Entry Filed under: Cataloging, Collections, MLC News, OCLC News, Reference, Resource Sharing, Technical Services
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
Ruth Dukelow
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, OCLC News
Dear Colleague:
As chair of the OCLC Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship, I invite you to participate in a Web-based survey among librarians and other interested constituents. The primary goal of this survey is to gather input from both OCLC members and non-members about a proposed OCLC policy, Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records.
The Review Board will consider the results of this survey in its recommendations to OCLC. Please review the existing guidelines and proposed policy if you have not already done so:
Guidelines: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/records/guidelines/default.htm
Proposed Policy: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/recordusepolicy.pdf
The OCLC Review Board is an independent committee convened by the OCLC Board of Trustees and the OCLC Members Council. If you wish to find out more about the Review Board, please visit these links:
OCLC Review Board: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/board/default.htm
Press release – formation of Review Board: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/20092.htm
Press release – Review Board members: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/200910.htm
The survey is available online at the following site, where you will find specific instructions on completing the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c0hILWPafv97EDbNiRXXjg_3d_3d
I invite you to complete this survey yourself or forward it to a colleague with an interest in this issue. Your opinions and comments are vital to our evaluation, regardless of your current level of usage of OCLC services or your relationship to OCLC.
Please complete the questionnaire online by April 8, 2009. To protect the confidentiality of your responses, all data will be collected, tabulated, and analyzed by Linray, an independent market research consultant. We will receive data in aggregate form only; your answers will not be associated in any way with you or your organization.
If you have questions about the content of the survey, please send an e-mail to reviewboard@oclc.org. As an alternative to the survey, we welcome your feedback by sending an e-mail to reviewboard@oclc.org or posting comments at http://community.oclc.org/reviewboard/. Please feel free to provide input in the language of your choice.
Thank you for your participation in this survey.
Sincerely,
Jennifer A. Younger
Chair, OCLC Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship
Director, Hesburgh Libraries
University of Notre Dame
April 1st, 2009
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, OCLC News
In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment, which enables OCLC members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, OCLC libraries with full-level cataloging authorizations will have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master bibliographic records. The additional capabilities provided by the Experiment are an expansion of those that have been available through various database enrichment programs since 1991.
The Experiment begins in February 2009 and will last six months. Introductory Web information sessions will be held throughout February for those interested in participating in the Experiment.
OCLC hopes that these changes will result in more corrections and additions to master bibliographic records and more timely actions to correct record problems. The Experiment is inspired by long-standing requests from members to be able to do more—and more immediate—upgrading of WorldCat records. The Experiment also allows OCLC to test a “social cataloging” model involving the existing community of cataloging experts who have built WorldCat record-by-record over the past four decades. Interest in such an experiment has grown with the launch of WorldCat Local and with the popularity of other socially cooperative ventures, such as Wikipedia.
View Expert Community Experiment Web page ››
February 23rd, 2009
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, Collections, Digitization, MLC News, OCLC News, Reference, Resource Sharing
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
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: OCLC News, Resource Sharing
Going to ALA? OCLC has planned many informative sessions for your interests on resource sharing and delivery services:
Saturday, January 24
8:00-10:00 am, Colorado Convention Center, Room 108*
ILLiad 8.0: Maximizing the New Interface
* Please note correction that ILLiad 8.0: Maximizing the New Interface is a one-time session on Saturday, January 24 from 8:00-10:00 am (previous announcement had a second session incorrectly listed at 1:30-3:00 on Saturday). Apologies for any inconvenience this error caused.
1:00 – 2:30 pm or 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Sheraton Denver Downtown, OCLC Blue Suite
The New Policies Directory and WorldCat Registry Update
The user interface for the OCLC Policies Directory is changing. Learn about these changes and see the new Policies Directory and its deeper integration with the WorldCat Registry
1:30 to 3:00 OCLC Sheraton Denver Downtown, OCLC Green Suite
OCLC ILLiad for Prospective Users (repeats on Sunday at 9:30 am)
Sunday, January 25
9:30 – 11:00 am, Sheraton Denver Downtown, OCLC Green Suite
OCLC ILLiad for Prospective Users (repeat of Saturday 1:30 session)
10:30 am-12 pm, Hyatt Regency Denver at Convention Center Capitol Ballroom 2
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Communicating With Your Users in Their Space
o David Lee King (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library)
o Cindi Trainor (Eastern Kentucky University)
o Rachel Van Noord (WebJunction)
4:00-5:30 pm, Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3B
OCLC Resource Sharing Users Group Meeting
To register any of these meetings or many other exciting events, click here.
Please don’t forget to stop by OCLC booth #1704.
January 7th, 2009
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, Digitization, Reference
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
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: MLC News, OCLC News
Commentary on the library landscape and beyond from a variety of viewpoints, looking for news and ideas of interest to the library community.
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January 7th, 2009
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: OCLC News
Register online today for these key membership events
OCLC Symposium: From Linking to Thinking—How We’ll Live When Information Surrounds Us
January 23, 1:30–4:30 p.m.
Sheraton Denver Downtown, Grand Ballroom 1
Does the Web itself change how we think and learn? Join OCLC’s Roy Tennant as he moderates a discussion between David Weinberger (author of Everything is Miscellaneous and co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto) and Nova Spivack (Semantic Web pioneer and publisher of the Twine search/sharing tool) for a discussion that will explore answers to questions like these: How will we organize information when everyone is connected all the time? Will the Web add intelligence to everyday objects and our personal activities? Change is coming to the Web, but how will the Web change us?
Redefining Technical Services Workflows with OCLC
January 24, 8–10 a.m.
Colorado Convention Center, Room 301
Join industry expert Karen Calhoun, OCLC, who will share her thoughts and innovative ideas on workflow reengineering and staff redeployment to get the most from shrinking library budgets. She will be joined by Robin Fradenburgh, University of Texas at Austin; and Kathy Carter and Sharon Marshall, University of Alberta Libraries.
OCLC Update Breakfast
January 25, 7–9 a.m.
Sheraton Denver Downtown, Grand Ballroom
Join OCLC and your colleagues for breakfast, a free gift and an update on OCLC activities from Jay Jordan, President and CEO. Then, share roundtable conversation with colleagues who share your interests, hosted by OCLC staff.
Register online ››
January 7th, 2009
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, Collections, Digitization, Technical Services
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
Aaron Smith
Entry Filed under: Cataloging, Collections, OCLC News, Partnerships & Projects
The National Library of Israel and OCLC have completed a pilot project that has resulted in the addition of more than 788,000 new bibliographic records and 1.1 million holdings from the national library to WorldCat. These records from the National Library of Israel are now visible to Web searchers through WorldCat.org.
The National Library of Israel, formerly known as the Jewish National and University Library, worked with OCLC in the pilot project to explore and resolve issues in adding records containing only non-Latin script data to WorldCat.
Most of the new records added to WorldCat represent materials in Hebrew script, but significant numbers of records represent Arabic-script and Cyrillic-script publications. The National Library of Israel will continue to add records to WorldCat as new materials are cataloged.
View news release ››
December 22nd, 2008
Aaron Smith
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