OCLC has completed its quarterly refresh of the data in WorldCat Collection Analysis (WCA).
Last quarter's data has been replaced with data pulled from WorldCat on Monday, March 24. With this update, the 2008 publication date was added.
Anyone with questions should contact OCLC's Amy Lytle (lytlea@oclc.org).
As multimedia transforms the worlds of learning and recreation, H.W. Wilson is offering a practical new guide for librarians concerned with building an up-to-date, useful and well-rounded collection of materials beyond the bookshelves – Nonbook Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide.
New in the WilsonWeb Core Collections family of databases, Nonbook Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide highlights more than 2,300 electronic resources, videos, sound recordings, audiobooks, educational games and periodicals recommended for various types of libraries. The database also presents an abundance of professional materials. All resources highlighted in Nonbook Materials Core Collection have been selected by a team of experts.
Valuable for collection development, readers' advisory and curriculum support, Nonbook Materials Core Collection allows searching (and cross-searching) for materials by a wide range of useful parameters including media type, reading level, subject, title, publication year, author, publisher, keyword and more.
Users can limit any search to a short list of the most highly recommended titles. Special limiters also allow users to retrieve just entries for fiction, nonfiction or biography, and – since the database grows with frequent updates – a What's New limiter lets you find only what's been added in the last week, month, year or since the last time you checked.
Entries include descriptive and critical annotations that offer insight into both quality and content of resources, and cover art (if available) gives librarians a first-person feel for the work. Strict standards are applied to rating materials by age appropriateness. Review excerpts are featured and entries note any awards the work has won. Cataloging records are provided for all items.
The database can link to the library's OPAC for an instant check of holdings for any item cited. Nonbook Materials Core Collection searches seamlessly with other Wilson Core Collections and other Wilson databases.
Free 30-day trials of Nonbook Materials Core Collection are available. Register at www.hwwilson.com/trial/. For more information contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).
Two librarians, one from Washington and one from Colorado, prove their dedication and belief in their chosen profession.
WWU Librarian Turns Investigator
An article in the April 2008, Smithsonian, highlights the saga of Western Washington University (WWU) librarian, Rob Lopresti, to find the thief or thieves who ripped 648 pages of historic maps, lithographs and other items from more than 102 vintage volumes in the library's government documents collection. Lopresti tracked historical document sales through eBay and, with the help of two friends on the East Coast, successfully bid on two of the possibly stolen items. The state crime lab eventually matched the paper and tear marks with two of the pages torn from the WWU books.
Librarian Contributes Denver Post Colorado Voices Column
Ellen Mackey, a librarian at the Highlands Ranch Library in Douglas County, Colorado, wrote "Libraries far from dead," which was published in the April 16, Denver Post Colorado Voices opinion column. Celebrating National Library Week (April 13-19), she examined the notion that the public library, once thought to be on the verge of extinction in the era of the Internet, is neither dead nor dying and is, in fact, thriving. See the Denver Post website for the full article.
LexisNexis' premier research and reference databases provide research and specialized study solutions for all types of libraries. BCR offers member libraries a suite of LexisNexis products at a reduced subscription rate.
Pricing for new and renewing LexisNexis customers is now available on BCR's website. One major change to take note of for this renewal cycle: The minimum FTE for all orders and library types is now 500, down from last year's 750.
New Subscribers: Enjoy Free Access
New subscribers, place your order by May 15 and receive free access for the month of June. All subscriptions commence from the activation date and run through June 30, 2009. But billing will be for the 12-month period of July 1, 2008- June 30, 2009.
All renewal orders for all 2008-09 LexisNexis subscriptions must be submitted on or before June 15, 2008. Renewal orders submitted after the June 15 date may result in a gap in service.
To submit your 2008-2009 order for LexisNexis, please visit the BCR LexisNexis web pages and complete the appropriate form for your institution. For more information please contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).
The final College of DuPage 2007-2008 Library Challenges & Opportunities teleconference is scheduled for May 9, 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. "Tools of Engagement: Attracting and Engaging Library Users," examines the ways in which libraries are working to creatively engage current and potential users.
The program discussion will go beyond PR, exploring new ideas for reaching and involving users, as well as how patrons are shaping library services, programs and spaces. The four panelists include an accomplished library social marketer and outreach librarian, a very successful public library director who has integrated her library with other public agencies, a leader in college student engagement programs and a recent MLS graduate exploring new ideas.
