EBSCO Trials
WiLS is pleased to present trials for seven databases from EBSCO. These databases will be available for preview for 60 days. Please note: there is a separate login for Career Library.

Login at Ebsco trial
User Id: ns129170
Password: password

The following databases are available as part of this trial:

• Biography Reference Center
• English Language Learner Reference Center
• Points of View Reference Center
• NoveList Plus
• Referencia Latina

Go to Career Library trial
Site Name: trialwi
Login: 4153456

For questions regarding any of the databases please contact: Eve Paone Phone: 800-653-2726 ext. 2235 email: epaone@ebscohost.com

For a price quote please submit a price quote request form.

PowerKids Life Science from Rosen Publishing
WiLS is pleased to announce the newest electronic resource for children from Rosen, PowerKids Life Science.

In keeping with PowerKids tradition, all content in PowerKids Life Science is written and designed expressly for learners in grades 3 to 6. Information throughout, in more than 400 articles, is presented in an accessible, interactive manner, which makes Life Science real, relevant, and engaging. "Think Green" Fact Boxes highlight thinking, and living, green. The "Think Like A Scientist" feature encourages critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis of key concepts. Promoting digital literacy and contemporary and traditional research skills, PowerKids Life Science is designed for 21st-century learners.

PowerKids Life Science provides comprehensive curricular support. Correlated to state, national, and Provincial standards, it is a rich, reliable source for Life Science research and reports. Dynamic photos, videos, audio, and interactive games partner with age-appropriate text to offer learners Life Science content that is both required and inspired. PowerKids Life Science covers subjects that are high-stakes and high-interest for today's students and tomorrow's scientists.

URL: pklifescience.com
User: pklsreview
Password: pklsreview

Good through April 15, 2011.

For more information please contact Sara Gold at 608.265.4167. For a price quote please submit a price quote request form.

Access Video On Demand Trial for Public Libraries

Infobase Learning is offering WiLS Public Library members a free 6 month subscription to Access Video On Demand. Public libraries that take advantage of this program will have full access to all the collections. No restrictions on usage, or disabled features and this subscription will also include public performance rights. After 6 months WiLS will bill the library for a 12 month subscription if they would like to continue this service.

WiLS will provide each library who takes advantage of this program with a price quote for the cost of the annual subscription for after the trial period.

The library will also have access to all support materials to help them publicize this resource in their community, including MARC records, posters, bookmarks, shelf tags, demos, widgets, press release and all other promotional materials. They will also receive the monthly updates on new content. At least 800 new videos per year will be added at no additional cost. This is a limited time offer which will run until June 30, 2011 and each public library can receive only one, 6-month free subscription.

Please see PDF of trial and brochure. For more information, contact Sara Gold at 608.265.4167.

please email khoutman at wils.wisc.edu with any questions.

Wilson Offer Through March 30, 2011
Wilson is offering a 15% discount on all of its retrospective databases. WilsonRetro Promo Feb 2011 Please email khoutman at wils.wisc.edu if you are interested in trialing any of these databases.

Oxford Offer for Oxford Scholarship Online
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

Dissertation Abstracts from ProQuest
As of March 1, Dissertation Abstracts is no longer available via FirstSearch per-search. Trials are available to only the Abstracts and not the Full Text because of royalty issues. Please email if you would like a trial and or pricing.

For those of you who subscribe to SAGE (pdf), there will be an option in March to purchase the backfile

Naxos databases will also be offered for trial sometime in March.

EBSCO Trials (see individual databases for trial links) Ebsco User ID for all trials: springtrials Password for all trials: ebsco

America: History and Life™ with Full Text (WiLS group begins March 1) With selective indexing for over 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is a very important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. It also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Trial login.

Historical Abstracts™ with Full Text (WiLS group begins March 1) This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 2,300 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. In addition, this database provides access to the full text of more than 330 journals and 119 books. Trial login.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ (WiLS group begins January 1) with Full Text™ is the full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts™, formerly a SAGE database. This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than 300,000 records and full text for more than 200 magazines and journals as well full text books & monographs. "CJA offers much more content—for a broader span of years—than I thought possible, and the content is first-rate. So is the delivery system. It gets a ten and an enthusiastic recommendation. Not just for libraries serving criminal justice researchers, this file will be used by researchers across the disciplines (I started to list the subject areas, but there are too many!). Highly recommended for public, academic, and special libraries." Library Journal, November 15, 2010. Trial login.

