WiLS OCLC Summaries

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WiLS OCLC Summary - April 9-22, 2008 (pdf)

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WiLS News

• WiLS OCLC Peer Council is May 20

Registration for the Spring 2008 Peer Council meeting, May 20 in Madison, is now open. WiLS is excited to bring our featured speaker, OCLC's Renee Register, to Madison to talk about a new project using ONIX bibliographic data from publishers and vendors. In the afternoon, learn how to get more circulation out of your materials in a practical, hands-on book repair workshop, given by DEMCO. Plans are underway for a concurrent afternoon session, a panel discussion on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control report, On the Record (pdf).

For more information about the Spring 2008 Peer Council meeting visit the WiLS web site.


• Upcoming WiLS FREE Web Conferences

April 24, 10:30a.m.: Virtual Reference Best Practices

For more information visit the AskAway web page.

April 24, 1:30-3p.m.: Local Holdings Maintenance, Part 1

WiLS is hosting three web sessions on Local Holdings Maintenance; Dave Linton, MINITEX, will be the instructor. The first of these sessions will introduce library staff to the basics of editing Local Holdings Records (LHRs) through the OCLC Connexion Browser.

Who should attend? Any library staff responsible for updating their library's Local Holdings in OCLC.

Future sessions will be held May 1st and 8th. For more information and to register, visit the WiLS Local Holdings Maintenance web page.

May 8, 2008, 10:30-11:30a.m.: WiLS Financial e-Account Update: New Options and Functionality

Learn more about navigating and managing your WiLS financial e-Account with Kathy Schneider.

May 13, 10:30a.m.: Authorities and Identities (Connexion Editing Techniques)

In this session for catalogers, NOT just authoritarians, Victor Gorodinsky, cataloger at UW-Madison Memorial Library, will give a whirlwind tour of authorities, authority records, and authority control. We'll also look at how authorities, in combination with FRBR concepts, have been leveraged for use in the innovative new project, WorldCat Identities. For more information visit the Connexion Editing Techniques web page.

See our full listing of FREE Web Conferences: >>> calendar

 

Recordings of webinars available on WiLS web site

Did you know that most past webinars are recorded and can be viewed again later? To access these recordings:

  1. go to: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/wislineweb/view
  2. Enter Your Name
  3. Enter the Recording IDs (provided in your registration confirmation email)
  4. Leave Recording Key Blank
  5. Submit
  6. Click View


General

• OCLC Research Feature: Worldmap

The OCLC WorldMap, another project from the OCLC Research offices, is a prototype of an online, interactive visual tool for selecting and displaying international library data. The OCLC WorldMap allows you to compare up to four countries of interest, with regards to data such as:

Additionally, data is broken down by type of library for library volumes, certified/degreed librarians, registered library users, and library expenditures.

For more information and a look at the prototype, see the OCLC WorldMap web site.

Cataloging

• See also Connexion Editing Techniques and Peer Council.

• Access Cataloging Workshop in Minneapolis

Thursday, May 1 brings another opportunity for continuing education for catalogers: the second in a series of three in-person workshops in Minneapolis that provide an overview of cataloging according to AACR2r, LCRI and other cataloging standards. Contact OCLC Support at WiLS (support at wils.wisc.edu or 608-263-5051) or see the WiLS web site for more information.

Reference and Resource Sharing

• OCLC and Orbis Cascade Alliance to develop new consortial borrowing solution

OCLC and the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of academic institutions in Oregon and Washington, are working together to migrate the Alliance's Summit union catalog to a consortial borrowing solution based on the integration of WorldCat.org, VDX, WorldCat Resource Sharing and a new circulation gateway in time for the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic school year.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance will implement a WorldCat Group Catalog with an interface based on WorldCat.org. For more details, see the OCLC news release.

 

• WorldCat Resource Sharing Install Announcement

As of April 13, 2008, WorldCat Resource Sharing is moving to a re-designed two-per-page printing .PDF layout. The new, left-justified information allows for easier reading and consistency of style. The following fields will always be displayed, whether or not information is present in the request:

With these and other changes, it is hoped that the new layout will greatly improve the usability of the two-per-page printout.

 

• Seventeenth Annual MINITEX Interlibrary Loan Conference

At the 17th annual MINITEX ILL Conference on Monday, May 5, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota, keynote speaker Elizabeth Lane Lawley will speak on "Forecasting the Future of Social Computing,” and Julia Blixrud will reflect that when it comes to ILL and the Electronic Environment "We're Living in Interesting Times."

Join MINITEX for these compelling talks and more. For more information and to register (now through April 25) visit the MINITEX web site.

 

Digitization and Preservation

• CONTENTdm Hosting Services Incentive

Now through June 15, 2008, OCLC is offering to waive the first year's hosting fee for those institutions who upgrade to a higher-level license and switch to being hosted, as well as to new CONTENTdm subscribers. If an institution is purchasing or upgrading to a higher-level license, OCLC will waive the Level 1 annual hosting service fee (US $1,200) for the first year only. If an institution purchases Level 2 or Level 3, the Level 1 fee will be deducted from the Level 2 or 3 charge. This does not apply to renewals. Contact Kirsten Houtman (khoutman @ wils.wisc.edu) for more information.

• OCLC offers Digital Archive service for long-term storage of libraries' digital collections

OCLC is now providing a Digital Archive service for long-term storage of originals and master files from libraries' digital collections. The Digital Archive service fits with a variety of digital library workflows. The service will provide a secure storage environment for libraries to easily manage and monitor master files and digital originals, as well as automated monitoring and reports on stored digital collections. Materials are added through Connexion, the OCLC cataloging tool.

For CONTENTdm users, the Digital Archive service is an optional capability. For users of other content management systems, the Digital Archive service provides a low-overhead mechanism for safely storing master files.

For more information, read the full OCLC press release.

 

• CONTENTdm Featured Collections: April 2008

Every month, OCLC features digital collections that use ContentDM. The featured collections for April are:

For more information, visit the CONTENTdm Featured Collections page.

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Compiled by Nichole Fromm, nfromm at wils.wisc.edu

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