Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) — August 6-8, Post Falls (ID)
Join Gillian Harrison, BCR's director, Marketing & Outreach, at the annual PLNA conference, Libraries Go Wild! Beyond the Expected! She is presenting "Plugging Into the Numbers: Using Data to Make Some Noise about Library Services," on Friday, August 8, from 10:30 a.m.-12 noon. Learn how to determine whether all the statistics your library collects are counting the same thing and, more importantly, discover how to incorporate all that data into your library's message. Then stop by the BCR exhibit booth to say hello to Harrison.

Nevada Library Association (NLA) — August 14-16, Las Vegas (NV)
Bridging the Gap, the Nevada Library Association's annual conference, gives librarians in the state the opportunity to network and learn with their colleagues. BCR's popular emergent technology trainer, Shelly Drumm, will be presenting "Big Reference on a Little Budget," Friday, August 15, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Attendees will come away with answers on how to deliver top-notch reference and instructional services without 'dropping a dime.' Also take a minute to visit the exhibit booth and meet Jay Ford, BCR's library services consultant.

eBook Usage Reports
ScholarlyStats already processes four COUNTER compliant reports for journals and databases. There is now support for two eBook reports. The COUNTER compliant Book Reports 1 and 2 are available for processing and consolidation for selected platforms.

Together with the Consolidated Book Reports 1 and 2, ScholarlyStats also offers six new Book Dashboard Reports for further analysis and decision making. These include:

• Book Dashboard Report 1: Number of Books by Collection Platform
• Book Dashboard Report 2: Number of Book Request by Collection Platform
• Book Dashboard Report 3: Number of Section Request by Collection Platform
• Book Dashboard Report 4: Average Book Use by Collection Platform
• Book Dashboard Report 5: Top Use Books by Collection Platform
• Book Dashboard Report 6: Zero Usage Books Report

Updated Dashboard Reports
All Journal and Book Dashboard reports have been updated to support further analysis of usage data.

The Consolidated Reports now shows two columns, Platform and Collection Platform. The Platform column shows the provider of the statistics as outlined by the COUNTER standard. As users sometimes have multiple collections under one platform with separate usage reports, the Collection Platform column has been added to show each individual collection. This makes it easier to locate the usage for each collection that has been acquired. Check the example for Highwire Press in the table below.

All April 2008 reports (delivered on June 15) are now based on the ScholarlyStats Collection Platform instead of the Platform.

New Collection Platforms
The list of platforms available in ScholarlyStats has been expanded, and existing subscribers now can request processing of Book Reports for selected platforms. Check the collection platform list for further information. More collection platforms will be added during the course of this year.

Platform Access Details (PAD) Interface Update
Some technical updates have been made to the PAD details page and now user-entered comments are stored for future reference. By supplying the exact location of usage reports on the collection platforms' interfaces, the ScholarlyStats team can ensure the correct reports are downloaded.

Automatic Creation of Demo Accounts
Demo accounts for new subscribers can now be automatically requested and created via a web form on the ScholarlyStats website. Current users also can create a demo account for other librarians who might be interested in seeing how the platform works. An account can be set up by going to Contact Us on the ScholarlyStats website.

New Logo and Tagline
ScholarlyStats has a new logo, a new tagline and changes to the entire platform.

Clearer results — better informed. The new tagline stresses the importance of clear, easily accessible usage statistics and how they can help librarians make more informed decisions. The new, modern look and feel has been designed to bring clear information that's easy on the eye. See it all on the ScholarlyStats webpage.

For additional information on ScholarlyStats, including pricing and subscription details, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

Electronic Enlightenment's database of individual letters and correspondents can be searched or browsed as a complete collection. Innovative functionality and linking within the database allows users to research letters and documents, annotations and supporting materials, follow links to online portraits, trace the lives of Enlightenment figures, follow links to other scholarly resources and more.

