This exciting two-day event features keynote speaker David W. Lewis, Dean of the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who will talk about "Reference in the Age of Wikipedia, Or Not..." and the implications of the technological and social transformations brought on by Google, Wikipedia and answer services such as ChaCha.

On day two of the conference, a plenary panel discussion, "Theory Meets Practice," made up of educators and library directors, will highlight what is being taught in schools of library and information science and what is being implemented in libraries. This panel features Dr. David Lankes (Information Institute of Syracuse), Dr. Marie L. Radford (Rutgers University, NJ), Jamie LaRue (Douglas County Libraries, CO) and Carla J. Stoffle (University of Arizona).

Other sessions cover the full gamut of reference and information services in public, academic and special library settings. Learn about "predatory reference" techniques, screencasts for distance reference, gathering meaningful statistics, the impact of serious leisure on reference services, new staff training initiatives, widgets, IM, marketing in-person services — and more! Meet and network with your colleagues from all over the U.S., Canada and other countries, and spend time with exhibitors showcasing a variety of reference-focused products.

Early bird registration has been extended through June 30 at a rate of $150; regular registration is $175. Registration includes all sessions on both days and access to the exhibits as well as breakfast and lunch both days. A special hotel rate of $105 (+tax) per night is available for reservations made before July 11.

For more information on the conference, please contact BCR's Justine Shaffner at jshaffner@bcr.org. To discuss the conference, find out about and make plans for social activities, sign up at our Ning site.

The following list has information about renewal deadlines and a URL that will link you to BCR's renewal order form for that product. For a renewal deadline of June 27 or 30, please submit your renewal order form no later than June 15. If you missed a deadline, please contact the BCR staff member listed below.

• Britannica Online — May 31 (www.bcr.org/forms/britannica-form.html)
  You must complete an order form. There is no automatic renewal.
• McGraw-Hill AccessScience — June 27 (www.bcr.org/forms/accesssciform.html)
• LexisNexis — June 27
  
  • Academic libraries (www.bcr.org/forms/lexnexacademicform.html)
  • Public and State libraries (www.bcr.org/forms/lexnexpublicform.html)
  • School libraries (www.bcr.org/forms/lexnexscholasticform.html)
• BioOne — June 30 (/www.bcr.org/forms/bioone-form.html)
• Oxford University Press — June 30 (https://www.bcr.org/forms/oup-form.html)
  Please note: a five percent late fee will apply for any renewals received after June 30. Libraries must respond in order to continue their subscription.

For questions or more information, contact:

• Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for Britannica, BioOne and Oxford University Press
• Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org) for LexisNexis and McGraw-Hill AccessScience

Web users who use WorldCat to find materials in libraries near them and around the world can:

• Quickly rate items on a five-star scale.
• Create and save drafts of a review.
• Write a review in their preferred language.

To read others' opinions, follow the link to posted reviews right below the five-star rating utility on an item's detailed record.

Reviews from additional sources will be available on WorldCat.org soon. Write a quick review of your favorite movie, book or article today. On its detailed record, look for the Review this item link under the section titled Add to It.

Also new: Cover art added to lists
You have seen full-color cover art on WorldCat detailed records. Now covers also are available on user-created lists. Covers bring the titles on lists of library-owned items to life and help users locate materials at a glance.

Public and private lists are available in three different views:

• Details and Notes, with small cover art and list management.
• Covers Only, with large cover art.
• Citations, with no art and printing or exporting of bibliographic citations.

If you have never created a list, check out other users' lists with cover art and then sign in to start your own.

The new Morningstar Investment Research Center is based on Morningstar's investment website, Morningstar.com, and offers proprietary stock and mutual fund analysis and financial data, screening tools and portfolio-building features to public, academic, corporate and military libraries.

New enhancements include:

Industry Data — This entirely new area enables users to obtain return data on various indexes, sectors, industries and fund categories.
• Morningstar, Domestic, Bond, Municipal and Foreign indexes
• 12 sectors, from business services to utilities
• 59 fund categories
• 129 stock industries

Industry Reports — Investors will gain perspective with Morningstar's quarterly assessment of specific industries, broad sectors and the overall market.

Expanded Help & Education Area — This section now features material to help investors understand how they might use specialized investments such as options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and closed-end funds in their portfolios.

