Our next presentation will be on Wednesday, March 7 at both 10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m.:

Register online using BCR's Workshop Registration Form at: http://www.bcr.org/training/workshops/register.html.

For more information, contact Gillian Harrison (gharriso@bcr.org) at BCR.

Three more teleconferences addressing the latest issues in the library world are scheduled for March, April and May, 2007. If you haven't registered to view these telecasts either by satellite downlink or webcast, sign up via the BCR registration form: www.bcr.org/training/teleconferences/register.html. For complete descriptions of each teleconference program, visit the College of DuPage Web site, www.dupagepress.com/COD/index.php?id=183.

Using coupons already purchased by BCR, staff at member libraries may take advantage of the convenience and easy access to New Horizons' many online offerings. BCR's coupons are valid for both computer desktop applications and technical training (some restrictions apply). Among the classes listed in the course catalog are sessions in Microsoft Technical training, Cisco systems, various programing languages, Novell classes, Linux systems, RFID and more. Desktop application classes available include Microsoft computer applications, Adobe Acrobat, desktop publishing, graphic design and more.

New Horizons offers a variety of learning methods. Its online options include:

• Online LIVE — Live, expert instruction via the Web, featuring peer-to-peer interaction and one-on-one time with online instructors.
• Online ANYTIME — Access to more than 1,200 courses available from high-level technical training to basic desktop applications and business skills.

For more information about BCR discount coupons for New Horizons training or to register for a class, contact BCR's Regan Harper at rharper@bcr.org.

Public Libraries Get free access to Readers' Guide Retrospective Index: 1890-1982 with any first-time subscription to Readers' Guide Full Text - Mega Edition or Readers' Guide Abstracts. Enjoy the free access for the life of the subscription.

Book Review Digest print subscribers can save 60 percent on a first-time subscription to WilsonWeb's Book Review Digest Plus. Enjoy easy electronic searching, full-text reviews and more than 1.2 million records.

Academic Libraries Save 10 percent on first-time subscriptions to any Wilson Retrospective Database. The regular BCR discount is 5 percent. Wilson Retrospective Databases are one-time purchases, with a small annual maintenance fee.

Remember, all of these special offers are available only through March 28. For more information and subscription rates, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR.

This February 2007 update to WebDewey includes:

• All updates to Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22, through January 2006 (corrections, new developments, new built numbers, and additional electronic index terms)
• Thousands of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) and intellectually mapped by DDC editors (through LCSH Weekly List no. 7, 2007)
• Thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in print
• Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records
• Selected mappings from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

The February 2007 update to Abridged WebDewey includes:

• All content from Abridged Edition 14, through January 2007
• LCSH that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors, including mappings to Abridged Edition 13 numbers from the OCLC publication, Subject Headings for Children
• Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records
• Mappings between abridged Dewey numbers and the 2005 update to the 18th edition of H.W. Wilson's Sears List of Subject Headings

The next Dewey Services quarterly release is scheduled for May, 2007.

Keyboard Shortcuts Remember, OCLC Connexion already contains a number of keyboard shortcuts. If "Dewey Services" is your active tab*, the following shortcuts activate the following buttons:

You can get to the Dewey Services tab in OCLC Connexion with the shortcut, <alt>+<D>.

A WebDewey tutorial is available at www.oclc.org/support/training/dewey/.

Details about WebDewey enhancements are available at www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/enhancements/default.htm.

The offer is only valid for individual subscriptions. An individual subscription applies to a single library symbol. Institutions with multiple library symbols must purchase a subscription for each library symbol. Group subscriptions are not eligible for the offer.

To order, visit www.oclc.org/info/feewaiver/ or contact BCR's Heather Clark (hclark@bcr.org).

To fix this problem, go to the OCLC software download page and download and install the Connexion client 1.70 update or the Connexion client 1.60 update, depending on which version of the client you are using. Go to the client known problems page for installation instructions.

Please note: When you are ready to upgrade to the next version of Connexion client, you must first uninstall both your current version and the update program.

In the update you will find:

• New articles — 28 of them — related to Frederick Douglass, along with a feature essay and photo essay
• Fifty new primary sources, including Shirley Chisolm's 1974 speech on the "Black Women in Contemporary America" and W. E. B. Du Bois's Crisis editorial in praise of black soldiers returning from France after World War I
• Two hundred never-before-published biographies from the forthcoming African American National Biography
• Eight new articles from the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-Present
• One hundred new images

Resource Sharing Products from Relais International — Learn about Relais International's suite of resource sharing products including Relais Enterprise, Relais Ill, Relais Express and Express Plus from Dan Denault. Relais focuses on helping libraries with resource sharing tasks such as getting documents to users, automating repetitive tasks and integrating all request processing and delivery functions.

Carroll Publishing Web-based GovSearch — Learn about Carroll Publishing's GovSearch. You may be familiar with Carroll Publishing in print, but now GovSearch is available on a Web-based format. GovSearch is your best link to federal, state, municipal and county people. Current, reliable information your patrons need every day.

