Users will be happy to discover that MARC records will now be available for download for any journal or book subscription from the Browse Books and Browse Journals pages, just by selecting Download MARC Records and following the wizard instructions.

Additional enhancements include:

• Annotation Expert — instantly export search result annotations to standard bibliographic managers such as RefWorks.
• Search Screen position — the search screen will no longer immediately "jump" search results to the top of the page, and the search box now appears above the results.
• Results Manager enhancements — users will no longer need to scroll to the top of the Results Manager to access Actions as this now appears at the bottom of the page.
• Remove Duplicates — this button has been moved outside the Search History box.
• Inline Abstract Navigation — provides improved functionality and usability.
• Non-English Translations — French, German and Spanish interfaces are available. A non-English interface can be viewed from either the Database Selection page or the Main Search page.

Visit the OvidSP resources webpage for additional details. For questions or subscription information, visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Tutor.com's Live Homework Help® is an affordable after-school service that connects a student with a professional tutor for live, one-on-one help with homework questions and test prep online. Live Homework Help provides the homework assistance students need when and where they need it — even when the library is closed. Students have access to quality tutors in a safe and secure environment. Program support is provided with marketing tools proven to generate usage.

See a Demo
BCR and Tutor.com invite library staff to attend a brief webinar on how Live Homework Help works and the value it offers your library patrons. Discover what more than 1,800 libraries across the country are doing to serve the student population in their communities. Sign up for either the morning or afternoon session.

• Tuesday, April 8 (10-11 a.m. MDT) - Register
• Tuesday, April 8 (1-2 p.m. MDT) - Register

Can't make either BCR webinar? See the tutor.com website for an online demo or guided tour. BCR also can arrange for a two-week free trial. Visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for details.

The bridge function links Booklist Online's powerful collection development tools with access to more than 120,000 reviews of adult, youth, media and reference titles and Baker & Taylor's Title Source 3 collection development tool with access to a database of more than five million book, movie, music and video game titles.

To learn more about BCR's agreement with Booklist Online, visit BCR's website or contact Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.

BCR's partnership with Olive Software gives your library access to a product that can help your library successfully initiate and complete a digitization project. Olive tools allow for creation of innovative publishing and digital archiving solutions such as topical collections and microachives. In addition, Olive can help by providing services targeted to your particular institution, including server hosting, microfilm digitization and training.

For more information about the software and services provided by Olive, visit BCR's website or contact Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.

Subscribers will need their username and password to access these new features. If you are not a current subscriber through BCR, but would like to have more information about Facts On File products, please contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

Updated features include:

• New Dictionary Tool — Check out the new pop-up dictionary added to Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Users who click on the Dictionary link located on the top of every page will be able to look up unfamiliar words within articles without taking the time to open a new browser window or go outside the database. The dictionary contains more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, as well as the pronunciation, etymology and syllable breaks of the word. Many entries also include variant spellings, and derived and inflected forms of the words.
• New Critical Essays — Users will find more than 800 new pieces of criticism in the database, including a selection of the finest classic criticism on the authors most commonly read in high school and college classes today. The essays place these authors in the context of their literary era and provide criticism that has proved over the years to be invaluable to readers and writers. New commentaries on Shakespeare's greatest plays are included.
• Additional New Content — New content allows users to conduct even more comprehensive research on American women writers, Asian-American writers, contemporary world poetry, authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and T. S. Eliot and much more. Many of the articles include Further Information sections that guide users to more specialized resources, as well as to links to related information about authors and their works.
• New Videos — It is now possible in Bloom's Literary Reference Online to study literature through a new medium: video. Twenty-four video segments from an exclusive interview with Harold Bloom are available, covering a variety of works and authors from the Western literary canon — from William Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy — to other topics, such as the importance of studying literature and how to determine the aesthetic merit of a work of literature. Locate the videos by visiting the home page and selecting the Browse the Videos link under the Harold Bloom section.

For more information about making payments by credit card, please visit the BCR website. If you have any questions, please contact BCR’s Business Office at 303.751.6277.

The COUNTER-style report includes COUNTER usage data similar to COUNTER compliant vendors.