Highlights of EE's online resource center include:

• Access to more than 53,000 letters from the critical editions from leading scholarly and university presses.
• Letters from 6,000-plus writers, scientists, philosophers, politicians, political thinkers and others, including Addison, Bentham, Catherine the Great, Descartes, Hume, Locke, Muratori, Newton, Pope, Rousseau, Swift, Mrs. Thrale, Voltaire and many others.
• Upwards of 80,000 document sources, along with nearly 230,000 scholarly annotations.
• Original languages, including letters in English, French, German and Italian.
• Expanding network of links to other online resources, from Chambers' Cyclopedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (for mutual subscribers).
• Twice yearly updates with further critical editions, including previously unpublished correspondence.
• Static URLs at the level of individual letter writers to make it easier to link to EE directly from other resources.

Try it out!
Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) to set up a 30-day free trial. She can also help answer subscription and pricing questions.

Discover Booklist Online's value to both your library staff and patrons from General Manager Mary Frances Wilkens, Senior Editor Keir Graff and Managing Editor Mary Ellen Quinn.

Space is limited, so register now.

System requirements are:

• For PC-based attendees: Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server or Vista
• For Macintosh-based attendees: Mac OSX 10.3.9 (Panther) or newer

Would you like to learn more about subscribing to Booklist Online through BCR? Contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Preview Wilson's Art & Cinema Image Gallery
An essential companion to any film or television history course, this new tool features more than 150,000 images from cinema and television, including images of films in production; directors working on set with the stars; sets, costume and production design; unique hair and make-up shots; and rare behind-the-scenes material.

Learn the benefits of searching Wilson's art files simultaneously and how you can offer your patrons or students one seamless, relevance-sorted results page.

Questions? Contact BCR's Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

The Shibboleth System is a popular software for governing access to protected online resources via web sign-on either across or within organization boundaries. The software allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access to protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner.

WilsonWeb offers libraries more than 60 periodical research databases — magazine and journal indexes, abstract resources and databases of full-text articles and page images — in art, literature and the humanities, applied science, biology and agriculture, the social sciences, applied science, biology and agriculture, the social sciences, general science, math, law, business and more. The new WilsonWeb CX Edition interface offers more versatile and more incisive searching, more customization and new tools for saving and formatting data.

For more information about WilsonWeb products and services, contact Maura Dunn (mdunn@bcr.org).

Suggestions are based on a URL copied from any individual record in a library's web OPAC. The Registry interprets the structure or syntax of the supplied URL and prefills important fields within the profile. These fields record the library system (ILS) in use at your library, as well as several URLs used to query the system for a record via a standard number such as ISBN.

Deep-link syntaxes maintained in the WorldCat Registry are used on WorldCat.org to connect web users to local catalog records for physical and electronic content at thousands of participating institutions. It is part of a unique platform that distributes WorldCat information across major search engines and other popular Internet environments, pointing web users to the collections of nearby libraries.

If your library's holdings are discoverable via WorldCat.org, keeping your catalog links current in the Registry allows people to reach your item records directly without having to repeat their search. If your library isn't yet eligible for WorldCat.org visibility of its holdings, there is still value in maintaining catalog links in the Registry since OCLC syndicates this information across the web through other WorldCat-based web services, including xISBN and LibX.

Also note that keeping your WorldCat Registry profile up-to-date can significantly shorten the amount of time needed to implement WorldCat Local — the localized version of WorldCat.org — at your institution.

Try it out. Visit the OCLC WorldCat Registry web pages, and follow these instructions:

1. If you already have an institutional profile in the Registry, sign in and access the Profile Summary page.

2. Click the Online Catalog link (available from the Services section of the profile navigation).

3. Click the Edit this page button.

4. Copy the URL from any item record in your web OPAC into the suggestion field and click Suggest Links.

5. Test any suggested URL syntaxes using the Test link.

6. If all suggested links are working, click Save Changes.

Haven't been to the WorldCat Registry?
Learn how to start managing your online catalog links for WorldCat.org and other information about your institutional identity. Visit the WorldCat.org documentation web pages.

