The schedule of speakers and events includes:

• Keynote speaker, Brewster Kahle, U.S. Internet entrepreneur, activist and digital librarian, who will be discussing Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance
• Welcome remarks from Bill Knott, County Librarian, Jefferson County Public Library
• Researcher and library consultant, Pat Wagner, of Pattern Research, Inc.
• George Burke from BookSwim, the online book rental library club that lends paperback and hardcover books directly to your house without the need to purchase them
• Nancy Sensel, University of Denver Law Library Interlibrary Loan/Access Services Coordinator
• Katie Birch, OCLC

Several conference programs are already scheduled — Copyright Basics 101 and Rethinking Resource Sharing (OCLC). BCR Executive Director, Brenda Bailey-Hainer, and Heather Clark, BCR member services librarian, will report on the "State of Loans in the Lone Star State," a review of a recently completed Texas ILL study.

In addition, the Colorado Interlibrary Loan Committee is accepting nominations for the 2008 Colorado Excellence in Resource Sharing Award. This newly created award recognizes the latest innovative trends implemented by Colorado interlibrary loan practitioners in both interlibrary loan and document delivery services. Nominations are due April 4. See the Nominating application form for details.

Registration for the two-day event is affordable at only $85. Conference details, scholarship opportunities and hotel information are available on the conference Web site.

Read quotes, essays and speeches. Enjoy biographies about Women's Rights luminaries such as Joan of Arc, Jane Adams, Phillis Wheatley and Sandra Day O'Connor. Watch video clips, use the learning activities to take an in-depth view of women's achievements, or read articles on topics such as feminism and the history of Mother's Day.

For more information, please visit the Encyclopaedia Britannica Profiles Web site. Questions? Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

America's presidential nominating process is inherently unfair and exclusive, yielding undue weight and privilege to the states that vote in the earliest rounds. More and more states are beating down the door to vote earlier, trying to redress the inequity on a state-by-state basis. In the ensuing free-for-all, the presidential primary schedule has become so front-loaded that the anointed front-runner with the biggest war chest in each of the major parties is the de facto nominee. The primaries are becoming mere noise and pageantry, as the national conventions have been for several decades.

From the Primaries to the Polls describes the problem and proposes the solution. The American Plan is designed to begin with contests in small-population states, where candidates do not need millions of dollars to compete and a wide field of presidential hopefuls can be competitive in the early going. A minor candidate's surprise success in early rounds, based on merit rather than money, tends to attract money from larger numbers of small contributors for the campaign to spend in later rounds of primaries. Keeping more candidates in the race longer to challenge the front-runners prevents a rush to judgment and permits more voters across the country to select from a diverse field. As the campaign proceeds over 10 two-week intervals of primaries and caucuses on a semi-randomized schedule, the aggregate value of contested states becomes successively larger, requiring the expenditure of larger amounts of money in order to campaign effectively. A more gradual weeding-out process occurs, allowing a clear winner to emerge only after the full spectrum of candidates has been in play nationally.

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. NetLibrary has developed a tool kit of free promotional materials that can be downloaded and personalized for your library.

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

As you may recall, the January refresh resulted in conspectus values for medical-related divisions not displaying in the same order as they had with the previous update. This problem has been corrected, and items are once again sorted by NLM number first, then LC and Dewey numbers.

You should now be seeing the upgrade warning when you start the client. If you have version 1.70 or 1.72 on your machine, please upgrade directly to version 2.10. You can upgrade to version 2.10 without installing any of the intermediate versions on your machine.

For more information about installation and a link to download the software, please visit the OCLC Connexion Web page. If you encounter any difficulties with the installation, please contact Linda Gonzalez (lgonzalez@bcr.org), Heather Clark (hclark@bcr.org) or Regan Harper (rharper@bcr.org) at BCR.

The one-day workshop includes a full morning of presentations and an afternoon of discussions and ideas for long-term resource sharing directions and planning. Topics will be all about the future of resource sharing and will focus on big picture and idea sharing by librarians responsible for access and public services, concentrating exclusively on where resource sharing is going, how to get there and meeting patrons expectations, needs and demands.

This seminar is not intended to be a how-to-do-it on resource sharing. Instead, for this one day, participants will be encouraged to think and dream big and wild.

The registration fee is $95, including lunch. Library staff from outside Wisconsin are welcome to attend.

An online registration form is now posted. For more details on the conference, visit the WiLS Resource Sharing 2.0 Web page.