The User Warnings report can be used by customers/members who want to keep track of patrons who have been downloading excessive content and may be in violation of the Books24x7 Membership Agreement. Additional information about warnings can be found on the Secure Forms webpage.

These reports are available in addition to the standard ICOLC and Access Denial reports. Customers/members select which reports they want from a menu. To access the Reporting Site:

• Go to reports.books24x7.com/library.asp
• Log in using the username and password previously supplied

Interested in more information about Books24x7, including pricing and subscription terms? Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org)

Colleague Connection, Denver, Colorado (April 2) — Stop by the BCR booth and say hello to Chris Cook, one of BCR's product support specialists.

CLiC, Greeley, Colorado (April 3-4) — BCR Emergent Technology Trainer Shelly Drumm is presenting "Library 2. ...Oh! Now I get it: Practical Applications of 2.0 Tools" on April 3, starting at 9:15 a.m.

Kansas Library Association Annual Conference, Wichita (April 9-11) — "Remember the User: Keeping Up With Technology," presented by BCR Marketing & Support manager, Gillian Harrison, is set for April 10, 3-3:50 p.m. Visit the BCR exhibit booth (#800).

Montana Library Association Annual Conference, Great Falls (April 9-12) — Stop by the exhibit booth and visit BCR's library services associate, Jay Ford.

Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference, Dubuque, Iowa (April 11) — BCR's expert on interlibrary loan and resource sharing, Heather Clark, is presenting "Who Owns the Bytes? The Effects of Mass Digitization Efforts on Resource Sharing and Copyright," April 11, from 9:25-10:15 a.m.

BCR is here to help your library keep pace with the latest developments in technology and services, and our broad range of solutions helps you stay current in today’s quickly changing environment. Can't make it to a conference or meeting in your area? Visit the BCR website to discover how BCR can give your library the tools it needs to improve its efficiency, reach and power.

What To Do

• If you are currently using one of these versions, upgrade to version 2.10 now.
• If you have version 1.70 or 1.72 on your machine, you will need to upgrade directly to version 2.10. Note that you can upgrade to version 2.10 without installing the intermediate versions on your machine.

For more information about installation and a link to download the software, go to the OCLC Connexion website.

For questions or problems, please contact Linda Gonzalez (lgonzalez@bcr.org) or Regan Harper (rharper@bcr.org) at BCR.

AquaBrowser Library uses visual representation and faceted search to discover and deliver all of your library's information. Whatever it is, wherever it is, patrons can quickly and easily find content — from federated search engines to digital repositories to bibliographic records from integrated library systems to computer storage networks, websites and more.

Learn more about AquaBrowser Library with MyDiscoveries at special webinars hosted by Serials Solutions. Sign up for any of the free, live sessions posted at www.serialssolutions.com/learning.html, scheduled April 9, 26 or 23.

For more information on the new AquaBrowser Library with MyDiscoveries or any of the Serials Solutions products available to BCR members, please contact Jay Ford (jford@bcr.org).

Consisting of five parts, users will find extensive photographs and videos (some graphic), an extended bibliography and discussion questions tied to each of the five parts and written especially for teachers and classroom use. Included is an overview article by Britannica's Holocaust adviser, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, the former director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, former president of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and author of The World Must Know and Witness to the Holocaust, among other books.

Available for public, K-12 and academic libraries, this is a valuable resource that examines a significant episode in world history.

To discover all of the Britannica products available through BCR, please contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) or visit the BCR website.

Bundle and Save
Pricing is based on FTE and population served, making it extremely affordable, regardless of library size. Purchase the Ready Reference collection along with either the Academic or Community College collection, and receive a $1,000 price reduction on the cost of the Ready Reference Collection. Participation is a one-time cost for ongoing access to this content.

Selected 2007 and 2008 titles were hand-picked by OCLC collection development librarians and feature the finest in high-demand reference sources and frontlist titles. Title lists for each collection are available and can be accessed on the BCR website. Select from the appropriate menu item to download an Excel spreadsheet.

