Many ILL offices close during the holiday season both so that materials don’t get lost during a busy period for the mail, and because of special holiday hours and staff vacations.

Libraries may now set their own supplier/non-supplier status using the ILL Policies Directory. Here are instructions:

1. Log into the Policies Directory at http://illpolicies.oclc.org/
2. Click on the My Units link in the black border at upper right.
3. Click the Change Supplier Status button.
4. Click on Change, to the right of the OCLC Supplier field.
5. In the Dates fields, you may either type in the dates or click on the calendar icon to specify the date range.
6. Click on Save after entering the dates.

Changes entered before midnight will be made the following day. Only one date, or date range, can be entered at a time.

Please note that the online form in the ILL Policies Directory may be used only for supplier status requests for periods of up to 184 days. If you are becoming a non-supplier for more than 184 days, please contact Jon Penn at Nylink (pennj@nylink.org).

We are pleased to announce a new LAND (Libraries and Nylink Deliver) participant effective November 17, 2008.  City College of New York (CUNY) has added a second location — the Center for Worker Education Library.

When addressing materials for this library please include the “Center for Worker Education” on the label. This will help the courier distinguish between the two City College Libraries.

CUNY – City College of New York (ZXC)

Center for Worker Education Library

25 Greenwich Street

New York, NY 10004

Thanks you for your continued support of the LAND service.

Registration is now open for the FREE “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ILL” workshop presented by RUSA STARS at ALA Midwinter. This workshop will take place from 8:30-12:30 on Friday, January 23, 2009 at the University of Colorado, Auraria Campus. There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served.

This system-neutral workshop will cover best practices in resource sharing, address ways you can best serve your users, and provide an excellent overview of the resources and support available to ILL practitioners. Whether you’re new to resource sharing or have been providing services for years, this workshop will help you to reconsider your approaches, make decisions about user services, define best practices, and introduce you to ways you can best contribute to the resource sharing community while reflecting your own library’s mission.

The knowledgeable instructors are Cyril Oberlander (borrowing), Karen Janke (lending), Cindy Kristof (copyright), and Collette Mak (standards and resources).

Please register online at: http://www.bcr.org/STARS-preconference/ by January 16, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Margaret Bean at mbean@uoregon.edu.

Thank you to BCR and OCLC for sponsoring this no-charge workshop. We are also grateful to the University of Colorado, Auraria Campus for providing facilities.

From The Associated Press, Wednesday, November 18, 2008 –
ALBANY — The State University of New York’s interim chancellor will resign, effective Dec. 31, as a SUNY panel continues to search for a permanent replacement.

Interim Chancellor John B. Clark announced his resignation Tuesday. He was appointed as a visiting professor.

Clark was not a candidate to replace former Chancellor John Ryan, who left SUNY in May of 2007 for a corporate training job in North Carolina. Ryan was appointed to the $340,000-a-year job in December 2005, replacing Robert King who left in 2005 after five years.

The search committee has sought a national stature replacement to run the 64-campus system since Ryan left.

As announced November 17 by the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC), the complete draft of RDA is now available for review. Please note that this draft is being made available in PDF chapters, and as not an online version.

The JSC will be accepting public comments until February 2, 2009. The comment form is available online. When completing this form, please be sure to give the following information:

1. Rule number for the rule upon which you are commenting;
2. Brief statement of the problem;
3. Your proposed solution(s) to the problem and reason; and
4. Your name and email address.

You might also want to join your colleagues for a free Nylink Community Brown Bag discussion of RDA in Rochester on December 3rd, or in Manhattan on December 12th.

OCLC’s next install of QuestionPoint is tentatively scheduled for November 23, 2008 at 2 AM ET. The new install will include the Forms Manager for chat forms, and other enhancements, including a new look and feel for the Flash Chat interface. Carol Bonnefil, QP chat guru at OCLC, will present several webinars to take users on a tour of the improved librarian chat interface and key features and to answer your questions. The next webinar is 11/19/08, 9-10 PM ET, and you can register via the QuestionPoint blog. If you’re not able to attend, each webinar will be recorded, and links to the recordings will be posted on the QP blog.

The new cataloging standard, RDA: Resource Description and Access, initially scheduled for release in its final draft form in summer 2008, is now expected during the week of November 17, 2008. Several revisions to key components were posted to the RDA website during the last week of October, including a revised prospectus and outline and documents showing RDA mappings to FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data). A new website is also being built.

RDA is being developed and written first as an online database product to incorporate the features and functionalities of online access. Once the final draft is made available online, there will be a three-month comment period during which access to RDA will be free. Subsequent subscription terms from the co-publishers (The American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have not yet been finalized.

Librarians should participate in the public comment process, which will be open from publication through January of 2009. Get together with Nylink metadata expert Lynne Graziadei and your fellow librarians to learn more about the coming changes, formulate your response to the draft, and find out how to make your voice heard, at one of Nylink’s free Brown Bag lunch gatherings:

• In Rochester: December 3, noon – 1:30 pm: Rochester Regional Library Council, Fairport, NY [Directions]
• In NYC: December 12, noon – 1:30 pm: New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch, 455 Fifth Avenue [at 40th Street] [Directions]

Register by emailing Deidre Dowling at dowlingd[at]nylink.org, or by visiting the Nylink website.

On November 4, 2008, OCLC issued its revised policy statement regarding the use of bibliographic records from WorldCat, entitled the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records. This policy will replace the current Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of OCLC-Derived Records which has been in effect since 1987. The new policy is scheduled to become effective mid-February 2009.

Links of interest:

Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records (the current policy)
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/worldcat/records/guidelines/default.htm

Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records (the new policy)
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/policy/policy.htm

Summary
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/policy/default.htm

OCLC’s FAQ
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/policy/questions/default.htm

Proposal for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records: https://www3.oclc.org/app/worldcat/recorduse/

Blogwatch on this topic:

Terry’s Worklog (Terry Reese’s blog on his work and sundry other topics): http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/

Metalogue (hosted by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services for OCLC): http://community.oclc.org/metalogue/archives/2008/11/notes-on-oclcs-updated-record.html

If you have concerns that you would like to discuss with Nylink, please contact Lauren Pinsley, Nylink’s OCLC Services Manager,  pinsleyl@nylink.org or (800) 342-3353 or (518) 443-5444.

For general information, visit the OCLC Web site or call (800) 848-5878.

OCLC’s NetLibrary has announced its eBook titles are now certified through Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, which will ensure accessibility and support for NetLibrary eBooks through Serials Solutions e-resource access and management services, such as 360 Link, 360 Search, and 360 MARC Updates . Read the full news release on OCLC’s website.

Other Nylink partners whose products are certified through Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks include: Chadwyck-Healey, CSA Illumina, Emerald Group, H.W. Wilson, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, and ProQuest. Serials Solutions is also a Nylink partner.