OCLC and WiLS

OCLC earns ISO Information Security Management Certification
OCLC has achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification for information security management, recognition that provides several benefits including compliance with various privacy frameworks, improved security, clearer definition of security roles and standardized quality procedures.

OCLC achieved ISO 27001:2005 certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. The ISO 27001 certification complements OCLC’s current ISO 9001:2008 Quality Certification.

The certification confirms that OCLC is meeting a recognized international standard for security management. This standard recognizes OCLC’s capability to manage information security related to the provision of secure IT infrastructure and data center management.

“As we continue our efforts to help libraries move toward Webscale, it is increasingly important that we ensure we have robust security processes in place to protect the cooperative’s data and privacy information,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. Mr. Jordan announced the certification today during the OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

The ISO 27001 standard provides IT-related security management system controls that help satisfy the requirements of many regulatory standards. ISO 27001 recognizes that an organization conforms to acceptable standards of quality at every stage of its product or service through a series of documented, repeatable processes.

 

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Your library at Webscale: how radical collaboration is redefining library management services
Tuesday, February 21, 2012; 11:00 – 12:00 pm, Central 

The library community has indicated that traditional management systems lack the flexibility and connectivity to meet the changing needs of their users. And while demand for library services has never been higher, new collaborative and innovative solutions are needed now more than ever.

As the first cooperative management services for libraries, OCLC WorldShare™ Management Services provide all the applications for cataloging, acquisitions, license management and circulation, and a next-gen discovery experience for library users. This newly architected and streamlined approach frees resources to focus on higher priority projects. WorldShare Management Services are built on the new OCLC WorldShare™ Platform—the vehicle for big library collaboration.

During the webcast, Andrew K. Pace will share OCLC’s vision for connecting the world’s libraries to operate and innovate at Webscale, and successes achieved by libraries using WorldShare Management Services. You’ll also hear from Marshall Breeding, a library automation expert at Vanderbilt University, and Gregg Silvis from the University of Delaware, a new library member of the WorldShare community.

Find out what’s possible when you share apps, tools, protocols and data with more libraries, developers and partners through the new platform. Learn how you can focus on delivering greater value to your users, while increasing efficiencies by moving routine tasks to a shared, cloud-based infrastructure.

Speaker and moderator:
Andrew K. Pace, Executive Director of Networked Library Services, OCLC

Panelists:
Gregg A. Silvis, Librarian and Assistant Director for Library Computing Systems, University of Delaware
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Libraries; and Creator and Editor, Library Technology Guides and lib-web-cats

Can’t attend on February 21? Please register anyway—Library Journal will send you an e-mail reminder when the webcast is archived and available for viewing at your convenience.

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Building Bridges #4: Your Library's Future
Thursday, February 2, 2012: 1:00 pm, Central
Please join host Chrystie Hill, WebJunction’s Director of Community Services, and Martín Gómez, City Librarian at Los Angeles Public Library, for an interactive webinar about the future of public libraries. Chrystie will host Martín as he answers questions and gives practical advice about the continued success of public libraries in our changing environment.

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ARC Meeting and OCLC Symposium at ALA Midwinter: January 20, 2012
We know not everyone can make it to ALA Midwinter but we want to give you and your members the opportunity to get the most from the OCLC Symposium and ARC Meetings that are held during the conference.

This year you’ll be able to send your members the URL for the live stream for a greater opportunity to participate. Feel free to invite your members to your offices or a member library to view together and discuss what you hear as a group or hold your discussions online. If you are planning on discussion the session, let us know so we can be sure to mention your groups’ participation at the event and provide you with discussion questions if needed.

The OCLC Americas Member Meeting and Symposium will be held on January 20, 2012 from 1pm – 5pm Central time.  You’ll be able to watch the keynote presentation form Sarah Lacy, “Mining the Fault Lines: Big Collaboration on a Richter Web Scale” and participate through interactive discussions and questions as well as watching discussion from the ARC representatives and OCLC leadership on future strategies of the cooperative. This is a chance for your voices and your members’ voices to be heard!

OCLC Symposium; January 20, 2012; 1– 4:15pm Central

Watch us here!

