January 2011

The Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC), in cooperation with Information Today Inc., is offering libraries in the Midwest discounted registration to the Computers in Libraries 2011 conference, to be held March 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The discounted rate is less than 50% of the standard registration. The MLNC registration deadline is February 10, 2011. Go to: www.mlnc.org/services/featured.html to learn more.

Christina Wagner of the Goodman South Madison Branch of the Madison Public Library was one of ten librarians to receive a 2010 "I Love My Librarian Award." The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, college, community college, or university librarians.

2010 was the third year of the award. It will continue annually through 2012. The award is administered by the American Library Association with generous support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.

Additional information about the award and the 2010 winners can be found here: www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/2010/10winners.cfm.

www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/maps

The collection contains approximately 500 digitized maps from WHS collections, as well as descriptions of what's only available on paper, maps in books and the Magazine of History, and links to relevant Wisconsin map resources hosted elsewhere. The Society houses more than 25,000 maps and atlases in its Archives. The majority of the Maps and Atlas Collection focuses on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the United States and Canada. About 80 percent of the collection predates 1900.

3	Library Management Services in the Cloud: More Reality than Dream
7 & 9	WorldCat ILL Basics Online
14 & 16	WorldCat ILL Tricks Online

	UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Continuing Education Services Online Courses
Spring 2011	Find descriptions and details online at www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed.htm
February 14-March 27	Connecting Teens with the Best in New Teen Lit
February 28-May 7	Core Elements of Children's Services

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Minitex OCLC webinars catalog upcoming training sessions

RDA for Copy Catalogers: A How-To for Print Monographs
Tools for Original Cataloging with Connexion Client
Literary Criticism in ELM     

To learn more or register for these sessions, go to www.minitex.umn.edu/Training

UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Continuing Education Services Spring 2011 Online Courses

Connecting Teens with the Best in New Teen Lit, February 14-March 27

Core Elements of Children's Services, February 28-May 7
To see more or learn about registering for these courses, go to www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed.htm

EBSCOhost Integrated Search offers a next generation approach to federation, which eliminates the frustration caused by slow search results

In addition the Integrated Search offers the ability to utilize EBSCOhost features and functionality for applicable sources retrieved, including:

• EBSCOhost Basic and Advanced Search
• Screen functionality
• Subject facets
• Publication facets
• Sorting results by relevancy or date
• Date Slider limiter
• "Add to Folders" option
• Use of Custom Links
• The industry's most inclusive list of connectors

The industry's most inclusive list of connectors For additional information please Eve Paone epaone@ebscohost.com School and Public Library Account Executive EBSCO Publishing Phone: 800-653-2726 ext. 2235

WiLS has the following academic groups with upcoming renewals. Please contact Kirsten (khoutman at wils.wisc.edu) for a trial or a quote:

February 1
SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)

March 1
America: History & Life (EBSCO)
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)

April 1
BioOne.1 and BioOne.2

Springer is hosting a free one-day symposium for academic libraries on the future of eBooks as a research tool and library resource on Thursday, Feb 24, 2011. Register here.
Springer is also offering a free 90-day trial of SpringerImages and SpringerProtocols. Libraries need to sign up by January 31 for this offer. Register here for a trial of Images. Register here for a trial of Protocols.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library that provides quick and easy access to the full text (in XML format) of 4,465 Oxford books in 18 subjects. NEW: Monographs from Fordham University Press will be added in March 2011 as the pilot for University Press Scholarship Online, Oxford's program to open up the OSO platform to other university presses.

Through June 30, 2011, enjoy special savings on Oxford Scholarship Online:

• Save 20% on any frontlist purchase (no minimum purchase required)
• Save 60% on any backfile/archive purchase (no minimum purchase required)
• Save 80% on backfile/archive and 35% off frontlist when you purchase the entire OSO collection

The trial is at www.oxfordscholarship.com
The user name is wilswisc and the password is wilswisc

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In partnership with WiLS: Free trials and special discounts for Public Libraries

Through March 31, 2011

Free trials can be accessed by clicking the URLs below, and using "wils-publib" as both username and password on each website.

NEW! Oxford Dictionaries Online
30% off first-year subscription, any level of access
www.oxforddictionaries.com and guided tour

Do you have patrons looking for guidance on job applications, resumes, and cover letters?  Oxford Dictionaries Online's Practical Writing section can help.  Are there puzzle enthusiasts among your patrons?  Fans of crosswords and similar word games should check out the Puzzles section to help solve some of those trickier clues.

Do we need Oxford Dictionaries Online? 