Public and Community College Libraries — Save up to 20 percent
A special 10 percent discount is available to libraries that subscribe to Wilson's 5-Pack or 3-Pack Core Collection by March 28.

The 5-Pack Core Collection includes:

• Children's Core Collection (formerly Children's Catalog)
• Middle & Junior High School Core Collection (formerly Middle & Junior HS Catalog)
• Public Library Core Collection: Fiction
• Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction
• Senior High School Core Collection (formerly HS Catalog)

• Children's Core Collection
• Middle & Junior High School Core Collection
• Senior High School Core Collection

New subscribers also can purchase access to the Graphic Novels Core Collection and/or the Nonbook Materials Core Collection at a specially discounted price in conjunction with a 3- or 5-Pack Core Collection purchase.

An additional discount is available on H.W. Wilson's two Current Issues products. Subscribe to both Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus and Current Issues in Health by March 28, and save between 10 percent and 20 percent.

For trial access, please visit the Wilson Web site. For exact pricing, please fill out BCR's quote request form. Questions? Contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Retrospective Databases — Save 10 percent
All BCR libraries placing new orders are eligible for this special promotion. You will find a wide variety of retrospective databases with content ranging from the recently released Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 to the long established products like Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982, all accessible through the new WilsonWeb CX interface. All of Wilson's retrospective databases are included in this promotion which runs through March 25.

Set up a free trial on the Wilson Web site. For more information, please see the BCR Web site or contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Learn how your library can:

• Make your electronic content more visible and accessible — without adding to your cataloging workload.
• Automate setting and maintaining your library's location holdings in WorldCat.
• Increase the value of your investment in A-Z lists, OpenURL resolver, WorldCat and WorldCat Collection Analysis.
• 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.

To register for the Web session, go to the eSerials Holdings Web Session registration page. For more information, contact BCR or visit the eSerials Web site.

One of the name authority cleanup projects will add 043 and 781 fields to geographic name authority records, continuing a project begun in 2006 to enhance name authority records with geographic data. Another name authority cleanup project removes unnecessary ending punctuation from 1XX headings in older authority records (generally those created before a policy change in 1989 to exclude such punctuation). These records have challenged local systems and authority control vendors for many years.

The creation of subject authority records for validation purposes has resulted in the distribution of 5,300 validation records to date. Beginning February 26, 5,000 validation records will be distributed weekly in addition to the approximately 200 new and changed subject authority records normally processed through the weekly editorial process. This number may increase to 25,000 validation records per week in the future. The total number of new validation records is currently estimated to be between several hundred thousand to over a million.

To review the CDS notices with details on these projects, visit the LC Web site.

Sustaining the digital collaborative is a multi-faceted issue. As the collaborative matures, it needs to address such issues as the maintenance and preservation of the digital collections, the financial viability of the collaborative, growth and maturing of the collaborative and other related organizational issues. Through plenary and panel sessions, this program will address sustainability issues from the perspective of those who manage collaborative digitization programs and those who are members of these collaboratives.

The keynote speaker will be Peter Brantley, Digital Library Federation executive director. Other speakers will include BCR's executive director, Brenda Bailey-Hainer; University of Utah's Kenning Arlitsch; University of Colorado's Liz Bishoff; Jodi Allison-Bunnell from the Northwest Digital Archive; and others.

Advance tickets are now available:

• ALA Member: $118
• Non-Member: $150
• Student/Retired Member: $60

Tickets will also be available at the conference:

• ALA Member: $155
• Non-Member: $190
• Student/Retired Member: $100

Details and registration information is available on the ALA conference Web site.

The member support specialist will provide telephone and e-mail support, including troubleshooting product problems, outlining for members the products and services offered by BCR and guiding members through the ordering processes. This individual will maintain a relationship with selected BCR vendor partners and act as a liaison between members and vendors. Other responsibilities include developing and documenting procedures for specific products and providing support for staff who are in the field. The member support specialist will also provide and edit content for the Web site and select and edit technical articles for BCR publications.

For more information about this position, see the recruiting ad on BCR's Web site.

The online session will be broadcast from 2-3 p.m. Eastern Time. Registration information is available on the OCLC Web site.

Please note: This webinar is intended for public libraries who currently do not subscribe to the standard version of WorldCat Collection Analysis.

More information about this new version of WorldCat Collection Analysis can be found on NetWeb. Additional questions should be directed to Glenda Lammers (lammersg@oclc.org) at OCLC.

