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August 2010 | Vol. 1, No. 10 | ISSN: 2152- 8993
Anne Prestamo
Chair, OCLC
Americas
Regional Council
Information literacy as
invitation to lifelong learning
Many of you are gearing up for the academic
year. This issue of the eNews is dedicated to
those who provide information literacy
instruction and outreach. Directing patrons to
the valuable resources and services that
libraries provide is the key to academic success
and to cultivating lifelong learning.
As Chair of the Americas Regional Council ( ARC), I would like to take
this opportunity to provide a quick orientation for those of you still new
to the ARC, to ensure that you are successful in taking advantage of
all that the OCLC cooperative has to offer.
Any staff member of any library, museum or archive located in the
Americas is invited to participate in the ARC! We want your input and
your assistance. Here are a few ways that you can help us continue
the success of the cooperative:
Volunteer for a committee— in addition to elected positions, we
also appoint member volunteers to committees for
Communications, Nominations, Bylaws and Interest Groups. E-mail
us if you’re interested in serving on one ( or more) of these
committees.
Join one or more of the Interest Groups on the Member- to-
Member Forum.
Spread the word! Please share the Member- to- Member Forum
with your co- workers and with professional groups and
associations.
In October, the OCLC Global Council delegates elected by the ARC
membership will attend the OCLC Global Council virtual meeting. This
is our opportunity to raise issues of importance to our region with
Global Council and OCLC’s leadership. Throughout all of these
activities, make your voice heard! If you have something you would like
me to share— success stories and best practices, challenges you are
facing, opportunities for cooperation— please e- mail me your ideas and
suggestions on how, together, we can move the cooperative forward.
Please also join me in acknowledging the dedication and hard work of
last year’s Executive Committee Members, who successfully
transitioned the previous Members Council to the new Global and
Regional Councils. Their efforts culminated in our first ARC Annual
In this issue:
Information literacy
instruction and outreach—
Trends in microlearning and
learning on demand
Yours, Mine, Ours:
Leadership through
Collaboration
Developer collaboration
leads to implementation of
NCIP 2.0
New member event series:
Good Practices for Great
Outcomes
Monthly Member Q& A:
WorldCat Cataloging
Partners
Upcoming training and free
webinars
Your RDA roadmap:
resources, training and
tools for success
Meeting at ALA in June. More than 400 individuals participated ( in-person
and virtually) in this meeting! Recordings are now available
online. I am very excited about connecting with members throughout
the second year of the ARC.
— Anne
Anne Prestamo is Associate Dean of Libraries for Collection & Technology
Services and Claud D. Kniffin Professor of Library Service and Education at
University Libraries, Oklahoma State University
Feature Story
Information literacy instruction and outreach— Trends in
microlearning and learning on demand
The Americas Regional Council Member- to- Member social networking site hosts many interest
groups, which you are welcome to join. Recently, Joseph Dudley, Librarian at Bryant & Stratton
College’s Cleveland Campus, started a discussion on the Resource Discovery Interest Group:
“ What are some techniques that you are using to teach patrons about information
systems? This semester I am creating instructional handouts and sending them out
by e- mail, visiting classrooms and demonstrating systems in the reference
interview. What else is working?”
With so many libraries preparing for the upcoming academic year, we thought this was a timely topic
and we contacted several subject matter experts to share their current strategies as they relate to to
information literacy and outreach services. Here’s what we found:
Mark Vargas, Library Director, The Robert and Mary Rita Murphy Stump
Library, Saint Xavier University, shares how implementing WorldCat Local
has positively impacted information literacy instruction at his institution.
“ The single most important side effect of implementing WorldCat Local was
the impact it had on teaching. We used to dedicate time to showing them all
of the various places they had to look and all of the buttons they needed to
push. With WorldCat, we have basically eliminated the teaching of the tool.
Now, we spend more time teaching them what research is really about—
evaluating information and using critical thinking skills.”
Mark Vargas,
Library Director, The
Robert and Mary
Rita Murphy Stump
Library, Saint Xavier
University
Christine Drew, Associate Director of Research & Instruction Services,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s George C. Gordon Library, leads the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s ( WPI) information literacy and assessment
initiatives and provides research education to students, faculty and staff.
