Sorry, this session has been canceled.

Business Intelligence will be rescheduled.

WiLS Hour: WLA recap; Workflow Analysis;
Collection Development and Resource Sharing; Drupal in Your Library (recording)

Miss any of the WLA sessions? Come to the November 3 WiLSHour
for a recap of presentations by WiLSians Eric Robinson, Mark Beatty,
and Jane Richard.

Eric was on a panel discussion on "Collection Development and
Resource Sharing," which involved academic and public librarians sharing
their thoughts on collaboration between the two areas.

Discussion topics included: the acceleration and transition from print
to electronic collections, the expansion of library partnerships and
redefinition of the library marketplace for the licensing of electronic
resources, trends of interlibrary loan supplementing an institution's
own collection, effects of decreasing collection budgets and evolving
patron expectations toward immediate material access.

Mark was also on a panel discussion, "Drupal in Your Library." What's Drupal?
According to Wikipedia, it's a "free and open source ... Content Management System (CMS)"
It is used as a "back end" system for many different types of websites -- including
library Web sites! During this panel discussion, early adopters
from several types of libraries related their experiences -- in the words
of one, it is not the easiest to use, but we like it.

Jane co-presented "Public Library System Technical Services
in the 21st Century," and 44 of us broke into 4 smaller groups to discuss
these broad topics:
* The OCLC influence (mulitple versus single symbols, etc.)
* Quality control (training, policies, versus costs)
* Local cataloging practice (what gets special treatment, how to document,
how much time does it take, related to quality control) Several consistent
themes sprang up through the groups, regardless of public and academic
or practitioners and administrators.

WiLS Hour: Community Managers' Panel (recording)

What can WiLS do to help your library better serve its patrons?

This is the mantra that is the driving principle behind WiLS new Community Managers - library specialists
focused on your library needs and what WiLS can do to help better serve your patrons. This panel session will elaborate
on how the Community Managers are hoping to start a continuing dialog with its members to not only help them
improve upon their libraries collections and services, but to collaborate on new member driven services.

We hope that you will join us online on October 15 at 2pm to further discuss how you can become a part
of the Community Manager experience.

WorldCat Local Quick Start with Mark Beatty (recording)
Level One members will be charged $25, all others are charged $55/site login.

We'll talk about: What is WorldCat Local "quick start"?
WorldCat Local "quick start" provides a single search result that delivers your library's resources and
those of the world's libraries. It is now included in a subscription to WorldCat on FirstSearch at no additional charge.

That's right IT'S FREE, if you already subscribe to WorldCat FirstSearch.

This is the first step to the first Web-scale, cooperative library service. WorldCat Local connects users' search experience
with library management systems--today, that means WorldCat, your catalog, local availability and resource sharing.

What do you get?
WorldCat Local "quick start" offers libraries:

• Display of a local library's holdings first in search results, followed
  by the holdings of other WorldCat libraries
• Local branding of a WorldCat search box, URL and user interface
• Links to an existing OpenURL resolver for access from the over 58 million
  article citations
  in WorldCat.org to the online full text to which libraries subscribe
• Integration of existing OCLC delivery/interlibrary loan services
  (WorldCat Resource Sharing, ILLiad)
• Interoperability with a single local library catalog for real-time item availability information and place holds
• Access to the same social networking tools available on WorldCat.org

Attend the WiLS Hour if you're interested in giving "quick start" a try.

Business or Pleasure?: Practical Social Networking for Professional Purposes
with Andrew Burkhardt (recording)

The ways to use social networking services are as varied as the
different types of relationships we have. From a perfect stranger to a
close friend - from a colleague to people sharing similar interests,
social networking can serve many needs. This webinar will discuss ways
to use social networking tools to create and solidify relationships with
patrons and library professionals. It will address both weak (twitter)
and strong (facebook, LinkedIn?) connections, how both can be
advantageous, and how you can use these connections to further your
professional goals.