Register online using BCR's Workshop Registration Form at: http://www.bcr.org/training/workshops/register.html.

For more information please contact Gillian Harrison (gharriso@bcr.org) at BCR.

The new WorldCat Cataloging Partners service is a collaborative effort with many library materials vendors. The goal is to reduce your cataloging costs. WorldCat Cataloging Partners will deliver OCLC MARC records that match the materials you order through participating materials vendor partners and set your library's holdings automatically in WorldCat.

This one-hour session will give you an overview of the options available with WorldCat Cataloging Partners and address your questions about the service.

Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983, covers more than 1,200 key periodicals with citations to 500,000-plus articles. The database catalogs all the innovations, controversies and people key to the making of modern librarianship. The database further includes full text (HTML plus PDF page images) from 69 years of Wilson Library Bulletin (the classic trade magazine for librarians, founded 1914), indexing from Library Work (1905-1911) and adds citations to book reviews, books, book chapters and library school theses.

The database includes extensive international coverage, encompassing library science publishing in Europe, Russia, China, India, Australia and Latin America. Translated titles plus English-language summaries allow users to search articles published in French, Spanish, Russian, German, Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, Italian and other languages.

For more information and pricing, please contact Karen Graham at BCR (kgraham@bcr.org).

The latest additions are:

• Sports Medicine — Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Sports Medicine: This is one book to have for comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date information on the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and management of common sports injuries. Coverage includes injury prevention strategies, guidance on sports injuries in children, medical issues with female athletes, biomechanics and more.
  
• Anesthesia — Anesthesia for Genetic, Metabolic, and Dysmorphic Syndromes of Childhood: Designed for quick, easy look-up, this comprehensive reference provides an encyclopedic review of more than 500 distinct syndromes. Each syndrome is presented in an easy-to-follow format: name, synonym(s), common and uncommon manifestations in each organ system and anesthetic considerations.
  
• Orthopedics — The Lumbar Spine: This is the official publication of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine and provides a nice balance between basic science and clinical material. Topics covered include gene therapy, outcomes assessment and alternatives to traditional nonoperative treatment.
  
• Clinical Medicine — Designing Clinical Research: This practical, easy-to-read guidebook explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance and basic grant-writing.
  
• Cardiology — The Echo Manual: This practical guide to the performance, interpretation and clinical applications of echocardiography, written by experts at the Mayo Clinic, provides a concise, user-friendly summary of the latest techniques and standards, diagnostic criteria and quantitative methods for both echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography.
  

Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) can assist you with information about purchasing Ovid products through BCR.

The RLG-OCLC Technical Services Transition Team will update this site monthly with the most recent statistics on the merge as they move through the various phases of the project.

Details of the offer are available at: www.atlas-sys.com/community/index.php?topic=234.from1168367215;topicseen#msg353.

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• K-12 School Edition: www.school.eb.com/blackhistory/
• Public Library Edition: www.library.eb.com/blackhistory/
• Academic Edition www.search.eb.com/blackhistory/

Are you not accessing Britannica as part of the BCR group subscription? It's not too late to join. BCR's annual Britannica group subscription expires May 31. Join now and receive a prorated subscription access price. Just fill out BCR's Britannica Web order form at www.bcr.org/reference/Britannica/Britannica-Form.html.

Interested in a free trial? Request it at www.bcr.org/reference/Britannica/Britannica-Trial-Form.html.

More Visibility for Evaluative Content and Web Resource Links Individual item records reached from WorldCat.org/ search results now include links to supplemental Web content on the top-level page. Previously displayed beneath the Details tab, these links can include publisher-provided item descriptions, author biographies and Web sites, tables of contents and content excerpts.

Additional links may be provided with the heading Web Resources. These may give a user access to content related to the displayed item, such as a print serial's Web site. In the case that the displayed item is a digital object — such as an electronic book or a digitally preserved photo, document or artifact — the link may provide direct viewing or retrieval of the object (if authentication is not required).

Sample records with Web Resources links:

Faceted Browse Now Includes Facet Expansion The faceted browse feature of WorldCat.org/ search results now allows a user to expand the abbreviated results within each facet via a Show More... link.

Faceted browse lets a user filter his or her search results by categories (facets) using the left-hand Refine Your Search panel. This dynamic navigation, increasingly popular in a variety of Web search facilities, further leverages WorldCat's structured metadata and helps users who may have difficulty narrowing a large result set understand the refinement options available to them.

Each facet in its initial state displays only the five most relevant results. The Show More link lets the user incrementally reveal 25 additional results at a time, up to 100 results within the facet.

Learn more about WorldCat on the Web at WorldCat.org/.

• The addition of Microform as document type — You can now limit your analysis by eight types of microform
• Additional Request Data in ILL Analysis Exports — Article Date, Volume, and Issue are now included when exporting ILL data

Two of the more prominent changes are: