Matt Goldner, Executive Director of Cooperative Collection Services at OCLC, addressed the audience at SUNYLA 2007 at SUNY Maritime. Goldner took the time to explain the research and theory behind Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org, in addition to the upcoming feature and directions of the services.
He explained that most students go to the web and search engines first and sometimes that is the only avenue they visit; we need to get them where they go and not conform them to our methods. He shared some of the new colloborative aspects of WorldCat.org including the ability to build booklists from the WorldCat records (
http://www.worldcat.org/) similar to librarything.com.
The exciting new announcement was about WorldCat Local- a customized web interface for WorldCat.org which connects to your libraries OPAC and can allow patrons to place holds, requests, and interlibrary loans. WorldCat Local is currently be piloted at University of Washington, to see what their interface looks like visit:
http://uwashington.worldcat.org/. For more information about WorldCat Local contact Nylink at 800-342-3353 or email Jen Hawkes at
hawkesj@nylink.org.
Also noteworthy, Ann Gunning, Nylink’s Member Services Librarian was given the honor’s of introducing Matt Goldner. It was the first time Matt was ever introduced in a sailor’s hat. This hat read: USS Nylink.
This past week (June 13-15th) Member Services Librarian Ann Gunning, OCLC Services Librarian Jen Hawkes, and Cooperative Services Librarian T Sahm exhibited and attended SUNYLA at SUNY Maritime.
There were numerous thought provoking sessions by SUNY Librarians including an excellent session co-presented by Sue Ann Brainard (SUNY Geneseo), Dr. Emilye Crosby (Geneseo History Department), and three Geneseo students (Claire Ruswich, Chris Basso, and Ryne Kitzrow). The session was titled, “Hands-on History: Using College Archives to Teach History Research Skills.” Dr. Crosby in conjunction with Librarian Sue Ann Brainard were able to allow students into the college’s closed archives to use the materials to better understand the college’s history. It was a great example of collaboration, an interesting use of materials, and a creative solution to using the normally closed space.
In “Collaborative Digitization in College Archives and Special Collections: The North Country Digital History Pilot Project,” Plattsburgh Librarian Debra Kimok discussed their libraries contribution to the North Country digitization project (
http://history.nnyln.org/g/). The North Country 3R’s council had purchased a licence for CONTENTdm (
http://www.nylink.org/digitize/contentdm.cfm) and member libraries can contribute content. There was a lively discussion that followed about CONTENTdm and what is can do for your library and to assist in collaborative projects. Jean Currie from the South Central Regional Library Council is eager to start their CONTENTdm project.
Beyond attending the various sessions, Nylink was able to exhibit at the vendor area and enjoy spending time with our members on the Sunset Cruise Thursday night. For anyone who was at the conference last week, yes- Ann, T, and myself still have our sailor hats, and yes we did wear them at work on Monday.
If you’re going to ALA in Washington later this month, this OCLC session looks very interesting: Making Mass Digitization Work for Libraries through WorldCat – Monday, June 25, 2007, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Washington Convention Center, Room 206.
In August, OCLC will begin a pilot to synchronize WorldCat with participating mass digitization projects. The pilot will be designed to automatically create a record in WorldCat representing the digital manifestation. The record will contain links to the digital object and a link in WorldCat.org enabling searchers to locate the print version in a library nearest to them.
Bill Carney (OCLC), Jay Girotto (Microsoft) and John Wilkin (University of Michigan) will discuss the pilot project at ALA in Washington on Monday, June 25, 2007, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Washington Convention Center, Room 206. A presentation describing the synchronization program will be followed by comments from Jay and John and an opportunity for comments and questions.
To register for this session, please see: https://www3.oclc.org/app/ala_registration/.
Do you subscribe to WilsonSelectPlus on FirstSearch? New content has been added.
Springer journal records will now be available in the WilsonSelectPlus database on FirstSearch. Springer is the second-largest journal publisher and largest book publisher worldwide in science, technology and medicine. The new material comes from 120 different journals which will include over 16,000 records and each issue of the Springer journals will be loaded 365 days after its publication. (The 1-year embargo is Springer’s standard policy, and their content will not be available any earlier than that on any other services). Full-text will only be available in PDF format and the coverage is from 2004 through April 2006. Eventually H.W. Wilson plans to send Springer content back to 1997.
If you are interested in pricing for WilsonSelectPlus on FirstSearch or any other FirstSearch database please email Jen at hawkesj@nylink.
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Matt Goldner, Executive Director of Cooperative Collection Services at OCLC, addressed the audience at SUNYLA 2007 at SUNY Maritime. Goldner took the time to explain the research and theory behind Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org, in addition to the upcoming feature and directions of the services. 
Also noteworthy, Ann Gunning, Nylink’s Member Services Librarian was given the honor’s of introducing Matt Goldner. It was the first time Matt was ever introduced in a sailor’s hat. This hat read: USS Nylink.