Learn more about the Registry at the WorldCat website. For additional information, or if you need assistance accessing your institution's registry profile, contact BCR support.

Oracle Press is the publisher of the official books on Oracle technologies, covering topics such as Oracle 11g and 10g, Oracle applications and exam and certification preparation guides.

To find Oracle Press books in ITPro, you can either search on Oracle Press as the Publisher or browse the new Oracle Technologies subtopic under IT and Technical Topics. In addition, as new books are published by Oracle Press, they will be added automatically to ITPro. Use the New Title Notification email or the RSS feed option to alert you to new Oracle Press titles as they become available on the Books24x7 website.

Interested in subscribing to Books24x7 through BCR? Contact Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

The report has been posted on CPSO's web site.

Specific information on development and implementation strategies will be released as they are developed.

Questions about the genre/form projects may be addressed to CPSO in care of Janis Young at jayo@loc.gov.

The report suggests that targeting marketing messages to the right segments of the voting public is key to driving increased support for U.S. public libraries. Among the findings from the report:

• Library funding support is only marginally related to library visitation.
• Perceptions of librarians are an important predictor of library funding support.
• Voters who see the library as a "transformational" force as opposed to an "information" source are more likely to increase taxes in its support.

Purchase a print copy of the report or download a free, electronic version from the OCLC website.

Member libraries performed the following:

• Database enrichment: 157,787 records (a 21 percent increase from FY 2007)
• Minimal-level upgrades: 108,130 records (also a 21 percent increase)
• Enhance upgrades: 156,423 (16 percent increase)

For a refresher on what member libraries can do in each of these categories, take a look at the following sections of Bibliographic Formats & Standards:

• Database Enrichment: section 5.4
• Minimal-Level Upgrades: section 5.2
• The Enhance Program: section 5.5

During FY 2008, OCLC staff:

• Corrected 2,137,903 bibliographic records
• Performed 207,742 merges resulting in the deletion of 317,022 bibliographic records
• Added 165 new authority records
• Updated 395,817 authority records
• Referred 765 authority records (name and subject) to the Library of Congress for resolution

Many of the changes resulted from the processing of 182,348 change requests, an increase of 21 percent over the same period of FY 2007.

During the same time period, OCLC CIP Upgrade Unit staff:

• Upgraded 20,501 CIP records
• Added 1,006 new authority records
• Updated 857 authority records

These figures for authority records include 450 new series authority records and updates to 247 existing series authority records. This activity with series authorities continues to grow as a result of OCLC's adapting to the Library of Congress's stopping series authority work.

The conference kicks off with an opening reception on August 3, 4:30-7:00 p.m., at the conference hotel. Don't miss this preconference opportunity to meet the vendors, mingle with your colleagues from across the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, Nigeria, China and Singapore.

The schedule of programs for the two days is filled with everything related to reference — from virtual reference to innovative service models to managing reference services to approaches, values and the philosophy of reference services. See the complete program for details.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn more about the exciting changes to the world of library reference. Registration ends July 18, so there is still time to sign up. For more information on the conference, contact BCR's Justine Shaffner (jshaffner@bcr.org).

Each training session is one hour long. Bring your questions, and Britannica's expert trainer will be glad to answer them during this live presentation. The webinars are available for subscribers to the school, academic or public library editions.

School Edition
Aimed specifically at schools, this complimentary training gives teachers, librarians and technology coordinators the opportunity to attend a one-hour online presentation without having to leave school. Presentations are conducted live by an expert Britannica trainer on these upcoming dates and times:

• Tuesday, August 12th
Elementary Schools (PreK-5th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time
Middle/Junior High and High Schools (6th-12th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time
• Thursday, September 18th
Elementary Schools (PreK-5th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time
Middle/Junior High and High Schools (6th-12th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time
• Tuesday, October 14th
Elementary Schools (PreK-5th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time
Middle/Junior High and High Schools (6th-12th grades) — 3:00 p.m. Central Time

Learn new ways to do research projects with students using Britannica Online School Edition as well as to get ideas for integrating technology into your classroom.