COUNTER-Compliant Usage Tracking Reports — Morningstar Investment Research Center now offers COUNTER (Counting Online Usages of Networked Electronic Resources), a standardized way for libraries to track the logins and searches of their users. Libraries now can easily compare Morningstar Investment Research Center usages with that of other databases. COUNTER provides 24 months of data, is updated monthly and is audited annually.

For additional information, including subscription details and pricing, visit the BCR website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Make this valuable resource a permanent addition to your library's eBook collection. Some titles include:

• Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
• Clinical Anesthesia
• Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests
• Nurses Legal Handbook
• Nursing Care Plans & Documentation: Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems
• Primary Care Medicine
• Principles & Practice of Pediatric Oncology

For more information, visit BCR's website. For pricing and orders, please contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Oxford renewals are taking place now. Please renew and or place new orders by June 15 on the BCR website. Subscriptions expire on June 30. A five percent late fee will apply for any renewals received after that date. Libraries must respond in order to continue a subscription. Questions about subscriptions or pricing for your library? BCR's Chris Cook can help you.

Oxford University Press Webinars
RSVP to Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) with your preferred date/time; you will be provided with the webinar URL and call-in instructions. Available sessions are:

Tuesday, June 10 — Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 2:00-3:00 p.m. (mountain time)
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. French, German, Spanish and Italian are currently available; Russian and Chinese will be added in May 2008, along with revolutionary new audio pronunciation software.

Friday, June 13 — Oxford Islamic Studies Online
9:00-10:00 a.m. or 2:00-3:00 p.m. (mountain time)
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 offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics and culture, and will be regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.

Monday, June 16 — Oxford Reference Online Premium with integrated Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon or 2:00-3:00 p.m. (mountain time)
Oxford Reference Online Premium combines rich and scholarly resources offered by acclaimed titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. Since launch, the site has expanded to include access to more than 170 ready reference dictionaries, as well as an ever-growing list of Oxford Companions titles, more than 450 political and geographical maps and timelines to key events throughout history. Updated at least three times a year, Oxford Reference Online Premium is an absolute must-have for all libraries and institutions.

Strengthen your reference collection by moving it online, and reach out to patrons who rely on web-based research. Created from Oxford’s award-winning print scholarly references, Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles are fully searchable as standalone titles or through Oxford Reference Online Premium. Buy any number of titles to fit your library’s collection needs and deliver Oxford's authoritative reference content to your users’ desktops and laptops. The one-time purchase of an Oxford Digital Reference Shelf title means that you gain lifetime, unlimited user and remote access 24/7. The content of each title is yours — it's not just access, it's ownership of an award-winning multi-volume reference set online.

For libraries with a current subscription to Britannica's family of online databases, don't forget to renew. Complete the order form no later than May 31 to ensure ongoing access.

Britannica Online Public Library Edition

• Learning Materials — Students can use a variety of learning activities to review concepts taught in the classroom and to help sharpen their skills. Covering all levels of math, science, social studies and language arts, just a few of the topics include reading and vocabulary skills, multiplication and division, U.S. presidents, the solar system, the respiratory system, geometry, The Great Gatsby and World War II.
  
  Plus, the Learning Materials are correlated to every state's learning standards. Learning Materials activities cover all grades from Kindergarten to the 12th grade and include study guides, activities and exercises to make learning fun.

• Extended Play Videos — Need some rainy day entertainment that is educational too? Britannica has added more than 200 new videos that cover a variety of subjects, including history, science, geography, the arts and social studies. Video topics include Toulouse-Lautrec, Botticelli, Lewis & Clark, Asia, ancient cultures, world wars, economics, Native Americans, insects, the Chaos Theory and the expanding universe, among others.
  
  These new Extended Play Videos are between 15-to-45 minutes long and can be downloaded into Power Point presentations. Look for the videos on the homepages of Britannica Online Public Library Edition in the Video Collection box.

For subscription and pricing details, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

Copyright in a Digital Age: Copyright Basics for Schools, June 25, 8:30-11:30 a.m., at the Union Creek Creekside Cafe — This presentation by BCR's Heather Clark, member services librarian, looks at the new opportunities and challenges teachers and media specialists face when it comes to copyright law, fair use parameters and the TEACH Act.

