In addition to exhibiting at NYLA (come see us at Booth 73!), Nylink is sponsoring and participating at NYLA programs.

In keeping with the New York Library Association’s conference theme this year of Connecting, Collaborating, Cooperating, Nylink is offering a conference program showcasing collaborations between school libraries, academic libraries and public libraries that prepare high school students for college-level research and promote lifelong information literacy. Join us at the NYLA conference, Friday, November 7, 8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m., at the Holiday Inn ("Place" room), for "Making Connections: High School to College and Beyond." Speakers: Carole Ashbridge, Sackets Harbor Central School; Barbara Hough, Yonkers Middle/High School; and John Thomas, Jefferson Community College.

Nylink is honored to have the School Library Systems Association of New York State (SLSA-NYS) co-sponsoring this program and to have it designated as a "President’s Program" for its contribution to the conference theme.

Program presentations for "Making Connections: High School to College and Beyond" will be posted at the conclusion of the conference.

We’re also excited to be co-sponsoring Hey, Ho, Let’s Go! Managing Your Digitization Project with NYLA’s ASLS section, on Saturday, Nov. 8, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM at the Saratoga Hilton in the Broadway 2 room.
During this session, a panel of speakers will share practical tips and guidelines on how to plan and manage digitization projects. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences.

Speakers:

• Evelyn Butrico, Nylink
• Susan D’Entremont, CDLC
• Maria Kessler McShane, College of Saint Rose

Or so says the New York Times. What I thought was interesting about this article is the midwifing role that is assigned to Queens Library, which along with other libraries has a growing urban fiction collection. Authors of urban fiction (think Donald Goines and Icepick Slim) have self-published and hawked their books on the streets, where they were bought by librarians. This article hints at a possible new and valuable role for libraries; it seems like a natural evolution for these centers of knowledge to also become more involved in the creation of knowledge. And entertainment. I can envision a library publishing center, where automated print-on-demand machines linked to patron IDs enable near-instant publication. In addition to a negligible charge, the library would also have the rights and responsibliities of distributing that publication.
Not that libraries would act as literary agents or marketing teams, just that they would maintain the content and track downloads. It could happen.

The WorldCat Resource Sharing User Guide is now available online. This document is a complete resource for information on all aspects of resource sharing and interlibrary loan procedures through OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing system. Topics covered by the Guide include:

• The Basic Interlibrary Loan Cycle
• Access and Authorizations
• Additional Loan Cycles
• OCLC Policies Directory
• OCLC ILL Fee Management Service
• Creating ILL Requests
• Choosing Lenders
• Completing a Loan Cycle
• Printing from Request Manager

The WorldCat Resource Sharing User Guide is available in PDF format at:
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/resourcesharing/using/userguide/WCRS_UserGuide.pdf

The American Library Association is seeking nominees for the tenth annual Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian award. This award recognizes and honors a librarian for outstanding professional achievement, leadership, and contributions to interlibrary loan and document delivery, through publication, during the previous two years, of significant professional literature, participation in professional associations, and/or innovative approaches to practice in individual libraries.

The candidate must have been employed in a library and held some responsibility for his/her institution’s interlibrary loan, document delivery, or resource sharing services at the time the contribution being honored was made. Contributions supporting a nomination must have occurred during the two years prior to the nomination deadline. The candidate’s achievement must be demonstrated in at least one of the following areas:

1. Planning and implementing an innovative or pioneering approach to ILL/document delivery service that is recognized as a model on a regional or national level.
2. Notable publication (article, book, or conference paper) deemed significant in the literature of the field.
3. A record of sustained, recognized, and exceptional participation in regional, national, or international associations devoted to the promotion of ILL/document delivery in a library environment.

Nominations take the form of a letter which includes a formal statement of nomination with a rationale for the nomination. Also include a resume of the candidate’s career and achievements, as well as contact information for the nominee.