• Ready Reference — Answers the most frequently asked questions in libraries of all types. Core reference titles include encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases and handbooks.
• Community College — Includes titles for general education community college and vocational programs. Topics on nursing/health, design/drafting, culinary arts, education, criminal justice, industrial arts and more.
• Academic — Includes subject-specific reference titles in key areas of interest to four-year institutions. Titles are relevant for both general education and upper division academic coursework in all subject areas.

Don't miss out on this limited time offer — the collection is open only through June 23. Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for pricing and subscription information.

Whether your library is new to BCR or a longtime voting member, we invite you to participate in BCR's upcoming election. BCR's annual Board of Trustees election begins April 1. An email invitation to vote will be sent out to all designated voting representatives.

If you have not already designated your voting representative, or wonder whether you are a BCR member, please contact BCR's communication coordinator, Brandie Baumann (bbaumann@bcr.org); 303.751.6277 ext 110; 800.397.1552. Completion of a simple online form is all that is required to designate your voting representative.

Information about the BCR Board of Trustees election can be found on the BCR BOT election webpages. The deadline for submitting your Board of Trustees ballot is May 2.

Teen Health & Wellness provides well-researched, current and on-target information on health and wellness topics as diverse as acne and Alzheimer's, military recruitment and volunteerism and adoption and cyberbullying. With more than 40 national hotlines available across fourteen categories, including AIDS/HIV and mental health, Teen Health & Wellness provides resources for users who may just be curious or may be dealing with critical and urgent informational needs.

All content in Teen Health & Wellness is reviewed by a team of leading professionals across fields such as medicine, mental health, nutrition, substance abuse prevent, guidance and career counseling. To ensure its accuracy and relevance, content is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis, with each entry giving the date it was last updated.

Rosen Publishing's Teen Health & Wellness database was selected as one of Library Journal's Best Reference Sources of 2007, and has been recognized by several programs. Recent awards include an EDDIE (Annual Education Software Review) from ComputEd Learning Center, which identifies programs that augment the classroom curriculum and improve teacher productivity; an Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Education Websites for Specialized Instruction winner, for high quality learning resources that exhibit superior educational content and value; and a BESSIE (Best Education Software), for innovative and content-rich programs and websites which provide parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence.

To learn more, visit the BCR website. For details on pricing or to sign up for a free trial, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

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

Alexander Street Press — Booth #846. Publisher of scholarly databases in the arts, humanities and social sciences, offering free trials through your BCR membership.

AWE — Booth #401. The Early Literacy Station education resource is a self-contained workstation for k-2/school and public libraries, complete with 34 educational software packages preloaded. Also available in bilingual version.

Booklist Online — Booth #1535. A powerful collection development tool offering more than 120,000 recommended-only reviews of adult, youth, media and reference titles, with more than 8,000 new reviews added each year.

Brainfuse — Booth #1926. HelpNow Homework Help provides on-demand homework assistance from expert tutors in core academic subjects.

Britannica — Booth # 1718. A full suite of databases for academic, public, K-12 and community college libraries. See demos, take home New Views of the Solar System and enter to win prizes.

CIVICTechnologies — Booth #1808. Learn about how BusinessDecision and LibraryDecision can help your patrons and community.

Computype — Booth #546. DVD/CD labels, patron cards, spine label systems.

CQ Press — Booth #946. Government-related databases for academic, community college and public libraries. Learn more at product demos scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday (March 27 and 28) and get a free t-shirt.

Facts On File — Booth #1506. Videos, essays, original maps and charts, colorful images and diagrams, today's news and more, available in core subjects such as history, science, literature, geography and health. Attend their wine and cheese party at 3 p.m. on March 27.

Greenwood Publishing — Booth #922. Gives schools, colleges and public libraries discounted access to one of the world's leading publishers of reference titles, academic and general interest books, texts, books for librarians and other professionals and electronic resources.

H.W. Wilson — Booth #1111. Publishes reference books and databases, specializing in indexing and abstracting for community college, K-12, public and academic libraries.

Interface Electronics — Booth #1757. Potomac Electronic Messaging system gives libraries a unique way of communicating with their target audience.

McGraw-Hill — booth #1440. Reference databases that span all levels of learning from pre-K to professional development including assessment and instruction tools.

MyiLibrary — Booth #935. Aggregator of online e-book and e-content resources for academic, public, medical, professional and corporate libraries.