BCR offers access to the College of DuPage teleconferences at no charge to members through the generous support of our state library agencies and the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC).
Access options on the day of the teleconference include viewing the webcast from any location with adequate Internet access, either from a desktop or at a group viewing location. Archived webcasts are available for 30 days following the live broadcast or a DVD of the broadcast is available for purchase for $30 each.
Visit BCR's web pages to register and for additional information.
Did you know that EBSCO users have access to free online training? Or that EBSCOhost has created a Shared Folders feature that enables users to store and share items with other users? These benefits and more are available through your EBSCO subscription.
For questions about your EBSCO subscription or if you wish to learn more about EBSCO database products available through BCR, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).
Don't forget — now is the time to renew your Britannica subscriptions. Take a moment and complete the online order form . Britannica has held prices to current levels for the 2008-2009 subscription term. Free shipping is available for Britannica's print products.
Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) with questions or for additional information.
The new Britannica Spanish Reference Center combines two of Britannica's best Spanish resources — the PlanetaSaber and Enciclopedia Juvenil. Replacing Britannica's Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol, students K-12 and up now have access to a greater breadth of resources focused on the needs of native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish.
Subscribers to either of these two resources have received this automatic and complimentary upgrade at no additional cost. New features and enhancements include:
The Enciclopedia Juvenil remains the same, providing an impressive collection of encyclopedia articles, multimedia, Spanish learning materials and other age-appropriate resources for the 6-to-12 age group.
BCR also offers Global Reference Center, Britannica's online reference and student learning resource that includes five foreign-language resources from one site: Enciclopedia Universal En Espanol; Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Japan; Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Korea; Britannica Chinese Pocket Encyclopaedia Online; and Encyclopaedia Universalis (French).
For additional information about Britannica's new Spanish Reference Center or Global Reference Center, contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org). You can check out all the Britannica resources available to member libraries on the BCR website.
Need to know what a word means or how to pronounce it? Britannica Online's quick-click dictionary can help. Anyone with access to Britannica Online can use the quick-click dictionary on encyclopedia and magazine articles as well as most pages throughout this resource to help build reading comprehension and vocabularies.
It's simple. Just double-click on any word, and a box will pop up with the word's definition and examples of usage. To discover how to pronounce a word, click the red speaker icon located in the box. Try it out today.
Interested in learning more about Britannica Online? Visit the BCR web pages for a list of all the Britannica products offered by BCR. Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for subscription and pricing details.
BCR continues its busy spring conference schedule without pause into May. Besides presentations scheduled in Utah, Colorado and Iowa, BCR staff will be available at the BCR booth to help answer questions and provide information about BCR's broad range of solutions that can help your library keep pace with new developments in technology and services.
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 available to BCR 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," May 2, 10-11:00 a.m. The presentation includes a brief overview of 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. Jay Ford, BCR's library services associate, will be helping staff the BCR exhibit booth (#113), so make sure you set aside some time to stop by during the conference.
Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference, May 1-2, Lakewood — Join BCR Member Services Librarian Heather Clark, for a special presentation, "The State of Loans in the Lone Star State," May 2, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. She will review BCR's recently released report commissioned by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, "Texas Resource Sharing: Examining the Present, Envisioning a Vibrant Future," and discuss themes that surfaced that affect the future of resource sharing.
Art Libraries Society of North America, May 1-5, Denver — The 39th annual Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, being held in Denver this year, gives BCR staff an opportunity to meet librarians from special and cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) in our own backyard. Stop by the BCR exhibit booth (#7) to discover the services, products and technologies available through BCR for this special audience. Meet Gillian Harrison, Marketing & Support manager for BCR, and Leigh Grinstead, BCR’s CDP program coordinator, our resident expert on all things related to CHIs, best practice guidelines, workshops and digitization grant funding.
Iowa OCLC Users Group (IOUG), May 15-16, Cedar Falls — BCR's high-energy emergent technology trainer, Shelly Drumm, is presenting two preconference programs on May 15. "Point & Click Web Publishing: Content Delivery Made Easy with Blogs and Wikis," scheduled for the morning (9 a.m.-12 noon), takes a look at what makes blogs and wikis so revolutionary and explores the strengths of each. The afternoon program (1-4 p.m.), "Forging Links and Building Community: An Introduction to Social Software," will survey several social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Flickr, and discuss what makes them so unique and wildly popular.
