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Are you planning to attend the American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C. this month?
If so, please plan to join OCLC for programs about classification, cataloging and metadata, acquisitions and technical services for your library.
Register now to reserve your spot at these and other OCLC sessions at ALA.
Friday, June 25
Enhance Sharing Session
This interactive session is a forum for Q&A and for the exchange of information concerning OCLC’s Enhance program and Expert Community.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Washington Convention Center, Room 102A
Saturday, June 26
Dewey Update Breakfast: News and Research
Start your day with breakfast and details about what’s new with Dewey and the research that supports it.
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Rooms B-C
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Join speakers Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic, The University of Auckland Library and Ted Fons, OCLC, for a lively discussion around the theme, “Synchronization and syndication of library data.”
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., Washington Convention Center, Room 145B
WorldCat Selection Users Group Meeting
Hear from Dawn Waller, University of Virginia, and Carolyn Morris, Coutts, about the University of Virginia’s implementation of WorldCat Selection, and David Whitehair, OCLC, about an OCLC update.
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Washington Convention Center, Room 142
Monday, June 28
Cataloging Alchemy: Making Your Data Work Harder
Join OCLC staff Glenn Patton, Rich Greene and Jean Godby for a cataloging update and discussion on tools that help WorldCat data work harder for you, and lay a foundation for more effective use of bibliographic data on the Web.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Grand Hyatt Washington, Constitution Rooms C-E
June 14th, 2010
Maximizing the Value of Your OCLC Cataloging Subscription
Join OCLC for our new webinar designed to help cataloging and technical services managers contain costs, improve efficiency and use staff resources most effectively. This free session will focus on the many options for cataloging with OCLC, activities, and services that are included in the OCLC cataloging subscription.
Maximizing the Value of WorldCat.org
This webinar provides an introduction to WorldCat.org, the cooperative’s public-facing discovery tool for library-owned materials worldwide. This course illustrates how public services staff, managers, and technical services staff can work behind the scenes to help users get the best results from WorldCat.org.
WorldCat Holdings: Why They Matter and the Tools to Maintain Them
Back by popular demand, this webinar reviews the importance of having your holdings accurate and up-to-date in WorldCat. It is intended for cataloging and technical services managers who are looking to select and implement the holdings maintenance methods that are most appropriate for their library.
March 26th, 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
Registration now open.
Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group
4th Annual Meeting
March 18-20, 2009
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Join our keynote speakers Michele Reilly, Arizona Memory project, and Geri Ingram, OCLC, at the upcoming Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 4th Annual Meeting at Purdue University Wednesday-Friday, March 18-20, 2009. Registration is now open for the two-day event, as well as for two half-day pre-conference sessions to be delivered on Wednesday, March 18.
Ingram will kick off the full conference on Thursday with a keynote address highlighting new features in CONTENTdm 5 and introducing future developments in the software. Friday’s conference will be keynoted by Reilly, Digital Repository Coordinator for the Arizona Memory Project, a consortial effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. Reilly’s talk will center on ways to add value to online collections, ranging from teaching resources to innovative Web 2.0 strategies.
Two half-day pre-conference sessions will be offered on March 18, 2009. Geri Ingram will lead a hands-on, CONTENTdm 5 workshop, offered in 2 half-day sessions, morning and afternoon. Copyright and Digital Collections is the topic of an afternoon pre-conference, led by Donna Ferullo, J.D., Purdue University.
To register, click here.
This meeting is being organized by the Midwest CONTENTdm Planning Committee and supported by OCLC and Regional Service Providers in the Midwest.
For more information, contact:
Carl Snow, Purdue University
1-765-494-2764 or email him.
Brad Faust, Ball State University
1-765-285-8032 or email him.
January 5th, 2009
The OCLC eSerials Holdings service now offers a MARC record update option available on a subscription basis. Each month, this optional service will automatically deliver updated MARC bibliographic records representing the holdings set in WorldCat, automatically synchronizing a library’s online public access catalog with WorldCat.
The eSerials Holdings service automates the process of setting and maintaining holdings for ISSN-based electronic serials in WorldCat without adding to a library’s cataloging workload. It provides up-to-date serials holdings for users and a simple, efficient workflow for staff with higher fill rates and faster turnaround times for interlibrary loan and document delivery. The service debuted in July 2006 and uses the OCLC knowledgebase of eSerials to keep WorldCat informed of full text available electronically via aggregated databases and individual eJournals.
Nearly 400 libraries are enrolled in the service, which TDNet, EBSCO, WorldCat Link Manager and Serials Solutions also offer to their clients. To date libraries and vendors have added more than 4.5 million library holdings for electronic journals.
Learn out more about the eSerials Holdings service ››
November 3rd, 2008
OCLC conducted two Web-based surveys to measure the demand for non-English materials in small- to medium-sized academic libraries, community college libraries and school libraries, as well as public libraries. One of the key findings was that non-English speaking populations are growing, but library space and budget for these materials is staying the same. Another finding of both surveys was the need to expand the OCLC Language Sets service to include German and French materials, bringing the total number of languages available to 17: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Panjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Telugu, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Language Sets allow English-speaking librarians to build multilingual collections. OCLC language experts select, acquire and catalog best-selling and award-winning non-English materials, and set your holdings in WorldCat. With optional physical processing, materials can arrive ready to shelve.
(Other languages in addition to the 17 listed may be available through custom collections, a purchase option where OCLC staff acquire materials based on your library’s specific collection development criteria. MARC cataloging and optional physical processing are also available with this service.)
View Language Sets options ››
View a pre-recorded Web session that covers the results of the public libraries study ››
View Library Journal article on how libraries build non-English collections ››
November 3rd, 2008
OCLC is pleased to announce that YBP Library Services and Lindsay & Croft are now active WorldCat Selection partners.
YBP Library Services, founded in 1971, is a supplier of electronic and print monographs, collection management and technical service solutions to research libraries and consortia worldwide. Acquired by Baker & Taylor in 1999, YBP has over 300 employees and supports a growing database of over 3 million titles. YBP’s headquarters are located in Contoocook, New Hampshire, a village 70 miles north of Boston.
Part of the YBP group since 1998, Lindsay & Croft is one of the best-resourced providers of both English and non-English books sourced from the UK and Continental Europe and delivered to academic and research institutions around the world. In 2005, Lindsay & Howes joined forces with Croft House and was renamed Lindsay & Croft. In 2008, Lindsay & Croft relocated its offices to a new distribution centre in the heart of Oxfordshire countryside, close to the academic and publishing centre at Oxford University.
More information on YBP Library Services.
More information on Lindsay & Croft.
More information on WorldCat Selection.
Complete list of current and upcoming partners for WorldCat Selection.
October 6th, 2008
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
OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets allows you to load multiple records for a specific set into your local catalog and automatically sets your holdings in WorldCat. Various record processing options are available.
Three new Royal Society of Chemistry sets are available through WorldCat Collection Sets:
RSC Ebooks Archive 1968-2006
RSC Ebooks 2007
RSC Ebooks 2008
For information about WorldCat Collection Sets visit:
http://www.oclc.org/worldcatsets/
Click here for a list of all available sets. Contact Aaron Smith at MLC for pricing.
October 2nd, 2008
OCLC has added several new Elsevier sets to OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets. OCLC will not bill for the Elsevier records output via WorldCat Collection Sets as these records are included in the cost of libraries’ subscriptions with Elsevier.
Click here and scroll down to see the available Elsevier sets.
October 2nd, 2008
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