• Trials Extended: Two database trials offered during the month of October have been extended. GREENR has been extended through November 15, and Footnote has been extended through the month of November. To try either of these databases, please go to wilscoop.wordpress.com/category/trials/academic
  
  
• WiLS plans to offer a trial of digital educational video by Films on Demand in November www.fmgondemand.com/AboutUs.aspx
  
  
• We're also planning an academic E-book trial extravaganza for later in November. Is there a particular ebook vendor you'd like to trial? Please send an email to Kirsten khoutman@wils.wisc.edu

EBSCO is pleased to partner with Footnote to make this outstanding resource available to libraries and institutions worldwide. Footnote.com combines original historical documents and personal histories, creating a unique historical and genealogical resource.

Footnote.com has a vast array of valuable and unique content consisting of well over 50 million historical documents and images. The collection features millions of images available from a content partnership with The National Archives. These digital images of records, preserved in the National Archives and other regional archives, represent a growing collection of historic documents — most never before available on the Internet. The Footnote.com collections feature documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and much more. Some other very notable material includes the Matthew Brady collection of Civil War photos and UFO documents from 1947-1969.

Libraries subscribing to Footnote.com will be able to provide remote access to patrons looking to research their family genealogy or explore the images of the original source documents that are available online. A trial is available to WiLS member libraries until December 1, 2009. To access:

Footnote.com TRIAL (Active Until 12/1/09)
URL: www.footnote.com
Sign-In at top right of page
UserID: wiscon
Password: trial1

K12 and Public Library members please contact Sara Gold at sgold@wils.wisc.edu, or 608.265.4167. Academic Library members please contact Kirsten Houtman at khoutman@wils.wisc.edu, or 608.265.2728

Many of our members already know that WiLS offers the Early Literacy Station™ at a discounted rate on a regular basis. WiLS is very pleased to announce that we would like to save our members even more money by offering a SPECIAL GROUP PURCHASE VOLUME DISCOUNT. WiLS and AWE have agreed to establish this special offer from October 26-November 30, 2009.

The AWE Early Literacy Station (ELS) is the premiere All-In-One standalone educational public access workstation specifically designed for children ages 2 through 10. The ELS includes 45 educational titles, covering 7 curricular areas and is top rated by Children's Technology Review. The Early Literacy Station is designed by AWE to "Inspire every child to become a life long learner." For more details, view the flash presentation at www.awe-net.com/els_how.asp.

Join the 30 plus libraries who have added Early Literacy Stations to their libraries with resounding approval from patrons. To place an order or for pricing information see: order.pdf

Early Literacy Station™ customers can also select from a number of options, from headphones to extended warranties. These options are available on the Options Order Form on the WiLS web site at aweorder2.pdf

On November 30, 2009, the end of the purchase window, the total number of units ordered will be calculated and used to determine the discount level offered to all libraries. Pricing for each participating institution will then be adjusted to reflect that discount.

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

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

Between June 2008 and July 2009, 1,036,655 IFM transactions were processed. At $92 per transaction that's a savings of $95.4 million. Since 2006, 2.4 million ILL requests deflected and automatically rerouted, saving libraries an estimated $29 million in staff time.

Use the online calculator to see how much money OCLC ILL Fee Management can save for your library—without reducing the volume or scope of your ILL activity.

This is how it works: Each time a lender enters "IFM" and an amount that is equal to or less than the amount in the borrow form, OCLC will reconcile the payment of library-to-library fees related to the ILL transaction. The service automates transaction processing and optimizes library budget. It eliminates paper and reduces processing costs by 50 percent or more. Getting started is easy! Just start entering "IFM" in the MAXCOST field of the ILL request form—there are no forms to complete. It's automatic from there, and OCLC does the rest. Learn more about ILL Fee Management>>

This month, Milwaukee Public Library's Milwaukee Waterways (1867-1918) is featured as one of CONTENTdm's Collections of Collections.

Milwaukee Waterways illustrates the role Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history of Milwaukee. Pictures of the harbor and ships from around the world loading and unloading materials show the variety of materials that have passed through the Port over time. Other pictures illustrate the role the rivers played in the commercial development of the city. Aerial views of the harbor and rivers and lakefront show the changing uses of the water and land. The photographs are from three collections contributed by the Port of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Library, and the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society.

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WiLS members may find these articles of particular interest.

Classify is a FRBR-based prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of materials. This project applies principles of the FRBR model to aggregate bibliographic information above the manifestation level. Bibliographic records are grouped using the OCLC FRBR Work-Set algorithm to form a work-level summary of the class numbers and subject headings assigned to a work. You can retrieve a summary by ISBN, ISSN, UPC, OCLC number, author/title, or subject heading.