ProQuest — Booth #1101. Collection organization and information publishing for higher education/academic, 2-year college/community college, corporate/special, public, k-12 and hospital/medical libraries.

Rosen Publishing — Booth #1707. Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life and more.

BCR offers many other products and services, too numerous to list. Visit the BCR website to see what we can do to help your library generate more people, action and noise in your community.

If you have difficulty locating the webinar registration form, or have any other questions, please contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

A team from BCR, including President and CEO Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Member Services Librarian Heather Clark and Consultant Lynn Taylor, joined with consulting partners, CIVICTechnologies and Your Perceptions, to complete the project.

The project included a literature review and overview of current ILL studies and best practices, a workflow analysis of current regional operations with recommendations for improvement, an analysis of patron needs, a survey of staff perceptions and an examination of options for future resource sharing models.

Patron-Initiated Requesting & Home Delivery: The Pinnacle of Resource Sharing
Friday, March 28, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Lake Superior Better customer service, faster turnaround times, higher fill rates — the pinnacle of resource sharing is within your grasp. Join colleagues for a session dedicated to end-user services and removal of barriers preventing access to information.

OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis
Thursday, March 27, from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Join your colleagues at the Hyatt Regency's Regency Room for a presentation on WorldCat Collection Analysis — learn more about this powerful collection development tool. Refreshments will be served.

Register for this and other OCLC meetings at www.oclc.org/info/pla/. Visit OCLC at booth #617 at the Minneapolis Convention Center for demonstrations of resource sharing, WorldCat Collection Analysis and many other OCLC services.

• Annual Collection Review shows how to use WorldCat Collection Analysis to make and support informed decisions on which titles to retain, weed and acquire as a result of an annual collection review.
• Introduction to Using Excel provides a brief introduction to some of the more common actions within Microsoft Excel and is designed to help those who are unfamiliar with Excel gain familiarity with working with spreadsheets.

These scenarios are available from the WCA Documentation page.

This day is designed to give librarians an opportunity to develop creative responses to the changing expectations of library users and ideas about ways to improve service to patrons. Stephen Abram, guru for library innovation, will start the day with an interactive presentation about resource sharing.

Other scheduled programs and activities will help library administrators and ILL librarians interested in the future of library resource sharing discover innovative ways to help librarians get people what they need, when and where they need it. These include a plug-in that helps users find materials in libraries or on the Internet, a manifesto that sets the stage for new lending policies, scan-on-demand services and the promise of home delivery.

Visit the RUSA STARS website for more information, including details on registration, the preconference schedule and a list of presenters.

BCR is an on-going sponsor of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, and BCR President and CEO Brenda Bailey-Hainer serves as the Chair of the Initiative's Steering Committee.

Colleague Connection, April 2, University of Denver — BCR's Chris Cook, product support specialist, will be available to talk about resources designed to provide you with the ability to embrace new technologies and channels to reach your patrons and students.

CLiC Spring Workshops, April 3-4, Greeley (Colorado) — Join Shelly Drumm, BCR's emergent technology trainer, for a lively and informative session that sold out at the February CLiC workshop in Grand Junction. "Library 2.... Oh! Now I get it: Practical Applications of 2.0 Tools" is a two-and-one-half-hour workshop that will teach you how to take advantage of the power of the many 2.0 tools to present content from blogs, news sites, library databases and more. Can't make it to Greeley? This workshop also is being offered at the CLiC meeting in Pueblo, April 24-25.

Kansas Library Association Annual Conference, April 9-11, Wichita — Don't miss the opportunity to attend Gillian Harrison's program, "Remember the User: Keeping Up With Technology," set for April 10, 3-3:50 p.m. Harrison, BCR's Marketing & Support manager, will look at how librarians can keep up with technological advances, stay within their budget and still reach their patrons. Take some time to visit Harrison and Chris Cook at the BCR exhibit booth (#800) — see what has changed and how you can take advantage of the many products and services to which your BCR membership gives you access.

Montana Library Association Annual Conference, April 9-12, Great Falls — Set aside some time during the day to visit BCR's Jay Ford, library services associate, at the BCR exhibit booth. He is looking forward to chatting with Montanan librarians about ways to help them provide the best services and products to their patrons and users. Learn how you can purchase quality products through your BCR membership and stay within your budget.

Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference, April 11, Dubuque (Iowa) — BCR's expert on interlibrary loan and resource sharing, Heather Clark, is presenting a short program titled, "Who Owns the Bytes? The Effects of Mass Digitization Efforts on Resource Sharing and Copyright," April 11, from 9:25-10:15 a.m. This brief overview will address how digital initiatives such as Google Book Search and Open Content Alliance affect the work of resource sharing in the broader library community and how issues of copyright are being resolved.

Oregon Library Association/Washington Library Association Joint Conference, April 17-18, Vancouver (Washington) — Gillian Harrison, BCR's manager, Marketing & Support, is scheduled to present a program on Friday, April 18, from 2:15-4:30 p.m. "Plugging into the Numbers: Using Data to Make Some Noise About Library Services," addresses how to transform statistics into useful information that can be used to "tell a story" about your library to your staff, director, patrons or community. Harrison and BCR's Jay Ford will be staffing the BCR exhibit booth throughout the conference, so be sure to stop by for a few minutes.

American Association of Museums Conference, April 27-May 1, Denver — 2008 will be the first time that BCR staff have exhibited at the AAM conference, and Leigh Grinstead, BCR's CDP program coordinator, and Gillian Harrison, BCR's manager, Marketing & Support, are looking forward to meeting members of the cultural heritage community. Visit the BCR exhibit booth (#1121) and ask about BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), as well as all the other services and products offered to BCR's member institutions.

Utah Library Association/Mountain Plains Library Association Joint Conference, April 29-May 2, Salt Lake City — Shelly Drumm, BCR's emergent technology trainer, is presenting "Website in a Box: A Simple Solution to a Tough Problem," a workshop she took on the road to many of Utah's small libraries in 2007 to help them get a website up and running. Scheduled for May 2, from 10-11:00 a.m., Drumm will give an overview of the project, discuss some solutions and give you a chance to look at websites that were created. Jay Ford, library services associate, will be helping staff the BCR exhibit booth (#113), so make sure you set aside some time to stop by and share your thoughts on BCR's new image.

Submit your renewal or new order via BCR's online order form. The BCR group subscription period runs June 1, 2008, through May 31, 2009.

Britannica Offers New Illustrated Science Library
Britannica's newest print product, Illustrated Science Library, is a 16-volume set that explains key scientific topics in the earth, life and physical sciences. Created for grades 5-9, each volume provides an overview on each subject and thoroughly explains it through detailed and powerful graphics, turning complex subjects into visual information that students can quickly grasp. Each volume contains more than 1,000 images, an index and a glossary with full definitions for vocabulary help.

Take Advantage of New Discounts — Update Your Library's Print Resources
Britannica Online subscribers are eligible to purchase any Britannica print product at a special 25 percent discount and receive free shipping, too. A few of the more popular titles are:

• 2007 Encyclopaedia Britannica
• 2008 Compton's By Britannica
• Britannica Illustrated Science Library
• Britannica Student Encyclopedia
• Gran Enciclopedia Planeta
• Britannica Discovery Library
• Encyclopaedia Britannica World Atlas

Please contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for pricing and ordering information.

The posting included the following:

Under the auspices of the British Library, the Library and Archives Canada and the Library of Congress, an RDA/MARC Working Group has been established to collaborate on the development of proposals for changes to the MARC 21 formats to accommodate the encoding of RDA data. With the implementation of RDA anticipated for late 2009, the Working Group will be drafting proposals for review and discussion by the MARC community in June 2008.

Although the MARC 21 formats support the encoding of descriptions created according to a wide range of content standards, the close relationship between AACR and MARC 21 has contributed to the efficient exchange of information among libraries for decades. The RDA/MARC Working Group will identify what changes are required to MARC 21 to support compatibility with RDA and ensure effective data exchange into the future.

