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WiLS OCLC Summary - March 26-April 8, 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 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 10, 10:30a.m.: Making a Metadata Map: Dublin Core to Local Field Names (WiLS Hour)

Whether you are defining your first project or gearing up to run a digital program with multiple projects and collections, this WiLS Hour will help you. In this session we will talk about creating metadata maps and sharing them using the Wisconsin Heritage Online wiki. For more information visit the WiLS Hour web page.

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

For more information visit the AskAway web page.

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

In this session (previously scheduled for April 8) 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

• Wisconsin librarians quoted in OCLC NeXTSpace newsletter

Nanette Bulebosh, Director of the Kiel Public Library, and John DeBacher, Public Library Administration Consultant at DPI's DLTCL, were both recently cited in an article in OCLC's NeXTSpace newsletter. The article gave an overview of the Rural Sustainability Project, WebJunction's series of workshops and resources to help librarians in rural areas develop strategies for meeting their communities' needs. Of the program's Community of Practice network, Nanette said:

Some nights I'd lay awake, head spinning with plans and ideas. I took a hard, analytical look at my library's strengths and weaknesses, challenges and possibilities, where we've been and where we're going - and where we might go, with a little thought, planning and organization.

Read the article or visit WebJunction's Rural Sustainability Project web page.

• WorldCat.org gets a makeover; no longer "beta"

The WorldCat.org web site officially graduated from being a "beta" project, a change which is most notable in recent updates to the look and feel of the home page. The search interface has been streamlined and "Things you can do on WorldCat" are now featured prominently. Check it out, or for more information, see the WorldCat blog.

• April 17: WorldCat Collection Analysis webinar from OCLC

During this free, live session, Mary Aagard, Collection Project Librarian at Purdue University Libraries, will present how she is using WorldCat Collection Analysis to inform decisions to weed her library's serials collection, followed by a question and answer session. For more information and to register, visit the OCLC Web Sessions site. Please note: it is recommended that you prepare your workstation prior to the event - see OCLC's "helpful hints" site for instructions.

• New Shared NetLibrary eBook Collections

Now through June 23rd, OCLC is offering three new shared NetLibrary eBook collections: Ready Reference, Academic and Community College. Learn more on the WiLS web site.

Cataloging

• See also Connexion Editing Techniques.

• GPO Cataloging Practice Change for Serial Titles

A message on the U.S. Government Printing Office Federal Depository Library Program listserv recently announced that the GPO is modifying cataloging practice for serial titles, effective immediately.

This change will impact fields of the MARC cataloging record. Staff will now be using the 776 MARC field to link records for serial titles in various formats. The use of the 780/785 MARC field will not be used, as was past practice, unless one version actually is discontinued and is continued by a new version. The change in practice is consistent with CONSER practice as stated in the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual.

For more information, see the GPO's FDLP Desktop.

Reference and Resource Sharing

• OCLC releases EZProxy 5.0

OCLC's new release of the EZProzy remote authentication software is the first release to offer technical support from OCLC since the software was acquired in January 2008. New features in version 5.0 include a new administration page to help develop advanced user authentication and authorization configurations; enhanced ability to search and audit activity by location using GeoLite geolocation technology; and improved display of database conflicts to help correct configuration issues.

For more details, see the OCLC news release.

• "Going Paperless in ILL: an Odyssey in Electronic Delivery"

WiLS ILL's April 2008 ACCESS newsletter (pdf) includes a noteworthy article on Lane Library, Ripon College's journey to paper-free ILL with Odyssey software. In it, author Jeanne Chaney, Circulation/ILL Manager of a staff of five, outlines the process and lists the pros and cons of their new procedures. She writes:

Throwing out all the paper copies was both exciting and frightening. But throw them out we did, and have never looked back.

Read the article (pdf, p. 7) or for more information, visit the WiLS ILL web site.

• 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 Featured Collections: March 2008

Every month, OCLC features digital collections that use ContentDM. The featured collections for March were:

For more information, visit the CONTENTdm Featured Collections page.

• Eye on Google: New Book Search API lets libraries link inside the book from the catalog

Spotted on the official Google Blog, a new feature will allow libraries to link directly into Google's digitized books:

[...] check out the Deschutes Public Library in Oregon, which has added a link to "Preview this book at Google" next to the listings in their library catalog. This enables Deschutes readers to preview a book immediately via Google Book Search so that they can then make a better decision about whether they'd like to buy the book, borrow it from a library or whether this book wasn't really the book they were looking for.

For more information, see the Inside Google Book Search blog or the original Google Blog post.

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

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