WiLSWorld Preview (free to all registrants!) cancelled.
You will have to come to the full conference to learn what's happening.

In this WiLS Hour we will be joined by Joan Frye Williams and Karen Schneider
to present a preview of the upcoming WiLSWorld Conference (July 28-29).
In addition to overviews of the plenaries, Mark Beatty and Tom Zillner
will briefly discuss the breakout sessions to be presented.
If you haven't yet decided whether to attend, this is the WiLS Hour
you can't miss. For those of you who have registered or are planning to,
you can enhance your selection of which sessions to attend. Join us.

A Special WiLS Hour on Tutor.com with Tom Squillace.
The session will be from 1:00-2:00 CT. Recording

Do you love the idea of Tutor.com but think you can't afford it? Think
again as July 1st Tutor.com will be changing its tutoring services as
well as pricing structures to libraries.

Tom Squillace of Tutor.com previewed the new learning suite and provided an overview of new pricing.

The hour included connecting to a tutor for a live demo of their
online classroom as well as a demo of the resume writing feature of the
adult career center. For more information please contact Sara Gold at
sgold@wils.wisc.edu or 608-265-4167

WiLS Hour: Informal Q&A
with Kathy Schneider and Shirley Schenning

This session will cover WiLS billing/deposit accounts/ invoicing. (Recording)

The May 5th WiLS Hour session is cancelled.

New Directions for WiLS

Kathy discussed the new service levels that will define
WiLS membership after July 1st, 2009. WiLS staff described
improved services and new services that are now in development
as pilot projects for library members.

These new services include:
Enhanced Cooperative Purchasing
Technical Services Workflow Documentation
Business Intelligence
Planning/Group Facilitation
Web Design for small libraries
ILLiad Support

A Review of the New Pricing from OCLC
With Kathy Schneider, a discussion of new arrangements
and pricing from OCLC. Recording

WiLS Hour: Koha in Wisconsin, choosing an Open Source ILS (Recording)
Featured speakers: Rick Hren, Head of Technical Services, Carthage College
and Vicki Teal Lovely, Software Applications Supervisor, South Central Library System

Carthage has already implemented Koha and Rick talked about how and why they went about choosing
an open source ILS, including creating criteria, compiling a list of open source vendors, creating a team
to evaluate, the contract, the data migration, system check, and solving outstanding issues.
(presentation slides pdf)

SCLC is currently working on their contract with Koha so Vicki reported on the differences between
a migration with a traditional ILS vendor and open source vendor and how they navigated
the LibLime development information. (presentation slides pdf)

In addition we sneaked in a demo of Koha in action (see LibLime demos)
and showed how to check out open demos.

WiLS Hour: What is Better World Books? (FREE) Recording
Presented by Aaron King, representative of Better World Books

Better World Books is a self-sustaining, for-profit social venture
whose mission is to capitalize on the value of the book to fund literacy
initiatives locally, nationally and around the world. They partner
with over 1,400 libraries and 1,800 college campuses across the U.S.
and Canada, collecting unwanted textbooks and library discards
in support of non-profit literacy programs. Better World Books finds
the best possible use for each book collected in support of their mission
to promote literacy. Books are either sold to raise money for non-profit
literacy programs, sent to one of our non-profit partners for use
in their programs, or recycled if unsuitable for sale or partner use.
(see video and presentation slides pdf)

This session has been cancelled! It will be rescheduled for another time.

Use It or Lose It: Tips for Increasing Online Database Usage in Your Library
with Sara (Van Cleef) Gold, WiLS Consortial Licensing Associate

Online Databases are a vital part of a library's resources
as well as being a significant investment in both time and money.
In this WiLS Hour, we will explore ways to efficiently and effectively
help your library's staff and patrons utilize the online resources
provided by your library. Sara will share free marketing
resources from a variety of vendors as well as share tips to boost
your online database usage stats.