BCR has a wide variety of services and products for the school community. Stop by the BCR booth to learn more or visit BCR's K-12 resources on our web pages.

Individuals elected to two-year terms on the Board of Trustees are:

• Academic Library trustee — Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College, Iowa
• Public Library trustee — Gina Millsap (incumbent), Topeka Public Library, Kansas
• Research Library trustee — Nancy Allen (incumbent), Penrose Library, University of Denver, Colorado
• At-large trustee — James LaRue, Douglas County Libraries, Colorado

Dr. Lorraine Haricombe, University of Kansas Libraries, was elected to a three-year term as the new BCR delegate to OCLC Members Council.

Board Officers Also Named
Anne Marie Clark, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Washington, was elected by the Board as the newest member of the BCR Executive Committee. She joins Greg Cotton, Cornell College, Iowa, who chairs the BCR Board of Trustees, and Ann Joslin, Idaho state librarian and vice-chair of the BCR Board of Trustees, each of whom last year was elected to a two-year term on the Executive Committee. Along with her reelection to the Board, Gina Millsap, Topeka Public Library, was returned to a second year on the Executive Committee, as was Mary Wegner, Iowa state librarian.

The 2008-2009 BCR Board of Trustees will meet September 26 at BCR's offices in Aurora, Colorado.

Scheduled for 9:15-10:45 a.m., the panel discussion, "Collaborating with Library School Students," will be moderated by Robbie Bravman Marks, MLS, Founder and Principal at Marks Information. Participants on the panel represent a cross section of former students as well as librarians from the wider special library community. They include:

• Kelly Visnak, MLS, Director, Emporia of the Rockies, Emporia State University
• Clara Sitter, MLS, Ph.D, Associate Clinical Professor, Library & Information Sciences Program, University of Denver
• Kathleen Rainwater, MLS, MBA, Corporate Librarian, Gates Corporation
• Nicolle Steffen, MLIS, Director, Library Research Service, Colorado State Library
• Chris Cook, Product Support Specialist, BCR

The registration deadline is May 30. Registration cost and details are available on the CAL website.

Using Britannica's Online School Edition, a teacher can enter a grade level, subject area and state from a single, easy-to-use search screen that returns an easy-to-follow listing of those standards. Select any of the specific materials correlated to this standard link to see related instructional materials.

Instructional materials are provided in two tabs. The Britannica Online School Edition tab includes encyclopedia articles and Britannica learning materials related to the chosen standard. The Achievement Tools tab includes additional standards-based lesson plans and assessments from a collection of more than 16,000 additional resources developed by educators.

Access the curriculum standards by selecting the orange Curriculum Standards button under the Teacher's Resources section of Britannica's Online School Edition. Take a look!

Under terms of the agreement, Google will link from Google Book Search (Google's service that makes the full text of more than one million books searchable) to WorldCat.org, driving traffic to library OPACs and other library services. In turn, Google will share data and links to digitized books with OCLC, making it possible to create records in WorldCat for the items that have been digitized and made available by Google and participating OCLC member libraries.

The new agreement enables OCLC to create MARC records describing the Google digitized books from OCLC member libraries and to link to them. In addition, WorldCat metadata will be made available to Google directly from OCLC or through member libraries participating in the Google Book Search program.

In related news, Google recently released an API (application programming interface) that provides links to books in Google Book Search using ISBNs, LCCNs and OCLC numbers. This API allows WorldCat.org users to link to some books that Google has scanned through a Get It link. The link works both ways. If a user finds a book in Google Book Search, a link can often be tracked back to local libraries through WorldCat.org. To see an example, go to the OCLC WorldCat website and click on Preview Item (Google Books), which appears under the Get It menu.

For additional information, visit OCLC's news webpage.

A good place to start looking for answers are the OCLC Connexion Client and Connexion Browser web pages.

The following is an example of a recently posted client problem and workaround where the MARC Field Help for authority records does not work:

• In the client, you can click Help > MARC Field Help (or press Shift F1) to open a description of the field where the cursor is located in an authority record. (Previously, the description opened in MARC 21 Format for Authority Data on the Library of Congress website.) These links to authority MARC field descriptions are broken. The links cannot be fixed until the next Connexion client release (estimated time for next release to be announced later).
• Workaround — In the meantime, go directly to MARC 21 Format for Authority Data and then click the link that opens the field description you want.