Mining the Fault Lines: Big Collaboration on a Richter Web Scale
How did the top one percent come to rule the world? What drives these individuals to shake things up and stay on top?

To write her latest book, Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky, Sarah Lacy spent 40 weeks traveling through Asia, South America and Africa, on the hunt for the most impressive, up-and-coming entrepreneurs the developed world has never heard of. She explores how this top one percent does more to change their worlds through greed and ambition than their politician, NGO and nonprofit counterparts.

During her address, Sarah will share stories that will make you consider how your library might view and manage risks differently, better leverage big collaboration in a Web scale environment and drive change to accelerate your mission.

Agenda
1:00  - Welcome and Introductions
William Maes, ARC Executive Committee Chair (Dalhousie University, Halifax)
1:15 -  OCLC Symposium on “Mining the Fault Lines: Big Collaboration on a Richter Web Scale”
Sarah Lacy, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and author of Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky.
2:00 - Q&A
2:15 -  Break
2:30 -  Membership Update on OCLC’s Strategy
Barbara Preece, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Americas Regional Council (California State University San Marcos)
2:45 - Roundtable Discussions and Q&A
The clickers are back! Come prepared to weigh in on important issues throughout the meeting.
3:15  - Cooperative Communications and Membership Survey Results
Cathy De Rosa, OCLC Vice President for the Americas & Global VP of Marketing
3:45  - Recommendations, Actions and Outcomes from OCLC Global Council’s Cost Sharing Models Task Force
Rick Schwieterman, OCLC Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, with Cathy De Rosa
3:55  - Q&A with Cathy, Rick and Jay Jordan

Please let us know (partnerships@oclc.org) if you have any questions. If you will be hosting a viewing party, please let us know so we can help you with any planning & mention your participation at the meeting.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011; 1:00 pm, Central
Building Bridges #2: Community Outreach
Please join host Chrystie Hill, Director of Community Services for WebJunction, for the second webinar in OCLC’s Building Bridges series, Community Outreach. The one-hour online session will focus on the importance of building and maintaining strong community partnerships. You’ll hear from both a small and a large public library on why they believe these partnerships are integral to their success.Guest speakers Gerry Meek, CEO of the Calgary Public Library in Canada, and Debbie Winlock, Director of the Page Public Library in Arizona, will give you tips on how you can make this work in your community.

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- WorldCat Knowledge Base for WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad Users; November 17, 2011
- New updates to WorldCat Local make the service even more user-friendly
- Society of American Archivists endorses practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online

OCLC article sharing using the WorldCat Knowledge Base for WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad Users
Learn about resource sharing enhancements based on data in the WorldCat knowledge base that can help you put e-books, articles and open access resources into the hands of your users faster and more efficiently. See how to fill article requests in hours rather than days. Direct Request processing for e-books lets you set up profiles that will alert your library staff when requests are made from both open access e-content and subscription-based e-content. New options for synchronizing local knowledge base data with the WorldCat knowledge base minimize set-up time, enabling you and your users to benefit from online article sharing quickly.

OCLC delivery services using the WorldCat Knowledge Base for ILLiad Users
November 17, 2011; 12-1pm Central Time

OCLC delivery services using the WorldCat Knowledge Base for WorldCat Resource Sharing Users
November 17, 2011; 2-3pm Central Time

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New updates to WorldCat Local make the service even more user-friendly
 
WorldCat Local users can now see availability on brief results: Now users can see if an item is available from their initial results screens for books, serials and articles with the "Availability" link. The information is always accurate and up-to-the-minute, because WorldCat Local uses a real-time call to your library's ILS.
 
Local Holdings Records now searchable
The ability to search local bibliographic data through WorldCat Local was added in June 2011. Now, Local Holdings Records (LHRs) are also searchable. LHRs are separate holdings records attached to a related WorldCat bibliographic record that provide local holdings details beyond the OCLC institution symbol, such as a call number or special collection designation.

The ability to display and now search local holdings information ensures that user discovery will support the years of valuable local data entries made by library staff members. When a library adds its local data to a WorldCat Local site, it is available only to users of that site, and will not display to other WorldCat Local library sites.

