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In 2009, the FirstSearch Base Package was expanded to include CONTENTdm “quick start.” This means that if your library has a Base Package Subscription, you can request access to CONTENTdm for digital collection building at no additional charge. Please plan to join us for this ALA MW session to learn more.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
CONTENTdm “quick start” at No Additional Cost
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Marriott Copley Place, Grand Ballroom Salon A
CONTENTdm “quick start” lets you make your library’s digital collections available quickly and easily on the Web. Base Package subscribers are eligible to receive: (1) the CONTENTdm software, (2) three downloadable Project Clients for building digital collections, and (3) 10 GB of storage for up to 3,000 digital items. Join us to learn more!
Special guest speaker: Laurie Preston, Associate Professor and Head of Reference at Randolph-Macon College’s McGraw-Page Library will discuss her library’s plans for CONTENTdm “quick start.”
To register, please visit http://www.oclc.org/info/ala/.
Additionally, many members of the CONTENTdm team also will be available to discuss your institution’s digital collection environment and plans. Stop by the OCLC booth #1654 to speak with a team member to learn more.
If you have any questions, please email us at contentdm@oclc.org
January 11th, 2010
As OCLC and the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) continue to work in partnership on behalf of OCLC member libraries, we would like to inform you about some important changes with regard to how your library will now access support for OCLC products and services. Please be sure to share this news with staff members in your organization who use OCLC services.
OCLC customer support. MLC/OCLC members will now contact OCLC Customer Support for all questions related to support for OCLC products and services. To contact OCLC Customer Support, please email support@oclc.org or call 1-800-848-5800.
OCLC Service Hours. OCLC support professionals are available 14 hours a day, Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. Eastern Time, to assist you with your needs. They will provide answers about OCLC products and services, to help your library maximize the value of your OCLC membership.
OCLC billing. MLC will offer billing assistance to your library for OCLC products and services. To contact MLC for billing assistance, call Janet LaCross at 1-800-530-9019 extension 116, or email lacrossj@mlcnet.org.
OCLC sales. To order OCLC Cataloging subscriptions and other OCLC products and services, see OCLC’s Orders web page, To request a quote or other sales information, contact OCLC at us@oclc.org.
OCLC news. MLC is teaming up with INCOLSA and OCLC to keep you informed about the latest OCLC news. With the introduction of OCLC’s new service model, INCOLSA will provide information about new and enhanced OCLC products and services via regular updates on the MLC website, the Communique blog, and mlcinfo mailing list.
For further information, see MLC’s OCLC Services web page.
June 17th, 2009
The Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Planning Committee is pleased to announce the program for the Fourth Annual Users Group meeting.
Headlining this program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana will be Michele Reilly, the Digital Repository Coordinator for the Arizona Memory Project at the Arizona State Library, and Geri Ingram, the Customer Services Manager for OCLC Digital Collection Services.
The two-day Users Group meeting will begin on Thursday morning, March 19, 2009 and conclude in the afternoon of Friday, March 20, 2009 with tours of the Special Collections Department on Purdue’s campus.
Two pre-conferences are available on Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
* Copyright in a Digital World presented by Donna Ferullo, J.D, 1:30 to 5 pm ET.
* CONTENTdm 5 Update led by Geri Ingram, in two sessions, one from 8:30 am to 12 noon ET and repeated from 1:30 to 5 pm ET.
Registration is open to all CONTENTdm users regardless of location.
For more information about the meeting and a link to the Registration site, please go to: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/mug/?page=registration
Registration fee for the Users Group meeting is $75.00 (includes lunch) and for each pre-conference is $35.00.
Registration deadline is March 6, 2009.
If you have questions, please contact:
Carl Snow, Purdue University
1-765-494-2764 or email him.
Or
Brad Faust, Ball State University
1-765-285-8032 or email him.
January 30th, 2009
A new quick reference, OCLC Connexion: Searching Authorities is now available. This 6-page guide provides all the essential information you need to search OCLC authority records using either the Connexion client or Connexion browser interface.
This document is available online in PDF format, on the OCLC website, at the following locations:
WorldCat and Cataloging documentation
Connexion client Authorities documentation
Connexion browser documentation
Printed copies are also available at no charge. To request a printed copy, please send an e-mail request to orders@oclc.org and ask for product code REF1132.
January 7th, 2009
The WorldCat Registry support pages have been recently updated with three new tutorials.
Overview
This self-paced, interactive tutorial will take you through the steps of locating your institution’s Registry profile, editing it and sharing it with others. You’ll see how to create and authenticate a user logon and how to use the Advanced Search feature.