New Platforms
Two new platforms are available on the ScholarlyStats Web site: CSA and SAGE Publications.

New Pricing Bands
ScholarlyStats has introduced new pricing bands. For the same 2007 pricing, subscribers will have the option to add one additional platform to their account in 2008.

ScholarlyStats also offers a new pricing band with 15 platforms. This option enables subscribers in the pricing band up to 10 platforms to upgrade their account with five additional platforms instead of the larger step to 25 platforms.

Platform Update: OvidSP
Wolters Kluwer is offering a new platform, OvidSP. It is anticipated that all existing customers of Ovid and SilverPlatter will be migrated to this new platform in 2008. To support this migration, ScholarlyStats will offer three platforms during this migration: OvidSP, Ovid and SilverPlatter. By doing this at the right time, ScholarlyStats can ensure a smooth transition of your usage statistics.

SUSHI 1.0 with COUNTER 2.0
ScholarlyStats supports SUSHI 1.0 Interface with SUSHI COUNTER 2.0 for integrating your ScholarlyStats usage statistics reports with one of the ScholarlyStats Integration partners: Thomson JUR and Innovative Interfaces. SUSHI is a protocol for the automatic delivery of usage data from one system to another through an XML schema that defines a request and response system.

To add CSA and/or SAGE Publications, any additional platforms or upgrade your account, or if you have migrated to OvidSP, please contact Chris Cook at ccook@bcr.org to request a new ScholarlyStats platform contract amendment, which will need to be completed and submitted.

Alan Kirk Gray, Assistant Director of Operations for the Darien (CT) Public Library, brings together a panel of prominent architects to discuss how library spaces can reflect the role of today's libraries. He has consulted on the development of appropriate, innovative library spaces, and is currently responsible for the planning and construction of a new Darien Public Library building. Panelists Elisabeth Martin and Jeffrey Hoover, noted architects whose focus is on creative ways of configuring current and future library space to meet new services, will address library design and function, and explore creative ways of configuring current and future library space to meet new services.

Eleven state library agencies along with BCR and the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), together have funded a group license for these popular programs. Register now to join the discussion on how to make the most of current library spaces, and to take a look at some of the more innovative library spaces today. Visit the BCR Web site for broadcast details.

Up to three winning submissions will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each. Recipients will be announced at the ALA RUSA STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing ALA Preconference on June 27, 2008, in Anaheim, California, and also will be invited to present at the IFLA Satellite preconference, Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving Perspectives on Information Content Delivery, in Boston, August 2008.

To be considered for the award, please submit a description of the user-centric service change you have made that has improved resource sharing in your library, consortium or state. Full details for submission can be found on the Rethinking Resource Sharing Web site.

The deadline for applications/nominations is May 15, 2008 (post-mark or date of e-mail).

Send submissions to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee:
Anne K Beaubien
Director, Cooperative Access Services
Grants Officer
University of Michigan Library
920 North University
106 Hatcher Graduate Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
734.936.2322; fax 734.647.2050
beaubien@umich.edu

Funding for the 2008 Innovation Awards was provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks. Ongoing funding for the Initiative is provided by OCLC, Inc. and BCR, with additional support from other organizations. Brenda Bailey-Hainer, BCR's executive director, serves as Chair of the Steering Committee.

To allow pop-ups from FirstSearch or from RefWorks (if you are using RefWorks for exporting records), the following changes are needed:

• In IE, go to: Tools / Popup Blocker / Popup Blocker Settings. Then in the area labeled "Allowed Sites", enter *.oclc.org. If RefWorks is being used, add *.refworks.com also.
• Make sure the "Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone" is unchecked, otherwise you will get a warning "Sites added to this zone must use the https:// prefix." If you get that message, uncheck the required server verification and enter *.oclc.org again.
• Next click on close and OK to exit the menu and close the browser. Now when you open your browser you will find export to RefWorks and other features work.

You may also find it useful to set your security option lower. To do this make sure all other active applications are shut down, such as Word or Outlook. Then, go to Tools / Internet Options / Security / Internet and reset the custom setting to Low or Medium Low. The default level is Medium. Finally, exit out of the menu and close the browser. When you start your browser up again, the new security level will be set.

If you have questions, please contact Heather Clark (hclark@bcr.org) at BCR or the OCLC Customer Support Department 800.848.5800 or support@oclc.org.

Note: For IE6 the default setting for "Security Level for this Zone" is LOW, so users of IE6 only need to complete the second task of adding *.oclc.org as a trusted site.