Article links, branch information now available for mobile use. read more>>
 

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Society of American Archivists endorses practice recommended by OCLC Research
for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online

The “Well‐intentioned practice (WIP) for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online,” prepared by OCLC Research, has been endorsed as a standard by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Council.

This practice provides the framework for an assertive approach to digitization of unpublished archival materials, such as photographs, letters, or the records of an organization’s work, whose rights holders are often difficult to identify and contact. It promotes a practical approach to identifying and resolving rights issues that is in line with professional and ethical standards and emphasizes a collective approach to the management of the copyright responsibilities involved in large-scale digitization projects.

This approach is the output of a 2010 seminar in which OCLC Research convened a group of experts in archives, special collections and law to develop streamlined, community-accepted procedures for managing copyright in the digital age that would cut costs and boost confidence in libraries’ and archives’ ability to increase access to unpublished materials online.

The group acknowledged that, although there is risk in digitizing materials that may be in copyright, this risk should be balanced with the harm to scholarship and society inherent in not making collections fully accessible. Based on this premise, they identified a practical approach to selecting collections, making decisions, seeking permissions, recording outcomes, establishing policy and working with future donors, which was outlined in the “Well‐intentioned practice” document. Since then, a community of practice has been forming around the WIP that will increase and significantly improve access to collections of unpublished materials for the purpose of furthering research and learning.

SAA’s Intellectual Property Working Group (IPWG), which tracks intellectual property issues of concern to archivists and drafts responses or position papers as needed, provided a preface for SAA’s endorsement of this practice. Both the preface and the endorsement are available on SAA’s standards portal.  The “Well‐intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online” document is available online.

“We’re delighted that SAA and the archival community have embraced the document,” said Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer with OCLC Research. “The practices described articulate a common-sense approach already resident within the community. The preface SAA has approved to accompany the document includes some excellent information and resources, and that’s a definite plus. I think it will encourage others to take a look at the document and will hopefully lead to more materials being made accessible. That’s what excites me.”

“The IPWG was pleased with the document because it approaches copyright questions collectively and encourages movement away from a work-by-work analysis in some situations. In our preface, we emphasized that to be well-intentioned, archivists and their institutions first must be well-informed about the choices and the risks involved. Ultimately, to be valuable to the profession, the WIP and its preface need to be adopted and used by practitioners. SAA recognition as a standard will help to encourage these steps,” said Heather Briston, Head of Public Services for UCLA Library Special Collections and IPWG Chair.

By endorsing WIP as a standard, SAA joins a distinguished group of organizations and individuals that support the practices outlined in the WIP. Other organizations that have joined the community of practice by endorsing these procedures include the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA), the Joint National Committee on Archives, Libraries and Museums (CALM), and the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).

About SAA
Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national archival professional association. SAA’s mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 6,000 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value.

Teaming Up with Teens @ Your Library;
October 25, 2011; 1pm Central;
Team up with teens at your library for a win-win! If you want to encourage your teens to become lifelong readers, learners, and library users/supporters, offer them opportunities for active and involved participation. In this webinar, you will explore ways teens can take part in your library, such as advisory groups, volunteering, short-term projects that use teens' special skills, and partnering with adults. Presented by Kelly M Johnson, office manager & T.A.G. staff liaison, Ketchikan Public Library (AK); and Diane Tuccillo, teen services librarian, Poudre River Public Library District (CO). Hosted in collaboration with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

Innovative Use of Skill-based Volunteers in Public Libraries
October 19; 1 pm CT
The "net-generation" and the Baby Boomers in your community represent a force of new volunteers with expertise and energy waiting to be tapped. By engaging their volunteer potential, libraries are helping to build vibrant, sustainable community support for their library. In collaboration with ALA Editions, Webjunction will host moderatorsEileen Dumas and Preston Driggers, co-authors of Managing Library Volunteers; and panelists Gail Zachariah, head of youth and community services, Keene Public Library (NH); and Sonja Plummer-Morgan, director, Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library (ME); for a discussion of the critical issues and actions necessary to engage skilled-based community volunteers.