Members of the RDA/MARC Working Group are:


• Everett Allgood (New York University and CC:DA Liaison to MARBI)
• Corine Deliot (British Library)
• Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress)
• Bill Leonard (Library and Archives Canada)
• Sally McCallum (Library of Congress)
• Marg Stewart (JSC Liaison to the RDA/MARC Working Group)
• Martha Yee (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

For more information about RDA, please visit the JSC website

Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
More than 40 years of Wilson's classic biographical resource, Biography Index, is now available in a single, easy-to-use database. With citations on people from antiquity through 1980s headlines — data encompassing over 627,000 articles and books published 1946 through 1983 — Biography Index Retrospective brings convenient WilsonWeb searching to the in-depth data that earned Biography Index decades of popularity as a print reference.

Access by subject, author, publication year, publication name and issue (plus a wide array of other fields), makes Biography Index Retrospective a great research tool. Updated terms for professions allow searching using contemporary language.

Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
Wilson's Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983 brings your library valuable data found in few other single reference sources — bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories published over 150 years. For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, this is a one-of-a-kind tool with content from the acclaimed Short Story Index back to its beginning in 1915.

Highlights include:

• Cites to short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s
• Sources from some 350 periodicals and collections of short stories
• Searching by author, title, keyword, source, date, subject, topics, themes, locales and more
• Entries featuring links to other works by the author and other stories in the source collection

For product details as well as subscription and purchase information, please visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

The eLibrary family is a user-friendly general reference tool and a great resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference essentials that support user inquiry. Offering content sets for every range of user, including college-level researchers and professional educators, eLibrary provides access to information found in magazines and journals, newspapers, reference books, TV and radio transcripts, maps, pictures, websites and audio/video.

• eLibrary — a general reference tool to one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content; designed to support every range of user, including elementary students, college-prep and college-level researchers and professional educators.
• eLibrary Science — access to thousands of full-text and multimedia files to help researchers better understand concepts in science and allow educators at all levels to build engaging science materials, lessons and activities for students of all ages.
• eLibrary Elementary — media types and search functionality tailored to the young reader; presents students with a colorful, graphical search interface to help them find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, weblinks and audio/video titles.

For product details as well as subscription and purchase information, please visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Join speakers Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services and Lori Bell, Director of Innovation at the Alliance Library System, explore patron-created folksonomic cataloging (del.cio.us, LibraryThing and the new breed of OPACs); libraries and librarians in virtual environments (Second Life); and using social networks (MySpace and Facebook). Discover for yourself whether these activities are "trends, fads or plain old folly," and perhaps answer the central question being considered in this teleconference — "To what extent do libraries need to quickly adopt new technologies into their programs?" or "Just because you can do it, does that mean that you should?"

BCR member libraries have several ways to access the teleconference, but everyone should register. Complete the BCR Teleconference Registration form, making sure to indicate how you anticipate viewing the teleconference and checking off the April 11 session. Additional information, including viewing sites in your state, is listed on the BCR teleconference Web pages.

The 2007-2008 College of DuPage teleconference season concludes with the May 9 Library Challenges and Opportunities program, "Tools of Engagement: Attracting and Engaging Library Users." The session takes a look at what the most creative libraries are doing to engage current and potential users of the library.

Citations for each encyclopedia article, photo, video and map on Britannica Online are now generated automatically. Both MLA and APA citations are conveniently located at the bottom of each item. Simply copy and paste the citation information into your works cited page, bibliography or PowerPoint presentation.

Read about how it works:

• Public Library Edition (www.library.eb.com/eb/article-9108779)
• School Edition (K-12) (www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-9277657)
• Academic Edition (www.search.eb.com/eb/article-9108779)

The latest edition of the primer is updated throughout and includes examples of holdings records. The primer also contains exercises to help familiarize you with the concepts and practices involved with maintaining and using local holdings records in your library.

A list of the chapters in the primer include:

• Introduction
• Z39.71
• MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data (MFHD)
• Batchloading of Holdings Records
• Examples of Holdings Records
• Exercise Answer Key
Glossary

The local holdings primer is available online on the OCLC Web pages.