• 70% of people need and use English language resources (for students, the figure is 90%)*
• surveyed found free online dictionaries difficult to use, slow, or out of date**

* Source: Book Marketing Limited research for Oxford University Press 2007    
** Source: Oxford University Press consumer research July 2009

• Although there are many free dictionary sites, they are often ad-heavy and are not meeting user needs.

Oxford Dictionaries Online is becoming the public library portal for definition-seekers, professionals, writers, students, teachers, non-native speakers, puzzle enthusiasts, and anyone wanting to "look it up."  Includes audio pronunciation and practical writing advice to make the right impression in everyday situations, including apply-for-a-job help and email guidelines.

American National Biography
30% off first-year subscription, any level of access
www.anb.org and guided tour

Do your patrons have American history questions? From missionaries to musicians, cowboys to chemists, and Vikings to astronauts, the 19,000+ biographies in American National Biography Online reflect the rich diversity of American life from pre-colonial times onwards.  Search by subject name, occupation, birth date, birthplace, and special collections, too; biographies within Native American, African American, Hispanic, Asian Pacific and Women's history will help your student patrons as well as those researching their family trees.

What public librarians are saying:

"It's been a godsend to us. Students have found every person they have looked for. All the students, from sixth grade to high school, have been amazed. Since we're such a small library, it is a great resource for us. It's very complete and the indexes are perfect."

— Melissa Campbell, Plainville PL, Massachusetts

"I was pleased to find a substantial biography on someone who is rather obscure and difficult to get information on. There was also a very good bibliography. Very useful."

— Deborah Horowitz, Poughkeepskie PL, New York

NEW!  Berg Fashion Library 
20% off first-year subscription, any level of access
www.bergfashionlibrary.com and guided tour

For all of those budding Project Runway contestants among your teen patrons, and for your community theater folks or doll-making enthusiasts, Berg Fashion Library is the new go-to resource!

Anchored by the 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (July 2010), the Berg Fashion Library incorporates a full range of resources essential for anyone interested in dress or fashion.  Contains a gorgeous collection 4,000+ images (including 1,600 from the Victoria and Albert Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection).  Beginning in 2011, over 2,000 visually stunning images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute collection will also be uploaded.

NEW!  Social Explorer 
20% off first-year subscription, any level of access
www.socialexplorer.com

Understanding your community is the key to success.  Make sure that you and your patrons have that key by offering Social Explorer.

Oxford African American Studies Center  
30% off first-year subscription, any level of access
www.oxfordaasc.com and guided tour

A public library favorite, the African American Studies Center brings history to life with authoritative reference content, a rich image gallery and multi-media video clips — watch Hank Aaron break the major league home run record or Maya Angelou recite "And Still I Rise." 

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Coming Soon: K12 Trials from EBSCO
We will be conducting trials of the following databases beginning in February:

Biography Reference Center

Career Library

English Language Learner Reference Center

Novelist Plus

Points of View

Access information will be sent out in early February

The January 2011 Access News is available on the WiLS web site.

UW-Madison is 4th highest lender in OCLC Annual Report: To see more OCLC statistics, please see OCLC's annual report.

February 7 & 9, 2011; 1- 3 p.m. CT
ILL Basics Online Course
This course will cover 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. For more information about the 2010-2011 schedule and registration, see the training portal.

February 14 & 16, 2010; 1-3 p.m. CT
ILL Tricks Online Course
The ILL Basics course covers using the OCLC WorldCat resource sharing system for interlibrary loan; the ILL Tricks course improves staff's efficiency using the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing system for ILL. Emphasis is on advanced techniques, new features and enhancements. For more information about the 2010-2011 schedule and registration, see th training portal.

We have received a flurry of questions recently regarding the OverDrive Download Stations. The OverDrive Download Stations (ODS) allow a library to turn an existing public PC into a self-service download kiosk for the Digital Download Center. This allows a patron to connect his/her device to the computer with the ODS software whereupon the computer will immediately recognize the patron's device and present titles that are compatible with the device, with wizards to guide users through the download and transfer process. Please note that the ODS is available for audiobooks and WMA music only. OverDrive is exploring ways that eBooks can be made available through ODS but there are a number of device specific issues that currently do not allow this.

A few libraries in Wisconsin have implemented an ODS: Brown County, Kenosha, Weyenberg Library in Mequon, and Mead Public Library in Sheboygan. Seattle Public Library has done a bunch of promotion for their ODS use. Here is a link to an article from a patron's perspective — they LOVE it!

Here is a link to pricing (which includes automatic updates similar to Windows OS updates).