Below are complete instructions for changing the security settings in IE7.

First, close down all active applications (including Outlook, Word and all instances of IE, etc.). Then open your browser.

Security settings for IE7 — Select the following options:

• Click on the Tools menu
• Open Internet Options
• Go to the SECURITY TAB
• Click on the TRUSTED SITES icon
• Change "Security Level for this Zone" to LOW with the Slider Bar (Default Level is Medium)
• LOW IS THE PREFERRED SETTING, but MEDIUM LOW will work
• Next select the SITES button and add *.oclc.org to the trusted sites
• Make sure the "Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone" is UNCHECKED
• If the box is checked when you enter *.oclc.org in the trusted sites, you will get a warning "Sites added to this zone must use the https:// prefix. This prefix assures a secure connection."
• Click on the OK button
• Uncheck the box
• Add again
• Click on Close
• Click on OK to exit from menu
• Close your browser
• Open your browser

Adding *.oclc.org as a trusted site for IE7 and IE6:

• Click on the Tools menu
• Open Internet Options
• Open on the Security tab
• Click on the Trusted Sites icon (green)
• Click on Sites button
• Enter: *.oclc.org in the "Add this Web site to the zone" box
• Unclick the server verification / https: requirement
• Click Add
• Click OK to close the Trusted Sites window
• Click OK to close Internet Options window

If you have questions, please contact Heather Clark (hclark@bcr.org) at BCR or the OCLC Customer Support Department 800.848.5800 or support@oclc.org.

The Western Council of State Libraries is a professional association of 22 state libraries, formed to:

• Actively promote and improve library and information management services;
• Provide leadership based on consensus at regional and national levels on issues of common concern;
• Advocate for national policy and legislation that enhances library and information management services;
• Provide a forum for resource sharing and continuing education for each state library agency.

Under this charter, the Library Practitioner Certification Program was developed with support from an Institute of Museum and Library (IMLS) grant in response to calls for improved training opportunities for rural library directors and managers without a master's degree in library science.

The certificate recognizes the work done by noncredentialed library managers and directors and provides documentation of their library knowledge and skills that can be carried from job to job. In designing the program, a set of competencies were identified that define the skills and knowledge needed for success as a library practitioner. In addition, education providers are required to be certified, thus ensuring that students are receiving a quality learning experience while fulfilling the program requirements.

For more information about the program, including how to earn certification or how to become an approved education provider, visit the Western Council of State Libraries Practitioner Certification Program Web page.

The resulting tab-delimited file of local holdings can then be imported into a spreadsheet package. Each file will have a limit of 20,000 local holdings records (LHRs); however, if a library has more than 20,000 LHRs, multiple files will be provided. OCLC will make these files available to ordering libraries for download on the Product Services Web page.

A Quick Reference guide covers the order process, how to download the file and information on how to import the file into Microsoft Office Excel.

Below is a brief list of the data elements that will be included in the file.

From the Bibliographic Record

• OCLC Number
• Title of Item from the bibliographic record (245 $a)
• ISBN/ISSN (020 $a or 022 $a) — the data will be preceded by a label identifying it as either an ISSN or ISBN
• Place of Publication (260 $a & $b)
• BLvL — Code from the Bibliographic Level element in the bibliographic record
• Form — Code from the Form of Item element in the bibliographic record
• SrTp — Code from the Type of Serials element in the bibliographic record

• LHR Summary — Note: There is only one summary per bibliographic record per institution regardless of the number of LHRs that the library has attached to the bibliographic record. If a library has multiple LHRs attached to a single bibliographic record, each LHR will appear on a separate row and the summary field will be repeated in each row.
• LHR Leader — Note: Each element from the leader will be preceded by the label that identifies the item. Data will always appear in the same column for all LHRs in the file.
• LHR 007 — Codes from the Physical Description field.
• LHR 008 — Codes from the Fixed-Length Data Elements General Information. The complete set of 32 characters from the 008 will be included.
• For ease of sorting, in addition to being included in the complete 008 field, the Lending (008/20) & Reproduction (008/21) policy codes and the Date of report (008/26-31) will be broken out into separate columns.
• LHR 852 (Location) — The field tag, indicators and all subfields will be included as they appear in the LHR at the time the data was extracted. Subfield delimiters will appear as $.
• Holdings Information — Fields from the LHR that describe the library's holdings including Electronic Location (856) and Holdings Data (853-878). Each field will be in a separate cell and will include the field tag, indicators and all subfields from the field. Repeatable fields will appear in separate cells (for example, if there are two 863 fields, each 863 field will appear in a separate cell within the file). Subfield delimiters will appear as $. Position of the data will be dependent of the fields that are contained within the LHR.