The Joint Statement notes that "[t]he collective resolve is to complete the development of RDA, to conduct appropriate tests that will inform and involve the broader U.S. library community as to the utility of the code, and to ensure a product that is useful, usable, and cost effective."

The complete text is available by downloading a PDF copy of the statement.

Becky Peterson is the director of the newly-designated consortium library formed between the Dillingham Public Library, Dillingham City School District and Bristol Bay campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has a background in public administration and education and is working on her doctorate in adult and higher education at the University of South Dakota.

Elbert County Library District (CO) has appointed Kari Baumann its new director. She comes to the district from positions at the Farr Regional Library (Weld County, CO) and Centennial Park Library (CO) where she served as branch manager. In addition, her previous experience with facility planning and design for two new Weld County libraries will help shepherd Elbert County Library District's planned branch renovations for the future. Baumann is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, Lexington (VA) and earned her MLS from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (IL).

Marcellus Turner, deputy county librarian at the Jefferson County Library, Lakewood (CO) has been named acting county librarian upon the April 30 retirement of long-time library head, William Knott.

Chris Sanford is the new director of the Davis County Public Library System, Farmington (UT). He replaces Pete Giacoma, who retired after 17 years in the position.

Laura Baldwin has joined the staff of the Anchorage Public Library (AK), as collection development coordinator. She comes from the Ocean County Library, Toms River (NJ), where she was principal librarian of collection management.

Three Forks Community College (MT) announced the appointment of Debbie Kramer as its new library director. She replaces Jean Neilsen, who has accepted the position of historical archivist at the Miles City (MT) Public Library. Also in Montana, the Butte Silver Bow Public Library named PEEL (Professional Education and Employment for Librarians) scholar Stef Johnson as systems/reference librarian.

Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) — June 9-13, Eastern Nazarene College,
Quincy, MA
Meet BCR's Karen Graham and learn more about the Christian Periodical Index (CPI). CPI is published by the Association of Christian Librarians and provides access to English language articles and reviews from an evangelical perspective. It includes more than 130 selected publications from a broad spectrum of knowledge — science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing and education. The electronic version of the Christian Periodical Index includes most titles from 1976 to the present. It is available via the web, which is updated quarterly, or on CD-ROM, which is updated annually.

Special Library Association (SLA) — June 15-18, Washington State Convention Center,
Seattle, WA
Set aside some time during the conference to visit the BCR exhibit booth (#1314). Discover the broad range of resources specifically designed for the special library audience. Our expert staff welcomes the opportunity to talk with you about the particular needs of your library and can work with you to craft custom solutions to help your library keep pace with new developments in technology and services.

Not going to either conference? Visit the BCR website to discover how BCR can give your library the tools it needs to meet new challenges and opportunities.

"With both schools and public libraries developing budgets over the next couple of months, now is the ideal time to think about adding new digital content," says Shondra Brisco, district librarian of the Peaster Independent School District in Texas, in her May 2008 SLJ review of the "10 Best Digital Resources."

New Web Buttons and Banners
Rosen has added new, smaller Teen Health & Wellness icons/buttons for librarians to use on their websites. Visit the Rosen web pages and download the graphics in the size most appropriate for your needs.

With the launch of the newly designed online edition of Who's Who and Who Was Who, Oxford University Press is providing the first dedicated home for Who's Who information on the web. Following the model of OUP's award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the new online edition of Who's Who and Who Was Who is custom built for biographical research — simple to use and laid out to show you exactly what you want to find quickly and accurately.

Just a few of the new features include:

• The combination of faceted search and tabbed results screens makes running complex searches as easy as clicking on links.
• Searches can be defined by category and further refined to discover similar attributes between categories.
• Extensive cross-references lead to wider search results.
• More than 10,000 direct web links provide detailed information.
• Switching from searching just Who's Who 2008 entries to searching Who's Who and Who Was Who is easy and straightforward.
• Search results are easy to print out or send via email.
• Updates are now scheduled monthly, with major annual updates coinciding with annual printed edition of Who's Who.