Please contact Sara Gold with questions at sgold@wils.wisc.edu

The Dog of the Month is Casey, a Black Labrador Retriever Mix, who's the companion of Julia Trojanowski, the director of Dexter Library at Northland College. Casey was adopted from the Chequamegon Humane Society and visits nursing homes as part of a pet therapy group. He enjoys going to dog day care, long walks and eating. His favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. For information on adding your dog, see Dogs of WI Libraries.

Wisconsin Heritage Online portal adds 32,000 records Since October, Wisconsin Heritage Online has harvested more than 32,000 new records into the WHO portal.

The portal now includes over 75,000 photographs, documents, artifacts, and other digital resources from cultural heritage collections throughout the state.

Find out what can be discovered through WHO during a free BadgerLunch webinar sponsored by BadgerLink, Thursday February 17 at noon.

Check out these OCLC newsletters:

• NextSpace
• OCLC Abstracts

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community, a follow-up to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, is now available. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online information habits, preferences and perceptions. Particular attention was paid to how the current economic downturn has affected information-seeking behaviors and how those changes are reflected in the use and perception of libraries.

Candidates for Americas Regional Council Executive Committee Officers and Global Council Delegates from the Americas Region

OCLC members in the Americas Region will elect Americas Regional Council Executive Committee Members and Global Council Delegates. These member-leaders will be the voice of all OCLC members throughout the Americas as part of OCLC's governance structure, which is comprised of three Regional Councils and a Global Council. The following candidates, listed in the order they will appear on the ballot, were nominated by OCLC members (or self-nominated).

Read the list of nominees here.

HathiTrust Digital Library and OCLC introduce WorldCat Local prototype

DUBLIN, Ohio, January 18, 2011—OCLC and the HathiTrust have developed a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library. The WorldCat Local prototype (hathitrust.worldcat.org) for the HathiTrust Digital Library was designed and implemented by both organizations in close cooperation as a means to further develop a shared digital library infrastructure. The WorldCat Local interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library is based on the WorldCat database, and will run along with the current HathiTrust catalog during the prototype testing period.

To learn more, go to www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/2011/20114.htm

Find out how Geek the Library can help You

Have you heard about Geek the Library? This community awareness campaign is available for any U.S. public library and is a fun way to get your community talking about your library and public library funding. Geek the Library is bold, unexpected and helps community members make a personal connection with the library. Campaign materials, training and ongoing guidance is provided by OCLC. Interested public libraries can visit www.get.geekthelibrary.org for more information.

MacArthur Foundation funds "Reference Extract"

DUBLIN, Ohio, January 5, 2011—The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $350,000 to fund researchers and developers from OCLC, the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington and Zepheira LLC to continue work creating a more credible Web search experience based on the unique expertise, services and input from librarians worldwide.

The goal of the Reference Extract project is to make it easy to find credible information in the digital age. Researchers and developers are expected to have initial practical analysis and models of this "credibility engine" to share with the community in early 2011. Details of this work can be found through the Reference Extract home page at referenceextract.org.

OCLC Connexion client version 2.30

OCLC Connexion client version 2.30 will include enhancements to the existing functionality. Version 2.30 will be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. All Connexion client users will be required to upgrade to version 2.30 within 6 months of its release.

OCLC will announce the end of life date for versions 2.10 and 2.20 when version 2.30 is released. OCLC expects to release Connexion client 2.30 in March/April 2011. Highlights of the enhancements in version 2.30 are listed below:

• Links to the RDA Toolkit (a subscription to the toolkit is required)
• 029 fields are relocated to the bottom of displayed bibliographic records
• Language of Cataloging Limiter in Search WorldCat dialog
• Option to allow export of workforms

Changes related to recent MARC Updates; among them:
New material types for Blu-ray Discs, U-matic, NTSC, and ATSC are added to search dropdowns

A new element for Fixed Field and 006 Form of item is in the Computer File workform.

Read more about the enhancements here: www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/future.htm

February 3 at 2:00 PM Eastern

Library Management Services in the Cloud: More Reality than Dream
If you'd like to hear more from libraries that are using OCLC Web-scale Management Service, register for this Webinar on February 3.

Jackie Beach of CPC Regional Libraries in North Carolina, Michael Dula of Pepperdine University and Jason Griffey of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga—all early members of the user community—will explain why they chose Web-scale Management Services and will share their progress to-date.

Additionally, Andrew K. Pace, OCLC Director of Networked Services, will host the Webinar and talk about the strategy of Web-scale Management Services. Register today

RDA: What Do I Need to Know?
RDA is here, and many of you may be wondering what this means for your library, what changes need to be made and what practices are best. Read more about OCLC's policy.

RDA slides
These slides are recommended for learning more at your own pace: www.rda-jsc.org/docs/RDA_part_2_201005.pdf

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