last year did not even cover our direct costs for the session) while the credit card only payment was intended to reduce internal processing costs. We have learned that not only did we displease libraries but credit card processing proved to be equally cumbersome internally as handling payment by check or through deposit account deduction! As a result of the input, we will stop the credit card only requirement for WiLS members at the end of this fiscal year. We are also seriously reconsidering whether to continue offering this type of webinar event. They are time consuming to arrange and it is difficult to cover even direct expenses. It also seems that there are many organizations providing these types of opportunities and we need to minimize duplication of effort wherever and whenever possible.

That said, there are still several more sessions in the NISO webinar series, and we do still have room for additional registrations.

- Kathy Schneider

NISO webinar 2010 Sessions (all webinars are 12:00-1:30 CT) listed below along with links to further content details.

May 12th: It's in the Mail—Best Practices for Resource Sharing
Sept 8th: Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat—Using Library Performance Metrics (2 parts)
Sept 15th: Count Me in—Measuring Individual Item Usage (2 parts)
Oct 13th: It's Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL & Knowledgebase Quality
Dec 8th: Unprecedented Interaction—Providing Accessibility for the Disabled

Register for all six sessions—$150 per institution. "Institution" may have more than one access point; Public Library Systems may share access with their members. This WiLS package is only available to WiLS Level 1 members. NOTE: Cost is fixed at $150 and includes archive access following the session.

Register with WiLS for the series. The logins and recording information will be emailed to each registrant, as they are made available to WiLS before each session.

May 17 and 19, 2010; 1 — 3 pm CST
WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics
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. See description and registration information.

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• Tools for Original Cataloging with Connexion Client
• CatExpress
• Local Holdings Maintenace
• And many more

See Minitex OCLC webinars

          Here, the issues are front and center.

Did you know...?
For over 35 years, SIRS has encouraged dialogue and critical thinking about the major issues of our society. The debate continues with the all new SIRS Issues Researcher! If you haven't taken a look recently, you might not know SIRS Issues Researcher includes:

• 300 Leading Issues organized around the most-studied pro/con issues
• Essential questions present key points under debate
• Global perspectives from all sides
• Timelines of events
• Images, interactive media and statistics

Did you also know...?
SIRS Issues Researcher supports the research process from start-to-finish with:

• Interactive tutorials and note organizers to help develop critical thinking
• Read-aloud, Lexiles and translations that support differentiated instruction
• Visual browsing that makes topics more accessible to everyone
• Intuitive user features that facilitate meaningful 21st-century learning
• And much, much more!

Want to learn more? Download our "Did You Know" PDF. Then check out our videos. They give you the basics, in two minutes or less! www.proquestk12.com/go/2min_all

Contact: Colleen Galloway ProQuest Account Executive Public Libraries & K-12 Phone: 800-521-0600, ext. 7228 colleen.galloway@proquest.com

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Featured Vendor for April

Ebook Library (EBL) is an Australian unlisted public company, founded in 1997 by Australian bookseller, Stephen Cole. Ebooks Corporation is a leading global provider of digital books. They have long-standing, close working relationships with Adobe, Microsoft, Palm and other stakeholders in the ebook industry. Ebooks Corporation launched its retail ebook store, www.ebooks.com in September 2000. Ebooks Corporation launched EBL in 2004 to serve academic and corporate libraries. Ebooks Corporation also licenses its technology to leading bookstores and publishers such as Cambridge University Press and Dymocks, a leading Australian book retailer, to power their own ebook offerings.

Libraries will receive a 3% discount off prices and the first three Wisconsin libraries to subscribe will have their $3,000 set up fee waived.

EBL introduced the Non-Linear Lending model, pay-per-view access, demand-driven acquisition, ePacks, and downloading for all titles. Features include, Patron-driven selection, toward purchase or as a short-term loan, includes a free five-minute browse to allow patrons the means to evaluate the title—a significant factor in lowering the cost of on-demand acquisition, up-front selection of titles by the library, no software required for online reader—easy access for patrons, all titles have multiple simultaneous access, works equally well with Macs and PCs, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Linux, authentication of each user allows for elaborate use reports, saved notes, perpetual access to the titles, including an archival copy, compatibility with electronic ebook readers.

The collection contains just under 130,000 ebook titles from more than 350 academic publishers and is growing rapidly.