For more details, visit the Who's Who web pages on BCR's website. BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) can provide pricing and subscription details.

Serials Solutions’ development of new products and features over the past few years has included significant improvements to make it easier for librarians to manage and patrons to access e-resources. BCR subscribers will soon be able to take advantage of these new features.

• Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks — More resources in the form of 500,000-plus eBooks from more than 20 providers are scheduled to be added later in May and integrated into all e-resource access and management services.
• 360 Resource Manager — A new, more powerful Acquisitions Data Import feature, new reports and upcoming Consortia Support features will help libraries better manage all their e-resource subscriptions.
• 360 Counter — Additional features, including SUSHI Schema 1.5 for EBSCOhost support and new enhancements have been designed to help a library discover the value of its e-resources.
• 360 MARC Updates — Supercharge your OPAC with updated records for e-resources (e-journals and eBooks), improved brief records and Unicode compliance.
• 360 Search — Search and connect to more databases with the new Integrated Connector Library (360 Search and WebFeat connectors).
• 360 Link — More integration means a library can leverage new developments surrounding eBooks, Community of Scholars (COS) and Google Books.
• 360 Core — Increased access to eBooks through the E-Journal Portal.

For specific pricing for your library, please contact BCR's Jay Ford (jford@bcr.org). You can discuss with him what your library’s needs are and talk about what solution would be most beneficial for your library and your patrons.

Learn More
To learn more about what Serials Solutions has to offer, please visit the BCR web page. Take advantage of free webinars from Serials Solutions — register for any session at the Serials Solutions learning website.

Access to the NML is easy and efficient. With just a click of the mouse, a subscriber can retrieve every composition and track instantly — no more searching on shelves or updating archive information. The Naxos product line includes:

Naxos Music Library

• World's largest collection of streaming classical music with more than 260,000 tracks.
• Classical music, plus six other genres, including jazz, blues and world music.
• New releases added monthly (more than 39 per month in 2007).
• Accessible from anywhere in the world; remote access included.
• Powerful teaching tools to support educational use, including static URLs at all levels (track, repertoire, CD and playlist).

• Access to Fantasy, the world's mightiest jazz catalog and the very best in blues and R&B.
• More than 23,000 tracks from 1,400 albums featuring over 460 renowned artists, with hundreds more to come.

• A collection of the world's greatest literature — many classic novels, plays and poetry, from medieval times to the 20th century.
• Nineteen categories, from Children's Classics and Classic Fiction to Shakespeare's Plays, Music Education and many more.
• All works read by professional actors/actresses — English literature by English, American literature by Americans.
• New releases automatically added (30 titles in 2006).
• Many texts can be followed on-screen or printed out, facilitating language learning.

• SheetMusicNow.com delivers digital sheet music content to a growing number of libraries. With an IP-authenticated subscription, library users download and print their own copies of sheet music from a catalogue of over 40,000 works. Remote access is included free of charge.

Streaming upgrades are available. OCLC has added streaming resource and system requirements information to all MARC records for CDs that are included in NML and that already have records in OCLC WorldCat. The 856 field is also included and is customized for each institution's URL, enabling direct linking from the record to the CD on NML.

For more information and pricing, please see BCR's website or contact BCR's Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.

The author, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. "This is the worst financial crisis since the 1930s," writes Soros in characterizing the scale of financial distress spreading across Wall Street and other financial centers around the world. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

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 web page.

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

The conference sessions are planned to feature innovative ideas from around the globe that address how libraries are rethinking their processes in document delivery and resource sharing, acquisitions and collection development and reference and information services.

The conference speakers include:

• Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC VP and Chief Strategist
• Poul Erlandsen, National Library of Denmark
• Sharon Karasmanis, La Trobe University, Australia
• Catherine Davidson, York University and Amy Greenberg, Scholars Portal, Canada
• Keith Webster and Heather Todd, University of Queensland, Australia
• Patrick Danowski, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
• Sarah McHugh, Montana State Library
• Brenda Bailey-Hainer, BCR President and CEO
• Steven Abrams, Sirsi/Dynix VP for Innovation

For information on other speakers as well as conference registration, see the conference website.

Plan to attend the When History Happens conference, July 30 through August 1, to be held on the Auraria Campus near downtown Denver. The agenda and more information will be available soon.