Colorado Academic Library Consortium (CALC) Summit, May 23, Lakewood — Join Gillian Harrison, BCR manager, Marketing & Support, for her presentation, "Capturing the Captive Audience," 2-3:15 p.m. Learn how to lure users to the resources your library spends its time and energy procuring and providing, whether through the Web, a printed flyer, a blog, Twitter or a bibliographic instruction course. Harrison will also be available in the BCR exhibit booth to discuss the services, products and technologies designed to help your library reach its academic audience.
BCR and Atlas Systems, Inc., have partnered to offer the new Aeon circulation management system to special collections libraries throughout the BCR region. Designed to enable special collections libraries to provide better customer service in a more secure and controlled environment, Aeon tracks patron requests from the point of discovery through check-in or electronic delivery.
Aeon was developed in consultation with the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, with guidance from current library director Christian DuPont, "who first suggested the concept and convinced us of the need to create Aeon," said M. Jason Glover, Atlas president. In June, DuPont will take over as Aeon Program Director, leading the introduction and strategic development of Aeon. Besides serving as Aeon spokesperson, DuPont will work with Atlas staff to develop a full range of consulting and training services to help libraries and archives improve staff workflows, facilities design, administration and management.
Aeon will help special collections libraries maintain an accurate historical record of transactions of patron usage, as well as provide the ability to track library staff's handling of an item from start to finish. Its easy-to-implement collection management system delivers a feature-rich framework, including:
BCR will be offering members a special discount, with access to free web demos coming soon. Keep an eye out for details over the next several weeks.
Read an overview or for additional information concerning subscriptions and pricing, contact BCR's Jay Ford (jford@bcr.org).
In August 2007, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) announced a project to begin issuing genre/form authority records (MARC 21 tag 155) for motion pictures, television programs, and videos. As the next step in the development of genre/form headings at the Library of Congress, CPSO has begun a project to create genre/form headings for radio programs.
These headings are being created by catalogers in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound (MBRS) Division and will join those already being established for moving images. They are based chiefly on the concepts represented in the Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide (RADFG). Existing LCSH headings in the area of radio programming (MARC 21 tag 150) will also be considered for inclusion.
To support the creation and application of these headings, CPSO and MBRS have drafted a Subject Cataloging Manual (SCM) instruction sheet, H 1969.5, which is available in PDF format on CPSO’s website at www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre2.html. Interested parties are invited to send comments on this instruction sheet to Janis Young at jayo@loc.gov.
CPSO reminds SACO participants that change requests and proposals for genre/form headings are not being accepted at this time.
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BCR President and CEO Brenda Bailey-Hainer is scheduled to present "Building a Digital Cultural Heritage Resource: BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program" at the Living the Future 7 Conference (LTF), in Tucson, Arizona, May 2, 10-11 a.m. The LTF conference is known throughout the library community to be a vanguard event in exploring innovative and forward thinking directions for the future of libraries.
The theme for LTF 7 is Transforming Libraries Through Collaboration. The conference will focus on collaboration as it is emerging on campus between libraries and faculty; among libraries and communities; and through consortial projects.
Bailey-Hainer's session will focus on the evolution of the Collaborative Digitization Program into BCR’s CDP, and review its history as one of the earliest programs in the U.S. to embrace the participation of museums, libraries, archives and historical societies in its collaborative digital initiatives. BCR’s CDP builds on the strength of its members to collaborate on setting standards and best practices to be used in group digitization projects.
On April 13, a newly redesigned two-per-page printing .PDF layout for the WorldCat Resource Sharing service was made available. A group of librarians and network representatives worked closely with OCLC and helped determine that left justifying all the information except the patron information would allow for easy reading and consistency of style between the one and two per-page layout.
Additionally, it was decided that libraries would benefit if the following fields were always displayed whether or not the information was present in the request. These fields are:
If patron information is present, the bibliographic information wraps to another line, and the patron data appears to the right of the first line of bibliographic information. A vertical line separates the different information. If there is no patron information, the bibliographic information will extend across the page. OCLC hopes this new layout will greatly improve the usability of the two-per-page printout.
See a sample .PDF of two-per-page printout from the pending file of one of OCLC’s testing sites.
On April 1, a record for the 1950s publication from the U.S. Fisheries Laboratory, Miscellaneous Contributions, marked the 100 millionth bibliographic record entered into WorldCat. The record was part of a retrospective conversion project for the University of Washington Libraries.