Doug Way, Head of Collection Development at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, recently wrote of their work with EBL, "We're thrilled with how the patron-driven program is going. In fact, in this coming fiscal year we plan to make available to our users most of the 50,000 EBL titles we currently don't have in our catalog. The cost is less than we had budgeted (we just took a wild guess and crossed our fingers with that) and are happy with our cost per use. We are also very pleased with the quality of books being selected and are finding that depending on the program approximately 10-30% of the books liaisons would have selected for purchase are available in EBL (we've been using spot-checks where a liaison has a pile of titles to acquire to determine this). This will allow us to reduce book budgets in many of those areas in the coming fiscal year and it helps move us toward our goal of making a significant portion of our acquisitions patron-initiated purchases (freeing our liaisons to focus on other initiatives outside traditional collection development)."

EBL's Vice President of Sales and Marketing, David Swords, is available to demonstrate EBL's many capabilities and to answer questions by Webinar.

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New Contact for Facts on File Public and K12

While new to database sales in Wisconsin, Cyd Rosenberg is not new to sales of online databases for Facts on File, having joined Facts on File News Services in June 2002 and continuing with the reunited company in 2007. Prior to joining Facts on File, she was affiliated with Roth Publishing and their Litfinder database. She was previously a sales consultant for Scholastic Book Fairs, director for New York New Jersey Booksellesr Association, educational director for American Booksellers Association, and in her early career worked at Feffer & Simons the publishing export representative and got her start in trade sales for Simon & Schuster. You can contact Cyd at 800-322-8755x 4313 or crosenberg@factsonfile.com

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New Products

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New from Facts on File: eLearning Modules and Writer's Reference Center
Facts on File is pleased to announce our new online service, elearning modules (pdf). Elearning modules are classroom friendly, curriculum-related subject specific online solutions for classrooms and libraries. Elearning modules are designed to go beyond current texts and bring the core-curriculum related content to life with outstanding images and video content, and extensive teacher resource materials. Elearning modules provide more than an ebook, however as they are subject-specific, they are not as in-depth as a reference database and are priced accordingly. Elearning modules across the curriculum from science, careers to history and literature will be introduced in groups of eight to ten a month throughout the spring and into next semester.

Writer's Reference Center was launched earlier this year and has already received outstanding reviews from both School Library Journal (April 1 issue) and Booklist (April 15th issue). The site provides a basic how-to regarding all aspects of the craft of writing. It is easy to use as well as concise, and provides approximately $1000 worth of full-text print reference material ranging from Dictionary of American Regionalisms to Words to Rhyme With. Best of all, the site is very nominally priced and compliments many of the existing Facts on File services.

New from Learning Express: Job and Career Accelerator
Job & Career Accelerator™ integrates everything patrons need to conduct a successful job search, all in one easy-to-use online application. Interactive wizards guide patrons through each step of the process, from exploring over 1,000 suitable occupations and finding available jobs to preparing targeted resumes and improving critical job search skills. In addition, the personalized Job Search Portfolio allows job seekers to plan, tailor, and track multiple job searches at the same time while providing easy access to all their saved information. The end result is the most efficient and effective job search possible.

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Trial for Academic Libraries

In the month of May (May 3-June 4), WiLS will be offering academic libraries trials of a variety of databases which will probably include:
• ebooks from EbookLibrary
• ebooks from ebrary
• ebooks from Palgrave Macmillan
• Handbooks Online and Bibliographies Online from Oxford
• Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 from EBSCO
• Reference USA

For more information, go to WiLS Coop

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K12 and Public Library Trials

Films on Demand for Public Libraries
The Films On Demand is the web-based digital video delivery service for streaming educational video content from Films Media Group. This vast archive currently includes more than 6,100 complete titles and 63,000 individual segments which may be viewed by authorized users anytime, anywhere. Videos are organized into comprehensive curriculum-based collections that are offered to academic libraries by subscription (see brochure)

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Career Cruising Trial for Public Libraries
Website: www.careercruising.com
(contact Sara Gold at 608.265.4167 for login information)

Career Cruising in-depth profiles of hundreds of different occupations and comprehensive post-secondary school information of interest to your patrons. With multiple search options and direct links between our career and education databases, users can quickly and easily access the material they are looking for. Also please note the new EMPLOYMENT module that has just been added to our core system at no additional cost. It includes two new add-ons:

1. Job Search Tool. We have included an integrated job search engine that searches multiple job boards, company websites, newspaper ads, etc. for current job postings. It utilizes a job feed from Indeed.com, a popular search engine for jobs. Users will be able to search job postings directly from the Employment module, and also click a "Search for Jobs" button within any career profile to see suggested job titles related to the occupation profiles.