Enroll in Teaching with Primary Sources - Colorado to receive training on how to get the most out of your participation in When History Happens. These valuable workshops are available without charge. Check the workshop schedule to review your options and get more details at the Teaching with Primary Sources website. Learn about the free electronic editions of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and the free Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection.

When History Happens is sponsored by BCR, the Colorado State Library, Council on 21st Century Learning, Denver Newspaper Agency: Educational Services Department and Teaching with Primary Sources - Colorado.

Any Colorado educator is welcome to participate in this unique project. For more information, see the When History Happens website.

A short list of product enhancements include:

• Online Statistical Reporting — An online service available through the AWE-Net Web Portal that works in conjunction with Exporting of Utilization Statistics.
• Dynamic Access Control — Educators may now direct activities; select and limit content available to children by curriculum area, by age group or by specific titles; and profile content by age group.
• Improved Bilingual Spanish — Kid's Activity Reports and Patron Messages are now available in Spanish.
• Automated System Start-up — Allows automatic user-determined start-up time on weekdays and/or weekends, complementing the ability to schedule automated system shutdown for user-determined times.
• Earliest Learning Edition — A new version that specifically targets ages 3-6 and includes 31 of the highest-rated educational titles across seven curricular areas.
• Bilingual Spanish Edition — The new ELS Bilingual Spanish contains over 40 top-rated educational products and can also be customized using the Dynamic Access Control feature, allowing customers to change available content to meet demands of particular groups.

• ELS English Edition
• Sesame Street: Learn to Play, Learn to Grow — Sesame Street Learn, Play & Grow Preschool is focused on early childhood learning and self-esteem building. It includes 25 engaging activities with Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster as playmates who provide children ages 2-4 with language development, counting, music, art, shape games activities and more.
• Britannica Children's Learning Suite: K-8 — Children's Learning Suite provides separate encyclopedias for young learners and middle-school students. Composed of Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia and Merriam-Webster's Student Dictionary and Thesaurus, the suite includes more than 2,200 articles, interactive games, online magazine articles, video clips, a world atlas and historical timelines.
• ELS Bilingual Spanish
• Sesame Street: Let's Make A Word — Children join host Guy Smiley as he presents his game show, Let's Make A Word. Children can choose from six Muppet playmates and four discovery sites (farm, construction, park and restaurant), and from two modes of play: free play, which allows them to explore the setting and discover at their own pace what each Muppet guide has to teach them; and game play, which places the child in a more interactive situation.
• Educorock (World of Reading) — Educorock includes four popular vocabulary songs (from Educorock Espanol), with animated videos designed to teach basic vocabulary. Motivate Spanish students with rap, club dance and hip-hop songs for all ages. Animations help the students learn the topics visually and create a lasting impression in their memories.

A complete look at Version 5.0 can be found in the Early Literacy Station PDF information sheet.

If you would like more information about AWE products, please visit BCR's website. For pricing or if you would be interested in attending an on-site demonstration and practice session with an AWE professional, contact Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.

Among the new subject headings on the list:

• Alta Vista (Pierce County, Wash.)
• Armington, Allie (Fictitious character)
• Arrowtooth flounder
• Bagley Lakes (Wash.)
• Bancroft, Michaela (Fictitious character)
• Bawdy poetry, Greek (Modern)
• Broad Street (Seattle, Wash.)
• Celebrities on postage stamps
• Craft sticks in art
• Dalton Trail (Alaska and Yukon)
• Faery (Imaginary place)
• Finkel family
• Hispanic American mothers
• Ice pops
• Illegal alien children
• Internet telephony—Law and legislation
• Lost architecture in mass media
• Mathematicians in literature
• North Star Mountain (Wash.)
• Racewalkers
• Washington State Route 515 (Wash.)
• Westerly Creek (Colo.)

Additionally, all new constant data records that are created will have Library Mail in the Ship Via and/or the Return Via fields instead of Library Rate. Existing constant data records must be manually updated if your institution wishes to make this change. The change will also affect relevant mailing labels effective June 15. Labels will be changed from Library Materials to Library Mail.

Following a successful install, OCLC will post an announcement on May 12.

Oxford University Press continues to expand its online product offerings.

