What are your thoughts and opinions as a BCR member about how we can best serve you? What feedback and questions do you have about the potential for BCR to work more closely with LYRASIS?

Please join us during one of our online BCR Member Forums with BCR President and CEO Brenda Bailey-Hainer. All times listed are in Mountain Time.

• February 17, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
• February 22, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
• February 22, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Register today for a BCR Member Forum. These forums are available only to BCR members.

Training schedule (EST):

• Tuesday, February 9, 11 a.m. – Admin Module
• Wednesday, February 10, 3 p.m. – Biographies/Art Image Resources
• Thursday, February 11, 11 a.m. – Retrospective Databases
• Wednesday, February 17, 11 a.m. – Biographies/Art Image Resources
• Tuesday, February 23, 3 p.m. – Retrospective Databases
• Thursday, February 25, 3 p.m. – Admin Module

Admin Module
Attend this session if you would like to go “behind the scenes” of your library’s WilsonWeb account. Learn how to create user classes, customize the WilsonWeb interface with graphics and unique links and much more.

Biographies/Art Image Resources
This session will cover three of Wilson’s most popular resources: Biography Reference Bank, Art Museum Image Gallery and Cinema Image Gallery. These databases are valuable resources for studies in art, culture and history.

What is a “Retrospective” Database?
Wilson's Retrospective databases include millions of citations and references from thousands of periodical dating as far back as 1890. This session will demonstrate some of the special characteristics of searching across such information depth, as well as the benefits of combining information that reaches back a century with the most current data from contemporary periodicals.

To register for any of the above sessions, please visit the H.W. Wilson website.

For additional information, contact BCR's Ellie Nowicki (enowicki@bcr.org) or visit the BCR website for details on H.W. Wilson databases available through BCR.

The RedLaser iPhone application, currently available in the U.S. for books only, is one of several mobile applications designed for users to access library information from WorldCat.  The WorldCat Mobile pilot application is available for download on all Web-enabled phones in the UK, U.S., Netherlands, Germany, France and Canada at www.worldcat.org/mobile.

WorldCat-related APIs are available to anyone interested in creating noncommercial mash-ups or mobile applications that include library data. Commercial applications, like RedLaser, use the WorldCat Search API through partnership agreements.

iPhone users can download the RedLaser application for US$ 1.99 through Apple’s iTunes application store.

• Record your voice and play it back to hear yourself speak.
• Align a visual representation of your recording with one from a native speaker and see where yours is different.
• Adjust your pronunciation until it lines up with ours – you'll speak like a native in no time!

Upcoming Webinars
Join a one-hour “All About Mango” webinar to learn more about:

• Language learning trends
• The Mango methodology
• Product offerings
• A lesson in action

Thursday, February 11, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/301781185

Tuesday, February 16, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/218916025

Thursday, February 25, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/181027137

Space is limited. Reserve your seat now! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees require: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees require: Mac OS ®S X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

For additional information about Mango Languages, contact BCR's Jay Ford (jford@bcr.org) or visit the BCR website.

Research Director for Journals at OUP and member of the Editorial Team, Richard Gedye said, "After careful and thorough discussion with the library community, we have developed a strong and broad source of information for those interested in the entire range of resources we publish, as well as topical issues affecting librarians. We hope that Illuminea will become an integral part of our wider strategy of constant dialogue and engagement with the library community."

Innovation is the underlying theme of the January 2010 launch issue. The lead article looks at Oxford Bibliographies Online, a revolutionary resource tool, designed to help busy researchers find reliable information by directing them towards authoritative books, chapters, journals, websites or databases. Its aim is to combine the best features of a research-level encyclopedia and the traditional bibliography.

There are two articles of particular interest to librarians: the first is a feature reporting on the inaugural meeting of Oxford's Americas Library Advisory Group and the ensuing discussions regarding the past, present and future of online collection development; and the second covers the ARROW project, a pioneering venture which will support the development of Europeana, a pan-European digital library, by establishing a single framework to manage rights information. Most importantly, a schedule of upcoming conference attendance is included so you will always know where to meet up with your Oxford contacts next!