Try it! It's fun! www.oclc.org/research/activities/classify/default.htm

OCLC offers you a way to boost your buying power and build your eBook collection. NetLibrary Shared eBook Collections include titles hand-picked by OCLC collection development librarians.

A shared collection is a great way to start or add to your eBook collection. You'll gain access to hundreds of frontlist eBooks by combining your buying power with that of other participating libraries. And the great thing is, with continued participation and feedback from the membership, the collection keeps growing!

With the OCLC Shared Collections, you'll benefit from:

• eBooks available 24/7 via the Internet. Allows users to self serve on any computer with Web access.
• Collections developed specifically for libraries like yours. Projected list of 1,000–1,500 titles gives you access to content from leading publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis and Facts on File.
• Real-time usage reports. Available anytime online.
• No physical inventory to manage. Check-outs and check-ins handled automatically.
• Full OCLC-MARC record sets. Yours at no extra cost.

Order now and save! Order your collection by December 31, 2009 to take advantage of current low rates. Please contact us for details on this exceptional collection at 1-800-898-6252, ext. 3800 or www.oclc.org/info/sharedcollections

OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. The publishers' enhanced metadata is then made available early in the data creation process to libraries for use in selection, acquisition and technical services workflows. Information seekers also benefit from Web discovery of this metadata via WorldCat.org, the Web destination for discovery of library resources.

To learn more about this, see the ALA Midwinter 2009 program, From ONIX to MARC and Back Again: New Frontiers in Metadata Creation at OCLC, a presentation by Renee Register of OCLC. Her description of the crosswalking of ONIX to MARC and MARC to ONIX illustrates exciting possibilities for enhanced, enriched metadata creation if libraries and publishers work together.

The "Apply for a library card" link (circled) is drawn from your library's WorldCat Registry profile in the "Name and Location" section, and the Recent items list breakouts (highlighted) are automatically generated for you each month, from your previous month's WorldCat holdings.

Fiction/Juvenile breakouts on recent items lists Your library's monthly auto-generated list of items recently added to WorldCat just got even better—now there are 4 separate sublists for fiction, nonfiction, juvenile and nonjuvenile materials. You can point to this page from blog posts, newsletters—anywhere you want to highlight new content for specific readers. (Note that the "All items" list has an RSS feed on it. Soon the breakout categories will have individual RSS feeds, too.)

Elsevier ScienceDirect articles now on WorldCat.org
Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS and ScienceDirect collections from 2006 to the present have now been indexed in WorldCat.org search results. This article-level metadata joins similar content such as the GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC and the British Library Inside Serials. The ScienceDirect content corresponds to 1,800 journals, 150 book series and more than 1.3 million records.

WorldCat has now added Goodreads reviews to help users evaluate materials with fellow readers' comments. You'll find Goodreads reviews in the "Reviews" section alongside WorldCat, WeRead and Amazon reviews.

WorldCat.org Terms and Conditions updated
By Alice Sneary

The legal advisors for WorldCat.org would like to make sure you know about the latest updates for WorldCat.org's Terms and Conditions. Here is the explanation they would like you see:

Please note that Exhibit A to the OCLC WorldCat.org Services Terms and Conditions has been updated regarding use of Google API services made available through WorldCat.org

What this really means to you is that WorldCat.org now also includes links to Google Maps, to help you find the libraries you're looking for when you're driving or walking around.

Basic Serials Cataloging workshop and Advanced Serials Cataloging workshop in Indiana The SCCTP (Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program) workshops will be held in Indianapolis at the INCOLSA headquarters:

Basic Serials Cataloging workshop: Date: Wednesday, December 2nd (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), INCOLSA (Indianapolis) Cost: $75 INCOLSA members, $115 non-members Please register via the following URL: www.incolsa.net/WebCal/eventreg.html?EventID=3116&CALid=6498

Advanced Serials Cataloging workshop: Date: Thursday, December 3rd (9 a..m. to 5 p.m.), INCOLSA (Indianapolis) Cost: $75 INCOLSA members, $115 non-members

Please follow this link for more information and how to register: www.incolsa.net/WebCal/ViewEvent.html?CALid=6498&EventID=3116

Going to AASL in November? Join OCLC colleagues for a complimentary Dewey Breakfast to learn what's new with the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and why it matters to school media centers.

We'll have a lively conversation about "What does it mean to use Dewey?" We'll preview proposed changes to the 370 Education schedule of the DDC, including changes suggested by AASL attendees in 2007. We'll also have a general Dewey update and time for questions and answers.

Dewey Breakfast, Saturday, November 7, 7:00 – 8:30 am
Courtyard by Marriott, Charlotte City Center, Magnolia Room