Pre-recorded Web sessions

Learn how your library can offer single-search access to your print, electronic and digital resources through WorldCat Local.

[WebEx recording, 37 minutes]

This webinar provides an overview of the following August 2011 enhancements to OCLC resource sharing services:

• New Lender String report. This report provides details about your library's interactions with specific lenders up to one year in the past.
• Custom Holdings symbol searcher. A new way to quickly identify which Custom Holdings groups contain a specific symbol (up to 10 symbols), so you can modify your custom holdings groups as needed when changes occur.
• New ILL work form fields to support article sharing. These fields provide the PubMed number (PMID) and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
• Email from anywhere. Allows your staff to send an email to another library from anywhere in an interlibrary loan workform.
• Improvements to Not Received feature. Now libraries can alert the lender that an item as not been received at any time after the lender updates the request to SHIPPED.

The webinar also includes an update on short-term access to MyiLibrary e-books through WorldCat Resource Sharing, due for release in September 2011. [WebEx recording, 1 hour]

This webinar provides an overview of recent and upcoming enhancements to the WorldCat Resource Sharing service.

[WebEx recording, 1 hour]

During the past year, members of the resource sharing community have shared tips and tricks on a number of topics in a series of webinars. On April 19, all previous presenters participated in a resource sharing "town hall" meeting to continue the conversations.

The panel of resource sharing experts who responded to questions from the community included:

• Jennifer Block, Princeton University;
• Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame;
• Mary Radnor, Florida International University;
• Merle J. Slyhoff, University of Pennsylvania Biddle Law Library;
• Tony Melvyn, OCLC.

Jennifer Block, Interlibrary Services/Document Delivery Librarian at Princeton University shares her tips for successful use of the deflection feature of WorldCat Resource Sharing. Her presentation includes an overview of how deflection is used at Princeton and how Princeton's interlibrary loan staff has adapted their use of the feature to fit the needs of their library.

[WebEx recording 1 hour 1 minute]

Ben Hunter shares his experiences with the implementation and introduction of WorldCat Local at the University of Idaho. The webinar includes information about ready-made promotional resources available from OCLC.

[WebEx recording 57 minutes]

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Mary Radnor, Resource Sharing Librarian at Florida International University shares tips for successful use of the custom holdings feature of WorldCat Resource Sharing.  

Custom holdings allow you to organize and customize holdings displays to improve access to the OCLC symbols of your preferred lenders. You can set up preferred lending partners and custom holdings in the Policies Directory to help direct requests intelligently through flexible layers of library, groups, consortia and worldwide materials. The result is time savings for your staff and shorter turnaround times for your users.
[WebEx recording 42 minutes]

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An overview during which you'll learn:

• The benefits of incorporating controlling into your cataloging workflow,
• An overview of the three different types of controlling (single, multi-control, control all),
• Use of fixed field elements in controlling,
• The scope of current controlling functionality,
• A review of current 'known problems'.

Prerequisite: The session is aimed at those that are familiar with controlling functionality in the Connexion client. Attendees are encouraged to view the Controlling Headings in Bibliographic Records tutorial beforehand.

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QuestionPoint's latest enhancements provide more opportunities for libraries to reach out to their users. The Qwidget (QuestionPoint's chat widget) is now accessible on selected mobile devices and on Facebook. This live Web information session overviewed QuestionPoint's Mobile Webkit, expanded Qwidget customization options, and our new knowledge base Web service. It also
included discussions about our collaboration with Text a Librarian and plans for incorporating SMS texting into QuestionPoint.

QuestionPoint provides a complete reference management system incorporating chat, e-mail, knowledge base and administrative tools. Libraries may also participate in the 24/7 Reference Cooperative to provide live 24-hour service to their users

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Our speakers are:

• Virginia Cole, Reference and Digital Services Librarian, Cornell University Library
• Kim LaPlante, Library Manager, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
• Toby Thomas, Virtual Services Librarian, Seattle Public Library

• Beth Cackowski (project coordinator of New Jersey's statewide service QandANJ.org) spoke about the QandANJ.org ad on MTV; and
• Diana Sachs-Silveira (project coordniator of Florida's Ask a Librarian service) discussed "The Director's Chair", a YouTube contest in which Florida high school students produce a commercial for the Ask A Librarian service.