WiLS Annual ILL Meeting
Version 30.9.26.06. . .

8:30-9:30

Sign-in and pick up conference materials

9:30-10:45

The Future of Digital Delivery

This keynote session will explore upcoming ways of content delivery to your patrons, including new ways of doing whatever ILL is going to look like in the future. We will concentrate particularly on what works, or is likely to work, as opposed to what isn't likely to work and why. We'll look at both blue sky ideas and extremely practical approaches.  Finally there will be constant reminders that ILL is the most social of all services and that social contracts will always have a greater effect on service than any technical break through. And we'll hopefully do it all with a sense of humor.

The Presenter: Mark Beatty
Mark has been playing around with ILL for somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 years now. Once upon a time he thought he ran the WiLS ILL department, when in fact we all know the students actually ran the department. For the last number of years he's concentrated on being a technology trainer. Yup, he showed people how to use Gophers and the VAX email system. Currently most of his time is spent herding kittens, otherwise known as arranging the AskAway Virtual Reference Consortium with the QuestionPoint 24/7 Reference services. Oh and he's been known to still do a bit of ILL training. Mark is the current vice-president/president-elect of LITA (Library and Information Technology Association).

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

OCLC Update
Presenter: Mark Beatty

This session will cover and demonstrate recent and anticipated OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing enhancements. Included will be deflection policies, administration and local holdings update links, constant data choices, user interface improvements, system fixes, and future ideas such as longer lender strings and searching the request archive.

12:00-1:00

Buffet Lunch at the Pyle Center

1:00-2:00

The Library Archives at the Wisconsin Historical Society: An Overview of Collections and Services
The Wisconsin Historical Society holds one of the top North American history collections (United States and Canada). Most of the holdings for these collections are reflected in the online catalogs (MadCat and ArCat). So what circulates and what does not? How do you locate certain collections in the online catalogs? What reference services does WHS provide?

Presenter: Lori Bessler
Lori has worked at the WHS since 1988 and has been Outreach Coordinator for over 5 years. She will provide answers to these questions and more in this presentation.

2:00-2:15

Break

2:15-3:30

Technology Updates (Four 15-minute presentations)

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SCLS using WorldCat Resource Sharing for ILL
In January 2005, after a 4 month period of transition, the South Central Library System began using OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing for all interlibrary loan lending and borrowing. Madison Public Library, as the system's Clearinghouse, uses WorldCat Resource Sharing as the primary method for all lending and borrowing outside the system. For the most part, the individual public libraries act as patrons. The System, the resource library, and the public libraries, are all very happy with how it is working. Come learn about it for yourself.

Presenter: Cheryl Becker
Cheryl is Public Library Consultant at South Central Library System (SCLS) in Madison.  After earning her MLS from UW-Madison in 1986, she worked in a variety of public services positions at UW-Platteville, UW-Madison Health Sciences Libraries (now known as Ebling Library), and Mt. Horeb Public Library, before joining SCLS in 2001.  Her duties as Public Library Consultant are many and varied, and include consultation and support for Interlibrary Loan activities.   Every day, libraries and library staff are challenged to remain relevant to their users and potential users, as they live their lives increasingly online.   Cheryl believes that our unique role in resource sharing is an important tool we can use to help us meet this challenge.  

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Google Print
Google Print at its inception was controversial, yet it encompasses the new Web 2.0 motto of truly catering to all information demands. Its intent is to "make it easier for people to find relevant books" specifically books they wouldn't find any other way such as those that are out of print "while carefully respecting authors' and publishers' copyrights." We will take a short look at how this enterprise is bringing rarer materials to light, and how this is already beginning to affect the ILL landscape.

Presenter: Ed Van Gemert
Van Gemert has served as deputy director of the General Library System since 2003 and as associate director since 2001. He has held a variety of positions in the libraries since 1982. Van Gemert earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from UW-Madison. He served as chair of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians in 1999 and served on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Library Association from 1998-1999. In the past several years, Van Gemert coordinated and managed the implementation of a UW System-wide library automation project, spearheaded new preservation facilities for the libraries, forged a partnership with the Wisconsin Alumni Association allowing alumni access to library resources, established the UW-Madison Public Services Council. He also reorganized the public services division in the libraries by consolidating units and departments in 2000.

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Endeca and the NCSU OPAC
The Endeca-powered OPAC at North Carolina State University has been widely praised as the first step to a new user-focused system of searching. This session will explore an OPAC that provides more flexible searching and lists of items based on relevance, which we hope will provide us a better understanding about how Library 2.0's patrons demand personalized means of exploring relevant avenues of information. In the end, we hope you ask yourself the question: how can our work in ILL better assist our patrons who demand connectivity of information from one item to the next?

Presenter: Eric Larson
Eric Larson is the Digital Services Librarian at Wendt Library (Engineering Library at UW-Madison). He's currently enamored with semantics, XML, web design and Ruby on Rails. His current web projects include: redesigning Wisconsin TechSearch's client and staff side interfaces, working with the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing to pilot a College of Engineering online bibliography and he just begun a collaboration with Georgia Tech University to expand the Journal Value Project.

In his non-library life, he pickles and makes homemade mustard.

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Public Library ILL Meeting Update
Terry Wilcox from the Reference and Loan Library will give us an update on the Fall ILL Meeting with public library system and resource library staff and any other new developments regarding ILL.

Presenter: Terry Wilcox
Terry Wilcox is the state interlibrary loan librarian. She has worked at a variety of libraries since 1983. While at UW-Stout she worked in standing orders and processing; at UW-Parkside she was evening circulation supervisor. Before coming to the Reference and Loan Library she was the librarian at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution. After "doing her time" in prison, in 1990 she accepted
the position she now holds.