• Although WorldCat.org and the Open WorldCat program are available via the open web, libraries must have holdings in WorldCat and an active WorldCat subscription on the FirstSearch interface in order for their holdings to display in WorldCat.org services. In other words, if your library has only per-search access to FirstSearch, your item's ownership will not display in WorldCat.org.
• WorldCat.org is more than just WorldCat. OCLC has added article-level citation records from four popular databases: GPO, ArticleFirst, Medline and Eric. So a search in WorldCat.org returns article citations as well as relevant WorldCat records for books, audio and video recordings, and other content formats. By contrast, WorldCat alone has very little article-level bibliographic information. WorldCat.org also utilizes different search algorithms than FirstSearch, so search results can vary between the two interfaces.
• New features have been added to OCLC's WorldCat.org, providing library patrons the opportunity to improve their citation skills, add information to their social bookmark lists and more. Library patrons now can view and save citations using the five common bibliographic styles, add library-owned items to their social bookmarks or use the Advanced Search option to locate words with Library of Congress subject headings.
• Individual item records reached from WorldCat.org search results now include links to supplemental web content on the top-level page. Previously displayed beneath the Details tab, these links can include publisher-provided item descriptions, author biographies and websites, tables of contents and content excerpts.

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

Sample records with Web Resources links:
Wall Street Journal: worldcat.org/oclc/4299067
"General Joseph Warren Park" (Photo, Warren PA Library Assoc.): worldcat.org/oclc/67983465

For further information on these features, and much more, visit the WorldCat.org website.

The podcasts are recorded impromptu interviews in which Programs and Research staff ask industry thought leaders "What’s keeping you awake at night?"

In the first podcast, RLG Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt interviews RLG Program Partner Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, about "The Value of Physical Artifacts in an Increasingly Virtual World."

The webinars are recorded, online presentations that cover topics such as the latest RLG Program's work agenda updates, reports or project findings. Participation in live webinars is available exclusively to RLG Programs' partners as a benefit of partnership, but recordings of these webinars are made available on the PARcasts web page for the benefit of all.

The recording of the first webinar, "Out of the Stacks and onto the Desktop: Rethinking Assumptions about Access and Digitization," with RLG Program officers Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner, is now available online.

During that time, OCLC will not receive the various daily and weekly files of bibliographic records and subject authority records that are normally loaded on receipt. Distribution of these files is expected to resume on Monday, May 19, and OCLC will resume loading files at that point.

During the upgrade, the Library of Congress will continue to receive the NACO contribution files that OCLC sends each day, but those files will not be processed until May 19. As a result, NACO participants can expect new and updated authority records which they have contributed to remain locked for longer than normal periods of time.

In this phase of processing, personal name headings that consist of more than a single subfield and that match the established form or a reference in the authority record are being updated (if necessary); the heading is then controlled and the record is replaced. Records affected by this processing can be identified by the symbol OCLCG in field 040 $d. When a problem is encountered, the record is skipped and reported for manual intervention.

Dr. Hickey has posted a description of the project on his blog, Outgoing.

Glenn E. Patton, OCLC, edited

BCR’s President and CEO Brenda Bailey-Hainer says of the addition, “Our new Digital and Preservation Services group will allow BCR to expand our current consulting and training offerings, as well as to initiate new projects and programs in digital and preservation services. Bishoff has the knowledge, experience and passion to lead this group in new directions. We’re delighted to have her join the BCR team.”

Of her new position, Bishoff says, “I am really pleased to join BCR as they expand their organization to include a fuller range of digital and preservation services. Together we can work with libraries and cultural heritage institutions as they meet the opportunities of an increasingly digital environment.”

Bishoff is a highly regarded veteran of the digitization and preservation world. She served as the first executive director of the CDP (then known as the Colorado Digitization Project), and was a driving force behind designing an innovative collaborative model involving libraries and cultural heritage institutions in digitization efforts. Under her direction, CDP’s working groups developed a number of nationally recognized standards including the CDP Dublin Core Best Practices and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices. CDP was the recipient of a number of IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) grants for major cutting edge projects such as Teaching with Colorado’s Heritage, Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection, Western Trails and a grant that resulted in the development of the current Heritage West database.