Other highlights include: an exciting initiative to place OUP content on mobile phones; new journal acquisitions for 2010; and the Oxford Language Web, a new feature of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online that allows word searches across multiple languages simultaneously, providing easy access to key vocabulary.

Each issue of Illuminea will also include an "Industry Focus" article, profiling an individual or product from the world of scholarly information or publishing.

Oxford University Press invites you to visit the Illuminea homepage to read the January 2010 features and more. New editions will be published quarterly, so bookmark the page for future visits.

Author and cognitive-behavioral therapy expert Monica Ramirez Basco peppers the book with easy-to-relate-to examples from "recovering procrastinators" – including herself. Inviting quizzes, exercises and practical suggestions help you:

• Understand why you procrastinate.
• Start with small changes that lead to big improvements.
• Outsmart your own delaying tactics.
• Counteract self-doubt and perfectionism.
• Build crucial skills for getting things done today.

About the Author
Monica Ramirez Basco, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy, a clinical psychologist and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She is on the Psychology faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington, with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Her books include the bestsellers Never Good Enough and The Bipolar Workbook.

The eBook of the Month showcases new and noteworthy titles available from NetLibrary. Each month, NetLibrary selects a new featured title and provides free, unlimited access through the authenticated homepages of more than 13,000 public, academic and special libraries. To access each month's eBook as well as a tool kit of free promotional materials that can be downloaded and personalized for your library, visit the NetLibrary eBook of the Month resources webpage.

For more information about eBooks, please contact BCR's Chris Cook at ccook@bcr.org.

“BCR is thrilled that the National Endowment for the Humanities is funding this important workshop for digital collaboratives.  Representatives from the collaborative will be able to work with nationally recognized faculty to learn about digital preservation, develop their digital preservation plan, and explore the technology that supports digital preservation technology,” commented Liz Bishoff, Director BCR’s Digital and Preservation Services.

The Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives workshops will consist of both online and in-person components. Three two-hour webinars will take place approximately three weeks prior to the two-day in-person workshop.

The workshop will be taught by a faculty of digital preservation experts, including Liz Bishoff, Director of Digital & Preservation Services, BCR; Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation; Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant, LYRASIS; Robin Dale, Director of Digital Services, LYRASIS; and Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute and Program Manager, MetaArchive Cooperative

Dates and locations for the three workshops are as follows:

• April 28-29, 2010: LYRASIS – Philadelphia, PA
• August 3-4, 2010: San Jose, CA
• November 16-17, 2010: Chicago, IL

Registration for the April 2010 workshop in Philadelphia will open in February 2010. Visit the BCR website for more details.

Questions about the workshop? Contact Liz Bishoff (lbishoff@bcr.org) or Holly South (hsouth@bcr.org).

LYRASIS, formed in 2009 by the merger of SOLINET and PALINET, and later joined by NELINET, is the nation’s largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals in the US.  Both BCR and LYRASIS are committed to ensuring the success of libraries, and view it as an opportunity to improve the services and programs their members currently enjoy. 

Brenda Bailey-Hainer, President and CEO of BCR, says “I am very excited about the opportunities that these discussions offer.  BCR members would not only continue to have the outstanding services that BCR has always provided, but would also benefit from the rich array of additional services and resources from LYRASIS."

“BCR has many innovative programs and services. LYRASIS members have asked how we can partner with BCR and bring these programs to our region. We are very excited about what this potentially can mean to our members and how it will complement our programs and services,” says Kate Nevins, Chief Executive Officer of LYRASIS.

BCR remains committed to providing the highest quality services and solutions, and this exploration is a way to continually improve those services.  As discussions progress, BCR will offer members the opportunity to make suggestions and provide feedback during scheduled webinars and in-person sessions.  Watch for announcements of these sessions in BCReview and on our website.