WiLS OCLC Summaries

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WiLS OCLC Summary - February 25-March 11, 2008 (pdf)

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WiLS News

• WiLS OCLC Peer Council election postponed
Originally scheduled for this week, the election for Peer Council chair/chair-elect and secretary positions will be held in about 2 weeks in order to prepare candidates' statements. The slate is slightly different from the last announcement:

Chair/Chair-elect:
Deb McCabe, from Portage County Public Library (Stevens Point), where she is the Assistant Director

Secretary:
Sharon Price, L.E. Philips Memorial Public Library (Eau Claire), where she is the Technical Services Manager

Jenny Schroeder, Ebling Library (UW-Madison), Informations Resources Librarian

• Upcoming WiLS FREE Web Conferences

QuestionPoint Enhancement Online Series: Mad-March Mondays!

Announcing a series of QuestionPoint Enhancements Webinars to introduce and demo all the latest major QuestionPoint updates installed on March 2nd, 2008. For details about all the enhancements check out the QuestionPoint blog.

The QuestionPoint Enhancements Online Series is running from March 10th-24th. Topics include:

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

General

• Order now to save up to 25% on NetLibrary eBook Subject Sets

Academic libraries in particular may be interested in taking advantage of discounted pricing on NetLibrary eBook Subject Sets. Now through June 30, 2008, Subject Sets are being offered at 10 –25% off. The newly expanded Subject Sets now number 35 in 10 topical collections.

eBook Subject Sets feature:

Top content selected by collection development librarians including:

... plus 30 other key Sets.

For more information, see OCLC's eBook Subject Sets web page.

• OCLC launches WorldCat Blog

The new WorldCat Blog is designed to be a fun spot to read about what’s happening on WorldCat.org and to share cool ways that people are using the site in their libraries.

The team at WorldCat.org is working on new social and Web 2.0 tools to allow you to make the most of WorldCat. They hope that you will share your ideas and lessons learned as well. Learn more at the WorldCat blog.

Cataloging

• See also Connexion Editing Techniques.

• View presentations from the WorldCat Selection Users Group meeting

Recordings of the presentations given during the WorldCat Selection Users Group meeting at the American Library Association meeting in Philadelphia on January 12, 2008, are now available for viewing on the OCLC Web site.

The presentations include a WorldCat Selection overview (provided by David Whitehair from OCLC), a vendor perspective (provided by Ann-Marie Breaux from YBP), and a library implementation (provided by Katharine Farrell and Janet Lute from Princeton University).

WorldCat Selection allows selectors to view records from multiple vendors in one system and acquisitions staff to output WorldCat MARC records to load into your Integrated Library System to complete the ordering process.

To view the presentations or to learn more about WorldCat Selection, please visit the OCLC web site. The presentations are available via the "View user group meeting from ALA Midwinter 2008" link on the left side of the page.

•Connexion Client end of life

The end of life date for Connexion client version 1.70, 1.72 and 2.00 is April 1, 2008. Starting on April 1, logons will be disabled in version 1.70, 1.72 and 2.00. Users are asked to upgrade to version 2.10 as soon as possible.

Users of the Connexion browser will not be affected.

For more information about installation and a link to download the software, see Recent enhancements to Connexion client on the OCLC web site.

Reference and Resource Sharing

• Promoting Virtual Reference Services on (and off) Campus

On Tuesday, March 18, 10:30 a.m. — 11:30 a.m., join a discussion of successful methods for promoting virtual reference services in academic libraries. Experts will share their techniques for capturing the attention of their students, both on and off campus.

Guest speakers are:

QuestionPoint is a unique virtual reference service, supported by a global network of cooperating libraries worldwide, as well as an infrastructure of software tools and communications. QuestionPoint is also a source of unique centralized knowledge resources built by a collaborative network of member libraries.

Register here for the OCLC QuestionPoint Webinar, or get more information about QuestionPoint see the QuestionPoint home page.

• Second Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference

The Dubuque Area Library Information Consortium (DALINC) is hosting this conference at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, Friday, April 11, 2008. The conference will offer presentations on current ILL issues, and will also provide roundtables for networking among staff from all types of libraries.

Topics will include copyright, software, wikis, blogs, working within a tight budget, customer service, and work flow.

For more information and to register (now through March 21) visit the DALINC web site.

• Seventeenth Annual MINITEX Interlibrary Loan Conference

Our neighbors to the northwest are hosting their 17th annual ILL Conference on Monday, May 5, 2008 at the University of Minnesota-St. Paul Campus.

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.

 

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

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