The theme this year will be "Alt.ILL: Alternative Models of Resource Sharing," and will look at how librarians can take sharing above and beyond traditional Interlibrary Loan. Following are some of the topics we anticipate bringing to you:

• Rethinking Resource Sharing
• Sharing More than Books: Training Models for ILL Staff
• Update on Montana Home Delivery Project
• Interlibrary Loan on a Shoestring
• Cool Tools: High-tech ILL Operations to Emulate or Envy
• And much more!

Registration will open in mid-April, and conference scholarships will again be available. For now, save those dates!

Bookmark the conference Web site and watch for more information.

Posted on behalf of Chelle Batchelor
Access Services / Reference Librarian
UWB / CCC Campus Library
(425) 352-5251

Although many of the features of the former Wilson Web interface still exist, these live training sessions will help users discover the new and improved components of WilsonWeb CX:

• Frameless interface — Get faster loading and better integration with the frames of an institution's Web site.
• Enhanced layout and graphics — Clearer screens and more accessible tools, allowing quicker, more intuitive searching.
• Navigational improvements — New Full Text, Page Image and Peer Reviewed tabs in results lets users isolate those records at a click. In Full Display mode, users may now also choose between scrolling through results or clicking from record to record.
• Simplified Print, Save and e-mail functions — New links allow users to capture complete bibliographic information, abstract and full text (if available) right from the article record.
• Simplified Search History screen — Lets users review, update, combine and organize saved searches and receive new information on any search in e-mail alerts.
• Full-text translations — Electronic conversion of articles into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Russian.
• Database enhancements — New looks for Biography Reference Bank, Art Museum Image Gallery, Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus and Current Issues in Health offer more immediate access to essential information, better navigation and suggestions for related searches.

Sessions are offered every Wednesday and Thursday through the month of February. Register at the H.W. Wilson training Web site. Contact Dan Firrincili at 800.367.6770 ext 3691 or by e-mail to dfirrincili@hwwilson.com with questions.

OCLC is rebuilding the quarterly update, and expects to have it available again in early March.

New Biographies and Film Clips
This update includes an additional 600 never-before-published lives from the African American National Biography (AANB), produced in conjunction with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. February marks the publication of this historic eight-volume work — the largest historical recovery project in black history ever attempted — containing nearly 4,100 biographies of African Americans from all walks of life and from every period of American history. Some of the biographies added in this month's update include Tina Turner, Barack Obama, Clarence Page and Dave Chappelle.

New multimedia content includes more than 22 film clips, such as Quincy Jones discussing the origins of rap music and a performance by Billie Holiday and Lester Young.

Feature of the Month
Each month the editors of the Oxford African American Studies Center provide insights into topics of current and historical relevance. This month's feature focuses on the lives in the African American National Biography. The editors also provide a list of articles to guide readers who want to learn more.

Questions?
Contact BCR's Chris Cook ccook@bcr.org for information on subscriptions and pricing.

If you are having problems logging in, please be assured that the problem is being worked on diligently. BCR can be reached at 800.397.1552 or 303.751.6277. OCLC Customer Support is also available at 800.848.5800.

• Mardi Gras is classed at 394.25 (Carnival) in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Lent may be found at 263.92, while the pancakes many indulge in on Fat Tuesday are classed at 641.815 (Bread and bread-like foods).
• It's still winter for part of the world, and if the season leaves you inclined toward slow cooking, works about cooking with a slow cooker are classed in 641.5884 (Electric slow cooking).
• Recent talk by economists on the state of not just the U.S., but the global economy, too, leaves many chilled as the R-word is bandied about. Resources on recession are classed in 338.542 (for business cycles, which include not just prosperity, but recession and depression as well).

If you're new to DDC, learn more in an online introduction.

The Dewey Blog 025.431 is edited by Jonathan Furner, assistant editor for the DDC.