2. Employment Guide. We have partnered with the University of Waterloo to integrate content from their Career Development e-Manual into the Career Cruising program. This includes content related to "job search skills" (networking, cold calling, job fairs, etc.), "esume writing", "letter writing" (cover letters, thank you letters, follow-up letters), "interview skills" (how to prepare, types of interviews, practice questions, how to address tricky situations, interviewee rights, etc.), "negotiating job offers" and "first days on the job" in the workplace. Go to the Cruising Webinar schedule to register for a scheduled information session — a great opportunity to learn more about Career Cruising from one of professionals.

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English Language Learner Reference Center from EBSCO
Login to the Free Trial:
Go to: trial.ebscohost.com
User Id: s6258355
Password: p0009545

ELL Reference Center content covers a wide range of subject area topics—including Science, American History, World History, Civics, Life Skills and Literature—and is written at an ageappropriate level, using vocabulary and simplified structure helpful to non-native speakers. (see pdf) English Language Learner Reference Center

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Altarama Trial Opportunity of DeskStats
Altarama, creator of DeskStats a reference statistics management tool has approached WiLS member libraries with a unique offer. Altarama will provide WiLS member libraries with shared access to DeskStats at no cost for the remainder of the calendar year. DeskStats is a web-based tool that allows librarians to capture and report reference and other transactions simply and flexibly.

This trial was introduced to members of the Amigos and CALIFA consortia with great success in 2009. If your library is interested in participating, please contact Sara Gold at sgold@wils.wisc.edu by May 31st. All Academic and Public library members are welcome to join.

The April 2010 Access Newsletter is available on the WiLS web site.

The Dog of the Month is Murphy, a basset hound collie mix, who's the companion of Susan Uppina, the Director of Eckstein Memorial Library in Cassville.  Murphy's ongoing life goal is to protect his farm from marauding raccoons.  His favorite books include A Day in the Life of Murphy by Alice Provensen and Flawed Dogs : the 2004 catalogue of the Piddleton Dog Pound's very available leftovers, unpolished gems! one-of-a-kind finds!...by Berkely Breathed. For information on adding your dog, see Dogs of WI Libraries.

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Wisconsin Heritage Online on Facebook Emily Pfotenhauer, Wisconsin Heritage Outreach Specialist, has created a Facebook presence for WHO. Become a fan, see WHO's on Facebook!

Duplicate Detection and Resolution (DDR) software is now in full operation. A run of the full WorldCat database (beginning with OCLC #1) began February 2, 2010. In addition, a separate process that examines selected new records and replaced records from a day journal files began running January 26. As of March 23, almost 650,000 duplicate records have been removed out of 7,500,000 records processed. Processing will continue for a number of months. Libraries will notice fewer duplicate records in WorldCat. This should be particularly visible for printed music, sound recordings and AV materials since the previous DDR software did not address these duplicates.

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For information that may prove useful to you as you develop budget proposals and discuss the value of public library services. The report includes statistics on:

• Americans receiving job-seeking help and career assistance at public libraries Libraries as a resource for small businesses
• The prevalence and scope of library activity in the United States Libraries as providers of free services to the community such as Wi-Fi access, technology training and meeting rooms
• Comparisons of library activities to various retail and entertainment businesses

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Next-generation policy for WorldCat records—open for community review The OCLC Record Use Policy Council members have been working for the past few months to develop the next generation of a WorldCat use policy, and we are pleased to announce that the draft document,WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative, is open for community review.

See the text of the new, draft policy or sit in on a webinar to learn more and to submit your feedback to the Record Use Policy Council and see the online feedback forum.

Library Journal has a short article about some of the commentary.

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Mapping ONIX to MARC
This report presents an interpretation of a crosswalk from ONIX for Books 2.1 to MARC 21 developed by OCLC and made publicly available from the OCLC Web site and EDITEUR.

Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change
This report provides an overview of the most significant risks facing research libraries and suggests strategies to mitigate them.

Other News

The April Minitex/OCLC Mailing

The April OCLC Mailing is available on Minitex's website: OCLC_April.pdf

The issue includes:
New Minitex Web Site
Important Changes to OCLC's Content Services
Bakken Museum Site Visit
Library Technology Conference Summary
Upcoming Events
RDA Building Blocks
CONTENTdm Featured Collections
Save the Date for the MN Digital Library Annual Meeting.

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Looking for a single source for technical services news? Check out the Minitex Blog About Technical Services.

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Related courses in the Fundamentals Series, hosted by ALCTS, include Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management and Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions. Courses in cataloging and preservation are coming soon, and one on serials is under development. Taken as a series or individually, these ALCTS courses provide a basic foundation in the principles and procedures of collection management, technical services, and preservation of library materials.To enroll, go to ALCTS web courses.