September
1	WiLS Hour: WorldCat Local Quick Start
8	Catalogers' Clatsch: OCLC Training Portal
9	Wisconsin Heritage Online: WHO and You — Madison
16 & 18	WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics — WiLS' online course
17	AskAway Best Practices
October
29-30	Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting — Madison

WiLS, along with other university and government employees, must take 8 furlough days this year. Because we live on the Madison campus, we must follow the UW-Madison established dates when the campus will be closed. These dates are November 27, December 30, April 2 and May 21. In addition, the WiLS office will be closed on December 23 and January 4. The remaining two days will be taken at individual discretion and will not affect WiLS services.

Thank you to everyone who attended the July 2009 WiLSWorld. I think we can truly say a good time was had by all. Although attendance was somewhat lower than previous years, there was a solid mix of library types represented (more public library people than ever before), and hallway chatter indicated that most people found the programs to be interesting and informative. We also had some lively conversations at the WiLS Member Breakfast focusing on the new WiLS services, and in particular about how to shape a Business Intelligence service. Input covered a wide range of ideas and suggestions. We will be moving forward in this area through a Development Partnership with Lyrasis.

See the Post-WiLSWorld webpage for the presentation PowerPoints and tweet history.

- Kathy Schneider

The WiLS Board welcomed a number of new members at the July meeting. The Board seats represent the various constituencies in the WiLS membership. Board members serve three-year terms.

Representing Private Academic Libraries

Ane Carriveau, Ripon College (Treasurer); Lisa Viezbicke, Beloit College  

Alternate: Carol Brill, Alverno

Representing Public Libraries/Library Systems

Phyllis Christensen, Marathon County Public, David Weinhold, Eastern Shores Library System (Chair)

Alternate: Paula Kiely, Milwaukee Public

Representing School Libraries

Cathy Boguszewski, Janesville, Suzanne Zellman, Mequon-Thiensville

Alternate: Esther Frost, Arcadia

Representing Special Library

Leslie Christensen, St Mary's, Madison

Alternate: Megan Eggers, American Girl

Representing Technical Colleges

Ron Edwards, Western Wisconsin

Alternate: Janet White, Blackhawk

Representing UW Libraries

Patrick Wilkinson, Oshkosh (Vice-Chair/Chair Elect), Ewa Barczyk, Milwaukee,

Scott Silet, Waukesha

Alternate: Ed Van Gemert, Madison, Mark Rozmarynowski, Baraboo

Representing DPI

Sally Drew

...And Would You Like Fries With That?

Well, WiLS isn't exactly in the fast food business, but there is a wide range of services available to Level 1 Members, some facets of which you may not be aware of.

Having trouble remembering how to set-up Deflections, editing Constant Data Records, creating Custom Holdings Groups/Borrowing Paths, going Non-Lender, etc...? (I know I do.) WiLS can certainly give you all the information you need to carry out these tasks, or if time is of the essence, we can often do these tasks for you!  We can log into OCLC as your institution, and do for you what needs to be done.

Just think of us the next time you're in the Drive-Through at McDonald's.

- Allen Wenzel

• Fiscal Year 2010 OCLC pricing is now in effect, and as of July 1, 2009, WiLS is no longer surcharging OCLC products. Individual institutions were emailed subscription quotes in the form of a WiLS/OCLC FY10 estimate in March. Please review your July OCLC Cataloging, ILL and Access monthly charges and compare them to the annual FY10 quote, and promptly report any discrepancies.

• For all other OCLC products, the FY10 OCLC Price List can be found on the WiLS Website, or by logging into your OCLC Online Service Center Account.

• If your WiLS/OCLC deposit account has gone negative this month, you should have already heard from me. If not, feel free to email me your replenish invoice request.

To streamline the annual invoice process, WiLS will withdraw all of the items listed below from your WiLS Deposit account (if applicable to your library), unless specific requests are on file to invoice items separately. If any of these items are paid by another department, please print the invoice from your online My WiLS Account and have them remit a replenishment to WiLS based on that invoice.

Annually
July or August 2009 - Items that run annually from July 1-June 30
• WiLS Memberships for all (Levels 1 and 2) EXCEPT Level 3 K12 schools.
• WorldCat and BadgerCat
• Wisconsin Heritage Online donations

September 2009: Level 3 Memberships for K12 schools that run annually from September 1-August 31

January 2010: Items that run annually from January 1-December 31
• AskAway
• WAICU
• SPARC

Monthly
• OCLC Billing: WiLS receives a billing file from OCLC on the 3rd business day of the month and then processes and posts the billing to My WiLS Account between the 5th and the 10th of the month. The WiLS billing contact at your library receives an email notice.
• WiLS ILL: Invoices, delayed by 2 months (e.g., March usage is billed in May), are typically posted by the 15th of each month.

