OCLC Canada Newsletter
Winter 2003-2004
OCLC Canada was there
OLITA Award Presentation
Numerous OCLC Canada staff participated to the OLA Conference this past January. In addition to having a presence within the exhibit area, we had a very successful virtual reference session with colleagues from the Library and Archives Canada and the Library of Congress. Moreover, our annual luncheon attracted approximately 80 guests. OCLC Canada also participated and contributed for the first time to the "OLITA Award for Technological Innovation" (OLA Library and Information Technology Association).
The picture above was taken during the meeting and reception that followed the award presentation. On the picture, from left to right, we have Shelagh Paterson, OLITA Past-President and Manager, Advocacy CNIB Library, Daniel Boivin, Director, OCLC Canada, Jennifer Horwath, OLITA President and Mohawk College Librarian, and the whole crew at the Peterborough Public Library TeKdesk, the winner of the 2004 OLITA Award. More information about this creative initiative can be found at the web site
24by7 TEKdesk.
Welcome to new Canadian libraries
- St. Joseph's College, Alberta
- Capital Health
- Calgary Christian School
Digitalization and preservation
Digitization and Microfilming Services to be offered by OCLC Canada
OCLC Canada will open a new Preservation Service Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in April 2004 to help serve as a local solution to the digitization needs of Canadian libraries and other heritage institutions.
OCLC Canada is opening the new center in response to results of a market survey of more than 200 OCLC libraries in Canada.
"The survey helped us realize that there was a need for preservation and digitization services here, and that a local solution was required," said Daniel Boivin, Director, OCLC Canada. "We hope the geographic convenience of the Winnipeg Center will entice Canadian libraries to participate in important worldwide digitization and preservation efforts."
The Winnipeg Preservation Service Centre will be staffed locally, and all projects will be directed by OCLC Canada. The Winnipeg Centre joins other centers located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Lacey, Washington; and The Hague, The Netherlands.
OCLC Preservation Service centers provide microfilming and microfilm preservation services, scanning of microfilm and print materials, metadata creation and cataloging of film and digital collections, optical character recognition (OCR) services, consulting and education services, and a range of other custom services for developing and preserving digital and microfilm collections.
OCLC Preservation Service centers combined have produced 75 million microfilm frames since opening in 1985, and have digitized 7.5 million images since 1996. Each month on average, the Centers produce over 300,000 microfilm frames and digitize more than 149,000 images.
In its first project, the Winnipeg Preservation Service Centre is working with the University of Alberta Libraries to digitize and make available online a version of Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies. The project is based on the work of the late Bruce Braden Peel (1916-98), the bibliographer most closely associated with the Canadian Prairies. Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies provides a record of the history and popular image of Western Canada.
The project will be completed using Olive software, a powerful application for managing digital collections available through OCLC.
"The underlying premise of Peel's Prairie Provinces is quality," said Karen Adams, Director of Library Services and Information Resources, University of Alberta Libraries. "We want very readable scanned text, and keyword searching on the contents of every page. OCLC is able to do this for us, and having a facility in Canada makes it easier to digitize the rare and fragile books that document Western Canada's history and culture."
New CONTENTdm and Olive users in Canada
In the past year, OCLC Canada has worked hard at trying to implement new services to respond to its market survey regarding digitization, preservation and microfilming needs within Canadian libraries. Announced in this issue is the opening of our new centre in Winnipeg, however, as part of the tools and solution that we are in a position to offer to Canadian libraries are two excellent and powerful software: CONTENTdm and Olive. To learn more about both of these solutions to access digitized objects (CONTENTdm) or digitized historical newspapers (Olive), see Preservation Services.
Moreover, we are happy to report that the following institutions are providing access to their unique collections through one of these solutions:
Cataloguing
News from LTS Library Technical Services
In November, OCLC Canada LTS signed a contract with the University of Saskatchewan to catalogue and process approximately 12,000 vendor-supplied monographs annually. Production has begun with just over 1,200 items completed to date and we expect to ramp up production significantly over the next 2-3 months.
Other projects recently completed include a small backlog of 300 books and videos for Lethbridge Community College, monographs from the Oil and Gas collection at University of Northern British Columbia; Chinese, Japanese and Korean books for St. Mary's University as well as a collection of CJK materials for University of Regina.