In addition to her work with CDP, Bishoff spent 11 years with OCLC, including a four-year stint as vice president of Members Services and later as vice president of the Digital Collection and Preservation Services Division. Most recently, Bishoff served as special assistant to the dean and head of the Office of Sponsored Programs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Bishoff is the author of numerous articles focusing on collaboration in the digital environment, digital preservation and metadata standards and has been a longtime champion of collaborative digitization.

The CDP is one of the oldest collaborative digitization organizations in the U.S. Originally created as the Colorado Digitization Project in 1998, it soon incorporated as the Collaborative Digitization Program to reflect the increasingly multistate nature of its work. In April 2007, the organization merged into BCR to become BCR’s CDP. BCR’s CDP is now the flagship program of BCR’s Digital and Preservation Services group.

Ovid LinkSolver is "a comprehensive resource linking solution that expands the power of linking to a wide variety of internet resources, while giving you complete administrative flexibility in defining, organizing and displaying links for your end-users."

"Ovid SearchSolver is an exciting front-end resource discovery tool: Users can conduct a single search across a variety of information sources to uncover the full breadth of content resources available at their institution. Search results are displayed in an easy-to-use, uniform format allowing the user to further refine results or expand their discovery. And, by showing the number of results associated with each database, SearchSolver helps users identify the right information source, while serving the librarian's mission to promote their institutional content."

For trial access and additional product information, please contact Ovid's Melanie Troupe or Dave Evans.

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 in Anaheim, California. They also will be invited to present at the IFLA satellite preconference, "Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving Perspectives on Information Content Delivery" in Boston in August.

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. Any library of any size or type from anywhere is eligible. The change you made does not have to be technological or complex; it can be as simple as revising a policy to make it easier for your users to get materials. Full details for submission can be found at www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/.

The deadline for applications/nominations is May 15, 2008 (post-mark or date of e-mail). Submissions are sent to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee:

Funding for the 2008 Innovation Awards was provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks. On-going support for the initiative is provided by OCLC and BCR, with additional support from other organizations. Brenda Bailey-Hainer, BCR president and CEO, serves as chair of the Steering Committee.

The event will explore 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.

Early-bird registration costs $150 and is available through May 31. After that time, registration will cost $175. To register or to receive conference updates, visit the conference website. If you have questions, feel free to contact Brenda Bailey-Hainer at bbailey@bcr.org or 303.751.6277 x117.

According to the abstract, "The CDP's Heritage West database represents not only the primary product of the organization, but also one of the oldest continuously operating collaborative repositories of cultural heritage metadata in the country." The article discusses the collaborative aspects of the CDP's origin, as well as the organization and development of the Heritage West database. Included is a history of how the CDP has used metadata standards since its creation.

The First Monday article is a preview of an exhaustive qualitative and quantitative study forthcoming by Cronin about the use of Dublin Core metadata standards in the creation and evolution of Heritage West.

The full article can be accessed at: www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2085/1957. For more information about BCR's CDP, please see the CDP website.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance will implement a WorldCat Group Catalog with an interface based on WorldCat.org. This union catalog will present the 28-million-volume collections of the 35 Orbis Cascade member institutions at the top of results sets, followed by results from the rest of WorldCat.

The migration of Summit to this new consortial borrowing solution includes an immediate move to increase the accuracy and comprehensiveness of member library holdings in WorldCat and implementing a resource sharing system that combines the best of ILL and circulation capabilities and workflows.

Alliance member libraries also will have the option to implement WorldCat Local, a new service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to customize WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services.

For additional information, visit the OCLC website.

Complete the BCR online order form for renewals as well as for new subscriptions. The BCR group subscription period is July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009. Pricing is available on the online order form. Links to collection information, including journal titles, on each of the BioOne Collections (BioOne.1 and BioOne.2) can be found on the BCR website.

AccessScience boasts comprehensive content and includes:

• More than 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition
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All renewal orders for all 2008-2009 AccessScience subscriptions must be submitted on or before May 15, 2008. Renewal orders submitted after the May 15 date may result in a gap in service.

To submit your 2008-2009 order for McGraw-Hill's AccessScience, visit the BCR AccessScience web pages and complete the order/renewal form for your institution. For more information please contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).