Elementary schools will learn about special features including:

• New Britannica Learning Zone for Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade
• Expanded video and media content, including a video download feature
• Student activities for reading, writing, math and other subjects
• Integration of state curriculum standards

Middle/Junior high and high schools will learn about special features including:

• Workspace storage tool for students to collect their own research materials for future use
• Classroom curriculum resources for American history, world studies, earth science, biology, chemistry and all levels of language arts and math
• Expanded video and media content, including a video download feature
• Integration of state curriculum standards

Academic Edition
Thought you knew everything there was to know about the features available through your library's Britannica Online subscription? This complimentary training session will give research, reference, instruction and electronic resource librarians new ways to get students started on their projects using the wide array of tools available.

Presentations are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Central Time on these dates:

• Thursday, August 14th
• Tuesday, September 16th
• Thursday, October 16th

Bring your questions and discover:

• New research tools to compare countries using demographic and economic statistics, including built-in graphing and charting tools
• New workspace storage tool for students and faculty to collect their own research materials for future use
• Valuable resources for every subject including history, geography, art, humanities, business, science, technology and much more

Public Edition
See what’s new with Britannica Online. This one-hour presentation will appeal to both children's and reference librarians, providing resources and tools to provide adults and children with the information they need.

Presentations are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Central Time on these dates:

• Thursday, August 14th
• Tuesday, September 16th
• Thursday, October 16th

This presentation will cover:

• New "Kids" section with reference and educational materials for elementary and middle school students
• Workspace storage tool for patrons to collect their own research materials for future use
• Resources for every subject including history, geography, art, humanities, business, science, technology and more

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

How to sign up
Go to www.info.eb.com/webinar, and click on the session that you want to attend. You will receive instructions via email shortly after you register. This training is provided free as part of your Britannica Online subscription. Space is limited, so sign up soon.

You can invite others to join you at your computer to watch this presentation. If you want to invite more people, you can project the presentation onto a screen in a conference room or computer lab for everyone to see. Please submit only one registration per location for each date.

Requirements

Note: For OCLC ILLiad users, this change will happen at a later date following the release of a new ILLiad Web service. See ILLiad Impact below.

Process
Beginning in 2008, OCLC started working with an ad hoc group of libraries to revamp the 'Reasons for No' as they appear in WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC ILLiad. This advisory group consisted of volunteers from the OCLC ILL Users Group at ALA Midwinter, members of SHARES, library staff who participated in discussions on ILL-L and regional service providers and any libraries they contacted.

OCLC presented a list of current 'Reasons for No,' asked for user opinions on the usefulness of the reasons and solicited suggestions for new reasons. OCLC also asked for opinions on how 'Not Found as Cited' should be handled systematically. This process was reiterated four times until a resolution was reached where each proposed change had a majority.

Complete List of 'Reasons for No'
Below is the list of 'Reasons for No' that now will appear in WorldCat Resource Sharing. They are in the order in which they will appear in the drop-down list. This order corresponds to how often they are used by WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad users.

1. In Use/On Loan
2. Non Circulating
3. Not on Shelf/Missing
4. Not Owned
5. Lacking Volume/Issue
6. Branch Policy Problem
7. On Order
8. Cost Exceeds Limit
9. Technical Processing
10. Preferred Delivery Time Not Possible
11. Poor Condition
12. At Bindery
13. Volume Issue Not Yet Available
14. Not Licensed to Fill
15. Required delivery services not supported
16. Prepayment Required
17. Other

Retired 'Reasons for No'
The following 'Reasons for No' will no longer be used:

1. Unspecified
2. Charges
3. Locations not found
4. On reserve (now use: In use/on loan)
5. On hold (now use: In use/on loan)
6. Not found as cited (moved to system-supplied conditional response)
7. Lacks copyright compliance (moved to system-supplied conditional response)