In July of 2003, Library Technical Services (LTS) began assisting TechPro in Dublin, Ohio with the cataloguing of e-books for netLibrary, and in September, LTS assumed sole responsibility for the netLibrary cataloguing project. Most e-books in the project are in English, with the occasional Spanish, French, or German title, and subjects range from academic publications and technical manuals to romance novels. The typical turnaround time for new titles is 1-2 days.
Since July, 2003, LTS has added over 7,700 records to WorldCat for the netLibrary project, including records for electronic reproductions of existing print books, and items which are born digital.
During our 2003-2004 year, LTS expects to catalogue close to 95,000 items. These include materials in all formats, including audio-visual and microform formats as well as a large number of e-books and Websites.
WorldCat
Z39.50 - Don't forget to log off!
To avoid unnecessary connect fee, don't forget to log off from WorldCat when you are finished while using the Z39.50 cataloguing approach. We have had many inquiries in the final months of 2003 about abnormal connect times which in most cases are explained by sessions that are terminated by our own system and not the operator.
Please remember, you need to log-off since the system can only disconnect you after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Bits and pieces
OCLC Canada Advisory Council Charter
Message from the Chair of the OCLC Canada Advisory Council
I am pleased to announce that the OCLC Canada Advisory Council (OCAC) has approved at its January 2004 meeting a Charter to guide its directions, actions and interactions with the Canadian and international library communities. In establishing a Charter, the OCAC looked at issues and goals which would uniquely serve our Canadian library mosaic yet position the Council as a significant and key contributor to the overall OCLC library cooperative. I understand this Council has broken new ground at OCLC with its new Charter and that our colleagues from Australia and elsewhere worldwide will benefit from our work.
The actions of OCAC are already guided by the purpose of the Charter as we intend to support you in ensuring that OCLC Canada anticipates and meets your needs and expectations. Please see the OCLC Canada Advisory Council Charter for the full text of the Charter.
OCAC members would be pleased to answer your questions on our Charter and how it supports you and your library's needs.
Bernard Dumouchel
Director General, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Government of Canada
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference, Vancouver BC November, 2003
OCLC's Tom Clareson, Manager of Digital Conservation and Planning Services and Amy Lytle, Grants and Education Coordinator coordinated and moderated the "Copyright in a Digital Age" preconference for the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference on November 17 with around 90 participants. Presenters were Lesley Ellen Harris, copyrightlaws.com; Rachelle Browne, Smithsonian Institute; Linda Tadic, ARTStor; Rina Pantalony, CHIN; Georgia Harper, University of Texas and Maria Pallante-Hyun, Pallante-Hyun LLC. The preconference sponsor was the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).
Tom Clareson and Nigel Long staffed the OCLC booth at the conference trade show. There were many individuals interested in CONTENTdm and DCPS Consulting services while a great deal of general awareness was raised about OCLC's services among this "new" audience. Enquiries included requests for assistance on grant writing to preserve and digitize oral and video histories, digitizing moving images, consulting on the preservation and digitization of oral and video histories and help with building a digital program for audiovisual and other materials.
Upcoming sessions at conferences
Come and see us at one of these seminars or activities
- · Library Association of Alberta
- Professional Reference Service Anywhere, Anytime, Virtually - April 30th 2004
- Professional Reference Service Anywhere, Anytime, Virtually - April 30th 2004
- · Congrès de la Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec
- Partage de livres électroniques de langue française par un service de référence virtuel : pourquoi pas! - May 19th 2004
- Tendances et défis - La bibliothèque d'aujourd'hui et de demain dans un chaotique cyber-espace - May 21th 2004
- · · APLA Annual Conference
- Environmental Scan - May 28th 2004
- e-Books - May 29th 2004
- · Canadian Library Association and the British Columbia Library Association
- Update Luncheon (Topics: Update at OCLC Canada, WebJunction, Environmental Scan - June 18th 2004 (registration required)
- Virtual Reference - Three real case scenarios - June 19th 2004
Training and other seminars for Canadian libraries can be found at this here: Training from OCLC Canada
We want to hear from you!
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