In the past, WorldCat millionth bibliographic records were easily recognized by an OCLC record number that ended in zeros. Over the past year, additional types of records have been added to WorldCat, including article-level citations available in WorldCat.org and Institution Records reflecting an institution’s edited version of a bibliographic record. Both of these types of records are assigned OCLC numbers from the same numbering sequence applied to master bibliographic records. As a result, OCLC has developed a process that continuously monitors the total number of master bibliographic records in WorldCat. This process was used to determine which master bibliographic record was the 100 millionth.
The WorldCat database continues to grow at an extraordinary rate. Libraries added 18.7 million records to WorldCat in 2007 compared with 9.3 million in 2006 and 4.7 million in 2005.
Learn more about WorldCat on the OCLC website.
Shelly Drumm, BCR's emergent technology trainer, is scheduled to present her popular program "Library 2.... Oh! Now I get it: Practical Applications of 2.0 Tools" on Thursday, April 24, at the last CLiC spring workshop, in Pueblo, Colorado.
Starting at 9:15 a.m., the two-and-one-half-hour session 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. Join her for this lively and informative session that filled up at the previous CLiC workshops in Grand Junction and Greeley.
Registration ends Wednesday, April 16, and is just $30 for breakfast, lunch and a full day of workshops. Complete the CLiC registration form now.
People on the Move
Glenn Cook is the new Alaska State archivist, having started in his position on March 17. He has 15 years experience in private and government archives, including the Coors Archives and the USGS Library in Denver (Colorado). The Alaska State Library also announced that Jim Simard is the new head of ASL Historical Collections as of April 1. He began his work with the Alaska State Library as coordinator of the library's Alaska's Digital Archives (VILDA) and has been the curator of Historical Collections since 2006.
The Colorado State Library, Department of Education, named Sharon Morris its new library development director. She will oversee consulting services for school, public and institutional libraries, as well as training and professional development for librarians across the state.
Cheryl Mansen is the new deputy director/library development program manager for the Utah State Library. Her 16 years of library management experience include managing the Sandy Branch of the Salt Lake County Library System, the largest and busiest library in the County system.
Jeanne Price has been named director of the Wiener Rogers Law Library and associate professor of law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Law Library. Formerly associate director for patron services, research and instruction at Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, she will start in her new position in Nevada on July 1.
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library has appointed Teresa Garrison interim director. She started as assistant director in 1984, and has been at the library for 26 years. Garrison also previously served on the BCR Board of Trustees.
Do you have news about your library or staff that you would like to share with the BCR community? If so, please send it to Brandie Baumann, BCR communications coordinator, at bbaumann@bcr.org.
May 23 is quickly approaching, when academic librarians plan to gather at the third CALC (Colorado Academic Library Consortium) Summit. Getting into the Game: Repositioning the Library within the Academy, examines how academic libraries are transforming and adapting traditional collections and services in order to remain relevant to the academic endeavor in higher education. Conference sessions are designed to explore the many ways librarians can reposition their library within the academy to enhance the library's instruction role and to better collaborate with campus units.
A full schedule is planned, including a preconference session on May 22 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Sponsored by Regis University, "Are You Screencasting," will give attendees the opportunity to learn how to create and edit animated tutorials. Registration: $40 (separate registration required). Free transportation from the conference hotel to Regis University will be provided.
On Friday, May 23, two keynote sessions are on the agenda in addition to the regular breakout sessions:
Three breakout sessions are scheduled during the day. Topics from "No Sleeping in My Class! The Architecture of Student Learning" to "Developing an Institutional Repository: Implementing DigiTool" to "The Collaborative Library Intranet" are just a sampling of the wide variety of sessions being offered.
Time to visit exhibits and to attend poster sessions has been scheduled between 9:45-10:45 a.m.
Registration and Accommodations
Free spring trials are available through May 30 on selected Alexander Street Press databases. These offer a broad range of topics, from classical music and world literature, to videos of theater performances, to the American Civil War and transcripts of counseling and psychotherapy sessions. Included in the free trial are a selection of five databases in the Letters and Diaries Online group, with a brand new product, Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, being added later in May.
The following database products are included in the free trial offer:
Letters and Diaries Online is a compilation of social and cultural history databases offering personal, contemporaneous and first-person accounts of history as experienced by the individuals who lived through and created it. Letters and Diaries Online offers full-text views of the following databases:
To sign up for a free trial to any of these databases, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org). She can also answer subscription and pricing questions.