Political Science Complete™ (PSC) contains full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. Selected as a 2009 Library Journal Best Reference Resource "PSC earns a resounding ten—and my gratitude for bringing new U.S. political science material to the marketplace and to the library!" from Library Journal, July 1, 2009 "Users will find no other source comparable to Political Science Complete. It captures the breadth of the subject with both a national and international perspective, drawing from scholarly, professional and peer-reviewed sources, and offering considerable full-text content—all in one place. Highly recommended." Choice, October 1, 2010 Trial login.

Jewish Studies Source contains over 400 full-text titles. Sources comprising the collection include full-text for leading academic journals within the discipline, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews. "For Jewish studies online completists, JSS is a must-have." Library Journal, February 2011 Trial login.

ATLA Historical Monographs Collections The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection consists of two Series that contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. In its entirety, the collection is estimated to contain over 10 million pages, representing a core collection for colleges and universities with programs in history, theology, religion, sociology, political science and other disciplines. Series 1 consists of titles from the 13th Century through 1893. Series 2 consists of titles published from 1894 through 1923. Trial login.

Native American Archives collection provides over 1.8 million pages of original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the 18th through the 20th century made possible in collaboration with the National Archives and Allen County Library. Trial login.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 content includes: 60,000 historical articles Hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides Complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture Trial login.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. This content is not available for acquisition in digital form from any source other than EBSCO Publishing, and keyword searching is available on all titles.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents over 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 presents over 1,000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Trial login.

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

For downloading to a mobile device is customized for the WPLC Digital Download Center, dbooks.wplc.info and overdrivefaq.pbworks.com/f/ebook-how-to.pdf

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for February are Cities Around the World, Basque Posters, Blues Photographs and Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Collections:
Selected Photographs from the DeGolyer Library

Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library. The images selected for this project focus on architecture, city life, people, transportation and other aspects of urban development, such as neighborhoods, commercial streets, and business districts.

To the OCLC Membership:
I want you to know that OCLC will again hold the line on pricing for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2011. This will be the third consecutive year that OCLC has held prices flat.

This action was supported by the Board of Trustees during its meeting earlier this month. Both the Board and the management team agree that this decision reflects the values of a cooperative, acting in the best interests of its members and participants during a time of economic stress. It is equally clear that on behalf of its members OCLC must pursue its public purposes vigorously. We must continue to promote innovation and invest in developing services to control costs for libraries. In particular, as OCLC delivers Web-scale services, libraries will be able to optimize workflows and take full advantage of the technologies that the Web and cloud computing offer. The scale of the investments to launch these solutions rivals any development effort that the cooperative has undertaken in its 44 year history.

Investments in research and advocacy programs will also remain central to our plans. Already this year, significant studies have been released by OCLC Research, including, Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment, which examines the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers. The latest OCLC membership report, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community, was released last month and offers new insights into information consumers and their online information seeking behaviors. OCLC's investments in research on behalf of its members will continue in 2012 and beyond to support and advance libraries and their work.

Frankly, I must temper the good news by noting that in the future OCLC will not be able to absorb inflation year after year without passing through some of those costs to participating institutions. While our balance sheet and cash flows are sound, we must manage costs very strictly to maintain good financial health and advance the cooperative into the next generation.

OCLC members have been through many up and down economic cycles during the past four decades, but the members always have chosen to sustain the cooperative to advance OCLC's public purpose. In that spirit, the promise of Web-scale Management Services bodes well for OCLC's capacity long into the future to deliver information to people across the world when and where they need it. Toward that end, we will continue to do everything we can to control costs and add value. We look forward to working with you to achieve the vision set out by Fred Kilgour almost 50 years ago.

- Jay Jordan
OCLC President and CEO

Check out these OCLC newsletters:

• NextSpace
• OCLC Abstracts

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community

New OCLC membership report available for print ordering and free download.

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community, a sequel to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, is now available for print ordering and free download.