“ As a result of our outreach efforts with global project students, when
surveyed over the past few years, more than 94 percent of the students
have consistently agreed or strongly agreed that research consultations with
librarians improved their ability to perform research for their project. While we
are very proud of this statistic and will continue to do these types of
consultations, we are also working toward developing a wider variety of brief
online microlectures for our students and faculty.”
Christine Drew,
Associate Director
of Research &
Instruction Services,
Worcester
Polytechnic
Institute’s George C.
online microlectures for our students and faculty.”
Gordon Library
Read more about Mark and Christine's strategies for information literacy ››
Reason # 22: Gain Web visibility for your
library via links from Google Book Search,
Google Scholar and other partners
Information about your holdings and library services is actively
spread across the Web via strategic partnerships with partners
such as Google and Yahoo!, as well as through social and
distributed Web technologies that appeal to users, other
information providers and e- businesses.
View all 25 Reasons to Choose WorldCat ››
News and Events
Organized by the RLG Partnership
and OCLC Research
Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
Supported by the Institute of Museum
and Library Services and the Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation
Endorsed by the Joint SAA, ALA and
AAM Committee on Archives,
Libraries & Museums ( CALM)
Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership through
Collaboration
September 20– 21, 2010
Smithsonian Institution, Ripley Center, Washington,
D. C.
OCLC Research and an RLG Partnership planning
committee have created a two- day event on strategies for
effective collaboration that will be hosted by the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., September 20
and 21. You are cordially invited to attend this free event;
available seats are filling quickly. You might consider
attending or hosting a local viewing party.
It’s easy to host a local viewing party; there is no charge to
do so and no special software is required. All you need is a
computer with speakers, a Web browser and a URL that
we’ll provide to you, although you may also want to have a
projector if more than a handful of people will be
participating. Contact Merrilee Proffitt with questions.
For the agenda, details, and a link to in- person
registration
For information about experiencing the event
remotely
Developer collaboration leads to
implementation of NCIP 2.0
Early this spring a community of library developers interested in
interoperability between discovery interfaces and integrated
library systems formed a working group to build on the work of
the DLF ILS- DI Task Force. After several months of
collaboration between this developer community and OCLC
team members, we are excited to announce our plans to
contribute an implementation of version 2.0 of the NCIP
standard, derived from the OCLC Web- scale Management
Services codebase, to the eXtensible Catalog’s open- source
NCIP Toolkit. This contribution will advance the library
community’s efforts to simplify interoperability options for any
library or software provider that wishes to include item
availability and other information from the integrated library
system in its discovery interface display.
Read the entire article ››
Randall Cook,
Project
Manager,
eXtensible
Catalog
Karen Coombs,
Product Manager
for the OCLC
Developer Network
Boston Mashathon: September 23 – 24
Join fellow coders for a two- day WorldCat Mashathon at the Microsoft New England Research &
Development Center ( NERD), sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and Brandeis
University. The WorldCat Mashathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of
brainstorming and coding mash- ups with local systems and other Web services to take
advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, has to offer. The cost
is $ 30 to attend both days.
Learn more and register ››
OCLC Member Services presents new member event series:
Good Practices for Great Outcomes
First meeting scheduled for October 1 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Save the date! On October 1, 2010, OCLC will kick off the first event in our new series, Good
Practices for Great Outcomes. Designed to share practical information about OCLC services, each
event will open with the latest news and views from OCLC, followed by a presentation by an OCLC
member library with real- world examples of how you are evolving your workflows to boost your
efficiency. We will all get a chance to learn, share and compare notes in roundtable discussions. We
will share the “ great outcomes” identified through these meetings in upcoming issues of the eNews .
Informative, practical and interactive, we’re organizing these events in a variety of locations across the
U. S. A complete schedule will soon be available online. For more information or to host an event in
your area, please contact RJ Pettersen.
Learn more and register ››
Join OCLC and our Partners at these upcoming conferences
Pacific Northwest ILL and Resource Sharing Conference – September 16 – 17, 2010
South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference – September 22 – 24, 2010
Illinois Library Association Annual Conference – September 29 – 30, 2010
Wyoming Library Association Annual Conference – September 29 – October 1, 2010
North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference – September 29 – October 2, 2010
13th Annual LITA Forum – September 30 – October 3, 2010
View all upcoming conferences and events ››
Visit our Presentation Center to view past presentation slides and video recordings ››
Support and Training
Monthly Member Q& A:
Our Member Services team tells us that member libraries are
interested in learning more about WorldCat Cataloging Partners.