Emerald's new database product, Emerald Backfiles, is the result of a partnership with the British Library, a project that digitized more than 60,000 articles from 120 journals dating back to 1898. Featuring journals in business, management, library and information services, materials science and engineering, this is the first time that such an extensive archive of material has been available online.
The Emerald Backfiles forms an interesting and important record for social historians and business and management scholars alike. For users with an existing Emerald journal subscription, Emerald Backfiles is a valuable complement to the full text material online that dates back to 1994.
Special Introductory Offer
BCR member libraries have access to introductory pricing through April 30 only. Order by April 30 and obtain a savings of $4,000 off the list price. An invoice can be sent any time up to 90 days from the offer end date.
For current Emerald Management Xtra subscribers, Emerald will waive the annual $500 server/maintenance fee so long as the institution retains its current Management Xtra subscription.
To access downloadable sample articles, visit the Emerald website. For more information on how the Backfiles can help your institution, or if you have questions regarding pricing or subscription terms, please contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) at BCR. To order, please complete the BCR Emerald order form.
Oxford University Press (OUP) has created two new portals that will take users into expanded and enhanced versions of its art and music databases, including Grove Music, Grove Art and Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Oxford Music Online
Grove Music Online has been integrated into Oxford Music Online, OUP's new gateway to online music resources. A number of changes have been made, including:
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is the new gateway for the redesigned Grove Art Online. Through Oxford Art Online, users will now be able to cross search and browse a suite of art reference publications simultaneously with Grove Art Online. In addition to upgraded site functionality and a new graphic design, other new features include:
For subscription and pricing information, please contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).
The following databases are included in the free trial period:
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online is a fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual set of language resources and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning, using and pronouncing such languages as French, German, Spanish and Italian, with Russian and Chinese resources scheduled to be added in May.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Encompassing more than 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online provides an introduction to Islam and includes content and commentary in areas such as Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics and culture.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online
Available online for the first time, the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music is OUP's new reference work devoted exclusively to popular music. Regularly updated with thousands of new and revised articles and fully cross-searchable alongside Grove Music Online within the new Oxford Music Online gateway.
Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center offers access to more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field, along with over 250 primary sources with introductory essays. The core reference content includes the acclaimed Africana; the new Encyclopedia of African American History; Black Women in America, 2nd edition; and the African American National Biography.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online offers quick and easy access to the full text of more than 1,900 Oxford scholarly monographs in subject areas as diverse as economics and finance, biology, mathematics, physics and psychology, political science and religion, business and management, classical studies, history, linguistics and literature.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Since its launch in 2003, Oxford Reference Online Premium has been delivering high-quality reference works in a single cross-searchable database. Now with more than 1 million entries across 25 subject areas, 11,000-plus images and upwards of 2,600 web links, this collection is the reference resource of choice in universities, colleges, public libraries and schools.
To take advantage of this limited time special offer, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for login information. She can also help with subscription and pricing inquiries.
Awards, Grants and Bequests
The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), presented the PLINKIT (Public Library Interface Kit) Collaborative with the ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award, a citation given to one or more ASCLA members in recognition of leadership and achievement in the following areas of activity: consulting, multi-type library cooperation, networking, statewide service and programs and state library development. PLINKIT is a collaborative project of the Oregon State Library, Colorado State Library, Texas State Library and Illinois Regional Libraries that allows small libraries to customize and enrich websites. More...
The Las Vegas-Clark County (Nevada) Library District and Vegas PBS were honored by Women in Communication with an Electronic Media Award for their 30-second Spanish public service announcement (PSA).
Wyoming public libraries are the recipients of a $9.1 million endowment approved by the Wyoming State Legislature and signed into law to go into effect July 1, 2008. Distribution of the funds will occur based on a tiered system, along with an award of $100,000 when $2.3 million in matching funds is cumulatively raised statewide by all the library foundations.
The Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums and the Washington State Library received awards of $40,000 each from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections: Statewide Planning program to be used to create conservation plans for collections held in their respective institutions.
The University of Washington Libraries (Seattle) are the grateful recipient of a $700,000 bequest from David Bell, owner of the local used-book store, Magus Books, located near the campus. A special endowment will be created to preserve the libraries' special collections.
Montrose (Colorado) Regional Library District-Naturita Branch Library, is a winner of the ALA Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) second annual Bookapalooza program. Libraries receive a collection of children's materials including books, videos, audiobooks and recordings produced in 2007.
