Don't forget to visit Bailey-Hainer at BCR's exhibit booth. She would enjoy the opportunity to talk with you and your fellow librarians about reference databases; custom cataloging; Internet training and access, including BCR's popular WebLive and Free Friday Forum workshop sessions; training and support for OCLC services and products; and the many discounts available for most BCR services.

A second pre-conference, "Yin & Yang: Bringing Balance to Resource Sharing," is scheduled for the same day, but is designed for participants who would benefit from more advanced information and discussion on current resource sharing issues and practices. Tom Delany, RapidILL Team, Colorado State University, will be giving the keynote for this session. Additional information is also available on the ALA RUSA STARS Web page.

Sponsored by OCLC, each preconference session addresses specific issues that are relevant to beginning or advanced resource sharing and ILL staff. Register for either of these sessions online on the ALA Web site.

Reference and Users Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is an organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services and collection materials they need.

The Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) brings together librarians and library staff involved with interlibrary loan, document delivery, remote circulation, access services, cooperative reference, cooperative collection development, remote storage and other shared library services as well as publishers, producers and suppliers of products and services which support resource sharing activities.

Participants will engage in interactive discussions of leadership qualities and responsibilities for effective community leadership, advocacy and support for their organization. Your instructor for the day, Jim Connor, will introduce and help develop skills needed to bring together varied factions in working toward a common goal. He will discuss the tools needed to overcome fears of public speaking as well as how to conduct an effective meeting.

Come and have fun learning together, while sharing with your peers. This is not an "advocacy session." Instead learn how to establish the public library as the most important and vital resource in your community. BAR NONE!

Connor is a second-term public library trustee with the Jefferson County, Colorado, Public Library. He has nearly 40 years in the trenches as a speaker and trainer in community and organization leadership, has presented more than 100 regional workshops in 21 states and has received national recognition for his work with public libraries. Connor currently heads a private consulting service specializing in organization management and community advocacy training, with a focus on board development and advocacy training for public library boards.

Questions? Contact Regan Harper (rharper@bcr.org) at BCR.

• Essay and General Literature Index — A unique reference covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama and film. Patrons will find a wealth of information with access to more than 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.


• Play Index — This online edition makes finding information about plays easier than ever. Users will find the full versions of virtually any play being studied or performed in this broad index. This unique resource also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations.


• Short Story Index — A practical resource for students and teachers, Short Story Index provides information on more than 96,000 stories, including the full text of more than 3,400 stories.

For more information, contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).

This session will show you how your library can:

• Make your electronic content more visible and accessible — without adding to your cataloging work load.
• Automate setting and maintaining your library's location holdings in WorldCat.
• Increase the value of your investment in A-Z lists, OpenURL resolver and WorldCat.
• Increase usage of your electronic serials collection.
• Automatically control and/or deflect ILL requests from colleagues in the OCLC cooperative.
• Get started using the eSerials Holdings service-available at no charge to OCLC member libraries.

Please register to attend this Web session. For more information, visit the eSerials Web site or contact Linda Gonzalez (lgonzale@bcr.org) at BCR.

Among the new subject headings on the list:

• Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Gang)
• Augmented reality
• Bosnian wit and humor
• Bright Angel Site (Ariz.)
• Chasteen, Zack (Fictitious character)
• Color codes
• Conifers--Roots--Diseases and pests
• Five Little Peppers (Fictitious characters)
• Halal food industry
• Hoover vacuum cleaners
• Indigenous art
• Kangaroo deterrents and repellents
• Libraries and sexual minorities
• Lowry Pueblo Ruins (Colo.)
• Occult fiction, Chinese
• Pulp literature, English
• Residential water consumption
• Riddles, Azerbaijani
• Scandinavia--Antiquities
• Subway posters (Entertainment advertising)
• Terrorist threat warning systems--Color codes
• United States. Congress--Transition periods
• Web sites for teenagers

Highlights include:

• Reggie Rivers, former Denver Bronco and avid library supporter, will be the Thursday keynote speaker.
• Joan Stein, head of Resource Sharing at Carnegie Mellon University, will speak on issues in international Interlibrary Loan.
• Lori Ayre, project manager and founder of the Galecia Group, will speak on delivery issues.
• James Boyle, professor of law at Duke Law School and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, will speak on copyright issues and the “Creative Commons.”

The registration fee is affordable at only $85 for the two-day conference. A free preconference on Wednesday, April 25, will have sessions for the Colorado users, and ILLiad will have a user’s group meeting Friday afternoon. For conference details, including registration forms and travel information, visit the conference Web site: www.aclin.org/coloillconf.

Copy/Loan Selection Box
A new field on the staff workform also will allow users to manually select whether their request is for a copy or a loan. OCLC's current resource sharing system designates a request for a copy or loan based on the presence or absence of article data in the workform as well as the presence or absence of a due date. With the new field, users will be able to mark this option as a part of their regular workflow. Note: The field is not required, and if a user does not designate a request for a copy or loan, OCLC's resource sharing system will default to the automated method on behalf of the borrower/lender.

Thirteen-digit ISBNs coded with first indicator 3 (for an International Article Number or EAN) in field 024 have not yet been converted, but will be in near the future. Since OCLC's practice from mid-2004 to November 2006 was to store 13-digit ISBNs in field 024 with a first indicator value of 3, records input into WorldCat during that time will still have ISBN-13s in that field. Such records may be retrieved by searching the Standard Number (sn:) index for the 13-digit ISBN.