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.

New Geek the Library Report Provides Encouraging Results

New Geek the Library Report Provides Encouraging Results A new OCLC membership report, Geek the Library: A Community Awareness Campaign, provides the complete story, from what inspired and informed campaign development to detailed insights about the results of the pilot conducted in partnership with nearly 100 libraries in Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and the Milwaukee Public Library.

The overall finding of the report: Geek the Library works! The campaign gets people talking about libraries, and helps libraries connect with their communities and start important funding conversations.

The report asserts that the campaign not only grabs residents' attention, but that it helps change public perceptions about the library, librarians and public library funding. It includes comprehensive analysis of data compiled from quantitative research conducted before the start of the pilot campaign and after several months of running the campaign. These findings provide a detailed overview of the campaign's effectiveness.

Geek the Library made impressive impact, and heightened awareness about the value of libraries and public library funding. Exposure to the campaign, through advertising, public relations and other communication vehicles, led many residents to take positive action in support of public libraries. Many residents surveyed for the study said they had or would visit the library or library Web site, visit geekthelibrary.org, talk to family and friends about the library or about the campaign, and some were now more likely to vote for a library referendum.

The report is not just about the numbers. This report is full of interesting examples of the creative ways pilot libraries implemented the pilot campaign locally.

Download the report for free and find out how you can implement Geek the Library in your community at get.geekthelibrary.org.

OCLC® Usage Statistics (www.stats.oclc.org) provides a user-friendly, easy-to-use interface for tracking your library's OCLC service usage. The interface has now been updated, making it easier than ever to navigate and evaluate statistics of interest to your library. More information about the changes can be found in this document.

As a complement to your current subscriptions, OCLC Usage Statistics contain valuable information about your library's use of OCLCs products, including:

• FirstSearch®
• WorldCat.org™
• WorldCat® Resource Sharing
• Online Cataloging
• WebDewey®
• COUNTER
• Digital Collections
• WorldCat® Link Manager
• WorldCat® Navigator

Using these reports your library can more effectively track usage trends, borrowing and lending activity, database access, Web site traffic and more. This lets you understand how people are using your OCLC services and helps you plan for the future. Whether you are just discovering this tool, or have been using it for years to manage your OCLC activities, OCLC Usage Statistics, at www.stats.oclc.org, offers several helpful, new features to explore.

You may have heard Karen Coombs present on OCLC web services last spring at WiLS' Open Solutions. If you are missing your open source fix these days, look no further than Coombs' recently published book Open Source Web Applications for Libraries, together with Amanda J. Hollister of Broome Community College. The book gives guidance on how to use, install and configure popular resources such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and MediaWiki. Written from a working librarian-in-the-field perspective, they also cover library-specific open source applications such as SubjectsPlus, Blacklight, VuFind, and SOPAC. As open source software and web applications become even more ubiquitous in libraries, having a dependable guide such as this will be even more important for both veteran and new librarians. The book is published by Information Today in a softcover edition, and is also available on Amazon.

Also: Lynn Silipigni Connaway published an extensively updated edition of Basic Research Methods for Librarians, together with Ronald R. Powell, professor emeritus of the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. Read more about this title.

Ed O'Neill together with by Lois Mai Chan, professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science, published FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a guide to principles and applications of the FAST metadata schema.Read more about this new title.

Recordings now available from ALA MW 2011 sessions Missed ALA Midwinter? Whether you did or didn't make it to San Diego, video recordings of WorldCat Local-related meetings are now available on the OCLC Web site:
ARC presentations at ALA Midwinter 2011 [3 audio files; 5 PDF slide presentations, Audio files total 103 minutes]
Membership Report: Perceptions of Libraries 2010 [Streaming video, 1 hour, 22 minutes]
Transformational literacy: Preparing users for life's transitions [2 Streaming video segments, 2 hours, 4 minutes]
All About E: Management, Discovery and Delivery of Electronic Content with WorldCat [5 Streaming video segments, 1 hour 55 minutes]
Library Management Services in the Cloud: More Reality than Dream [5 streaming OCLC Update Breakfast at ALA Midwinter 2011 [Streaming video, 33 minutes]

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