Innovations from America's Best Small Libraries
September 20, 2011; 1pm CT

Putting the Public Back in Public Libraries: Community-Led Libraries
September 26, 2011; 12pm CT

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Changes to the Electronic Collections Online from OCLC
OCLC has decided to discontinue new and renewal sales of Electronic Collections Online e-journals and will move existing content from the service to archive-only access on February 1, 2012.

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Credo Reference, OCLC announce new agreement to bring WorldCat content to Credo General Reference service
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 14, 2011—OCLC and Credo Reference are pleased to announce they have signed an agreement to integrate the WorldCat Search API into the Credo General Reference service, their flagship content application. With this new agreement, OCLC member libraries that subscribe to the Credo General Reference service will be able to retrieve a list of books from WorldCat related to the topic of their Credo Reference search.

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Introduction webinar to EZproxy hosted service and new enhancements in EZproxy 5.4.1
August 17,  2011, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM, CT
You've heard of the British Prime Minister's Question Time? Now there's Product Manager's Question Time for the hosted version of EZproxy, the leading authentication and access service.

Join Don Hamparian, EZproxy product manager, as he walks through the basics of authentication and the specifics of the EZproxy hosted service. You'll learn how EZproxy works in general, and have plenty of time to ask questions about your specific situation during the Webinar. It's ideal for any library who wishes to give users a secure and easy way to access the library's e-resources from outside the library—with no additional hardware/infrastructure requirements or technical expertise on the library's part.

Any institution from a multi-branch, multi-campus system to a small special library can benefit from an EZproxy hosted solution. It can free up valuable development/IT staff resources to tackle more challenging activities.

To subscribe to the EZproxy hosted service or learn more about the hosted version, please contact EZproxy@oclc.org with your name, institution and FTE or community served.

Community Outreach with Virtual Reference a free webinar on special events at your library
August 18, 2011, 10:30am - 11:30pm CT

 Programs and events offered through virtual reference are a cost-effective way for public libraries to engage with their community. The users do not need to visit the library in order to fully participate, and in many cases the speakers are offsite as well. Not only does this raise the profile of the library - it can open up many intriguing ways to collaborate with community leaders, artists and subject experts, regardless of their location. And it can be a lot of fun, too!

Using APIs and Web Services
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, Time: 12:00 pm noon, Eastern Daylight Time

OCLC Resource Sharing Virtual User Group Meeting
July 13, 2011; 12:30pm – 1:30pm Eastern

Join the Revolution: Library Management at Web Scale
July 14, 2011; 2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern

WebDewey 2.0 gives you the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system on the Web.
Now, WebDewey 2.0 includes all content from DDC 23. The new WebDewey is easier to use than ever and features:

·         An easy-to-navigate, simple user interface that is suitable for the novice as well as the power user

·         BISAC-to-DDC mappings

·         An easy-to-personalize screen display, often done with a single click

·         Continuous updating

DDC 23 is the default database and you still have access to DDC 22 from the dropdown menu. DDC 23 also features:

·         New provisions in 004-006 Computer science and elsewhere to reflect changes in technology

·         Updates to provisions for the Orthodox Church and Islam in 200 Religion

·         Improved provisions in 340 Law for legal systems based on civil law

·         Significant updates to 370 Education

·         Updated provisions for food and clothing

·         Updates to 740 Graphic arts and decorative arts

·         A new location and expanded development for cinematography and videography at 777

·         Significant expansions throughout 796 Athletic and outdoor sports and games

·         Significant expansions in Table 2, with parallel provisions in 930-990, for the ancient world, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam and Canada

·         Updated historical periods throughout 930-990

Current WebDewey subscribers can access the new system with their existing authorizations and passwords at dewey.org/webdewey. The existing WebDewey interface will be available until mid 2011, at which time users will be redirected to the new service. Abridged 15 and Abridged WebDewey 2.0 will be available in late 2011 or early 2012.

Please visit WebDewey on the web for more information. Click here to request a free 30-day trial and to order WebDewey.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011; CT—Moving to Web Scale: Unlocking unprecedented efficiency, cooperation and collaborative innovation, 
Find out why libraries are choosing to simplify workflows and reduce costs at this one-hour Web session on OCLC Web-scale Management Services. Matt Goldner, OCLC Product and Technology Advocate, will provide an overview, including a demonstration of the service followed by plenty of time for your questions.