The Dubuque Carnegie-Stout (Iowa) Public Library received a $150,000 gift from the Woodward Foundation, to be used towards the library's renovation project.
The University of Alaska Anchorage Library's website was selected as the "College Library Website of the Month" by the Communication Committee of Association of College and Rural Libraries (ACRL) College Library Section. Check it out at consortiumlibrary.org/.
Libraries in 12 of BCR's member states received Great Stories CLUB grants to support book discussion programs targeting troubled teens. The grants, organized by the American Library Association Public Programs Office (PPO), in cooperation with the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), with major funding provided by Oprah's Angel Network, gives young adults the opportunity to discuss books relevant to the challenges in their lives. More...The D'Arcy McNickle Library at Salish Kootenai College (Montana) proudly opened access to a new digital collection of more than 20 years of the Char-Koosta News (tribal newspaper of the Flathead Reservation), funded by an IMLS grant and in collaboration with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library of the University of Montana.
Molly Raphael, the Director of Libraries for Multnomah County (Oregon), has been awarded the Arthur Flemming Civil Rights Award for her efforts to increase diversity in library employment, collections and programing. The award is given by the Managers of Color affinity group of Multnomah County.
Do you have ideas and opinions to share about reference or information services, either traditional or virtual, established or emerging? If so, help dispel rumors that the "death of reference" is imminent, and submit a session proposal for the August 4-5, A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends Conference, in Denver (Colorado). The deadline has been extended to April 22.
Cosponsored by BCR and RUSA (Reference and User Services Association), a division of ALA, the conference is designed to explore all aspects of reference and information services in a broad range of contexts, including libraries and information centers, in all types of library environments. The two-day conference 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 services to create vibrant hybrids.
Submissions of papers, panels and workshop proposals are welcome 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:
Send your submissions by the new deadline, April 22, to Program Chair Marie L. Radford (mradford@scils.rutgers.edu). More details are available at the conference Web site.
Staff from BCR will be in Vancouver (Washington) for the Oregon Library Association/Washington Library Association Joint Conference, April 16-18. Gillian Harrison, BCR manager, Marketing & Support, is presenting a program on April 18, and Jay Ford, BCR library services associate, is looking forward to meeting librarians from Washington and Oregon and invites them to stop by the new BCR exhibit booth.
Harrison's program, "Plugging into the Numbers: Using Data to Make Some Noise About Library Services," is set for Friday, April 18, from 2:15-4:30 p.m. Join her and discover 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.
The BCR OCLC and Board of Trustees elections are currently in progress. Candidates are up for election to represent research, academic, public library and at-large trustees on the Board. One of three positions for OCLC Members Council representative is open.
OCLC Members Council Election
Ballots for the annual OCLC Members Council election were emailed to designated voting representatives on March 24. The voting deadline is April 25.
Board of Trustees Election
Ballots for this year's BCR Board of Trustees election were sent out to voting member libraries during the first week of April. The deadline to cast your vote is May 2.
With a recent change in the BCR Bylaws, all libraries in each of BCR's 11 member states are now voting members of BCR by virtue of a state library agency's statewide membership. Your library can participate in BCR governance by taking part in the upcoming election for the Board of Trustees. BCR's 19-member Board is comprised of a combination of elected trustees that represent every type of library, as well as several trustees elected at large and trustees who are appointed from each state library agency member.
To vote in the Board of Trustees election, your library must first designate a voting representative, which can be done by completing a brief online form at www.surveymonkey.com/bcr. The designated voting representative will receive an email with a URL that provides access to the ballot.
Make sure your voice is heard. Vote for the candidate(s) of your choice. Questions? Contact BCR's Sharon Hoffhines (shoffhines@bcr.org).
BCR member libraries, university and cultural heritage institutions now have more publishing and archiving options for their digital newspaper and periodical collections through a new partnership with Olive Software. Olive's suite of products provides the tools to preserve rare collections in an XML-based format and create full-text searchable collections, including film and print.
BCR's partnership with Olive Software gives your library access to a comprehensive solution that can help your library successfully initiate and complete a newspaper or periodical digitization project. Olive tools allow for creation of innovative publishing and digital archiving solutions. Olive can help by providing services targeted to your particular institution, including server hosting, microfilm digitization and training.
Olive's core strength is digitization of newspapers and periodicals and, when coupled with its robust front-end application, ActivePaper Archive, it enables the creation of full text searchable online archives.
For more information about the software and services provided by Olive, visit BCR's website or contact Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.