Warning: In some converted records, ISBNs may be duplicated. That is, some 10- and 13-digit ISBN's may be displayed twice in a bibliographic record. To delete them from the record, you must delete both the 10-digit and 13-digit versions that are duplicated. OCLC is aware of the problem and is correcting the records. The corrections are anticipated to be completed in a few days.

The BCR subscription period for Oceana Law Online is January 1 - December 31. A free trial is available to all BCR libraries.

Oceana Law Online includes the following databases:

• Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online
• Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories Online
• Constitutions on the United States: National and State Online
• Treaties and International Agreements Online
• New York Code of Professional Responsibility and Ethics Opinions Online

New subscribers and libraries transferring their direct subscriptions will receive a prorated subscription expiring December 31, 2007.

For additional information, please contact Gillian Harrison at (800) 397-1552, ext. 113 or gharriso@bcr.org.

For a complete list and descriptions of each product, visit the BCR Relais information page. For other questions, please contact BCR's Heather Clark at hclark@bcr.org or by phone at 303-751-6277, ext. 108.

To learn more about each option and for instructions on how to subscribe, go to:

• Continuing Education RSS Feed — BCR's RSS feed for news relating to all of our continuing education opportunities including live and online workshops, conference events, teleconferences and more.
• BCReview — BCR's RSS feed for all news relating to BCR from OCLC to reference databases to new products and more.
• BCR-L — BCR's general e-list, created to keep members throughout the BCR region informed.

Of course, you can always find a current list of both our classroom and online training opportunities on BCR's training Web pages.

We look forward to seeing you in class!

BCR staff work hard to negotiate discounts on a wide variety of products and services, and our vendors appreciate hearing that their partnership with BCR has value, not only in cost savings, but in access to information their students and patrons need and want.

Please take a few minutes to visit some of BCR's partners, including:

• Emerald — Help celebrate Emerald's 40th birthday and meet some of its valued editors.
• Serials Solutions — Seattle is the hometown of Serials Solutions and is hosting a variety of events.
• Oxford University Press — Oxford Online has scheduled a number of product demos to familiarize you with the latest in its family of online resources.

Although BCR does not have a booth at the conference, several BCR staff members are attending. They hope to see you there!

The resumption of loading subject authority records resolves all the issues related to the temporary cessation of loading LC authority distribution files, as OCLC resumed loading name distribution files on January 2, 2007.

Board President Sandra Barstow appointed Idaho State Librarian Ann Joslin to chair the 2007 BCR Nominating Committee. Others on the committee are Steve Rollins, dean, University of Alaska Anchorage, Consortium Library; Doug Abrams, Utah State Library; Will Stuivenga, Washington State Library; and Frances Clymer, director, Park County Library System, Cody, Wyoming.

BCR/OCLC Members Council Delegate Any BCR/OCLC member may suggest a candidate for the committee to consider for the OCLC Members Council delegate slate by submitting the signature of one official voting representative and the written permission of the potential nominee. The nomination petitions, available at www.bcr.org/elections/mc/petition.html, must be received in BCR' s offices no later than January 26. Fax the signed form to (303) 751-9787.

BCR Board of Trustees The nominating committee also will develop a slate of candidates for the Board of Trustees election. Information about the trustee election is found at www.bcr.org/elections/board/botelect.html. Contact BCR's Sharon Hoffhines (shoffhin@bcr.org) if you want to be considered for the election slate. Any 10 BCR members may assure that a write-in candidate for the BCR Board is automatically added to the slate by sending the written permission of the nominee and the signatures of 10 voting BCR members to BCR. Contact Hoffhines for a write-in nomination form. Once completed, the form may be faxed to (303) 751-9787.

For more information on the elections, see BCR's Web site at www.bcr.org/elections/index.html.

We are seeking an Emergent Technologies Trainer to provide training and technical support in Web design and emergent technologies to staff at member libraries throughout the 11-state BCR region. We are also looking for a Member Services Librarian Support Specialist to provide member libraries with technical assistance and support for OCLC services from cataloging and resource sharing to reference services and software.

Check out the recruiting section on BCR's Web site. Apply to Sharon Hoffhines (shoffhin@bcr.org)

There may be some residual issues related to the locks on some of the records. If an authority record appears to be incorrectly locked, please contact OCLC Quality Control staff at authfile@oclc.org, and include in the message the OCLC ARN of the locked record.

OCLC staff anticipates that subject authority files will be loaded later. Please watch for news about the successful loading of those files.

WorldCat Collection Analysis will continue to add Predefined Peer Groups to better enable subscribers to assess their collection and collection development policies.

To add a Predefined Peer Group, log in to the administration module of WorldCat Collection Analysis.

• Click on the Collection Analysis tab
• Click on the Predefined Groups sidebar tab
• Choose a Category, Subcategory and Predefined Group
• Click the Add button
• Click the Save Changes button

Staff from BCR member libraries may attend using BCR's group registration rate of $199 for the three-day event (regular price is $429). Discount prices of $99 for the Internet@Schools East conference (regularly $199) and $199 for the combo of Internet@Schools East and Computers in Libraries general conferences (actual price is $429) are also available. No discount rates are available for pre- or post-conference events.

• Deadline for discount registration — March 1, 2007
• Registration — Complete and print out the Registration form
• Payment — Make your checks payable to Information Today, Inc.
• Send your completed registration form and payment to:
  Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
  14394 East Evans Avenue
  Aurora, CO 80014-1478

Details about the conference are available on Information Today's Web site.

For more information about the discounted rates, contact BCR's Stephanie Jauregui at sjauregu@bcr.org, (800) 397-1552 or (303) 751-6277, X127.