Monday, June 6, 2011; 1 pm CT—WMS for Academic Libraries: In Their Own Words
This webinar is geared towards academic libraries. If you would like to share it on your websites, newsletters, blogs, Facebook or Twitter accounts and can limit it to academic libraries, that would be great. If not, we're happy for you to pass the message along to your full membership at your discretion.

Academic libraries discuss OCLC Web-scale Management Services. Hear in their own words why two early adopters of WMS moved their management services applications to the cloud. Join Larry Haight (Director of Libraries at Simpson University) and Stefanie Wittenbach (Library Director at Texas A&M University—San Antonio) as they discuss why their libraries made the switch to OCLC Web-scale Management Services (WMS). They'll be joined by Andrew Pace, OCLC Executive Director for Networked Library Services.

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WebJunction is proud to announce three new free webinars this spring. The first webinar will focus on grant writing. The second two will take a look at collaboration, how partnering with local small business can be beneficial to all as well as a look at collaborative work with different fields within your own library.

Cataloging as Collaborative Librarianship: Partnering with Your Colleagues: June 2, 2011; 1pm Central
Webjunction and Libraries Unlimited will provide practical advice and strategies for becoming more effective partners with your colleagues and leveraging cataloging expertise. Get a look at relationships and their potential with other technical services such as acquisitions and collection development. Learn how to branch out into public services and how catalogers can take an active role in the growing area of digitization services.

Libraries Partnering to Support Small Business and Entrepreneurs:  May 17, 2011; 1pm Central
Explore examples of library community partnerships: SCORE collaborates with public libraries to offer classes and one-on-one confidential counseling to help entrepreneurs start and grow their local businesses. Hear from Hennepin County Library about their work with a variety of municipal and nonprofit economic development agencies to support entrepreneurs at the library.

Winning Library Grants:   May 4, 2011; 1pm Central
Grants can support the changing needs in your community while your library budget is flat or shrinking. Wondering how to get started? Learn how to quickly locate opportunities, find out what funders are looking for and discover real library grant success techniques from librarians just like you.

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OCLC and Ingram to offer new options for access to e-books
OCLC and  Ingram Content Group Inc will soon offer a new service option that will provide library users short-term access to e-books not in their collection through WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad.

The new service option, to launch in the coming months, expands access to library content available through WorldCat Resource Sharing to include access to e-books from Ingram’s MyiLibrary e-book collection for a period of up to nine days. E-book loans are fee-based, set at 15 percent of the MyiLibrary price for access to the e-book. The fee is managed through the WorldCat Resource Sharing interlibrary loan Fee Management feature, a service that supports payment of resource-sharing services through the library’s OCLC invoice. see details >>

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The FY11 OCLC Price List (which includes pricing for products such as CatExpress, WebDewey, OCLC FirstSearch Databases and Per-Search, CONTENTdm, ILLiad, WorldCat Collection Analysis, Language Sets etc.) is available in electronic format (PDF) via the OCLC Online Service Center (OSC) in a more user-friendly format. Please follow this link to log into the OSC to view the FY11 Price List. User IDs and Passwords were set up a number of years ago for WiLS OCLC Contacts with User IDs following this pattern: firstlast (name) i. e. shirleyschenning. If you think an account was set up for you, but forgot your password, go to: Forget your password?

If you don't think you ever had an account, but would like to log into the OSC Create Account to enter and submit your information to OCLC.
Once you get logged into the OSC, you will find the price list on the left, under the first column labeled Order OCLC products and services. Besides the price list you may also view your institution's list of OCLC authorizations, keep your institution's staff and roles up-to-date with OCLC, place orders for certain OCLC products (such as FirstSearch Databases and Per-Search), log onto OCLC Usage Stats and view your institution's current OCLC Cataloging and Resource Sharing Quote (if you are not in the Wisconsin WorldCat Group).
If you need assistance logging into the OCLC Online Service Center, please contact OCLC Member Support at 1-800-848-5800 or support@oclc.org for help.

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