EBSCO Publishing is contributing a new resource to the public's ever-growing interest in environmental topics with the release of GreenFILE, a bibliographic database that indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Current EBSCOhost users can elect to add GreenFILE to their profile. For additional assistance, please contact EBSCO technical support or visit the EBSCO support site.
For details regarding BCR's partnership with EBSCO, please contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).
Curious about all the new technologies available to libraries today? Wonder whether you should be using any of them or whether they have any value for your library? Join speakers Tom Peters and Lori Bell for the College of DuPage Soaring to Excellence teleconference, "Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Library Trends That Really Matter."
Peters (CEO of TAP Information Services) and Bell (Director of Innovation at the Alliance Library System) plan to examine new trends in libraries, including patron-created folksonomic cataloging (del.icio.us, LibraryThing, etc.), Second Life, MySpace, Facebook and more. They will ask the questions librarians are asking — how quickly do libraries need to adopt new technologies and more importantly, just because it's there, should it be used?
The Soaring to Excellence series makes suggested reading lists and other resources available to participants. Register now for the last teleconference in the 2008 Soaring to Excellence series. Questions? Contact BCR's Stephanie Jauregui (sjauregui@bcr.org) or Regan Harper (rharper@bcr.org).
One more teleconference in the 2008 season remains and will be telecast on May 9. Registration is still open for the Library Challenges and Opportunities 2008, "Tools of Engagement: Attracting and Engaging Library Users."
BCR offers access to the College of DuPage teleconferences at no charge to our members through the generous support of our state library agencies and the Colorado Library Consortium (CliC). Visit the BCR website for information and to register for the last two College of DuPage teleconferences scheduled this season.
Two new Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (DRS) titles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World and Encyclopedia of Semiotics, are now available. These titles, along with others in the Digital Reference Shelf family, can be purchased as a stand-alone resource or in conjunction with the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. New subscribers to The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World receive special introductory pricing through April 30.
Oxford Reference Online Subscribers
When you buy a DRS title, in addition to accessing it individually, it is immediately added to your collection when you purchase it. It requires no additional steps on the librarian's part — it's an added value, and Oxford takes care of all the work.
For pricing or a free 30-day trial title, please contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).
The Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List No. 10, dated March 5, 2008, is now available.
Among the new subject headings on the list:
Retiring happy isn't just about how much money you have put away. It's also about enjoying your retirement years by maintaining an active social life, enjoying a healthy old age and planning to have some fun. OCLC's NetLibrary eBook of the month, Retire Happy: What You Can Do Now to Guarantee a Great Retirement, discusses how to become rich in the ways that matter most by balancing financial concerns with an enriching lifestyle.
Author Rich Stim and Nolo co-founder Jake Warner assert that when planning for retirement, it’s easy to become preoccupied with stock portfolios, 401(k) balances and doomsday predictions about baby boomer’s lack of savings. Instead, they advise readers to estimate real retirement needs and create a workable savings and investment plan. They have put together those factors that will help someone looking at retirement in the near future to make personal preparations for life after work, including:
The eBook of the Month showcases new and noteworthy titles available from NetLibrary. Each month, NetLibrary selects a new featured title and provides free, unlimited access through the authenticated homepages of more than 13,000 public, academic and special libraries. To access each month's eBook as well as a tool kit of free promotional materials that can be downloaded and personalized for your library, visit the NetLibrary eBook of the Month resources webpage.
For more information about eBooks, please contact BCR's Chris Cook at ccook@bcr.org.
OCLC's EZproxy 5.0 authentication and access software is now available with new features. OCLC also is committing to continue access to new releases and technical support for both existing and new users.
EZproxy 5.0 software enhancements allow libraries to:
EZproxy 5.0 software is available to new licensees at the same price as previous releases. OCLC will honor the previous service arrangement for existing and new users whereby licensees continue to enjoy access to new releases of EZproxy and technical support at no additional charge.
EZproxy software allows libraries to manage access and authentication configurations through a proxy server so that library users do not have to make any configuration changes to their personal web browsers. For more information about EZproxy or to order the software, contact an OCLC representative at ezproxy@oclc.org.
2008 LJ Movers & Shakers in BCR Land
Librarians in seven of BCR's member states are among Library Journal's 2008 Movers and Shakers announced on March 15. Recognized as emerging leaders in the library world, they represent some of the innovative and creative personalities who are making a difference to the communities in which they work and live.
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