Updated or added items:

• Review Your Transcripts Offline (PDF, Quick reference, 2008-03-04): Aid for requesting data in the Ask a Librarian (Ask) module that you can use to review transcripts and questions offline. Added to replace "Offline Reports in Ask" as part of reports simplification.
• Review Your Transcripts Online (PDF, Quick reference, 2008-03-04): Aid for reviewing transcripts and questions online in the Ask a Librarian (Ask) module. Added to replace "Online Reports in Ask" as part of reports simplification.
• Reports (PDF, Quick reference, 2008-03-04): Aid for viewing statistical reports available from the Reports tab on the My QuestionPoint page. Added as part of reports simplification.
• Ask a Librarian (Ask) and Knowledge Base modules (Online help, 2008-03-02): How to use the Ask and KB modules. Updated "Review Transcripts and Service History Search" as part of reports simplification.
• Flash chat (Online help, 2008-03-02): How to use Flash chat. Updated "Symbols that appear in Flash chat" to remove * (asterisk) and "Accept a chat request from a patron (Flash chat)" to remove * (asterisk) and add the Qwidget.
• Home module and My QuestionPoint page (Online help, 2008-03-02): How to use the QuestionPoint Home module and the My QuestionPoint page. Updated "Reports" as part of reports simplification.
• Chat: help for library patrons (2008-03-02): Online help for patrons using Chat or the Chat 2 (Preview). Updated to cover Chat (with viewport and preferences) in addition to Chat 2 (Preview).
• Qwidget: help for library patrons (2008-03-02): Online help for patrons using the Qwidget (Preview). Added as part of the Qwidget.
• Administration module (Online help, 2008-03-02): How to use the QuestionPoint Administration module to manage your library's account. Added "Create your Qwidget (QuestionPoint widget)," "Create your e-mail question form or chat form using Forms Manager," "Set up spam filters for your e-mail question form." Updated "Set up web form assignment," "Set up branding for your group's patron accounts and librarian accounts."

The new sets added are:

• American Association of Law Libraries OBS-SIS Legal Websites
• JSTOR Business II Collection
• JSTOR Health & General Sciences Collection

Visit the main WorldCat Collection Sets Web page for additional information. For a list of all available sets, please visit OCLC's WorldCat Collection Sets lists Web page.

Please contact Linda Gonzalez (lgonzalez@bcr.org) or Regan Harper (rharper@bcr.org) at BCR, or your OCLC regional service provider, for price and ordering information.

New orders placed by May 19 will receive an additional 5 percent discount off BCR's member pricing.

For a free preview of the following products, log on to start the demo. Enter the username (bcrtrial) and password (bcrtrial). Access will be available between March 14 and April 18.

• Issues & Controversies
• Issues & Controversies in American History
• World News Digest
• Today's Science
• Bloom's Literary Reference Online
• Science Online
• Health Reference Center
• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
• American History Online
• African-American History Online
• American Indian History Online
• American Women's History Online
• Modern World History Online
• Ancient and Medieval History Online
• World Atlas
• Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
• Curriculum Resource Center

For pricing information, please contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) or complete the quote form on the BCR Web site.

See all the current WorldCat facts and statistics on the OCLC WorldCat Web site.

Speakers Nancy Huling, University of Washington in the United States and Wendy Haynes, University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, each head successful virtual reference services at large academic libraries. They will share their tips on promoting their chat and e-mail reference services to students on campus and off, and discuss what works to capture the attention of their campus constituencies.

For additional information and to register for this event, please visit OCLC's QuestionPoint webinar description page.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Update
The quarterly update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium includes:

• Two new titles, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics and The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, presenting comprehensive and authoritative coverage of Australian political life and thought, and a rich array of American quotations.
• Two new editions, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and A Dictionary of Contemporary World History, giving subscribers updated resources for research and reference.

Linking and Timelines
The update offers further progress with linking together all the biographical entries in the Premium Collection with more than 15,000 new links, bringing the current total to 20,000-plus records and making browsing and exploring the databases even easier.

The Premium Collection also has been updated with the addition of three new timelines, Settlements of North America, The American Revolution and The American Civil War. These provide a chronological account of events in North America from 1200 BCE to 1877, with each moment linked to an entry in the Premium Collection.

Upload Your Library's Logo
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection subscribers are now able to display their institutional logo on every page within the site. Visit Subscriber Services to get started.