As Requested
Registration fees for WiLS conferences and events are invoiced, upon request, from your WiLS Deposit Account.

WiLS Coop is running a trial of The Chronicle of Higher Education for academic libraries through September 4. Those libraries who are interested in being part of a Chronicle Group can contact Kirsten Houtman at khoutman at wils.wisc.edu.

WiLS is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Center for Education and Work at the UW-Madison to offer their web-based career database, WISCareers. WISCareers is a highly regarded comprehensive career development and job-seeking resource that provides detailed employment information specific to Wisconsin. In addition WISCareers offers the following features:

• Middle and High School versions for age-appropriate career development.
• Unlimited online test prep for GED, ACT, SAT, CLEP, ASVAB, and TOEFL.
• Apprenticeship information specific to Wisconsin including youth apprenticeship programs.
• Resume writer, cover letter writer and job seeking skills activities.
• Detailed regional salary information.
• Wisconsin Employer data.
• Detained information on more than 900 majors at colleges in Wisconsin.
• Database of local employer volunteers.
• Online career development workbooks.

WiLS members are eligible for discounted pricing on WISCareers. Please contact Amy Rivera at arivera at education.wisc.edu to set up a trial or for more information.

The ProQuest Newspapers have been the industry leader over the last 15 years. ProQuest provides full text access to more newspaper pages than any other provider. As a WiLS member, your K12 Library Media Center qualifies for special discounted pricing on a selection of customized ProQuest Newspaper packages that provide the best of national, regional, and local newspaper coverage, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, and The Wall Street Journal & Los Angeles Times (both available exclusively through ProQuest).

Why should your library continue subscribing to ProQuest Newspapers? Only ProQuest offers you continuous access to top Wisconsin and national newspapers. The content is the full coverage made available directly from publishers, not selected articles carried in newswires. The full-text versions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal are both available through ProQuest with more extensive backfiles than any other aggregated source.

Furthermore, on July 1, 2009 ProQuest became your exclusive source for 10 full-text Wisconsin newspapers from Gannett.

The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids)	Wausau Daily Herald
Green Bay Press-Gazette	Stevens Point Journal
Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc)	The Sheboygan Press
Marshfield News-Herald	The Reporter (Fond du Lac)
Oshkosh Northwestern	The Post-Crescent (Appleton)

Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards require students at all levels to analyze, gather, and research information on local topics, trends, and events. The Wisconsin Gannett Newspapers, through ProQuest, offer a great avenue for student research at all levels. The full text coverage dates back to 1999. To access a complete list of all ProQuest Gannett titles (in Excel format) go to gannett. Please contact Paul Somers or Colleen Galloway for more information to include pricing of individual or multiple newspaper titles.

ProQuest K12 is offering four different ProQuest Newspaper packages listed below. These packages offer a flexible variety of content to meet your needs. The title lists (in Excel format) for the packages can be found at wilsnews. Please contact Paul Somers or Colleen Galloway for more information to include pricing of individual or multiple newspaper titles.

• PQ National News Expanded with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal
• PQ National News Expanded with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, & Chicago Tribune
• PQ National News Expanded with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, & Chicago Tribune + Gannett Wisconsin Package (10 WI titles)
• PQ National News Expanded with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, & Chicago Tribune + Gannett Package (All 85 Gannett titles)

For more information, please contact Sara Gold at 608-265-4167 or sgold at wils.wisc.edu.

The August 2009 Access Newsletter is available on the WiLS web site.

WiLS is posting to Twitter! Follow WiLS at twitter.com/wilsill

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 6 — the date of the fall annual ILL meeting at the Pyle Center in Madison. WiLS staff will be teaming up with Reference & Loan to present the meeting. Speakers and programs will be finalized in the next couple of weeks so watch your email toward the end of the month for more details.

If you have suggestions for sessions, speakers, topics or issues that you would like addressed, please contact Bob Shaw at reshaw at wils.wisc.edu.

The 2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting will be held at the Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, October 29-30, 2009. This is a great event for anyone interested in digitization. Sessions include CONTENT Outside of CONTENTdm, Metadata Standards: Three Examples of Implementation and Using CONTENTdm to Compliment K-12 Curriculum. For registration, the final agenda, hotel information and more, see details.

Note: the links to online registration and accommodations are located on the right side of the webpage. Please register and reserve your hotel early. Hotel blocks will be held through September 30 only.