This in-depth three-day workshop on digitizing historic collections, sponsored by AASLH, is taught by Leigh Grinstead, program coordinator of BCR's CDP. Participants can register for single days of the workshop or the entire three days. Day 1 presents issues surrounding the digitization of primary source materials. Day 2 focuses on basic digital imaging techniques. Day 3 introduces creating metadata for digital objects. Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to the issues involved in digital project management
• Why digitize?
• Defining an audience
• Legal issues
• Tools for deciding what to digitize
• Dublin Core metadata
• Digital capture Best Practices
• Digital glossary
• Funding options
• Writing competitive grants
• Benefits of collaboration

Cost is $70 per day members/$85 nonmembers or $200 for three days members/$250 nonmembers.

The registration deadline is February 12. You can register today at www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm.

Questions about these or other upcoming AASLH-sponsored workshops? Contact Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate at hawkins@aaslh.org or (615) 320-3203.

The Western Council of State Libraries is a professional association of 22 state libraries, formed to:

• Actively promote and improve library and information management services;
• Provide leadership based on consensus at regional and national levels on issues of common concern;
• Advocate for national policy and legislation that enhances library and information management services;
• Provide a forum for resource sharing and continuing education for each state library agency.

Under this charter, the Library Practitioner Certification Program was developed with support from an Institute of Museum and Library (IMLS) grant in response to calls for improved training opportunities for library directors and managers without a master's degree in library science.

The certificate recognizes the work done by library support staff and provides documentation of their library knowledge and skills that can be carried from job to job. In designing the program, a set of competencies were identified that define the skills and knowledge needed for success as a library practitioner. In addition, education providers are required to be certified, thus ensuring that students are receiving a quality learning experience while fulfilling the program requirements.

For more information about the program, including how to earn certification or how to become an approved education provider, visit the Western Council of State Libraries Practitioner Certification Program Web page.

New records will be added periodically. Select the standing order option on the order form to receive new records that are added to the set.

OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets allow users to easily load multiple records for a specific set into a local catalog and automatically set holdings in WorldCat. Various record processing options are available. For a list of available sets, visit OCLC's Web pages.

For pricing and ordering information, please contact BCR's Beth Levrault (blevraul@bcr.org).

As part of an enhancement last July, OCLC enabled settings in the Administrative Module to allow this function. Currently, however, if a patron enters comments in FirstSearch, that text is sent directly to OCLC Customer Support. When Customer Support receives the comments, they most often direct the patron to their library. Now, by adding an e-mail address in the WorldCat Services Administrative Module (known to some as the FirstSearch Administrative Module), the patron comments are sent to the library instead.

How to set up this feature:

• In the Administrative Module Authentication/Access>General screen, go to the Comments field located at the bottom of the page.
• Enter the e-mail address of the library staff member designated to receive all FirstSearch patron comments. Only comments that are self-identified as "I am a library patron" will be sent to this email address.
• Click the Save Changes button.
• When a patron submits comments in FirstSearch and selects the "I am a library patron" radio button, that information is sent to the email address provided.

The Web session will focus on MyiLibrary's easy-to-navigate user interface, which allows for fast access to electronic information, making MyiLibrary an indispensable tool. The demonstration will guide participants through MyiLibrary's comprehensive search and retrieval capabilities and illustrate the ability for individual users to annotate and store searches and notes for access at a later date.

To register, send an email to Nicki Catallo at ncatallo@myilibrary.com, or call her at (303) 790-9795. Participants will be sent an invitation to the Web session, with the login and call-in information after you have contacted Catallo. An Internet connection for video is required, and audio will be accessed by calling a toll-free number.

For more information on MyiLibrary, visit BCR's information pages. Questions? Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

Visit BCR's Facts on File information pages for a full list and description of online databases, which also can be previewed at no charge by accessing a free trial. BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) can assist with pricing or subscription inquiries.

Reminder: Current Facts On File subscribers should watch for renewal notices for the 4/1/08-3/31/09 subscription period. E-mail reminders of renewals are on their way.

Authors James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn argue that technology as "applied science" emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies. They identify two great scientific traditions: the useful sciences, patronized by the state from the dawn of civilization and scientific theorizing, initiated by the ancient Greeks. They find that scientific traditions took root in China, India and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. From this comparative perspective, the authors explore the emergence of Europe and the United States as a scientific and technological power.

The new edition reorganizes its treatment of Greek science and significantly expands its coverage of industrial civilization and contemporary science and technology with new and revised chapters devoted to applied science, the sociology and economics of science, globalization and the technological systems that underpin everyday life.

About the Authors
James E. McClellan III is professor of the history of science and Harold Dorn is professor emeritus of the history of science and technology at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

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. NetLibrary has developed a tool kit of free promotional materials that can be downloaded and personalized for your library.

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