Question: What is WorldCat Cataloging Partners?
Formerly known as PromptCat, WorldCat Cataloging Partners
delivers WorldCat records that match the materials you order
through participating vendor partners and sets your library’s
holdings automatically in WorldCat. Here are some frequently
asked questions to help you.
Read more ››
Free webinar to help you “ Maximize
the Value of Your OCLC ILL
Subscription”
September 16, 2010, from 1: 00 – 2: 00 p. m. Eastern
Time
“ Maximize the Value of Your OCLC ILL Subscription”
is a new course designed to help both ILL and access
services managers take advantage of the many
services that are included in a WorldCat Resource
Sharing subscription. Learn how WorldCat Resource
Sharing can help you decrease costs, generate
revenue and save staff time through integrated
management of request direction and deflection, fee
management, custom holdings settings and user-initiated
direct requests. Participants will learn how to
set up and use tools such as the Policies Directory,
Our Training Portal features
upcoming online learning
opportunities
Our Training Portal allows you to view
and register for courses on many topics
available from all of our Training
Partners. From cataloging and resource
sharing to digital collections
management, the Training Portal lists
the courses and resources you want
and need:
Cataloging and Metadata
Digital Collection Management
Resource Sharing and Delivery
· · · · · ·
Interlibrary Loan Fee Management ( IFM), custom
holdings, deflection, home delivery and Direct Request
that will increase staff efficiency and result in happy
users. You will also receive a checklist of next steps to
help you select and implement services included in
your resource sharing subscription.
Register now for this free September 16
session ››
Resource Sharing and Delivery
Reference and Discovery
Two free webinars on outreach and
orientation from WebJunction
Going to Your Customer— Outreach and Strategic Partnerships
August 31, 2010, from 4: 00 – 4: 30 p. m. Eastern Time
This webinar is the third in WebJunction’s Libraries and Economic Development Series. The
Business Special Interest Group ( BSIG) from the Colorado Association of Libraries ( CAL), the
Colorado State Library and the Colorado Library Consortium ( CLiC) are pleased to present this
series to discuss how you can play a role in the economic development of your community. During
this webinar, Suzanne Kaller and Colbe Galston will provide an overview and tips for how your
library can assist the business community it serves, and create and implement a business outreach
plan to a Chamber of Commerce, small business development center, community group or
government entity.
Register for this webinar ››
Creating a Virtual Orientation for New Staff
September 1, 2010, from 2: 00 – 3: 00 p. m. Eastern Time
Orienting new staff quickly to your organization is very important. A virtual orientation could be the
key to a timely, comprehensive, standardized introduction to your library system. Discover
advantages to implementing a virtual orientation for your workplace. Join us for this webinar,
presented in collaboration with the ALA Learning Roundtable, and by staff from the Baltimore
County Public Library as they talk about the creation and design process of this valuable Human
Resources tool. Presenters include Jean Mantegna, Sandy Lombardo and Melissa Hepler.
Register for this webinar ››
OCLC Partner Updates
Your RDA roadmap: resources,
training and tools for success
RDA is here, and you may be wondering what this
means for your library, what changes need to be
made and which practices are best.
RDA: Resource Description and Access ( RDA) is the
new cataloging standard that will replace AACR2. It
offers libraries the potential to change significantly
how bibliographic data is created and used. OCLC is
committed to supporting members who wish to
implement RDA in their libraries, but will not require
that libraries adopt RDA.
Last October OCLC offered an informative online
session on RDA. Now, many of our Partners, Amigos
LYRASIS, MCLS, Minitex, MLNC and OHIONET, are
making their RDA information and educational
offerings available to you.
There is a wide range of RDA information available through the OCLC RDA Resource page. There
you can find informational links to the OCLC policy with respect to RDA, training materials, a
schedule of upcoming courses from our Partners, and the RDA Toolkit, which was co- published by
the American Library Association ( ALA), Canadian Library Association ( CLA) and Chartered
Institute of Library and Information Professionals ( CILIP).
For Partner classes on RDA visit the OCLC Training Portal, and for more information on RDA
resources such as the OCLC policy on RDA, the RDA Toolkit and RDA prospectus, visit the
OCLC RDA Resource page.
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