We hope to see you there!

WAICU's Past and Present: A Digital History of Wisconsin Independent Colleges and Universities is featured by OCLC as a Collection of Collections this month.

Two new Content Providers have signed on with Wisconsin Heritage Online. Preservation Racine, an organization dedicated to historic preservation in Racine County, is beginning a project to digitize several decades of its local history newsletter.

The South Wood County Historical Museum will scan and make available online hundreds of images of Wisconsin Rapids in the 1940s and 1950s, all by local newspaper photographer Don Krohn.

Wisconsin Heritage Online is now on Twitter! You can follow our updates at twitter.com/WiHeritage.

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For complete OCLC news, see the OCLC news archive.
WiLS members may find these articles of particular interest.

On August 16, 2009, OCLC implemented the changes related to the OCLC-MARC Bibliographic, Authority, and Holdings Formats Update 2009. This included MARC 21 Updates No. 8 (October 2007) and No. 9 (October 2008), MARC Code List changes since July 2008, and user and OCLC staff suggestions, now available in OCLC Technical Bulletin 257.

Among the points of interest:

• Defining Videorecording 007/04 (subfield $e) code "s" for Blu-ray Discs.
• Linking ISSNs (ISSN-L) in bibliographic, authority, and holdings fields 022.
• Changing field 041 to separately subfield subtitles/captions for moving images (subfield $j).
• Validating codes for subfield $2 in field 047 (musical form) and 048 (medium of performance) for the respective code lists maintained by IAML (International Association of Music Libraries).
• Implementing two new Dewey fields: 083 (Additional Dewey Decimal Classification Number) and 085 (Synthesized Classification Number Components).
• Implementing the repeatable 260 field.
• Making field 440 obsolete and converting appropriate 4XX/8XX combinations (the definition of 490 1 will change from "Series traced differently" to "Series traced.")
• Defining new subfields in field 502 for dissertation details (degree, school, date, etc.).
• Implementing new field 542 for Information Relating to Copyright Status.
• Implementing subfield $0 (zero) for the Authority Record Control Number in 28 bibliographic fields and three authority fields.

See some of the sessions archived on the OCLC website: www.oclc.org/us/en/news/events/presentations/default.htm

The recordings include:

• Best Practices in Virtual Reference
• Integrating Technical Services and Preservation Workflows: Mainstreaming Digital Resources

And, Jane's personal favorite,

• Redesigning Technical Services Workflows, especially the 3^rd and 4^th speakers:
• At about 27 minutes into the recording: "The Only Constant is Change: Redesigning Technical Services Workflow," by Arlene Klair, University of Maryland. She is a strong proponent of shelf-ready material. They opted for getting materials to patrons faster than processing in-house, even though that was cheaper.
• At about 1 hour and 8 minutes into the recording: "Retooling Technical Services for a Radically New Reality," by Rick Anderson, University of Utah. He plainly says ACCEPT SHELF READY materials- duplicate call numbers do not matter to patrons (nor does it confuse them). U of U consolidated Acquisitions and Cataloging and changed their attitude to the OPAC, which he maintains is not a good discovery tool (too small a world when the whole universe is available). He has strong opinions on serials (no check-in, binding or claiming), and advocates using ILL requests as a collection development tool: buy it, don't borrow it.

August 15th marked the end of the six-month Expert Community Experiment. OCLC is very pleased with the results of the experiment. A quick summary of the statistics for February 15 through August 15:

• Expert Community Experiment replaces: 108,766
• Number of institutions participating: 1,690 did at least one replace during the experiment with 368 institutions having activity each month.

The functionality that was implemented for the experiment will remain available for your continued use. OCLC will complete the evaluation (including potential credits) and prepare for a wrap-up webinar that is planned for the latter half of September. Stay tuned.

OCLC has released the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, a new service that helps libraries and other institutions maximize the visibility of unique primary source materials, such as digital photos, newspapers, letters and diaries, through WorldCat on the Web.

See the details on the main product page: www.oclc.org/gateway

Users of WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start" can now search all OCLC electronic resource services from directly within those applications. This upgrade is available to subscribing libraries at no additional charge, and will improve the discovery experience for OCLC resources across the board. Through the simple WorldCat search box users now can retrieve integrated results that include items from OCLC FirstSearch, NetLibrary, Electronic Collections Online journals, ArchiveGrid and CAMIO (the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online).

To make sure you get the most from these enhancements, a new WorldCat URL specific to your library has already been created. Log on to the new Service Configuration module to review your library’s URL and customize your site with library-specific branding.