Subscribers are reminded to download MARC records for the new titles in this update.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (DRS) Update
Two new references have been added to Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History — Discover the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The work compiles more than 650 biographies of influential women and 600-plus topical articles covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements and gender studies.
• Black Women in America — This classic, award-winning reference work breaks new ground pulling together all of the research in this vast but under-represented field to provide the most comprehensive resource in Black Women's studies. With more than 335 biographies and 500-plus images, Black Women in America, second edition, celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today and covers the new research the first edition helped to generate.

For a list of upcoming releases, including the award-winning Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, visit the OUP Web site.

For pricing or a free 30-day trial title, please contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

The new brand identity is a comprehensive makeover, including logo, mission, tagline, colors, Web site and message. We spent a lot of time determining what our members need from us, and we took that knowledge and reshaped our identity to reflect it. We want to focus on what we can offer our members to help them stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology, trends and the latest developments in the field.

Our hope is that the new brand identity will help us reach out to more libraries and in turn will help them reach further into their community. The goal is to live up to our mission: to bring libraries together for greater success by expanding their knowledge, reach and power. We want to help our members engage their patrons and increase their impact within their local communities.

We are excited to share the new and improved BCR with you. For a first look, check out our new Web site at www.BCR.org. We look forward to providing the same great products and services to our members, and we hope our new identity will help you bring more people, action and noise to your library.

If you would like more information about the project, or are interested in launching a new brand identity for your organization, be sure to join us for a Free Friday Forum about the rebranding on March 7. Hosted by Gillian Harrison, BCR's Marketing and Support manager, this session will focus on BCR's journey through the branding process and will provide ideas for you to launch a similar effort within your organization.

Two candidates are competing for the single open delegate position on the BCR OCLC Members Council. Twelve candidates are running for four open positions on the BCR Board of Trustees.

BCR OCLC Members Council Election
Information about the BCR OCLC Members Council delegate election can be found on BCR's Web site. Designated voters for BCR's OCLC governing members will receive an e-mail message in mid-March with instructions about casting their ballots. Votes must be cast by April 25.

Voters will elect a delegate from among the following candidates:

• Nancy Allen, Penrose Library, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
• Lorraine Haricombe, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas

BCR Board of Trustees Election
Information about the Board of Trustees election can be found on the BCR BOT election Web pages. Voting in this election begins in early April, and the deadline for submitting Board of Trustees ballots is May 3.

Open positions and the candidates running to fill them are:

Public Library Trustee

• Gina Millsap (incumbent), Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
• Betsy Thompson, Sioux City Public Library, Sioux City, Iowa
• Barbara Brattin, Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride, Colorado

• Kay Horton Knudsen, Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Kay Bradt, Baker University Library, Baldwin City, Kansas
• Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

• Nancy Allen (incumbent), Penrose Library, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
• Lorraine Haricombe, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas
• Connie M. Strittmatter, Renne Library, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

• Dawn Wittman (incumbent, appointed to fill vacancy), Lewiston City Library, Lewiston, Idaho
• Jamie LaRue, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, Colorado
• Sara Jones, Carson City Library, Carson City, Nevada

A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends will explore all aspects of reference and information services in a broad range of contexts, including libraries and information centers, in academic, public, school, corporate and other special library environments. This two-day conference will incorporate the multitude of established, emerging and merging types of reference service, including both traditional and virtual reference. It presents an opportunity for all reference practitioners and scholars to explore the rapid growth and changing nature of reference, as an escalating array of information technologies blend with traditional reference service to create vibrant hybrids.

Call for Submissions
Submissions of papers, panels and workshop proposals are welcomed that analyze issues, identify best practices, advance organizational and technological systems, propose standards and/or suggest innovative approaches that will reveal as well as invent the future of reference in this exciting and unfolding landscape. The conference will be organized around the following interest tracks:

• Virtual Reference
• Innovative Service Models
• Managing Reference Services
• Approaches, Values and Philosophy of Reference Services
• Wild Card track featuring the most innovative service ideas
• Vendor demonstrations of new products and services

Submissions are due April 4, and should be sent to program chair Marie L. Radford (mradford@scils.rutgers.edu). More details are available at the conference Web site.