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Racine Public Library and Racine Unified School District help students read 1 million books The new Racine Reads program challenged kindergarten through fifth-grade students at public and private schools to read 1 million books between October and May. Students met that goal, reaching the 1 million mark about four months ahead of schedule. Celebrations of the now-achieved goal, both in schools and also around the community, are well-deserved, according to Jessica MacPhail, Racine Public Library director. "This is a culmination of weeks of planning, hundreds of hours of work," she said. "I'm so proud of everybody who worked so hard behind the scenes to make this happen but I've got to take my hat off to these students." Read more>> UW-Madison Reference Retreat Archive
Presentations, video, and handouts from the January 2012 Reference Retreat are now available online. Some of the topics include:
eReader Survey Results
Last month's survey: Library Media Specialists Share Tips
On Friday, January 27, Stef Morrill, WiLS Director, joined a meeting of "solo" library media specialists held in Stevens Point. Everyone contributed to this valuable list of tips for other LMSes:
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The dog of the month is Gracie, who is one of the companions of Laura Hummer who is the Associate for Library Services at Nashotah House Seminary. Laura writes, "Squirrel—that is the only word that I know for sure Gracie understands! She spends her days going from window to window watching the squirrels in our yard. There is nothing more exciting for her than being let out to chase one off our patio table. The only other thing she loves as much is lying on top of the heat vent in our foyer. She hears the heat come on and runs to that spot and throws herself down on top of it and doesn't get up until the heat shuts off."
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The New Berlin Historical Society's digital collection is one of February's CONTENTdm Featured Collections from OCLC. The Society partnered with Wisconsin Heritage Online to digitize a collection of glass slides from the Swartz family, whose large progressive farm was located in the northeast corner of New Berlin, in Waukesha County. Many photographs were taken at the Swartz's Cornfalfa Farm to document best practices as the farm rose to prominence in Wisconsin and beyond.
On February 1, as part of a national celebration, the Wisconsin education community highlighted digital practices that can make learning more personalized and engaging for students. Schools around the state sponsored a variety of events to encourage students and teachers to engage with digital learning tools and technologies. More information about the Digital Learning Day events and links to further resources are available from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
This eight-week online workshop offered by the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (SOIS) provides a substantial introduction to creating and managing descriptive metadata for digital collections in libraries, archives, and museums. The course begins March 26, 2012.
WiLS is excited to offer its members a discount on a package of 2012 NISO webinars on various topics regarding eBooks, including standards for formatting and metadata, acquisition, sharing and preservation, mobile access, and social reading experience.
WiLS members will receive a 50% discounted price of $360 on a package of six webinars (single webinars are available for $60). This cost secures one login per institution and an archived webinar will be available for missed sessions or conflicting schedules.
Schedule (All sessions are at 12-1:30pm Central Time)
March 14: EPUB3: Putting Electronic Books into a Package
March 21: Find That E-book - or Not: How Metadata Matters
May 16: Part 1: Can I Access the World? Involving Users in E-book Acquisition and Sharing
May 23: Part 2: Heritage Lost? Ensuring the Preservation of E-books
August 8: Content on the Go: Mobile Access to E-Resources
September 12: Understanding Critical Elements of E-books: The Social Reading Experience of Sharing Bookmarks and Annotations
If interested in the package, please contact Jen Champoux at WiLS at jchampoux@wils.wisc.edu by February 21 for more information on this offer.
A General overview of OCLC Usage Statistics can be found on this
OCLC product brochure
As a complement to your current subscriptions, OCLC Usage Statistics contain valuable information about your library's use of the following OCLC services:
OCLC Usage Statistics currently offers:
Additionally, there will be an updated look to the WorldCat Collection Dashboard (located under the Assessment Tool Tab).
Using these reports your library can more effectively track usage trends, borrowing and lending activity, database access, website traffic and more.
Access OCLC Usage Statistics at: www.stats.oclc.org
Logging on with any of your institutions OCLC authorizations will give you access to all available reports for your institution.
Report availability
Reports may be available as early as the third calendar day of the month. Resource Sharing, WorldCat Navigator and Digital Collections reports become available by the tenth day of each month for the preceding month. Online Cataloging monthly reports are available within five days of the end of the preceding month. Current month daily reports are available the following day. Once a monthly report is available for a preceding month, daily reports for that month are deleted. Publisher Reports are available weekly and are updated each Monday.
Your library at Webscale:
How radical collaboration
is redefining library management services
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
11:00 am, Central
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OCLC WorldShare Management Services:
Acquisitions, Serials and License Manager
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
1:00 pm, Cental
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Madison Metro School District celebrated 100 years of library service in schools on January 27th at the Fitchburg Public Library. Nancy Kieraldo, teacher leader for Library Media Services, unveiled a new mission statement, Connect, Discover, Achieve @ 