Changes for Conditional Responses
In the current environment, all conditional responses are supplied by users via the Administrative Module and Constant Data. Beginning in July, the WorldCat Resource Sharing system will supply four conditional responses for users:

1. Not found as cited (will no longer be a 'Reasons for No') — Used when the Lender
    cannot find a requested item based on borrower-supplied citation information.
2. Duplicate request? (new) — Used when the lender receives two requests for the
    same item around the same time. The lender can confirm that the borrower truly
    wants two copies of the same item.
3. Borrower concerns/please contact lender (new) — Used when a lender is not
    comfortable lending an item to a particular borrower until they have a conversation. This
    may be due to overdue materials, materials with IFM attached that have not been
    received, etc.
4. Lacks copyright compliance (will no longer be a 'Reasons for No') — Used when
    the borrower has not noted CCG- or CCL-compliance, and the lender wants this
    information to be supplied before agreeing to supply the item.

ILLiad Impact
OCLC is making these changes first to WorldCat Resource Sharing. At the same time as the changes are implemented in WorldCat Resource Sharing, OCLC will be updating the Atlas Systems web service to include the new 'Reasons for No' in ILLiad. Until that development work is completed and users have upgraded to the new release of ILLiad that incorporates the web service, users of ILLiad will not have access to these new 'Reasons for No,' and users of WCRS may receive some of the older 'Reasons for No'.

ISO ILL Impact
Users of ISO ILL will continue to receive ISO-sanctioned 'Reasons for No.' New OCLC 'Reasons for No' will be mapped to "Other" if there is no logical ISO reason provided.

Other Partners
OCLC is also updating the web services used by other partners that use WorldCat Resource Sharing and will be making this updated web service available shortly for OCLC partners to test and implement. As with ILLiad, there will be some lag time while partner organizations implement the new web service, and users upgrade their software.

Changes include, but are not limited to:

• New bibliographic indexes: Language of Cataloging Description (040 $b) and Access Restrictions (506 $a and $f)
• 024 subfield $z (Cancelled/invalid standard number or code) added to Standard Number indexes (sn: and sn=)
• Addition of $j (Relator term) in 111, 611, 711 and 811
• Addition of field 506 (Restrictions on Access Note) in Holdings records
• Addition of codes from the IAML list of musical composition codes in 047
• New authority index: Cartographic Data index (034 $d, $e, $f, $g and $z)

The ability to search codes from the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) list of musical composition codes in 047 $a in both Connexion browser and client will be available later in 2008.

All new searching and indexing capabilities can be used in both Connexion interfaces (browser and client). In Connexion client, new indexes will not appear in drop-down lists, but can be input manually via the command line. Client drop-down lists will be updated with new indexes in the next version of the client.

For complete details, see OCLC Technical Bulletin 255.

The Cambridge Histories resources have become an established and essential component of the academic research library and now, for the first time, more than 250 of the volumes published since the 1960s will be available online, adding immense value to the texts and enhancing any aspect of historical research. Offering well-designed functionality, as well as quick and easy access to content and the tools to make the content usable in a time-effective way, Cambridge Histories Online includes extensive bibliographic reference linking, personal archives, citation export, remote access and user control display features.

MARC records are also available for download with the purchase of a subscription.

Lectrix Pricing Model Revised
Cambridge University Press has revised the pricing model for Lectrix to include both the Greek and Latin versions in one subscription at a tiered price. Please fill out the BCR quote request form for individualized pricing.

For more information, visit the BCR website or contact Maura Dunn at mdunn@bcr.org.

The full draft of RDA was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008, and is now planned for October 2008. The three-month time period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and so will extend from October into January 2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming.

Subscribe to RDA-L (the electronic list focused on the topic of RDA) for future announcements.

Prepared by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, with the assistance of hundreds of scholars and experts, this authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date book answers your questions as well as exposes you to the concepts, movements, people, and events associated with living and ancient religions, including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

For more information about this month's selected eBook, visit the Britannica website.

The NetLibrary 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 eBooks, please contact BCR's Chris Cook at ccook@bcr.org.