The award consists of $2,000 plus a citation. Again, the deadline is Monday, December 15, 2008, so nominate yourself or your colleagues now! This is your opportunity to honor a colleague or co-worker. Please submit nominations by e-mail, fax, or snail mail to:

Cherie’ L. Weible
Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery/Associate Professor of Library Admin.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
128 Main Library; MC-522
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-9907 (voice)
cweible@illinois.edu

Additional information about the Boucher award is available at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/archive/rusaawards/virginiaboucher.cfm

The WorldCat Registry support page has been recently updated with three new tutorials:

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/training/registry/tutorial/default.htm

Overview – This self-paced, interactive tutorial will take you through the steps of locating your institution’s Registry profile, editing it and sharing it with others. You’ll see how to create and authenticate a user logon and how to use the Advanced Search feature. Flash-based. Run time: 11 minutes

How to Connect Patrons to Your Library – Learn how to add deep linking URLs to your Registry profile that allow patrons to connect directly to the item record in your online catalog. Flash-based. Run time: 4 minutes. (YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9jaGXFkV8)

Global Policies – This short video shows how to make your interlibrary loan policies visible to users of WorldCat Registry. Flash-based. Run time: 4 minutes. (YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEQdoaHpxc)

If your library has a purchase on demand program, you may wish to consider purchasing materials from Alibris. Alibris’ holdings include over 60 million new, used, and hard-to-find books. Many of these items are cataloged on OCLC and appear under the symbol ALBRS.

Ordering materials from Alibris is fast and efficient. Requests may be submitted using the OCLC ILL service (Put symbol ALBRS in you lender string). Since Alibris accepts payment through interlibrary loan Fee Management (IFM), payment is simplified.
Alibris will fill the order with the lowest-priced copy available in the best condition. They will respond with a conditional for items that exceed your maxcost. Items are usually shipped within two business days and delivered in seven to ten business days to the ILL office, or another address as stipulated. The packing slip will include the ILL number.
More information about the Alibris ILL Program is available at:

http://www.alibris.com/librarians/ill_program.cfm?S=L&DI=1

The Fall 2008 issue of the OCLC ILLiad Newsletter is now available on the Atlas Systems home page at: http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/illiad/newsletter/. This issue includes information on Aeon 2.0, a great article by Sherry Buchanan and Mike Flakus on their Amazon Price Grabber, and more. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions about this newsletter, please send them to John Brunswick at jbrunswick@atlas-sys.com.

OCLC has launched a pilot to explore the feasibility of building a cooperatively created and maintained repository of copyright evidence. The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry is a community working together to build a union catalog of copyright evidence based on WorldCat metadata, additional information contributed by libraries and by other interested organizations.

Digitization projects continue for books in the public domain, but books whose copyright status is unknown are destined to remain in print and on shelves until their status can be determined. The process to determine copyright status can be lengthy and labor intensive. The goal of the Copyright Evidence Registry is to encourage a cooperative environment to discover, create and share copyright evidence through a collaboratively created and maintained database, using the WorldCat cooperative model to eliminate duplicate efforts.

The CER beta is searchable at http://www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence. Those wishing to contribute data are invited to log in using their Connexion authorization or a WorldCat.org authorization. Please read the instructions carefully as you log in for the first time. Additional functionality will be available to formal pilot libraries later in the test through an assigned CER authorization. If you would like to participate in the pilot, indicate your interest using the feedback form at: http://www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence/registry/feedback.

More information about the CER beta and the pilot can be found at http://www.oclc.org/us/en/productworks/cer.htm and at http://www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence/registry/about.

Do you occasionally need to request materials from the Library of Congress?

The Library of Congress welcomes interlibrary loan requests and serves as a source for material not available through local, state or regional libraries. Requests are accepted from academic, public, and special libraries that make their own material available through participation in an interlibrary loan system.

The Library of Congress accepts OCLC ILL requests. When submitting a request on OCLC, please enter the symbol (DLC) 5 times in succession. Libraries that do not participate in OCLC ILL may register and then submit requests using the Library of Congress’ ILLiad lending web pages.

For details on the Library of Congress’ ILL policies and procedures please go to:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/loan

OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets allows you to easily load multiple records for a specific set into your local catalog and automatically sets your holdings in WorldCat. Various record processing options are available.

OCLC recently announced the availability of the following new sets:

The initial batch of the Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Collection Two set of electronic records is now available. To receive new records as they are added to this set, select the standing order option on the order form.

Three new Royal Society of Chemistry sets are available through WorldCat Collection Sets:
RSC Ebooks Archive 1968-2006
RSC Ebooks 2007
RSC Ebooks 2008

For information about WorldCat Collection Sets visit:
http://www.oclc.org/worldcatsets/

For a list of all available sets visit:
http://collectionsets.oclc.org/JustLooking?cmd=displayElectronicSets

For more information contact Nylink (800-342-3353/518-443-5444).

[OCLC – edited]