Flash-based. Run time: 11 minutes
How to Connect Patrons to Your Library
Learn how to add deep linking URLs to your Registry profile that allow patrons to connect directly to the item record in your online catalog.
Flash-based. Run time: 4 minutes. YouTube version.
Global Policies
This short video shows how to make your interlibrary loan policies visible to users of WorldCat Registry.
Flash-based. Run time: 4 minutes. YouTube version.
October 3rd, 2008
Thanks to new Application Programming Interfaces (API) released by Google on September 22, WorldCat.org users now have an easy, seamless way to view digitized books available in the Google Book Search collection, right on the WorldCat.org Web site. A Google Preview Button will appear in the record display when the text of a work—either excerpts for in-copyright works or full text for public domain materials—is available online. Visitors can click on the button to access the content within WorldCat.org via an embedded Google viewport.
“This is a great enhancement to the discovery process on WorldCat.org,” says Bill Carney, Content Manager, OCLC. “The Google Book Search APIs represent an important advance in accessing the content scanned on behalf of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project. Working together enables us to increase the presence of these libraries and their collections on the Web.”
Learn more ››
October 1st, 2008
WorldCat is enriched by the contribution of national library catalogs from more than 30 countries. Three new pages on the OCLC Web site—including a timeline and map—highlight national library participation in the OCLC global cooperative.
The OCLC cooperative has a long tradition of working with national libraries around the world to facilitate shared cataloging, record exchange, digitization, resource sharing and document delivery.
Since 1975, 34 national libraries have added digital images, national files and bibliographies to WorldCat by both batchloading and online contribution, exposing the richness of their collections to the worldwide library community.
Today, WorldCat contains 76.2 million holdings from non-U.S. national libraries all over the world. In addition, OCLC plans to load more than 250 million records from national libraries and major institutions into WorldCat in the coming year.
View National Library pages.
August 26th, 2008
New service is a cooperative effort to gather copyright status information in one union catalog
The process to determine copyright status of a book can be lengthy and labor-intensive. The goal of the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry is to encourage a cooperative environment for librarians and others to discover, create and share copyright evidence through a collaboratively created and maintained database, using the WorldCat cooperative model to eliminate duplicate effort. Users can search the Copyright Evidence Registry to find information about a book, learn what others have said about its copyright status, and share what they know.
The Copyright Evidence Registry six-month pilot was launched July 1 to test the concept and functionality. During a later stage of the pilot, OCLC will add a feature enabling pilot libraries to create and run automated copyright rules conforming to standards they define for determining copyright status. The rules will help libraries analyze the information available in the Copyright Evidence Registry and form their own conclusions about copyright status.
View news release.
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August 26th, 2008
Increase the number of links coming into your library catalog! The WorldCat Search API gives your developers access to WorldCat bibliographic records and holdings information, as well as the FRBR concepts that pull together various editions of the same work.
With the WorldCat API, you can:
Query the WorldCat database, containing more than 100 million bibliographic records contributed by librarians and other information professionals at thousands of WorldCat member libraries worldwide; and
retrieve a geographically sorted list of WorldCat libraries that own a specific item. Each library listing includes the institution name, location and the URL of the library’s Web catalog record for that item.
Free access to the WorldCat Search API is available to all OCLC governing member libraries—institutions that contribute all current cataloging and holdings to WorldCat—plus CBS partners and libraries that catalog in the Dutch GGC (Gemeenschappelijk Catalogiseersysteem) via their memberships. Other organizations that are interested in using the API in partnership with OCLC should contact OCLC for additional information.
View WorldCat API Web page.
August 26th, 2008
Register for OCLC events by August 4.
Attention IFLA attendees!
Put OCLC on your schedule for the IFLA Conference August 10–14 in Québec, Canada to learn how OCLC services can provide value for your library and enhance worldwide library cooperation.
Register online to attend meetings that interest you, including:
Virtual Reference Around the World: Roundtable
Tuesday, 12 August, 1:00–2:30 p.m.
Join virtual reference colleagues from around the world for an informal discussion of virtual reference trends, ideas and opportunities. Attendees will continue the discussion from previous IFLA conferences about experiences in global virtual reference.
Global Virtual Reference Service with QuestionPoint
Tuesday, 12 August, 3:15–4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Susan McGlamery, OCLC Global Product Manager for QuestionPoint
OCLC Data Resources and How Library Systems Can Benefit from OCLC Machine Interfaces
Wednesday, 13 August, 12:15–1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Janifer Gatenby, OCLC Grid Services, and Joanna White, OCLC Registries
Industry Symposium: The New World of Metadata
Wednesday, 13 August, 4–6 p.m.
Speakers: Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and Karen Calhoun, OCLC Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services
Register online.
July 30th, 2008
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